BOFIT Discussion Papers, Institute for Economies in Transition, Bank of Finland
No 21/2007:
Economic growth across space and time: subprovincial evidence from Mainland China
Declan Curran ()
, Michael Funke ()
and Jue Wang ()
Abstract: 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 Ō-convergence and to pinpoint
influential factors for economic growth across counties and cities.
Keywords: regional economic growth; China; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: O11; R11; (follow links to similar papers)
41 pages, January 4, 2007
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