TY - BOOK AU - Zheng,Siqi AU - Kahn,Matthew E. AU - Liu,Hongyu ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Towards a System of Open Cities in China: Home Prices, FDI Flows and Air Quality in 35 Major Cities T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - February 2009; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - Over the last thirty years, China's major cities have experienced significant income and population growth. Much of this growth has been fueled by urban production spurred by world demand. Using a unique cross-city panel data set, we test several hypotheses concerning the relationship between home prices, wages, foreign direct investment and ambient air pollution across major Chinese cities. Home prices are lower in cities with higher ambient pollution levels. Cities featuring higher per-capita FDI flows have lower pollution levels UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w14751 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w14751 ER -