Local protectionism disrupts buyer-supplier chains, since it requests local firms to buy the outputs of other local firms as inputs. Hence, it is an important factor for firms' location choices, as buyer-supplier chains affect profitability. I study how local protectionism shapes the spatial...

In this paper, I study the effects of the construction of high-speed railway (HSR) on the spatial distribution of firms in China, from the perspectives of spatial production networks. Exploiting exogenous variations of the slope of the terrain and the distance to the historical sites, I document...

This paper constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in China from the Communist Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of the late 1950s, the Cultural Revolution of the late...