ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain. Cities
Sec. Urban Economics
Financial Deregulation and Urban Resilience: Evidence from China's Place-Based Policy Experiment
Provisionally accepted
- 1Agricultural and Rural Big Data Analysis and Intelligent Decision Research Center, School of Economics and Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
- 2Anhui University of Science and Technology, bengbu, China
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Based on city-level panel data from 2001–2022, this study employs a spatial difference-in-differences approach to examine the impact of China's financial reform pilot zones on urban economic resilience. The results show that these reforms significantly improve urban resilience by approximately 2.6% annually, primarily through enhanced capital allocation efficiency (60%) and innovation capacity (40%). Significant positive spatial spillo-vers are also identified, accounting for 65% of the total policy effect. The findings highlight the importance of coordinated financial governance and provide policy insights for en-hancing regional economic resilience in developing economies.
Keywords: financial reform, multi-period DID, economic resilience, Spatial spillover, Mechanism analysis
Received: 01 Oct 2025; Accepted: 21 Nov 2025.
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* Correspondence: Zechen Yang, yzcsheet@163.com
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