The Role of the Cities in the Western Economic Development

Abstract:

Based on an annual panel for the western cities in China and system GMM method, this paper build the spatial econometric models to analyze if the same factors have the different impacts between the capital cities and the prefecture-level cities on their economic development. The results show that the capital cities more rely on their development path and less dependent on other cities of the same level; while the prefecture-level cities on the contrary.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 267)
• Pages: 227-229
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.267.227
• Online since: June 2011
• Authors: Guo Jie Zhao, Li Jie Jia, Tie Feng Ma
• Keywords: Economic Development of City, Path Dependence, Spatial Econometric Models, System GMM

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