Innovation agglomeration and urban hierarchy: Evidence from Chinese cities

F Fan, S Dai, K Zhang, H Ke - Applied Economics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Innovation agglomeration leads to changes in the hierarchical structure of innovation,
driving regional economic development. We establish a general equilibrium framework for …

Financial development and the geographies of startup cities: evidence from China

F Pan, B Yang - Small Business Economics, 2019 - Springer
It has been widely observed that financial support is the key to entrepreneurial activities. The
last decade has witnessed tremendous growth of startups and financial markets in China …

Mapping urban networks through inter-firm service relationships: The case of China

F Pan, W Bi, J Lenzer, S Zhao - Urban Studies, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Literature on how cities get connected through networks of firms has been increasing in
recent years. In particular, advanced producer service (APS) firms are being widely used to …

State-led financialization in China: The case of the government-guided investment fund

F Pan, F Zhang, F Wu - The China Quarterly, 2021 - cambridge.org
China is witnessing a growing trend towards financialization by the state. Drawing on the
concept of state-led financialization, this study is the first to explore how the government …

A pipeline for urban knowledge spillover: based on the internal linkage of cross-regional multilocation enterprises

B Mao, J Gu, Q Lu - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Since heterogeneous knowledge resources are unevenly distributed across cities,
enterprises have gradually dispersed their activities to seek location-bound knowledge …

The evolutionary mechanism of China's urban network from 1997 to 2015: An analysis of air passenger flows

F Zhang, Y Ning, X Lou - Cities, 2021 - Elsevier
To reveal the complexity of China's urban network, this paper proposes an empirical
approach to examining the evolutionary mechanism of, rather than just mapping, the spatial …

Natural disasters, trade credit, and firm performance

S Lai, L Chen, QS Wang, H Anderson - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
With the increasing frequency and intensity of destructive weather events, firms' access to
financing following disasters is critical. Few studies have investigated firms' access to trade …

Research progress of industrial geography in China

C He, F Pan, T Chen - Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2016 - Springer
The expansion and upgrading of Chinese industries have accompanied with the spatial
restructuring process across the country. This paper provides a literature review on China's …

Strategic globalizing centers and sub-network geometries: A social network analysis of multi-scalar energy networks

K Martinus, TJ Sigler, G Searle, M Tonts - Geoforum, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the past three decades, a multitude of studies have examined the relational properties
of corporate networks as a proxy for analyzing interurban hierarchies and structures. While …

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the indoor dust in China: levels, spatial distribution and human exposure

NZ Zhu, LY Liu, WL Ma, WL Li, WW Song, H Qi… - … and Environmental Safety, 2015 - Elsevier
Indoor environment is an important source of human exposure to several toxicants, such as
brominated flame retardants. Indoor dust samples were collected in winter season in 2010 …