Cultural proximity and interregional industrial linkages: knowledge diffusion or transaction costs?
利用中国数据，研究发现文化距离阻碍区域间横向产业关联，但不影响纵向关联；文化亲近主要通过知识扩散而非交易成本促进区域间产业合作。
This paper explores the impact of cultural proximity on interregional industrial linkages using evidence from China. The results show that cultural distance hinders horizontal industrial linkages between regions, but does not limit the formation of vertical industrial linkages. Cultural proximity affects interregional industrial cooperation strategies primarily through knowledge diffusion rather than transaction costs. Cultural proximity favours the formation of transregional social networks and the cognition of localised tacit knowledge. Consequently, regions that are culturally similar to one another have a comparative information advantage in forming horizontal industrial linkages.