Youth Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education, 19B039, Ping Feng, The Young Teachers' Growth plan of Changsha University of Science and Technology, 2019QJCZ101, Ping Feng, Major Projects of Hunan Social Science Fund, 21ZDAJ006, Ping Feng
机构署名：
本校为第一机构
院系归属：
经济与管理学院
摘要：
Reducing regional economic disparities in China is an important task to facilitate inclusive and sustainable long-term economic growth. This paper investigates the role of technological innovation in facilitating regional economic convergence in China (i.e., narrowing the gap between more developed and less developed provinces). We utilize a province-level panel data set from 1998 to 2017 to calculate the so-called sigma (σ) and beta (β) regional economic convergence indexes, which allows us to examine the patterns of convergence in China ove...
