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Economic growth across space and time: subprovincial evidence from mainland China

This paper considers the persistent differences in economic performance across Chinese regions. We introduce a new county- and city-level dataset that spans all of mainland China and provides a detailed view of Chinese regional growth over the period 1997-2005. Non-parametric kernel density estimation is employed to establish the cross-sectional GDP per capita distribution, and the distributional dynamics are investigated using the probability matrix technique and associated stochastic kernel estimator. A set of explanatory variables is then introduced, and several regressions are run to test for conditional ß- convergence and to pinpoint influential factors for economic growth across counties and cities.

ISBN
978-952-462-889-1
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: BOFIT Discussion Papers ; No. 21/2007

Classification
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Subject
Regional Economic Growth
China

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Curran, Declan
Funke, Michael
Wang, Jue
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2007

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Curran, Declan
  • Funke, Michael
  • Wang, Jue
  • Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)

Time of origin

  • 2007

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