摘要
This paper falls into the broad area of economic geography and economics of creativity,and it presents an alternative approach to explain why total factor productivity(TFP)growth is different across China′s regions.It establishes an empirical model to estimate the spatial agglomeration effects of creative industries on regional TFP growth,using China′s provincial panel data during the period of 2003 to 2010.We found that the creative industries agglomeration(CIA)has significant and positive impact on regional TFP growth.The result also implies that the CIA can facilitate regional TFP growth through promoting regional innovation instead of improving regional efficiency.Therefore,we argue that policy makers should take some measures to retain and establish more creative zones.
This paper falls into the broad area of economic geography and economics of creativity,and it presents an alternative approach to explain why total factor productivity（TFP） growth is different across China′s regions. It establishes an empirical model to estimate the spatial agglomeration effects of creative industries on regional TFP growth,using China′s provincial panel data during the period of 2003 to 2010. We found that the creative industries agglomeration（CIA） has significant and positive impact on regional TFP growth. The result also implies that the CIA can facilitate regional TFP growth through promoting regional innovation instead of improving regional efficiency. Therefore,we argue that policy makers should take some measures to retain and establish more creative zones.
基金
Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71172213,71171183)
Ministry of Educa-tion,Humanities and Social Sciences Project(No.09YJA630153,10YJA790260)
National Social Science Foundation of China(No.08&ZD043)
Australian Research Council,and Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)Special Grant for Postgraduate Research,Inno-vation and Practice
关键词
全要素生产率
产业集聚
区域创新
创意
中国
经济地理学
集聚效应
经济学
creative industries
spatial externality
creativity industries agglomeration（CIA）
total factor productivity（TFP）
economic growth
