Transport infrastructure and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from manufacturing industries in China
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2022
Abstract
The determinants of industrial agglomeration have attracted worldwide attention as a research topic since the 1990s; however, there is still some divergence of opinion on the relationship between transport infrastructure and industrial agglomeration. To reconcile these divergent views, we take highways as a typical example of transport infrastructure and undertake an empirical examination based on a sample of 1,660,551 observations of Chinese manufacturing firms covering the period 1998 to 2007. The findings confirm that highway improvement has a positive impact on industrial agglomeration as a whole. We also find that the impact is heterogeneous across industry groups: improvement in the highway network positively affects the agglomeration of non-locally based industries and relationship industries but negatively affects the agglomeration of locally based industries and non-relationship industries.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Transport Policy
First Page
100
Last Page
112
Recommended Citation
Liu, Z., Zeng, S., Jin, Z., & Shi, J. (2022). Transport infrastructure and industrial agglomeration: Evidence from manufacturing industries in China. Transport Policy, 121, 100-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2022.04.001