Place-Based Policies, Creation, and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from China’s Economic Zone Program
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* We thank seminar participants at Berkeley and the AEA meetings in San Diego for useful comments and Attila Sandor Lindner for excellent research assistance.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1945-7731,1945-774X
DOI: 10.1257/pol.20160272