贸易开放与区域收入空间效应——来自中国的证据

Trade Openness and the Spatial Effect of Regional Income:Evidence From China

贸易开放能塑造一个国家的內部经济地理么?目前对发展中国家贸易开放的空间效应的实证研究还很有限。本文试图利用中国2010年324个地级行政单元(市、州、盟)和直辖市数据来回答贸易开放对中国区域收入的影响,文章引入空间杜宾模型进行实证分析,同时引入人力资本、人均资本投入、政府扶持等控制变量,研究发现:贸易开放、人力资本不仅能够提高本区域收入水平,同时也能相应提高相邻区域的收入水平;相反,人均资本投入和政府扶持只能提高本区域人均收入水平,对相邻区域会产生负的影响。

Can trade openness shape the internal economic geography of a country？ Empirical evidence on the spatial effects of trade openness in developing countries is limited. We try to test the effect of trade openness on regional income, using the data set of 324 Chinese prefecture level regions in 2010. We introduce the SDM model and control variables, such as human capital, the per capita capital investment, government support, to analyze this relationship. Our findings show that trade openness and human capital have positive effect on the income level of both the region and adjacent regions. Otherwise, the per capita capital investment and government support have a positive effect on the income level of the region, but have a negative effect on adjacent regions