Rurong Chen (2025) Measuring the Efficiency of High-Quality Development in the Yangtze River Basin. PhD thesis, Budapesti Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem.
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Abstract
The objective of this dissertation is to analyse China’s shift from the extensive growth model based on the quantity of labour and capital to the intensive growth trajectory built on new drivers such as R&D, innovation, and human capital accumulation. The dissertation presents a regional perspective with the help of the example of the Yangtze River Basin (YRB). Due to its economic importance, diverse industrial environment, and policy-driven growth efforts, this region is an appropriate candidate for comprehensive economic discussion. A composite principal component analysis–slacks-based measure (PCA-SBM) model was applied to comprehensively assess regional economic development and to pinpoint the underlying causes of economic inefficiency. This methodology enabled quantifying the productivity dynamics of twelve provinces within the Yangtze River Basin between 2012 and 2021. My dissertation’s primary original methodological contribution to the existing body of knowledge is integrating an input-output model with the PCA-SBM framework to evaluate the region’s transition to a high-quality growth trajectory. An extensive review of data envelopment analysis panel data (2012–2021) from 12 provinces revealed the following four principal trends: (1) Developed regions have witnessed an annual increase in high-quality efficiency, which growth is aligned with pure technology efficiency and scale efficiency. (2) The eastern and western regions exhibit disparities in structural technical efficiency, pure technology efficiency and scale efficiency, which exacerbated the distinct characteristics of the regions due to various input resources. (3) The core provinces of the YRB with relatively high-efficiency values functioned as growth engines since they can support the adjacent low-efficiency regions, thereby fostering convergence and driving regional economic development. (4) A significantly higher rate of technical efficiency convergence was recorded in the 12 provinces with faster scale efficiency gains compared to those with pure technical efficiency. This novel output reinterprets previous research on regional efficiency by assessing high-quality development efficiency in line with China’s 14th Five-Year Plan indicators, and this novel output dynamically compares regional convergences while emphasising the critical importance of scale efficiency alongside pure technical efficiency. The major limitation of the dissertation is the constraint for data availability from 2012 to 2021, which results in the exclusive use of pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency as control variables in the convergence study. Future research will expand the study to encompass the 31 provinces of China and the YRB, and will compile data indicators more comprehensively from the five aspects to calculate efficiency values. Additional control variables will be introduced to quantify the relative beta convergence of various locations, such as political system, institutions, infrastructure, and production factors.
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társadalomtudományok > közgazdaságtudományok
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Szervezeti egység
Vállalkozás- és Gazdálkodástudományi Doktori Iskola
Intézmény
Budapesti Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem
| Mű típusa: | Disszertáció (PhD) | ||||||
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| Kulcsszavak: | High-quality economy, energy economic transformation, PCA-SBM model, regression model, the Yangtze River Basin,, China’s 14th Five-Year Plan of China, convergence analysis, technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency, scale efficiency | ||||||
| Felhasználó: | Kinga Eszenyi-Bakos | ||||||
| DOI azonosító: | https://doi.org/10.70616/BGE.2025.003 | ||||||
| Rekord készítés dátuma: | 2026. Jan. 21. 10:17 | ||||||
| Utolsó módosítás: | 2026. Jan. 26. 09:43 | ||||||
| URI: | https://publikaciotar.uni-bge.hu/id/eprint/2590 | URI: | https://publikaciotar.uni-bge.hu/id/eprint/2590 |
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