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Trends and patterns of growth, development, achievements of China and India : a comparative analysis

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Bhattacharyay, Madhurima - 2016

Even before the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis and ongoing European debt crisis, much attention has been given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained unprecedented growth and economic development-PRC and...

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Urbanity

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2013

I define a composite amenity that provides aesthetic and consumption value to local residents: Urbanity. A novel data set of geo-tagged photos shared in internet communities serves as a proxy for urbanity. From the spatial pattern of house prices and photos I identify the value of urbanity in...

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Smart cities are big cities : comparative advantage in Chinese cities

Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014

The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...

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Urban specialisation : from sectoral to functional

Antoine, Antoine; Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony - 2021

The comparative advantage of many cities is based on their efficiency in the production of "functions", e.g., business services such as finance, law, engineering, or similar functions that are used by firms in a wide range of sectors. Firms that use these functions may choose to source them...

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Cities in a pandemic : evidence from China

Baltagi, Badi H.; Deng, Ying; Li, Jing; Yang, Zhenlin - 2022

This paper studies the impact of urban density, city government efficiency, and medical resources on COVID-19 infection and death outcomes in China. We adopt a simultaneous spatial dynamic panel data model to account for (i) the simultaneity of infection and death outcomes, (ii) the spatial...

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Structural change, urban congestion, and the end of growth

Grossmann, Volker - 2011

This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population density. We show that endogenous technological progress causes structural change if there are positive productivity spillovers from the modern to the traditional sector and Engel's...

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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations : unbundling spatial lags

Poelhekke, Steven (contributor); … - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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Labour market counter-reforms in OECD countries : conditional impact on output and employment growth

Wiese, Rasmus; Jalles, João Tovar; Haan, Jakob de - 2024

This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and …

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Impact of colonial institutions on economic growth and development in India : evidence from night lights data

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2021

We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using nightlights per capita as a proxy for district level per...

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Employment growth, inflation and output growth : was Phillips right? ; evidence from a dynamic panel

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Škare, Marinko - 2011

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

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