Producer Services Agglomeration Research Articles

Effect of Agglomeration of Producer Services on Asynchronous Development of Industrialization and Urbanization: Provincial Panel Data of China

Effect of Agglomeration of Producer Services on Asynchronous Development of Industrialization and Urbanization: Provincial Panel Data of China

Producer services agglomeration and green growth: evidence from China

Producer services agglomeration and green growth: evidence from China

Does producer services agglomeration improve industrial energy efficiency in China?

Promoting structural transformation and energy efficiency improvement by grouping productive services is a significant action for China's targets of realizing carbon neutrality and carbon peak. This study employs the spatial Durbin model to explore the influences of the agglomeration of producer services (producer services agglomeration) on industrial energy efficiency using panel data from China, specifically from its prefecture-level cities. It turned out that the specialization producer services agglomeration has effectively improved the industrial energy efficiency of the city and its adjacent areas. However, the producer services agglomeration in diverse fields only plays a positive stimulating role in the energy efficiency standards of the city. After changing the industrial energy efficiency index, and sample size and considering endogeneity, the test results agree with the benchmark estimation outcomes. Additional research indicates that technological spillovers and manufacturing production costs exert a significant mediation influence in the process of promoting energy efficiency by producer services agglomeration. Furthermore, the producer services agglomeration has a substantial heterogeneous effect on the industrial energy efficiency due to differences in industry types of producer services. The conclusion of this article is of considerable relevance for China to rely on the producer services agglomeration to support effective energy utilization, as well as green and sustainable economic development.

How Does Diversification of Producer Services Agglomeration Help Reduce Carbon Emissions Intensity? Evidence from 252 Chinese Cities, 2005–2018

Mitigating carbon emissions intensity (CEI) and promoting carbon neutrality at the city level are essential for addressing the challenges of global climate change and advancing sustainable development. This study examines the influence of producer services agglomeration diversification (PSAD) on CEI using an unbalanced panel dataset including 252 Chinese prefectural-level cities from 2005 to 2018 for empirical analyses. We find that improving PSAD in a city can significantly mitigate CEI. Stronger PSAD accelerates a city’s industrial structure transformation from secondary- to tertiary-dominated in addition to boosting green development capabilities, both of which are confirmed to have concrete carbon emissions reduction effects. Furthermore, PSAD only significantly alleviates CEI in non-eastern cities in China, and the benefits of carbon emissions reduction are stronger after 2010. Our policy insights highlight land utilization in shaping the intracity layouts of producer services agglomerations (PSAs) and stress regional-level measures. Recognizing regional differences and integrating PSAs allocation with broader institutional measures can amplify PSAD’s benefits.

Broadband infrastructure and urban carbon emissions: Quasi-experimental evidence from China

As the fundamental foundation of digital economy development, broadband infrastructure has a crucial role in promoting economic growth; however, the influence of broadband infrastructure on carbon emissions remains uncertain. This study examines whether broadband infrastructure is correlated with reduced urban carbon emissions, using a multiperiod difference-in-differences (DID) model with Broadband China pilot policy implementation as a quasi-natural experiment. We assess the effects of broadband infrastructure on urban carbon emissions employing a sample of 285 Chinese cities from 2008 to 2019. The findings reveal that broadband infrastructure is correlated with significantly reduced carbon emissions, indicating an average emissions reduction of 12% to 17% in pilot cities compared with nonpilot cities. Broadband infrastructure appears to have a delayed, cumulative effect on emissions reduction. Mechanism tests indicate that broadband infrastructure promotes carbon emissions reduction through industrial structure upgrading, green technology innovation, and producer services agglomeration. Regarding city heterogeneity, broadband infrastructure contributes to more carbon emissions reduction in eastern and southern cities, large cities, and resource-based cities. Our study offers some primary evidence of broadband infrastructure's influence on achieving economic growth and sustainable development.

