講座主題：Transcontinental Railway and Hinterland Development

主講嘉賓：曹思未，北京師範大學經濟與工商管理學院

講座時間：2024年4月19日（星期五）14：00

講座地點：bevictor伟德官网沙河校區學院11号樓308

嘉賓簡介：曹思未，北京師範大學經濟與工商管理學院副教授，畢業于加州大學伯克利分校，研究興趣集中在創新經濟學和區域經濟學。論文發表于Journal of Regional Science，《經濟研究》《世界經濟》等刊物。

内容摘要：This paper estimates the impact of transcontinental railways on inland region’s trade, production, and inter-regional factor flows. Since 2011, cities in China and Europe are increasingly connected through China-Europe Railway Express, a transcontinental transportation network linking China with western Europe through Central Asia and Russia. Exploiting the staggered introduction of the network across inland rail stations in China, we find that the network increases inland trade to Europe, manufacturing production, and incentivizes reallocation of capital and labor from coast to inland. Transcontinental railways therefore contribute to the development of inland region, which tends to be less populated and less developed owing to its longer distance to coastline and higher international trade cost for ocean-borne cargos.