Does Producer Services Agglomeration Promote the Export Upgrading of China’s High-tech Industries?
ZHANG Yingying1, BAI Dongbei2, GAO Yu3
1. School of Economic and Management, Xi’an University of Posts & Telecommunications, Xi’an 710061, China; 2. School of Economic, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China; 3. Center for Studies of China Western Economic Development, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Abstract The continuous improvement of export competitiveness of high-tech industries is the core link to promote the rise of the manufacturing value chain, and is also the key to shape the country’s economic quality advantages. Based on the provincial panel data from 2013 to 2016 of China’s high-tech industries,this paper analyzes the impact and its transmission mechanism of producer services agglomeration on high-tech industries export upgrading. The results show that producer services agglomeration significantly raises high-tech industries’ export technological sophistication and thus promotes the export upgrading of high-tech industries.Heterogeneity analysis shows that, the agglomeration of high-end producer services and the agglomeration of producer services in the eastern coastal areas have played a more prominent role in?promoting the export upgrading of high-tech industries. Further mechanism test finds that producer services agglomeration promotes the export upgrading of high-tech industries mainly through the R&D incentives effect, technology diffusion effect and Human capital effect. In addition, with the introduction of the regional contractual environmental index, the improvement of contract environment can enhance the promotion effect of producer services agglomeration on the export upgrading of high-tech industries.
2020, Vol. 37 
