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Does Trade Openness Affect Urban Concentration?On Chinese Province- level Panel Data

Xiu Liu

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Based on Chinese province- level panel data from 1996 to 2012 and DM SP / OLS night light data,This paper explores impacts of region openness and adjacent regions' openness on regional urban concentration. The study show s that the improvement of the region's openness significantly promotes the region internal urban concentration,w hile the increase of its adjacent regions' openness w ould reduce the urban concentration. Furthermore,the level of regional economy and the scale of urban population have significant negative effect on urban concentration.

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Key concepts: Openness to experience, Panel data, Affect (linguistics), Scale (ratio), Population, Economic geography, Geography, Economics