Table 5 Technology improvement effect.

From: How does inter-provincial trade promote economic growth? Empirical evidence from Chinese provinces

 

Entirety

East

Middle

West

Variables

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

lntrade

0.074** (2.40)

0.178** (2.12)

−0.086* (−1.70)

0.060 (0.83)

0.153** (2.39)

0.579*** (3.70)

0.217*** (3.39)

0.531** (2.66)

Control variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Constant

−1.448** (−2.36)

−7.961*** (−3.30)

1.923 (1.04)

−3.870* (−1.97)

−3.016** (−2.41)

−15.845*** (−7.38)

1.506 (1.58)

−13.569** (−3.22)

Observations

638

435

242

165

198

135

198

135

R-squared

0.857

0.912

0.780

0.960

0.813

0.895

0.910

0.763

Fixed effect

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

  1. *, ** and *** denote p < 0.10, p < 0.05 and p < 0.01, and t-value is shown in brackets.