Polity Atlas
Report

Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities (UBS Center Working Paper No. 5)

Simon Alder; Lin Shao; Fabrizio Zilibotti · UBS International Center of Economics in Society, University of Zurich · 2013

Open publisher page ↗
Type
Report
Author
Simon Alder; Lin Shao; Fabrizio Zilibotti
Accessed
2026-09-01
Reliability notes
Working-paper version (also CEPR DP9748); its abstract states the 276-city sample and the absence of a permanently steeper growth path.

Claims citing this source

1 claims
EstablishedA difference-in-differences study of 276 Chinese cities over 1988-2010 associates the establishment of a state-level special economic zone with an increase in the level of GDP of about 20%, mainly through capital accumulation, but not with a permanently faster growth path.