Is the natural resource production a blessing or curse for China's urbanization? Evidence from a space-time panel data model

Economic Modelling

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 404-416

  Liu, Yaobin ^a  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Natural resource based production; Panel threshold regression; Second generation panel unit root and cointegration; Spatial panel Durbin model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894033884     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2014.01.023     Document Type: Article

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