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Title	Enhancing Export Resilience Through Smart Cities: A City-Level Quasi-Natural Experiment In China
ID_Doc	23805
Authors	Li H.; Zhang Q.; Wang M.
Year	2024
Published	Applied Economics
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2024.2364943
Abstract	Faced with currently numerous uncertainties at home and abroad, the construction of new infrastructure plays a critical role in enhancing region’s ability to cope with external shocks. Based on resilience perspective, this paper takes smart city pilot as a quasi-natural experiment and utilizes time-varying difference-in-difference (DID) model to investigate the policy effect on city export resilience in ChinA. Research shows that smart city pilot significantly improves city’s anti-risk ability after external shocks, which is manifested as stronger export resilience in pilot cities. Mechanism tests show that smart city pilot promotes export resilience through diversification, efficiency-improved, and innovation-driven channels. Moreover, the effect of smart city pilot is more evident on cities in central and western regions, as well as exporting to high-income countries. These findings shed new insights into the relationship between the smart city pilot and city export behaviour and provide references for Chinese government to promote export upgrading in the post-crisis erA. © 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Author Keywords	China; export resilience; external shock; Smart city plot policy; time-varying DID

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