Economic growth across space and time : subprovincial evidence from mainland China
Curran, Declan; Funke, Michael; Wang, Jue (30.12.2007)
Numero
21/2007Julkaisija
Bank of Finland
2007
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:bof-201408072005Tiivistelmä
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. Keywords: Regional Economic Growth, China JEL-Classification: O11, R11