A Study of the Evaluation and Evolution of Provincial Economy Participating in the Domestic Economic Circulation
This paper employs the Entropy and TOPSIS methodologies to comprehensively assess the level of provincial economy participating in the domestic economic circulation by utilizing the provincial panel data span-ning from 2013 to 2022 in China from the four dimensions of supply and demand,elements,industrial chains and space.Additionally,it utilizes the Dagum Gini coefficient,kernel density estimation,and spatial Markov chain ap-proaches to analyze the spatial-temporal evolution characteristics of this participation.The key findings are summa-rized as follows:The level of provincial economy participating in the domestic economic circulation exhibits a growth trend and a non-equilibrium distribution pattern,but there is no trend towards differentiation;a club convergence ef-fect is observable in the level of provincial economy participating in the domestic economic circulation,namely,those provinces with low-level participation tend to cluster in"low-level traps"while those with high-level par-ticipation tend to form"high-level monopolies";regions boasting high levels of participation exert positive spill-over effects on their neighboring regions,while those with low levels of participation exert insignificant impacts on their geographical neighbors.Finally,this paper puts forward policy recommendations for promoting smooth domes-tic circulation.
Provincial economyDomestic economic circulationEntropy and TOPSIS methodDagum Gini coefficientKernel density estimation