Transport Infrastructure and Agglomeration Effects of Service Industries:From HLM Analysis on the Two Levels of Provinces and Cities

Abstract

Abstract:

Agglomeration of service industries is one important way to improve the industrial quality and the regional competitiveness.A key step for regional economic development is to explore how to promote the agglomeration effects of service industries.By incorporating transport costs into the theory model of the relationship between industrial agglomeration and productivity,the paper discusses the mechanism of how traffic infrastructure affects service agglomeration.In the empirical study,the samples of provinces in China are divided into a high level group and a low level group in terms of traffic infrastructure based on the panel threshold model.Then,the effects of transport infrastructure on agglomeration of service industries are tested by hierarchical linear model.The results show that in the provinces where transportation infrastructure is developed,the agglomeration of service industries at the provincial level can strengthen the urban agglomeration effects.While in the provinces where transportation infrastructure is underdeveloped,the effective range of the agglomeration of service industries is only limited to the municipal level,and the provincial service agglomeration can not improve the agglomeration effects of urban service industries.

Key words: transport infrastructure, agglomeration of service industries, hierarchical linear models, threshold regression

Sun Xiaohua, Liu Xiaoling, Xu Shuai. Transport Infrastructure and Agglomeration Effects of Service Industries:From HLM Analysis on the Two Levels of Provinces and Cities[J]. , 2017, 29(6): 214-224.

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