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Why geographic dispersion before its time: Industrial policy and economic geography in the People's Republic of China
Wu, Yiyun; Zhu, Xiwei - 2017
This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using interprovincial panel data for the period from 1999 to 2010. It shows that, after 2005, both geographic concentration and industrial...
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Why Geographic Dispersion before Its Time : Industrial Policy and Economic Geography in the People's Republic of China
Wu, Yiyun - 2017
This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using interprovincial panel data for the period from 1999 to 2010. It shows that, after 2005, both geographic concentration and industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965182
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The direct and indirect effects of infrastructure on firm productivity: Evidence from manufacturing in the People's Republic of China
Wan, Guanghua; Zhang, Yan - 2017
. The latter arises from the infrastructure-agglomeration link and has been largely overlooked in the literature on …) they also exert a positive indirect effect on firm productivity through the agglomeration channel; and (3) the empirical … results are robust to different agglomeration indicators and different subsamples. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688733
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Economic implications of deeper South Asian-Southeast Asian integration: A CGE approach
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Morgan, Peter; Plummer, Michael; … - 2014
South and Southeast Asian economic integration via increased trade flows has been increasing significantly over the past 2 decades, but the level of trade continues to be relatively low. This underperformance has been due to both policy-related variables - relatively high tariff and non-tariff...
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East Asian integration: Towards an East Asian economic community
Dent, Christopher M. - 2017
East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688688
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Relationship between infrastructure and population agglomeration in urban India: An empirical sssessment
Tripathi, Sabyasachi - 2017
analysis suggest that improvement of infrastructure facilities may not significantly increase population agglomeration …
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Innovation and firm performance in the People's Republic of China: A structural approach with spillovers
Howell, Anthony - 2017
This paper adopts a structural framework to study the process of indigenous innovation and its impact on firm performance in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Informing the analysis is an unusually rich source of panel data comprising almost 70,000 private Chinese firms operating in the PRC...
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Global production networks and the People's Republic of China's processing trade
Ma, Alyson; Van Assche, Ari; Hong, Chang - 2009
This paper unveils a systematic pattern in the People's Republic of China's (PRC) processing trade. In a cross-section of the PRC's provinces, the average distance traveled by processing imports (import distance) is negatively correlated with the average distance traveled by processing exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279817
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International price dispersion and market segmentation in Japan and the United States: Theory and empirics
Fung, Kwok-Chiu; Garcia-Herrero, Alicia; Ng, Francis - 2013
This paper focuses on the pricing behavior of Japanese and United States firms selling their identical products in New York City, Chicago, Osaka, and Tokyo. The authors utilize some simple models of international price dispersion and market segmentation that generate predictions about testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397262
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The exchange rate, diversification, and distribution in a modified Ricardian model with a continuum of goods
Razmi, Arslan - 2011
Several recent empirical and theoretical studies have revived interest in the relationship between the level of the exchange rate and economic development. This paper develops a dynamic model based on the Ricardian framework with a continuum of goods to consider the issue from a somewhat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397315