An Analysis on the Economic Effect of Local Government Size Based on the data of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang

Abstract

This paper uses the data on four provinces in Northwest China from 2000 to 2015 to establish a panel model to test the long-term relationship between the size of provincial governments and economic growth, industrialization, urbanization and marketization, and estimates the results by using the fixed effect model, and obtains the empirical results of the size of the four provinces in Northwest China for the above four effects.