TECHNOLOGY PROGRESS AND CITIES LEARNING
使用Hall-Jones模型测量2000年中国188个城市的全要素生产率,发现其与GDP正相关,并探讨城市规模和外商直接投资对生产率的影响,提出通过城市学习促进长期经济增长。
Focuses on the disparity of economic growth across cities,the article employ Hall-Jones model,not the conventional framework rooted in the Solow model,to measure the level of TFP across 188 cities in 2 000,finding that there is a significant positive relationship between the level of TFP and the GDP across cities in China.And furthermore the article explore the size of cities and FDI determinants of the level of TFP.Lastly,the article propose that we can promote long-term urban economic growth by city learning.