Technical Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors of the Three Major Urban Agglomerations in Eastern China<br/>—Based on DEA-Tobit Model
- 1 Business School, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
- 2 Business School, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China
Abstract
In recent years, the development of metropolitan region not only contributes to the transformation of China’s economic growth model, but also becomes an increasingly important way to build a new double-cycle pattern. Among them, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta urban agglomerations, as the core strategic area of national economic growth and an important part of regional coordinated development, effectively improve the allocation efficiency of various production factors, promote their technical efficiency, and play an important role in leading the high-quality economic development of the region and even the whole country. Based on the input-output data of relevant provinces from 2010 to 2020, this paper adopts DEA model and Malmquist index method to carry out static and dynamic evaluation on the technical efficiency level of the three city agglomerations. In addition, Tobit model is used to examine the influencing mechanism of the technological efficiency of each province and city in the three urban agglomerations by adopting five factors including government support, technological innovation ability, quality of laborers, wage status of employed personnel and informatization level, and put forward countermeasures and suggestions for further improving the technological efficiency of each urban agglomerations.
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