How can pilot free trade zones affect regional technology innovation? –evidence from China at the city level

ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of pilot Free Trade Zones (FTZs) on technology innovation in China. Applying a multi-phase difference in difference (DID) model with the data from 280 Chinese cities during 2004 – 2019, covering 18 pilot FTZs, we found significant positive technology innovation effects of pilot FTZs. Specifically, the establishment of pilot FTZs has encouraged ‘substantive innovation’ through improving business environment, producer services agglomeration and financial development. Further spatial analysis shows that the innovation effect of the pilot FTZs has a positive spillover effect on neighbouring cities whose innovation capabilities are improved significantly, and thus narrows the innovation gap between cities. In terms of time dimension, the positive effect of pilot FTZs on innovation is immediate and continuously amplified. The above conclusions are robust using the placebo test, PSM-DID and control of provincial effects. The results provide important implications in extending the pilot FTZs to a wider coverage.

Impact of the producer services agglomeration on PM2.5: A case study of the Yellow River Basin, China

Impact of the producer services agglomeration on PM2.5: A case study of the Yellow River Basin, China

Does innovative city pilot policy promote urban green growth in China? An analysis of green total factor productivity, 2005–2020

The innovative city pilot policy (ICPP) is an essential manifestation of China’s construction of an innovative and green-driven development country. We incorporated urban green total factor productivity (GTFP) growth into the evaluation of ICPP. Based on the panel data of 223 cities in China from 2005 to 2020, we used the difference-in-differences model to empirically assess the influence and mechanism of the ICPP on urban GTFP growth. The main results show that (i) The ICPP has maintained an effectively fluctuating promotion on urban GTFP growth, mainly manifested in the urban green technological progress improvement. (ii) The ICPP has urban heterogeneity in promoting GTFP growth in pilot cities, mainly affecting key cities such as provincial capitals. (iii) The interaction between the agglomeration of producer services and the ICPP inhibits GTFP growth in pilot cities.

E-Commerce Development and Green Technology Innovation: Impact Mechanism and the Spatial Spillover Effect

Green technology innovation (GTI) is critical for economic development and environmental protection. This paper investigates the influence of the National E-commerce Demonstration Cities (NEDC) policy on GTI using a multi-period Difference-in-Difference (DID) model and data from prefecture-level Chinese cities. The findings indicate that the NEDC policy considerably facilitates GTI in China. The conclusion withstands a comprehensive set of robustness tests and remains valid even after considering potential endogeneity issues. A dynamic analysis reveals an increasing influence of the NEDC policy on GTI over time. The paper identifies producer services agglomeration, internet development, and financial support as channels through which the NEDC policy affects GTI. A heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that the NEDC policy’s influence on GTI is more pronounced in larger cities with a higher degree of marketization and increased levels of human capital. Moreover, the NEDC policy exhibits spatial spillover effects, supporting GTI advancement in both local cities and neighboring regions. This study provides insights into how emerging market economies can leverage e-commerce for green development.

Industrial Agglomeration and Enterprise Innovation Sustainability: Empirical Evidence from the Chinese A-Share Market

The data from 285 prefecture-level cities in China are selected as research samples from 2005 to 2021, using the panel data of listed companies. The empirical study examines the impact of regional industrial agglomeration levels on enterprise innovation sustainability and its heterogeneity effects. The findings reveal that industrial agglomeration in the manufacturing sector significantly hampers enterprise innovation sustainability, while agglomeration in the producer services sector promotes it. Mechanism analysis demonstrates that industrial agglomeration affects enterprise innovation sustainability through the micro-conductive mechanism of financial constraints. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the impact of manufacturing agglomeration on enterprise innovation sustainability is more pronounced in technology-intensive and high-end technology industries, whereas the impact of producer services agglomeration varies significantly in knowledge-intensive and resource-intensive industries. Furthermore, heterogeneity analysis suggests that the influence of industrial agglomeration on enterprise innovation sustainability varies according to different firm characteristics. These research findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the microeconomic effects of industrial agglomeration and expand the research perspective on the internal mechanisms and external factors driving sustainable corporate innovation.

Research on the impact of Industrial Synergy Agglomeration on Regional Innovation and Development

Collaborative agglomeration of producer services and manufacturing can effectively improve resource mismatch, enhance the height of industrial structure, and then promote regional innovation and development. This collaborative clustering model plays a significant role in promoting optimized resource allocation, driving industrial upgrading, and fostering innovation development, which is of great significance for achieving economic growth and regional sustainable development. This paper constructs the panel data of 281 prefecture level cities in China from 2004 to 2019 to empirically analyze the impact of Industrial Synergy on the development of regional innovation. It is found that the collaborative agglomeration of producer services and manufacturing industry is conducive to the development of regional innovation, especially the collaborative agglomeration of high value-added producer services and manufacturing industry has a more significant role in promoting innovation. Therefore, local governments should accelerate the coordinated development of industries, thus promoting the improvement of innovation level and ultimately achieving high-quality economic development.

