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Regional Competition, Fiscal Federalism, and Economic Structure: Evidence from China
Fiscal decentralization is an important element that fostered the success of China’s reforms towards a market economy. If economics is all about incentives, then understanding how fiscal reforms provided incen...
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Human Capital and Technological Spillovers from FDI in the Chinese Regions: A Threshold Approach
Openness is a well-known factor that facilitates the development of a country. Investment from developed to less developed countries are the major channel for realizing this process. Besides the direct effects...
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Component Trade and China’s Global Economic Integration
A symbol of China’s economic integration into the global economy is its progressive engagement in international commodity trade, with an increasing scale and intensity. From 1992 to 2005, the average growth ra...
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The Changing Geography of Innovation Activities: What do Patents Indicators Imply?
Innovation in the global marketplace is at the core of the twenty-first century knowledge-based economy (Schumpeter, 1980: 66). Innovation is in itself a fuzzy concept and measuring it is more difficult (Godin...
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A Measure of the Spillover Effects Among Companies of Same Nationality in the Location Choice of FDIs
Foreign direct investments (FDIs) have grown rapidly with globalization. Despite the recent emergence of protectionism, this increase in FDIs will not reverse. Nonetheless, a recent article in The Economist predi...