Abstract This paper conducts an empirical study of the relationship between dynamic externalities and regional industrial growth based on China’s provincial industrial panel data from 28 regions between 2003 to 201. From the whole country it is found that specialization and diversity both have nonlinear effect on regional industrial growth, while local competition have no significant effect.Further analysis in the robustness check indicates that the effects of dynamic externalities on industrial economic growth depend on types of industry and the dimension of geographic location, but the role of local competition has nonlinear effect on regional industrial growth all the same.
2016, Vol. 33 
