Local Protectionism and Regional Specialization: Evidence from China’s Industries

Chong-En Bai, Yingjuan Du (), Zhigang Tao and Sarah Tong

William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Abstract: This paper uses a dynamic panel estimation method to investigate the determinants of regional specialization in China’s industries, paying particular attention to local protectionism. Less geographic concentration is found in industries where the past tax-plus-profit margins and the shares of state ownership are high, re- flecting stronger local government protection of these industries. The evidence also supports the scale-economies theory of regional specialization. Finally, the overall time trend of regional specialization of China’s industries is found to have reversed an early drop in the mid 1980s, and registered a significant increase in the later years.

Keywords: local protectionism; regional specialization; scale economy; external economy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 P2 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2003-06-26
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-geo, nep-tra and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.wdi.umich.edu/files/Publications/WorkingPapers/wp565.pdf
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.wdi.umich.edu/files/Publications/WorkingPapers/wp565.pdf [302 Found]--> https://wdi.umich.edu/files/Publications/WorkingPapers/wp565.pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Local protectionism and regional specialization: evidence from China's industries (2004)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wdi:papers:2003-565

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan 724 E. University Ave, Wyly Hall 1st Flr, Ann Arbor MI 48109. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by WDI ().