时间：10月30日（周二）下午4:00
地点：理科大楼A302（中北校区）
主讲人：徐扬 (厦门大学）
题目: Access to Port and the Welfare Gains from Trade and Domestic Transportation Infrastructure
Abstract:
This paper quantifies the welfare effects of reductions in international and intranational trade costs in a multi-sector multi-region hub economy, in which the inner parts of the country access the international market via the coastal international ports. Improvement in domestic transportation infrastructure reduces trade costs between the inner regions and international ports, therefore mitigating the distributional effects of international trade and amplifying the gains from domestic transportation improvement in inner regions. Applying the quantitative framework to China between 2000 and 2013, we find that the coastal regions gain more from tariff reductions, while the inner regions gain more from transportation infrastructure improvement through domestic travel time reductions. 20% of the gains from tariff or travel time reductions for the inner regions come from easier access to the international markets through reductions in travel time to the coastal regions.
主讲人：
徐扬，厦门大学经济学院、王亚南经济研究院助理教授。2017年获得美国马里兰大学经济学博士学位。研究方向为国际贸易与经济结构转型。