TITLE:
Technical Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors of the Three Major Urban Agglomerations in Eastern China—Based on DEA-Tobit Model
AUTHORS:
Qianyu Wang, Zhiyuan Chang
KEYWORDS:
Three Chinese Urban Agglomerations, Technical Efficiency, Influence Factor
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.12 No.7,
July
22,
2022
ABSTRACT: In recent years, the development of metropolitan region not only
contributes to the transformation of China’s economic growth model, but also
becomes an increasingly important way to build a new double-cycle pattern.
Among them, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Metropolitan Region, Yangtze River Delta
and Pearl River Delta urban agglomerations, as the core strategic area of
national economic growth and an important part of regional coordinated
development, effectively improve the allocation efficiency of various
production factors, promote their technical efficiency, and play an important
role in leading the high-quality economic development of the region and even
the whole country. Based on the input-output data of relevant provinces from 2010
to 2020, this paper adopts DEA model and Malmquist index method to carry out
static and dynamic evaluation on the technical efficiency level of the three
city agglomerations. In addition, Tobit model is used to examine the
influencing mechanism of the technological efficiency of each province and city
in the three urban agglomerations by adopting five factors including government
support, technological innovation ability, quality of laborers, wage status of
employed personnel and informatization level, and put forward countermeasures
and suggestions for further improving the technological efficiency of each
urban agglomerations.