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Qi** Li
Microeconomics
Regional/Spatial Science
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An empirical analysis of household choices on housing and travel mode in Boston
We study household choices on the housing type and travel mode in Boston in the year 1991. We first develop a theoretical model for an integrated analysis of housing and travel mode choices, which implies that...
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Rethinking the impacts of foreign investors on urban development: the city of Macao
A number of papers in the economics and urban literature find positive impacts of foreign investment on cities and praise the role of foreign investors in urban development. The author argues for a different s...
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Strategic interaction and the determinants of public health expenditures in China: a spatial panel perspective
This paper examines determinants of expenditures on public health in China using a panel of 31 Chinese provinces covering the period 1997–2008. In particular, we propose a spatial Durbin panel model with spati...
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Endogenous R&D spillover and location choice in a mixed oligopoly
We consider a three-stage game where a public firm and a private firm choose R&D, location, and price, under the assumption that R&D spillovers rely on their locations. We show that, in equilibrium, whether th...
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Analyzing the multi-mechanism of regional inequality in China
This paper advances the multi-mechanism framework, integrates the GIS technology and spatial panel data models for analyzing regional inequality mechanism. Applying this integrated methodology, we investigate ...
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The impacts of rural–urban migrants’ remittances on the urban economy
Much literature finds that migrants’ remittances have positive effects on the labor-outsourcing regions; however, it should be noted that the massive funds outflow from the labor host regions poses an impact o...
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Linkage between geographic space and knowledge transfer by multinational enterprises: a structural equation approach
This paper discusses the current links between international business, economic geography and knowledge management. Despite the recent proliferation of papers dealing with knowledge transfer by multinational e...
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Lose to win: entrepreneurship of returned migrants in China
This paper explores the relationship between rural to urban migration and entrepreneurship in China. We compare entrepreneurship between return migrants who used to work in a province other than their home pro...
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One country, two “urban” systems: focusing on bimodality in China’s city-size distribution
In this study, we demonstrate the existence of bimodality in China’s city-size distribution and develop an urban-growth forecast model that incorporates this bimodality. Main data for our analysis are ...
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How immigration reduced volunteering in the USA: 2005–2011
In this study, we show that an inflow of immigrants reduces volunteering, a proxy of social capital investment, in receiving communities. Since the 1960s, there has been a large decrease in social capital in t...
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Logistics agglomeration and logistics productivity in the USA
Logistics agglomeration refers to the geographical concentration of logistics companies and activities. The growing trend of logistics agglomeration in the USA has drawn significant attention from both researc...
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Industrial structure and urban agglomeration: evidence from Chinese cities
This paper investigates whether and how regional industrial structure/concentration influences firm productivity. Based on the firm-level data from China, the paper estimates firm productivity with regional st...
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Intercity migration behavior of Chinese graduates: from home region to work destination
This paper describes an investigation that used data from a census of Chinese graduates to understand the decisions made by graduates migrating from their home region to their first jobs after graduation. Empl...
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International factor mobility and environment in a dual agricultural economy
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influences that international factor movements have on the environment in develo** country under agricultural dualism. By using a general equilibrium model tha...
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Frictional unemployment, bargaining, and agglomeration
This paper examines how matching elasticity and labor bargaining power affect industrial agglomeration in an open economy with frictional labor markets. The analysis is based on a footloose capital model of tw...
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How does big-box retail entry affect labor productivity in durable goods retailing? A synthetic control approach
Using data from 2001 to 2012, the effects of IKEA entry in four Swedish municipalities, 2004–2007, on labor productivity in durable goods retailing is investigated using synthetic control methods. We contribut...
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Capital market distortion, agricultural producer service and wage inequality in the small-scale agriculture
Agriculture in develo** countries operates on small-scale plots in general, which makes the direct utilization of durable capital equipment difficult. An intermediate sector is needed to facilitate the usage...
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Mixed duopoly under hotelling with convex production costs
Dragone and Lambertini (Reg Sci Urban Econ 84:103568, 2020) show that in a Hotelling duopoly with linear transport cost, sufficiently convex production cost generates an elevated price equilibrium with colloca...
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Regional poverty and infection disease: early exploratory evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper examines the role of regional poverty on the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA. It also explores how the effects differ with the concentration of ethnic minorities. We find that poverty is a significant ...
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Rural–urban migrants’ remittance and agricultural pollution in the presence of agricultural dualism
This paper established an open general equilibrium model to study the effect of the change of rural–urban migrants’ remittances rate on agricultural pollution. We found that the increase of migrants’ remittanc...
