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Frontiers of Economics in China

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Front. Econ. China    2008, Vol. 3 Issue (2) : 277-295    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11459-008-0013-9
Metropolitan economic growth and spatial dependence: Evidence from a panel of China
LI Pei
Regional Economics and Urban Management Research Center, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China
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Abstract There are a number of theoretical reasons why cities interact with each other. Such spatial interdependence has been largely ignored by the empirical literature with only a couple of recent papers accounting for such issues in their estimation. This paper takes spatial dependence panel data models in specifying and testing to analyze three metropolitan growth behaviors in China. We find that controlling for fixed-effects allows us to disentangle the effect of spatial dependence from that of spatial heterogeneity and that of omitted variables. The estimated relationships of traditional determinants of urbanization are robust to inclusion of terms to capture spatial interdependence, even though such interdependence is estimated to be significant. Additionally, the three metropolitan areas might be said to represent three distinct stages during the urbanization of China.
Keywords spatial panel data models      metropolitan areas      urbanization     
Issue Date: 05 June 2008
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LI Pei. Metropolitan economic growth and spatial dependence: Evidence from a panel of China[J]. Front. Econ. China, 2008, 3(2): 277-295.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/10.1007/s11459-008-0013-9
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/Y2008/V3/I2/277
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