[PDF][PDF] Regional inequality in contemporary China

Q Zhang, H Zou - Annals of Economics and Finance, 2012‏ - aeconf.com
This paper surveys the literature on regional inequality in contemporary China. It reviews the
trend of convergence or divergence of real GDP or income across different regions in China …

How much do we know about market integration in Europe?1

G Federico - The Economic History Review, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
The literature on commodity market integration has boomed in the last 15 years, and a sort
of consensus is slowly emerging, at least with regard to trends in the last two centuries. This …

China's foreign trade: Perspectives from the past 150 years

W Keller, B Li, CH Shiue - The World Economy, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper studies the trade of China in the past 150 years, starting from the first opening of
China after the Opium War. The main purpose of the paper is to identify what is (and was) …

Digital finance and capital mobility: Evidence from cross-regional investment of listed companies in China

Q Liu, R Li, Y Wang - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This study examines the role of digital finance in dismantling regional barriers to capital flow
and in fostering the creation of a unified market. Using the provincial-level digital finance …

The origin of spatial interaction

W Keller, CH Shiue - Journal of Econometrics, 2007‏ - Elsevier
This paper uses spatial empirical methods to detect and analyze trade patterns in a
historical data set on Chinese rice prices. Our results suggest that spatial features were …

Trade openness and the growth–poverty Nexus: A reappraisal with a new openness indicator

W Durongkaveroj - Asian Development Review, 2024‏ - World Scientific
Develo** countries have greatly benefited from globalization, coinciding with economic
growth and structural transformation. The standard trade theory postulates that trade …

Railways and price convergence in British India

T Andrabi, M Kuehlwein - The Journal of Economic History, 2010‏ - cambridge.org
The period 1861 to 1920 witnessed sharp price convergence in British Indian grain markets.
Previous research attributed this to the construction of railways. But tests examining price …

Internal Borders: Ethnic-based market segmentation in Malawi

AL Robinson - World Development, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Ethnic diversity is associated with poorer economic development, but why? I argue that
market segmentation is one mechanism linking diversity to economic underdevelopment …

Population growth and industrialization

H Zhou - Economic Inquiry, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
The role of population growth in the process of industrialization is studied in a general
equilibrium model. It provides a formal presentation of Rostow's insight of the role of a …

Shanghai's trade, China's growth: Continuity, recovery, and change since the opium war

W Keller, B Li, CH Shiue - 2012‏ - nber.org
In this paper, we provide aggregate trends in China's trade performance from the 1840s to
the present. Based on historical benchmarks, we argue that China's recent gains are not …