Globalisation and the provinces of China: the role of domestic versus international trade integration
Melchior, ArneJournal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies, vol. 8, no. 3
Routledge (2010)s. 227-252.
Regional disparities are particularly high in some larger emerging economies, such as Russia and China, and inter-provincial inequality in China has increased rapidly after 1990. In the literature, a statistical link between globalisation and increased regional disparities in China has been established, but not the precise mechanisms and causal relationships. In this paper, we therefore simulate a world trade model with 166 countries and regions in order to shed light on these mechanisms and the future development of regional disparities in China.