Purpose – Beijing and Shanghai have been the leading housing markets in urban China. In the late half of the 2000s … whether there exist housing price bubbles in the two largest cities in China. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based … on a combination of different quantitative indicators: a comparison of housing market prices with the rational …

entire picture and provide more reliable forecast based on either local or national data in China. Practical implications …

factors of purchasing standard housing in Lanzhou, which is the second largest city in Northwest China. Design …/value – The paper establishes an understanding of the level of housing affordability in Northwest China, and provides the basis …Purpose – With the rapid increase in both household discretionary income and housing price, how to improve housing …

food may be misplaced because of the emerging literature on the rapid convergence of traded goods prices within China that …The large literature on regional inequality in China is hampered by incomplete evidence on price dispersion across … have been to price a national basket of goods and services across China’s different regions or else to estimate a food …

The large literature on regional inequality in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is hampered by incomplete evidence … tradable goods such as food may be misplaced because of the emerging literature on the rapid convergence of traded goods prices … within the PRC that contrasts with earlier claims of fragmented internal markets. In a setting where traded goods prices …

crude oil, energy product prices, and other assumptions which may affect the macroeconomic outlook. By varying the …

. Since that time, oil prices have slipped, the general rate of inflation has abated, domestic electric power consumption has …. Although the present depressed avoided electric energy prices are not consistent with the projections on which this report …