• openAccess   Capital goods imports and long-run growth: Is the Chinese experience relevant to developing countries? 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Elsevier (2013)
      In this paper, we analyze the role played by capital goods imports in the long-run growth of developing countries. We focus in the case of the Chinese economy in the last few decades. We find evidence that the ratio of ...
    • openAccess   Energy intensity and investment ownership across Chinese provinces 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Cuadros, Ana; Orts, Vicente Elsevier (2013)
      The main objective of this paper is to investigate whether openness and investment ownership are key factors in explaining the diffusion of energy-saving technologies in China. Compared with previous studies, the novel ...
    • openAccess   Equipment investment, output and productivity in China 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Springer-Verlag (2012-02)
      At the beginning of the 1990s, J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence H. Summers highlighted in a series of influential articles that there were good reasons and quantitative evidence to support the point of view that machinery ...
    • openAccess   Foreign versus Indigenous Innovation and Energy Intensity: Further Research across Chinese Regions 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Cuadros, Ana; Luo, Dan Elsevier (2016-01-15)
      The aim of this work is to analyze the role played by both foreign and indigenous innovation on energy intensity as well as the possible interactions between them across 30 Chinese regions. In addition, we disaggregate ...
    • closedAccess   Imports and growth in China 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Elsevier (2011-11)
      In this paper, we analyze the role played by imports and investment on labor productivity and output inChina from 1964 to 2004. In doing so, our analysis focuses on the role of technological progress incorporated into the ...
    • openAccess   Is the Export-led Growth Hypothesis Enough to Account for China’s Growth? 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Wiley-Blackwell (2010-07-13)
      The purpose of the present paper is to analyze whether the expansion of the Chinese economy is based on an export-led growth effect or, on the contrary, Chinese development between 1964 and 2004 was driven by investment. ...
    • openAccess   New evidence on the role of regional clusters and convergence in China (1952–2008) 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Ordóñez, Javier Elsevier (2012-12)
      A new panel method is applied to the case of Chinese provinces to analyze the existence of club convergence in terms of per capita income, labor productivity, and capital intensity, from 1952 to 2008. The advantage of this ...
    • closedAccess   Residential energy consumption: A convergence analysis across Chinese regions 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Aller, Carlos; Ordóñez, Javier Elsevier (2017-02)
      The process of urbanization and the raise of living standards in China have led an increasing trend in the patterns of residential consumption. Projections for the population growth rate in urban areas do not paint a very ...
    • closedAccess   Stochastic regional convergence in China: the role of regional clusters in a nonlinear perspective (1952–2007) 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Ordóñez, Javier Wiley (2014)
      This paper investigates the notion of stochastic convergence behaviour across the Chinese provinces. Unlike previous works, the present paper takes into account the economic geography by examining the regional clusters ...
    • closedAccess   The Causal Relationship between Equipment Investment and Infrastructures on Economic Growth in China 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús Higher Education Press (2010)
      There is agreement in the literature on economic growth concerning the transitory effects of capital accumulation on the process of economic development. However, controversy arises if this effect is permanent. In this ...
    • openAccess   The Driving Forces behind China’s Growth 

      Orts, Vicente; Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús Wiley (2010)
      The main objective of this paper is to disentangling the determinants of the Chinese economic growth that occurred from 1965 to 2000. We have explored, first, the time series properties of the growth rates of GDP and labour ...
    • closedAccess   The driving forces behind China’s growth 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente Wiley (2011-01)
      The main objective of this article is to disentangle the determinants of the Chinese economic growth that occurred from 1965 to 2000. We have explored, first, the time series properties of the growth rates of gross domestic ...
    • openAccess   Weighted convergence and regional clusters across China 

      Herrerías Talamantes, María Jesús; Orts, Vicente; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Wiley-Blackwell (2011)
      We analyse per capita GDP convergence among 28 Chinese provinces between 1952 and 2005 using the distribution dynamics approach. Compared with previous studies, we provide a more complete view by including some additional ...