高新技术区设立与地区创新创业(DID)
题目:Do Place-Based Policies Promote Local Innovation and Entrepreneurship(区域政策与地区创新创业)
摘要:This paper explores how a prominent place-based policy in China, the national hightech zones, affects local innovation output and entrepreneurial activities. Making use of staggered establishments of national high-tech zones in various Chinese cities, we find that the establishment of national high-tech zones has positive effects on local innovation output and entrepreneurial activities. A number of additional tests suggest that the effects appear causal. Access to finance, reductions in administrative burdens, and talent cultivation are three plausible underlying economic channels. Our paper sheds new light on the evaluation of the effectiveness of China’s place-based policies.
链接:https://academic.oup.com/rof/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rof/rfab029/6414630?login=true

研究问题:区域政策对于地区创新和创业活动的影响效应及其内在机理
研究动机:已有研究从多角度探究了地区创新创业的影响因素,但是鲜有从区域政策的视角考察;发达国家的经济学家认为区域政策是无效的,因而不太支持区域政策,但从中国长期发展来看区域政策(类似特区)非常重要,但是却尚未探究“高新技术区”这一区域政策对创新创业的影响。
研究设计:渐进双重差分法(DID),根据高新技术区的设立作为冲击,设置虚拟变量。
研究贡献:丰富了政府在经济发展作用的文献,拓展了区域政策的经济后果研究
不一样的点:文章对于DID运用过程中可能遇到的挑战进行了详细分析,针对性做了非常多的分析;渠道分析之后还做了对于渠道的解释力度的说明,这是以前很少见过的,值得Mark
注:个人翻译和解读,可能存在疏漏和错误,仅供参考(20220411)。