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Highways, railways and entrepreneurship in peripheral cities: evidence from China

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  • Jun Chen
  • Xiaowen Zeng

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Peripheral cities are more susceptible to transportation infrastructure than core cities in terms of entrepreneurial activities. We use market access approach to estimate the impacts of highways and high-speed railways on entrepreneurship in the small and medium-sized cities in China under knowledge spillover entrepreneurship framework. The results show that the increased market potential caused by highways and high-speed railways significantly improves the entrepreneurial performance of peripheral cities. The entrepreneurship effects of highways are stronger than high-speed railways, especially for these cities that are relatively closer to core cities. On the contrary, the entrepreneurship effects of high-speed railways are stronger in these cities that are far from core cities. This study suggests that transportation infrastructure plays an important role in entrepreneurship, and there is a complementary effect between highways and high-speed railways.

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  • Jun Chen & Xiaowen Zeng, 2023. "Highways, railways and entrepreneurship in peripheral cities: evidence from China," Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(2), pages 2106505-210, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:reroxx:v:36:y:2023:i:2:p:2106505
    DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2022.2106505
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