Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71172213,71171183);Ministry of Educa-tion,Humanities and Social Sciences Project(No.09YJA630153,10YJA790260);National Social Science Foundation of China(No.08&ZD043);Australian Research Council,and Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)Special Grant for Postgraduate Research,Inno-vation and Practice
This paper falls into the broad area of economic geography and economics of creativity,and it presents an alternative approach to explain why total factor productivity(TFP)growth is different across China′s regions.I...
the support of the National Natural Science Foundation ofChina(71172213 and 71171183);the Ministry of Education,Humanities and Social Sciences Project(09YJA630153 and 10YJA790260);the National Social Science Foundation of China(08&ZD043)
The paper presents an alternative approach to explain why regional productivity is different across regions by utilizing the creative class approach in China. First, we analyze the extent of spatial agglomeration of t...