Productivity growth of the cities of Jiangsu province, China: a Kaldorian approach

References

• Angeriz, A., J. S. L. McCombie, and M. Roberts. 2008. “New Estimates of Returns to Scale and Spatial Spillovers for EU Regional Manufacturing, 1986–2002.” International Regional Science Review 31 (1): 62–87.10.1177/0160017607306750
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Angeriz, A., J. S. L. McCombie, and M. Roberts. 2009. “Increasing Returns and the Growth of Industries in the EU Regions: Paradoxes and Conundrums.” Spatial Economic Analysis 4 (2): 127–148.10.1080/17421770902833972
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Arrow, K. 1962. “The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing.” The Review of Economic Studies 29 (3): 155–173.10.2307/2295952
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ball, L. M., D. Leigh, and P. Lougani. 2012. Okun’s Law: Fit at 50? Working Paper no. 606. Department of Economics, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
   Google Scholar
• Bernat, G. 1996. “Does Manufacturing Matter? A Spatial Econometric View of Kaldor’s Laws.” Journal of Regional Science 36 (3): 463–477.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dixon, R. J., and A. P. Thirwall. 1975. “A Model of Regional Growth-rate Differences on Kaldorian Lines 1.” Oxford Economic Papers 27 (2): 201–214.10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041312
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Felipe, J., and J. S. L. McCombie. 2012. “Agglomeration Economies, Regional Growth, and the Aggregate Production Function: A Caveat Emptor for Regional Scientists.” Spatial Economic Analysis 7 (4): 461–484.10.1080/17421772.2012.722668
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Felipe, J., and J. S. L. McCombie. 2013. The Aggregate Production Function and the Measurement of Technical Change. “Not Even Wrong”. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
   Google Scholar
• Fingleton, B. F. 2003. “Increasing Returns: Evidence from Local Wage Rates in Great Britain.” Oxford Economic Papers 55 (4): 716–739.10.1093/oep/55.4.716
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fingleton, B. F., and J. S. L. McCombie. 1998. “Increasing Returns and Economic Growth: Some Evidence for Manufacturing from the European Union Regions.” Oxford Economic Papers 50 (1): 89–105.10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a028638
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fisher, F. M. 1992. Aggregation. Aggregate Production Functions and Related Topics, edited by J. Monz. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fisher, F. M. 2005. “Aggregate Production Functions – A Pervasive, but Unpersuasive, Fairytale.” Eastern Economic Journal 31 (3): 489–491.
   Google Scholar
• Glaeser, E. L., H. Kallal, J. A. Scheinkma, and A. Schleifern. 1992. “Growth in Cities.” Journal of Political Economy 100 (6): 1126–1152.10.1086/261856
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Glaeser, E. L., J. Scheinkman, and A. Shleifer. 1995. “Economic Growth in a Cross-section of Cities.” Journal of Monetary Economics 36 (1): 117–143.10.1016/0304-3932(95)01206-2
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Griliches, Z., and V. Ringstad. 1971. Economies of Scale and the Form of the Production Function: An Econometric Study of Norwegian Manufacturing Establishment Data. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
   Google Scholar
• Guo, D., S. Dall’erba, and J. Le Gallo. 2013. “The Leading Role of Manufacturing in China’s Regional Economic Growth.” International Regional Science Review 36 (2): 139–166.10.1177/0160017612457779
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hansen, J. D., and J. Zhang. 1996. “A Kaldorian Approach to Regional Economic Growth in China.” Applied Economics 28 (6): 679–685.10.1080/000368496328425
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harris, R. I. D., and E. Lau. 1998. “Verdoorn’s Law and Increasing Returns to Scale in the UK Regions, 1968–91: Some New Estimates Based on the Cointegration Approach.” Oxford Economic Papers 50 (2): 201–219.10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a028642
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harris, R. I. D., and A. Liu. 1999. “Verdoorn’s Law and Increasing Returns to Scale: Country Estimates Based on the Cointegration Approach.” Applied Economics Letters 6 (1): 29–33.10.1080/135048599353834
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hildebrand, G. H., T. C. Liu, and D. Liu. 1965. Manufacturing Production Functions in the United States, 1957: An Interindustry and Interstate Comparison of Productivity. Vol. 15. Ithaca, NY: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University.
