In this paper, we apply the “border effects” method to study the impact of the economic reforms launched in China at the end of the 1970s in terms of international trade openness and domestic market integration, two of the main objectives of the reforms package. We rely on a new set of...

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This paper analyses the relationship between domestic market fragmentation and economic performance at the sub-national level within China. Market segmentation means that goods, services and factors of production -capital and labour- are not easily mobile across different regions. China's...