The impact of producer services agglomeration on green economic development: Evidence from 278 Chinese cities

Driven by market and government forces, China's producer services industries have shown a trend of agglomeration. However, whether this trend can further promote the development of a green economy remains to be explored. Using the panel data of 278 Chinese cities from 2004 to 2017, this study empirically investigates the impact of China's producer services agglomeration on green economic development and examines the moderating effects of relevant industrial and environmental regulation policies. The results show that: (1) Producer services agglomeration promotes China's green economic development, which is obtained by promoting industrial structure upgrading and green technology innovation. (2) The development zone upgrading policy and command-and-control carbon emissions reduction policy can strengthen the positive impact of producer services agglomeration on the green urban economy. (3) The carbon trading policy, as a market-based carbon reduction tool, does not affect the green economic effect of the producer services agglomeration during the sample period.

Is producer services agglomeration a “new engine” for urban green economic development? an econometric analysis of Chinese cities

Is producer services agglomeration a “new engine” for urban green economic development? an econometric analysis of Chinese cities

Spatial correlation between producer services agglomeration and carbon emissions in the Yangtze River Economic Belt based on point-of-interest

Agglomeration of the industry significantly impacts economic performance and environmental sustainability. In line with its strategic context of striving to achieve carbon reduction targets, China is making efforts to optimize the producer services landscape to reduce carbon emissions. Understanding the spatial correlation between industrial agglomeration and carbon emissions is particularly crucial against this background. Based on POI and remote sensing data of China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB), the paper adopts the mean nearest neighbor analysis, kernel density analysis, and standard deviation ellipse to portray the agglomeration of producer services. Then uses Moran's I to present the spatial distribution characteristics of carbon emissions. Accordingly, the spatial heterogeneity of producer services agglomeration and carbon emissions is showed using the Geographic detector so as to provide strong support for industrial structure optimization and sustainable development. Here are some of the conclusions drawn from the study: (1) Producer services are a significant state of agglomeration in the provincial capitals and some central cities, with similar agglomeration patterns. (2) Carbon emissions exhibits significant spatial aggregation characteristics, with the spatial distribution pattern of "High west–Low east". (3) Wholesale and retail services industry is the primary risk factor that causes spatial differentiation of carbon emission intensity, "leasing and business services industry-wholesale and retail services industry" is the key interaction factor of the spatial differentiation. (4) Carbon emissions shows a downward trend followed by an upward trend as producer services agglomeration increases.

Can the agglomeration of producer services boost China’s ‘going out’?

ABSTRACT As China has been encouraging enterprises to ‘go global’ and actively promoting the optimization of industrial structure, it is important to discuss the impact of its outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) considering producer service industry agglomeration. For analysing the mechanism by which the agglomeration of producer services affects China’s OFDI, this study uses inter-provincial panel data from 2004 to 2019 and a spatial Durbin model to empirically test the impact of producer service agglomeration on OFDI. We show that the agglomeration of producer services significantly promotes OFDI in a particular region through economies of scale and enterprise productivity improvement. And it also significantly promotes OFDI in its neighbouring regions. The effect of producer service agglomeration on OFDI shows regional heterogeneity. Namely, the agglomeration of producer services in the eastern region promotes the OFDI in this region and it has not had a significant impact on the OFDI in neighbouring regions. Further, the agglomeration of producer services in the central and western regions does not have a significant effect on their OFDI and that of neighbouring regions.

