Transport Infrastructure, City Productivity Growth and Sectoral Reallocation : Evidence from China /

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth and sectoral reallocation between cities in China. To do so, I construct a unique dataset of bilateral transportation costs between Chinese cities, digitized highway network maps, and firm-level census. I first deri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yang, Yang
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/276
Online Access:Full text available on IMF