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Driving Effects of Internet on Household Consumption

  

  1. International Business School, Shanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710100, China
  • Received:2016-03-08 Online:2016-06-30

Abstract:

The Internet will become an important engine to stimulate Chinese household consumption in the new normal Based on China’s 31 provinces (areas) panel data from 2003 to 2013, the driving effects of the Internet on household consumption are examined by using the dynamic panel of GMM estimation method The results are as follows: first, the popularity of the Internet played a significant role in promoting household consumption; second, transport logistics can improve the spillover effects of the Internet on the household consumption Meanwhile, it is found that pseudo-urbanization exists in China’s urbanization process, so a new type of people-oriented urbanization should be built during “the 13th Five-Year Plan” period

Key words: the Internet, household consumption, consumption upgrading, new-type urbanization

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