This thesis aims to better understand China’s structural change and productivity growth in recent decades. In the first chapter, I study the impact of infrastructure, i.e, highway construction, on China’s participation in Global Value Chains(GVCs). To guide my empirical exercise, I incorporate within-country geography into a quantitative trade model featuring sequential production. The model shows that a city’s proximity to domestic markets increases its participation in GVCs, while a city’s proximity to foreign markets may reduce its participation in GVCs. This paper empirically evaluates how China’s ambitious highway construction during the period between 2000 and 2006 determined its own participation in GVCs. In the second chapter, I stu...
China has gone through a phase of rapid economic development in the last four decades. The country i...
The role of productivity and innovation in China’s economic growth is fiercely debated among econom...
China\u27s real GDP grew at about 9% per year during the last two decades. The last two decades have...
This thesis aims to better understand China’s structural change and productivity growth in recent de...
The first chapter of this dissertation examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate product...
The first chapter of this dissertation examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate product...
Rapid technological advances and liberal trade regimes permit functional reintegration of dispersed ...
China has sustained her high growth rate at approximately 10 percent annually during the last three ...
We present a model of Chinese growth in a two-country economy with the manufacturing and natural res...
The Chinese economy has been growing at a very high speed rate since 1978. Productivity growth is co...
This dissertation consists of three independent essays that study different topics related to intern...
This dissertation consists of three independent essays that study different topics related to intern...
Economists have long envisaged that China would be a major economic power in the 21st century. Chi...
We revisit a classic question in international economics: how does a country's productivity growth a...
China has gone through a phase of rapid economic development in the last four decades. The country i...
China has gone through a phase of rapid economic development in the last four decades. The country i...
The role of productivity and innovation in China’s economic growth is fiercely debated among econom...
China\u27s real GDP grew at about 9% per year during the last two decades. The last two decades have...
This thesis aims to better understand China’s structural change and productivity growth in recent de...
The first chapter of this dissertation examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate product...
The first chapter of this dissertation examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate product...
Rapid technological advances and liberal trade regimes permit functional reintegration of dispersed ...
China has sustained her high growth rate at approximately 10 percent annually during the last three ...
We present a model of Chinese growth in a two-country economy with the manufacturing and natural res...
The Chinese economy has been growing at a very high speed rate since 1978. Productivity growth is co...
This dissertation consists of three independent essays that study different topics related to intern...
This dissertation consists of three independent essays that study different topics related to intern...
Economists have long envisaged that China would be a major economic power in the 21st century. Chi...
We revisit a classic question in international economics: how does a country's productivity growth a...
China has gone through a phase of rapid economic development in the last four decades. The country i...
China has gone through a phase of rapid economic development in the last four decades. The country i...
The role of productivity and innovation in China’s economic growth is fiercely debated among econom...
China\u27s real GDP grew at about 9% per year during the last two decades. The last two decades have...