Analyzing impacts of Vietnam’s North–South highway on creation of regional cluster

Euijune Kim (), Min Jiang () and Byula Kim ()
Additional contact information
Euijune Kim: Seoul National University
Min Jiang: Seoul National University
Byula Kim: Seoul National University

Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2022, vol. 6, issue 2, No 8, 617-633

Abstract: Abstract This paper identifies the influence of Vietnam’s North–South (NS) highway on the creation of regional clusters through spatial simultaneous equation models and spatial cluster analysis. The models showed that the creation of a highway leads to a spatial redistribution of economic activities and the emergence of a new regional cluster in the South Central Coast Region. These results reveal that the improved level of accessibility stimulated by highway development has the potential to increase employment by 0.65% and GDP by 1.01%. Additionally, the construction of the NS highway generates positive economic effects on the less-developed regions in the country, such as the South Central Coast Area, whereas negative effects are seen in the more relatively developed regions of Hanoi and Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

Keywords: Transportation investment; Regional economic growth; Regional cluster; Spatial economic analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s41685-022-00230-1 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:apjors:v:6:y:2022:i:2:d:10.1007_s41685-022-00230-1

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.springer ... cience/journal/41685

DOI: 10.1007/s41685-022-00230-1

Access Statistics for this article

Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science is currently edited by Yoshiro Higano

More articles in Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().