   Google Scholar
• Jiangsu Statistical Yearbook. Various years. Statistical Bureau of Jiangsu Province, Survey Office of the National Bureau of Statistics in Jiangsu. China Statistics Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kaldor, N. 1966. Causes of the Slow Rate of Economic Growth of the United Kingdom. An Inaugural Lecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Kaldor, N. 1975. “Economic Growth and the Verdoorn Law - A Comment on Mr Rowthorn’s Article.” Economic Journal 85 (340): 891–896.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• León-Ledesma, M. A. 2000. “Economic Growth and Verdoorn’s Law in the Spanish Regions, 1962–91.” International Review of Applied Economics 14 (1): 55–69.10.1080/026921700101489
   Google Scholar
• Lucas, R. E. 1970. “Capacity, Overtime, and Empirical Production Functions.” American Economic Review 60 (2): 23–27.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mathews, J. A. 2016. “Latecomer Industrialization.” In Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, edited by E. S. Reinert, J. Ghosh, and R. Kattel, 613–636. Basingstoke: Edward Elgar.10.4337/9781782544685
   Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L. 1981. “What Still Remains of Kaldor’s Laws?” The Economic Journal 91 (361): 206–216.10.2307/2231710
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L. 1982. “Economic Growth, Kaldor’s Laws and the Static–Dynamic Verdoorn Law Paradox.” Applied Economics 14 (3): 279–294.10.1080/00036848200000021
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L. 1983. “Kaldor’s Laws in Retrospect.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 5 (3): 414–430.10.1080/01603477.1983.11489380
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L. 1985. “Increasing Returns and the Manufacturing Industries: Some Empirical Issues.” The Manchester School 53 (1): 55–75.10.1111/j.1467-9957.1985.tb00195.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L., M. Pugno, and B. Soro, eds. 2002. Productivity Growth and Economic Performance: Essays on Verdoorn’s Law. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmilllan.
   Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L., and J. R. de Ridder. 1983. “Increasing Returns, Productivity, and Output Growth: The Case of the United States.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 5 (3): 373–387.10.1080/01603477.1983.11489377
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L., and J. R. de Ridder. 1984. “’The Verdoorn Law Controversy’: Some new Empirical Evidence Using US State Data.” Oxford Economic Papers 36 (2): 268–284.10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041637
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L., and M. Roberts. 2007. “Returns to Scale and Regional Growth: The Static-dynamic Verdoorn Law Paradox Revisited*.” Journal of Regional Science 47 (2): 179–208.10.1111/jors.2007.47.issue-2
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L., and M. R. M. Spreafico. 2016. “Kaldor’s ‘Technical Progress Function’ and Verdoorn’s Law Revisited.” Cambridge Journal of Economics 40 (4): 1117–1136.10.1093/cje/bev030
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCombie, J. S. L., and A. P. Thirlwall. 1994. Economic Growth and the Balance-of-payments Constraint. Basingstoke: Macmillan.10.1007/978-1-349-23121-8
   Google Scholar
• Moroney, J. R. 1972. The Structure of Production in American Manufacturing. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
   Google Scholar
• Oi, W. Y. 1962. “Labor as a Quasi-fixed Factor.” Journal of Political Economy 70 (6): 538–555.10.1086/258715
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Okun, A. M. 1962. “Potential GNP: Its Measurement and Significance.” American Statistical Association, Proceedings of the Business and Economic Statistics: 89–104.
   Google Scholar
• Pacheco-López, P., and A. P. Thirlwall. 2014. “A New Interpretation of Kaldor’s First Growth Law for Open Developing Economies.” Review of Keynesian Economics 2 (3): 384–398.10.4337/roke
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pons-Novell, J., and E. Viladecans-Marsal. 1999. “Kaldor’s Laws and Spatial Dependence: Evidence for the European Regions.” Regional Studies 33 (5): 443–451.10.1080/00343409950081284
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rima, I. H. 2004. “Increasing Returns, New Growth Theory, and the Classicals.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 27 (1): 171–184.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Scott, M. F. 1991. A New View of Economic Growth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.10.1093/0198287429.001.0001
   Google Scholar
• Simon, H. A. 1979. “Rational Decision Making in Business Organizations.” American Economic Review 69 (4): 493–513.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thirlwall, A. P. 1980. “Regional Problems are ‘Balance-of-payments’ Problems.” Regional Studies 14 (5): 419–425.10.1080/09595238000185371
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thirlwall, A. P. 1983. “A Plain Man’s Guide to Kaldor’s Growth Laws.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 5 (3): 345–358.10.1080/01603477.1983.11489375
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Verdoorn, P. J. 1949. “Fattori che Regolano lo Sviluppo della Produttività del Lavoro”[Factors that Determine the Growth of Labour Productivity.] L’Industria 1: 3–10. ( A translation is reprinted as chapter 2 in McCombie, Pugno, and Soro, 2002).
   Google Scholar
• Wells, H., and A. P. Thirlwall. 2004. “Testing Kaldor’s Growth Laws across the Countries of Africa.” African Development Review 15 (2–3): 89–105.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• World Bank. 2009. Reshaping Economic Geography. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
   Google Scholar