Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212612 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 21/2007
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), Helsinki
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 ß- convergence and to pinpoint influential factors for economic growth across counties and cities.
Subjects: 
Regional Economic Growth
China
JEL: 
O11
R11
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-952-462-889-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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