With Chun-Yu Ho,
forthcoming in Papers in Regional Science
Abstract:
Regional inequality is severe in China since
regional development is uneven due to various initial conditions and government
policies. We employ unit root tests allowing for structural breaks to
alternative inequality measures from 1952 to 2000. Empirical results indicate
that (1) the regional inequality is trend stationary with structural breaks
rather than follow a random walk. Thus, ignoring structural changes might induce
incorrect inference and misleading policy implications; (2) the break points are
associated with episodic events in Chinese economic history such as the Cultural
Revolution and market reforms. It implies that the policies had a long-lasting
and fundamental effect on the inequality.
(2) Interregional Productivity Variations in
Chinese Manufacturing and Mining Industry
Forthcoming in Applied
Economics Letters
Available at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a782790904~db=all~order=author
Abstract:
A shift-share model is employed to analyze the interregional
productivity variations in Chinese manufacturing and mining industry. Our
empirical results show that sector productivity difference is huge
£»surprisingly,
the most productive coastal regions are found to be specialized in
low-productive sectors; the inland provinces suffer a uniform productivity lag,
which suggests policies geared to increase regional productivity, such as
infrastructures and human capital, are crucial to close the productivity gap
between the inland and the costal.
(3) The Nexus of Income and Size Distribution of
Chinese Cities, 1984-2003
With Chun-Yu Ho, Forthcoming in Applied
Economics Letters
Abstract:
We estimate the distribution
dynamics of city income and size in China during 1984-2003 using stochastic
kernel. Our results show that intra-distribution mobility are significant in
both income and size and provide evidences on China experienced internal brain
drain.
Book
Chapter
Growth of U.S. Trade and Industrial Competitiveness: The
Role of Transportation
With W. P. Anderson and T. R.
Lakshmanan, A Report Prepared for U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal
Highway Administration,
Office of Policy Analysis, July
2005
Department of Economics