What Factors Can Explain the Rising Spatial Disparity in Economic Activities in China?  

作　　者：Lihong Yang Jinwen Cheng Linhui Yu Chenhua Li 

机构地区：[1]School of Economics,Nanjing Audit University,China [2]Shenzhen Municipal Financial Regulatory Bureau,China [3]School of Economics,Zhjiang University,China

出　　处：《China & World Economy》2020年第3期51-72,共22页中国与世界经济（英文版）

基　　金：The authors are grateful for support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71573269 and No.71873120);the China National Social Science Foundation(No.16BJY119);the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions and Zhejiang Province Natural Science Foundation(No.LY 18G030004).

摘　　要：This paper explores the impact of spatial externalities in shaping China's economic geography by establishing a theoretical framework that contains regional productivity,trade barriers and local amenities to capture spatial externalities between different regions over time.Combining provincial data on bilateral trade flows with observed information about economic geography during the period 1998-2013,we estimate the distribution and marginal contribution of each explanatory.factor.Empirical results suggest that regional labor density and wage are positively related to exogenous productivity and amenities,and negatively related to trade barriers.Meanwhile,variation in the marginal contribution of exogenous productivity and amenities and trade barriers reflects the regional temporal-spatial features in China's recent marketization process.Therefore,the Chinese government should place more emphasis on absorbing advanced technologies and reducing inter-regional market barriers to promote balanced regional development and improve the eficiency of China s spatial resource allocation.

关 键 词：China economic TOPOGRAPHY regional AMENITIES TRADE BARRIER 

分 类 号：F75[经济管理—国际贸易]