The Impact of the Spatial Agglomeration of Producer Services on Urban Productivity

The spatial cluster effect of productive service industry agglomeration and the urban productivity level in 286 prefecture level cities in China during 2008–2018 were analyzed by using the Moran index and the Lisa cluster diagram. The results show that the spatial correlation between productive service industry agglomeration and urban productivity is high, as the high-value areas of producer services agglomeration are generally the high-value agglomeration areas of China's urban productivity level, while the low-value areas of producer services agglomeration are generally the low-value agglomeration areas of China's urban productivity level. Furthermore, the spatial econometric model was used to test the effect of producer services agglomeration on urban productivity in China. The results show that producer services agglomeration can effectively improve urban productivity in China, but its impact on the productivity in different cities is quite variable. The producer services specialization agglomeration on urban productivity in eastern China is more obvious, while the positive effect of the diversification agglomeration of producer services on urban productivity is more obvious in the West, the Central and the Northeast, but the promotion of eastern cities is less apparent.

Impact of producer services agglomeration on carbon emission efficiency: An analysis based on the data of enterprises in 108 cities of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Impact of producer services agglomeration on carbon emission efficiency: An analysis based on the data of enterprises in 108 cities of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Influence evaluation of producer services agglomeration on economic resilience: Evidence from China’s cities

As a new engine of economic development after urbanization’s structural deceleration stage in China, producer services agglomeration on urban economic resilience (ER) requires analysis. Using data from 264 prefecture-level cities and above in China after the global financial crisis, we examine producer services’ impact in terms of diversification (PSD) and specialization (PSS) on urban ER, and also the mediating effect of industrial structure upgrading (ISU). The results show that Cities with more diversified producer services are more resilient to crises, while the effect direction of PSS is the opposite. ISU is partly how PSD and PSS affect ER. Finally, producer services agglomeration’s impact on ER has significant regional heterogeneity. PSD is very conducive to urban ER in the economically developed eastern region and the less developed western region. The more specialized the development of producer services in eastern and north-eastern regions, the less conducive it is to enhancing ER. Our findings can help stabilize China’s economy and achieve high-quality economic development.

How Does Manufacturing Intelligentization Influence Innovation in China from a Nonlinear Perspective and Economic Servitization Background?

Under the trend of high-quality economic development and economic servitization in China, it is of great significance to study the impact of manufacturing intelligentization on innovation and its mechanisms. This study uses a sample of 30 of China’s provinces from 2008 to 2020 to empirically test the effect of manufacturing intelligentization on innovation performance from a nonlinear perspective and examine the intermediary mechanism of diversified agglomeration of producer services against an economic servitization background. The study finds that intelligentization has a significant inverted U-shaped impact on innovation performance. It shows that the positive marginal intelligentization effect on innovation gradually decreases, and intelligence inhibits innovation when it exceeds the threshold. In addition, diversified agglomeration of producer services can improve innovation performance, and intelligentization has an inverted U-shaped effect on this diversified aggregation. Thus, the nonlinear influence of intelligence on innovation performance has a channel of diversified agglomeration of producer services. Furthermore, human capital has a reverse moderating effect on the inverted U-shaped relationship between intelligentization and innovation performance. This conclusion can help to promote the innovation-driven and sustainable development of China’s economy under the intelligent manufacturing strategy.

Does producer services agglomeration improve urban green development performance of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China?

How the producer services agglomeration affects the urban green development performance is important for the future urban green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China. We investigate the impacts of producer services specialized agglomeration and diversified agglomeration on urban green development performance in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2009 to 2018. Empirical results show that: (1) Urban green development performance experiences first decline and then increase, with 2015 as the turning point. (2) The impact of specialized agglomeration on urban green development performance is significantly positive, and the impact of diversified agglomeration is opposite. (3) From the perspective of regional differences, the specialized agglomeration of Yangtze River Delta urban clusters in the downstream improves the urban green development performance, while the diversified agglomeration inhibits the urban green development performance; The influence of the two agglomeration modes of Chengdu-Chongqing urban clusters and Yunnan-Guizhou urban clusters in the upstream is opposite to that in the downstream; In the midstream, the impact of diversified agglomeration of Wuhan urban clusters on urban green development performance is significantly positive, while the impact of specialized agglomeration of Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan and Poyang Lake urban clusters on urban green development performance is significantly negative. (4) The agglomeration of different types of industries has different effects on urban green development performance. Compared with low-end industrial agglomeration, high-end industrial agglomeration is effective in promoting urban green development performance. Policy makers should choose differentiated urban green development strategies, according to the characteristics of producer services agglomeration in different regions.