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Foreign Manufacturing Investment in China: The Role of Industrial Agglomeration and Industrial Linkages
No full textThis paper investigates the forces that determine the industrial distribution of foreign manufacturing investment. It highlights the importance of industrial agglomeration and industrial linkage in attracting foreign investment to manufacturing industries. Using panel data for two-digit manufacturing industries in Beijing during the period of 1999-2004, this study finds that geographically agglomerated industries with strong intra-industrial linkages are indeed attractive to foreign investment. Previous foreign investment has led to the current industrial concentration of foreign investment. Investors also favor capital-intensive and technology-intensive industries, and they tend to be attracted to the most profitable and exporting industries, but avoid industries with high real labor costs and high entry barriers. Competitive local industries that possess comparative advantages are critical for attracting foreign investment. The existence of industrial clusters certainly enhances a city's attractiveness to foreign investment. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Spatial Disparities in Human Development: Perspectives from Asia - Edited by Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables, and Guanghua Wan
No full textPlanning & DevelopmentSSCI0BOOK REVIEW2382-3853
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Economic Transition and Industrial Restructuring in China: Structural Convergence or Divergence?
No full textChina has undergone substantial industrial restructuring since the economic transition. The triple process of marketisation, globalisation and decentralisation has had a significant influence on the changes in industrial structures in Chinese provinces. Using provincial–industrial level data for 1980–2003, this article finds that Chinese provinces are quite similar in their industrial structures. The interior provinces, however, have gradually specialised in resource-based industries, so their industrial structures deviate from the national structure, while the coastal provinces host fairly similar industries. Statistical analysis found that marketisation had enhanced the role of comparative advantage in natural resources, stimulating the divergence of industrial structures of provinces with different resource endowments while encouraging provinces with comparable endowments to develop similar industries. However, decentralisation generates economic fragmentation of domestic markets, fueling inter-provincial protectionism and rational imitation, and leading to the convergence of industrial structures among provinces. Globalisation has two effects. On the one hand, the globalised provinces have been converging in their industrial structures. On the other hand, the globalised provinces have rather different industrial structures from the underperforming provinces in exports and utilisation of FDI. This result implies that economic transition and its consequences are critical in understanding industrial restructuring in the transitional economies.
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Do polluting plants locate in the borders of jurisdictions? Evidence from China
No full textUnder decentralized fiscal and environmental governance, local governments have to balance economic growth and environmental pollution through regulatory power. While "free rider effect" directs polluting firms towards jurisdictional borders to export pollution, concerns for economic growth leads polluting firms to stay in regional centers to enjoy agglomeration externality. These two forces work together to shape the spatial pattern of polluting firms. This paper builds a stringency decision model for local governments and proposes a hypothesis relating border effects and the location and production of polluting firms. Based on cross-sectional county level data from the Key National Monitoring Sources of Pollution Firm in China, we conducted Poisson and Tobit regression analyses to test border and agglomeration effects. Empirical results reflect that border effect is not significant both in the location of polluting firms and spatial distribution of dirty output. The findings suggest that local governments lack strong incentives to take advantage of free rider effects when dealing with pollution but value the agglomeration effects to boost economic growth. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars [41425001]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [41271130][email protected]
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