Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212679 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 11/2010
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Seaports have historically played a key role in facilitating trade and growth. This paper is the first attempt in the literature to analyse the formation of Chinese seaport cities and the dynamics that drives it. First, we aim to identify theoretically the emergence of urbanized seaports with the help of a formal economic geography model. Second, employing an empirically plausible parameterisation of the model, we calibrate the evolutionary process and spatial distribution of seaports along the Chinese coastline.
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ISBN: 
978-952-462-686-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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