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作者

Hui Zhang;Tingting Xie

来源

CITIES,Vol.134,Issue1,Article 104105

语言

英文

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作者单位

School of Economics, Peking University, 5 Summer Palace Road Street, Beijing 100871, China;School of Economics, Peking University, 5 Summer Palace Road Street, Beijing 100871, China;Department of Maritime Technologies, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden;Volvo Group AB, SE-40508 Gothenburg, Sweden;School of Business, Economics and Law, Department of Business Administration, Division of Industrial and Financial Management and Logistics, University of Gothenburg, SE-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden;State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disasters, Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;School of National Safety and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72762, USA;School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China;Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management and Ministry of Education, Beijing 100875, China;Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA;Brown University, Population and Studies Training Center, 68 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02912, United States of America;Vanderbilt University, Department of Sociology, PMB 351811, Nashville, TN 37235-1811, United States of America;Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8568, Japan;LocationMind Inc., 3-5-2 Iwamotocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0032, Japan;SUSTech-UTokyo Joint Research Center on Super Smart City, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China;College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China;School of Urban Planning & Design, Peking University, Shenzhen, China;Transport and Logistics Group, Department of Engineering Systems and Services, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, the Netherlands;Capgemini engineering, Boulevard sebastien brant, 67400 Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France;Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7013, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden;Data Intensive Studies Center, Tufts University, Joyce Cummings Center 177 College Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA;Department of Sociology, Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, the Netherlands;Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE Delft, the Netherlands

摘要

China has recently begun to deploy airports in small and medium-sized cities, and local governments must allocate adequate financial subsidies to maintain their operations. This article examines whether opening airports in small and medium-sized cities is the key to economic growth or an unnecessary burden. To solve the endogeneity problem, we constructed an instrumental variable based on historical ground transportation accessibility and provincial airport density. The main finding is that airports have a positive effect on local economic development. This positive effect depends on the city's industrial foundation and resource endowments. Airports cannot promote the economic growth of cities in remote or poor areas, but they could play an important role in promoting the economy of cities with high-level tourism resources and a strong industry foundation. Airports promote urban economy by increasing comprehensive transportation capacity, improving the market accessibility for enterprises in small and medium-sized cities. Firm-level micro-evidence suggests that airports can shorten the temporal and spatial distances between cities, which significantly increases the productivity, sales, output, exports, and investment scale of industrial firms. Airports promote the economic growth of small and medium-sized cities by enhancing the economic vitality of micro-firms.