[Purpose/Significance]The digital economy policy has become an important policy tool for the government to promote economic development,and an empirical analysis of the effectiveness of China's local digital economy policy im-plementation can be helpful to promote the local economy to achieve high-quality development.[Method/Process]This paper examined the impact of local digital economic policies on regional economic development using the PSM-DID method with panel data from 337 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2010 to 2021.[Result/Conclusion]Local digital economic policies significantly promote regional economic growth.However,their promotional effects exhibit a two-year time lag.The implementation of digital economic policies proves to be more effective in cities with larger population sizes or higher administrative levels.Additionally,the impact of digital economic policies on regional economies in central and western regions exceeds that in eastern regions.
关键词
数字经济政策/政策评估/双重差分法/倾向得分匹配/地区经济增长
Key words
digital economy policy/policy evaluation/difference-in-differences model/propensity score matching/regional economic growth