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Public Services, Government Competition, Industrial Agglomeration

LIU Yan-jun   

  1. College of Economics and Management, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong 524088, China
  • Received:2015-12-11 Online:2016-03-15 Published:2016-03-15

Abstract: To local public service, competition between local governments and industry agglomeration development into local government behavior logic, establish three interactive influence mechanism, using the Chinese provincial panel data from 1980 to 2013, validated by PVAR model, draw the conclusion:the local government for the realization of the local economic growth target, through the provision of public services to attract industrial investment promotes the development of industrial agglomeration; But local governments' public service not directly promote industrial agglomeration, must compete with other local government, after winning can effectively promote the industrial agglomeration; And the development of industry cluster can effectively stimulate the local government to further increase investment, providing more public products. Competition between local governments and local government behavior logic are two important factors that the government must consider in the process of industrial agglomeration.

Key words: industrial agglomeration, public service, local government competition, PVAR

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