Digital economy drives regional industrial structure upgrading: Empirical evidence from China’s comprehensive big data pilot zone policy
Caihong Yang · 2023
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Caihong Yang asks, in a 2023 study, whether China's big data pilot zones pushed regional industry toward higher-value activity. The digital economy is widely credited with upgrading industrial structure. Hard evidence from a real policy experiment is rarer.
The 2016 pilot zone policy created a natural comparison across regions. Yang matched similar regions and compared changes before and after, using panel data from thirty regions over fourteen years. Pilot regions upgraded significantly more, a result that survived placebo checks. The effect ran through more innovation and deeper finance. Uneven effects across regions also appeared. The study gives policymakers evidence that data infrastructure policy can move an economy's shape, not only its size.
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| CREATOR | Caihong Yang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 73 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |