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We examine the effect of a large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities …
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the gradual unfolding of transcontinental rail freight connections between China and Europe, our empirical findings …
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This article investigates whether China’s foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders … results show that current political leaders’ birth regions receive substantially larger financial ows from China than other …
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Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China's prefecture cities …
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
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This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of …
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We examine the effect of a large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities …
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estimate direct and indirect domestic value added in exports of different types of firm. We find that in China, both state … downstream within industries. These findings suggest that SOEs still play an important role in shaping China's exports. …
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Using OECD input output matrices consistently, we offer a tentative solution to the mystery of missing trade. First, we confirm the usual rejection of factor price equalization and identical technologies. Second, we develop a new technique to compute the factor content of trade when countries'...
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