Population urbanization competition among prefecture-level cities in china based on two-regime spatial econometrics

This study investigates the intensity of spatial competition for population urbanization among China’s municipal governments and examines the asymmetry of competition intensity under different conditions, with particular attention paid to the unbalanced development of urbanization and the mechanism of urbanization competition in China. Therefore, based on panel data on 283 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2016, a two-regime spatial...