Analyzing urban infrastructure economic benefit using an integrated approach

Urban infrastructure economic benefit is the positive influence on urban economy generated by the use of urban infrastructure. This paper decomposes urban infrastructure economic benefit into four effects which are consumption effect, investment effect, government purchase effect and external demand effect for the first time and introduces an integrated approach to analyze its level taking four Chinese autonomous municipalities as an example. The level of urban infrastructure economic benefit is evaluated at first. Then the coordinated development among four effects is analyzed by constructing coupling coordination degree model. In final, the impact of the coordinated development among four effects on the level of urban infrastructure economic benefit is studied using panel regression model. The results show that raising the coordinated development level of four effects is beneficial to promote the improvement of urban infrastructure economic benefit. The proposed methods performed quite well at analyzing urban infrastructure economic benefit.