Trade integration, market size, and industrialization: Evidence from China's national trunk highway system

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1046-1070

  Faber, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Core periphery; Industrialization; Market integration; Transport infrastructure

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INVESTMENT; TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CHINA;

EID: 84905192667     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdu010     Document Type: Article

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