The differences in sub-national institutions within large and complex emerging economies have been increasingly noted. Drawing on social network theory and the institution-based view, we argue that two network structural attributes of domestic firms – centrality and structural holes – have distinctive values in different sub-national regions where institutional contexts differ widely. In additi...

During the first decade of the twenty-first century, Chinese cities have experienced the unprecedented housing development and marketization, which has profoundly changed housing consumption. Using the latest census data, this paper provides the first evaluation of housing consumption in Chinese cities during 2000–2010. Not surprisingly, housing consumption has improved significantly over time,...

This paper extends the three major facts of long run structural transformation — (i) sectoral reallocations, (ii) rich movements of productive activities between home and market, and (iii) an increase in the scale of productive units — and develops a model based on scale technologies to understand and explain them within a unified framework. The crucial distinction between industry, services, a...

OEnergy efficiency is a vital factor to promote sustainable development. In this paper, the directional distance function–global Malmquist–Luenberger model (DDF-GML) applied measure energy levels of 30 provinces in China from 2000 2017. Simultaneously, impacts economic growth targets and marketization on are empirically tested using generalized system moment estimation (SYS-GMM) mediation effec...