In this paper, we draw upon a quasi-natural experiment in China’s reorganization of municipal district borders to explore how border effects within a city alter enterprise resource allocation efficiency. To improve metropolitan functioning and competitiveness, the government of China merged or...

This paper investigates the influence and mechanism of border effects within a city on the coordinated development of the regional economy by combining a quasi-natural experiment in China’s municipal districts border reorganization and satellite night-time light data. We find that border...