How transportation infrastructure affects firm Productivity?Evidence from China

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ID6045487
AuthorsMing Xu (0000-0003-2151-2980), Xu Ming (0000-0002-7339-3787, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, corresponding author), Yuan Feng (0000-0002-5242-8936, CITIC Group (China))
Year2022
Volume2
Issue1
Pages55-69
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueChina Economic Quarterly International (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2666-9331 • E-ISSN: 2666-9331
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.ceqi.2022.02.001
OpenAlexW4221046604
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

The national trunk highway system (NTHS), consisting of five vertical and seven horizontal national trunk highways, is taken as a natural experiment to study the impact of transportation infrastructure on firm productivity. It is found that the NTHS has led to the agglomeration of production resources of county-level enterprises along the system to large cities, and the degree of agglomeration has industry-level heterogeneity. Although the NTHS has promoted the division of labor among county-level enterprises, it is difficult for these enterprises to compete with those in big cities and share efficiency and economic benefits from the deepening of the division of labor

Business · China · Division of labour · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economies of agglomeration · Geography · Industrial organization · Market economy · Productivity · Transport engineering · Transportation infrastructure · Engineering · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Taxation and Compliance Studies

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