Interregional Capital Flows and Regional Development Gap: Analysis of the Inter-bank Credit Flows
CHEN Dong1,2,FAN Jie1,2
1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, China;
2. Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modeling, CAS, Beijing 100101, China
Abstract：It is commonly believed that so far as countries at the early stage of economic development are concerned, capital usually flows from areas with unfavorable conditions to those with favorable conditions, which leads to the Matthew effect and the widening of regional development gap. Inter-bank credit flows are an important form of inter-regional capital flows. This paper used a measuring method to disclose the direction of the inter-bank credit flows between eastern China which has favorable conditions and central and western China which have unfavorable conditions during the period of widening of regional development gaps (1978-2003), and analyzed the causes. It was found that in the years of inter-regional capital flows, no net credit outflows from the underdeveloped areas to the developed areas but the reverse patterns were found. This indicated that the inter-bank credit flow narrowed rather than widened the regional development gap at least to some extent. Further analysis found that the credit control by the Central Government and the changes of market environments formed two periods of inter-bank credit flows before and after 1994 respectively.
陈东, 樊杰. 区际资本流动与区域发展差距——对中国银行间信贷资本流动的分析[J]. 地理学报, 2011, 66(6): 723-731.
CHEN Dong, FAN Jie. Interregional Capital Flows and Regional Development Gap: Analysis of the Inter-bank Credit Flows. Acta Geographica Sinica, 2011, 66(6): 723-731.
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