文化符号对城市经济增长影响的实证研究

摘要

Cultural symbols stand for the culture of nations,regions and countries.This paper mainly focuses on how cultural symbols affect the city economic growth,by tracing the economic intension of cultural symbols,discussing some distortions of cultural symbols,and making regressions with the panel data of 54 tourist cities from 2002 to 2012.The results show that employees in arts,sports and entertainment and foreign tourists,as substitute measurement of cultural symbols,promote the development of cities;while some control variables on characteristics of city culture like historical and cultural cities and modern historic sites have a positive to development as well.However,travel directories of Chinese ancient cites,opening-up and revolutionary memorial sites show negative effects,and the effect of the trading-port is uncertain.Besides,the robust tests of green areas of city parks as the instrumental variable also support the results.%文化符号是一个民族、地区或国家文化的象征.文化符号是如何影响城市经济发展的,这正是本文研究的内容.从文化符号的经济内涵出发,探讨文化符号的扭曲现象,并运用2002-2012年54个重点旅游城市的数据进行检验:发现以文体娱从业人员和外国游客衡量的文化符号对经济增长有正向影响,且有关城市文化符号特征的控制变量,如国家历史文化名城和近代史迹也对经济具有积极作用.值得注意的是,中国古城游名录、对外开放度和革命纪念地对经济增长产生消极影响,而通商开埠的影响又具有不确定性.以城市公园绿地面积为工具变量的稳健性检验,也证明了这个结论.