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A spatial panel data analysis of China's urban land expansion, 2004–2014
Author(s) -
Li Yingcheng,
Xiong Weiting
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12340
Subject(s) - urbanization , panel data , china , decentralization , industrialisation , economic geography , geography , spatial analysis , land use , urban expansion , spatial dependence , economics , econometrics , economic growth , civil engineering , statistics , mathematics , remote sensing , market economy , archaeology , engineering
Abstract Drawing upon a panel dataset on China's state‐owned construction land supply at the prefecture level, this paper adopts the spatial panel data model to investigate the existence of spatial dependence in the mechanisms behind China's urban land expansion from 2004 to 2014. The empirical results show that China's urban land expansion has been mainly influenced by a quadruple process of urbanization, industrialization, globalization and decentralization. The strong existence of spatial dependence in China's urban land expansion can be reflected by the significant coefficient estimates of the spatial lags of both the dependent variable and independent variables.