The unprecedented urban economic growth in China has created a huge demand for urban land. Built upon the standard monocentric city model, this empirical study investigates the determinants of urban spatial scale of Chinese cities using a cross-sectional dataset from 650 Chinese cities. The...

K<sc>e</sc> S., H<sc>e</sc> M. and Y<sc>uan</sc> C. Synergy and co-agglomeration of producer services and manufacturing: a panel data analysis of Chinese cities, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper constructs a simultaneous equation model of co-agglomeration of producer services and manufacturing that highlights the synergy...

This paper constructs an enhanced indicator for trade barrier and examines the endogenous relationship between market integration and regional economies across China from 1995 to 2011. Beyond the current literature, this study shows: the endogenous relationship is significant, reflecting a...

This article examines the determinants and interregional spillovers of regional productivity and multinational enterprise (MNE) research and development (R&D) in China. The authors apply a two-equation recursive model to a panel data set of thirty provinces and equivalents from 1998 to 2005. The...

Ke S. and Feser E. Count on the growth-pole strategy for regional economic growth? Spread-backwash effects in Greater Central China. Regional Studies. This paper investigates spread-backwash effects associated with non-agricultural gross domestic product and employment growth across 922 cities...

This paper comparatively assesses the major contributors to economic growth and spread-backwash effects in Western and Eastern China over the period 2000-2007. The empirical findings indicate that economies in both regions increasingly agglomerated in large cities; the marginal products of...