Trade Integration, Market Size, and Industrialization: Evidence from China's National Trunk Highway System

By Benjamin Faber. 2014

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From periphery to core: measuring agglomeration effects using high-speed rail (2018, background): “Instrumental variables based on historic transport networks (Duranton & Turner, 2012), counterfactual least-cost networks (Faber, 2014) or straight-line connections among regional centers (Banerjee et al., 2012) have emerged as a standard approach to establishing a causal relationship.”
The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya (2015, background): “Furthermore, a new literature (see Michaels 2008; Donaldson 2012; Faber 2012) shows that, by facilitating trade, roads and other forms of transportation infrastrucuture can boost economic performance.”
Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China (2020, methodology): “…an income group indicator that is equal to one if a county is in the 16 Note that our sample size and years of coverage are also different from Faber (2014), as described in Section III. high-income group in 2000.17 This allows us to include income group-specific year fixed effects so that…”
‘No county left behind?’ The distributional impact of high-speed rail upgrades in China (2016, neutral): “…in both developing and developed countries (Ahlfeldt, 2011; Atack et al., 2010; Banerjee et al., 2012; Baum-Snow, 2007; Baum-Snow et al., 2012; Datta, 2012; Ghani et al., 2012; Donaldson, 2013; Duflo and Pande, 2007; Faber, 2014; Garcia-López, 2012; Jedwab and Moradi, 2014; Zheng and Kahn, 2013).”
The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960–2010 (2020, neutral): “African countries have begun to make large transportation investments again.2 Governments and international donors, including new donors like China through its expanding Belt and Road Initiative, describe them as having the potential to transform their regions, and highlight the potential of road pr”
Do China's high-speed-rail projects promote local economy?—New evidence from a panel data approach (2017, background): “Munnell, 1992; Rephann & Iserman, 1994; Chandra & Thompson (2000), Faber (2014). 2 The rationality is well documented in Sargent and Sams (1997); Giannone Reichlin and Sala (2005); Stock and Watson (2005); Onatski, (2009). .”
Growing through Cities in Developing Countries (2014, positive): “This naturally leads to more product innovations and is consistent with the evidence of Feldman and Audretsch (1999) discussed above.”
The Alibaba effect: Spatial consumption inequality and the welfare gains from e-commerce (2018, background): “While some existing studies also examine e-commerce 6Notable exceptions include Faber (2014), Atkin et al. (2015), and Feenstra et al. (2016), all of which use detailed category-level price data.”
Does investment in national highways help or hurt hinterland city growth? (2018, background): “…the effects of national transport systems (e.g. Donaldson, 018; Donaldson and Hornbeck, 2016; Alder, 2015; Sotelo, 2015; Allen nd Arkolakis, 2014; Bartelme, 2015; Fajgelbaum and Redding, 2014; ombe and Zhu, 2015; Balboni, 2017 ), including an early version of this aper ( Baum-Snow et al., 2016 ).”
High-speed railways and collaborative innovation (2021, background): “Besides, we have 31 provincial capital cities, which are political, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, and transportation center of each province (Banerjee et al., 2020; Faber, 2014; Gao and Zheng, 2020).”
Transport Policies and Development (2015, background): “In China, Faber (2014) finds that reducing transport costs can led to a reduction in industrial growth among connected peripheral regions relative to non-connected areas, as opposed to diffusing production from the metropolitan regions to the periphery. Firm location decision and agglomeration effec”