Can Regional Integration Strategies Drive Urban Economic Resilience?—A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on the Integration Strategy of the Yangtze River Economic Belt
Regional integration is an effective way for high-quality economic development and matters in improving economic resilience.It evaluates urban economic resilience from three dimensions including recoverability,adaptability,and innovative transformation.In a quasi-natural experiment based on the implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt integration strategy,panel data of 238 cities at prefecture level or above in China from 2008 to 2020,and synthetic control method and double difference model are employed to empirically study the impact effect and mechanism of Yangtze River Economic Belt integration strategy on urban economic resilience.The results show that:(1)the implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt integration strategy has improved urban economic resilience,which still holds after a series of robustness tests;(2)such impact of the integration strategy on urban economic resilience is heterogeneous,and the strategic promotion effect on that of downstream cities is more significant;and(3)through mechanism analysis,industrial structure optimization and scientific and technological innovation capabilities are important mechanisms for the Yangtze River Economic Belt integration strategy to empower urban economic resilience.In view of this,in the context of building a unified national market,cities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt should give full play to the advantages of regional integration,coordinate to enhance regional innovation capabilities,promote coordinated regional development,and comprehensively enhance urban economic resilience for the purpose of high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt at a high level.
economic resilienceregional heterogeneitysynthetic control methodYangtze River Economic Beltregional integration
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