暨南经院学术系列活动
经济学系列Seminar第247期
主题：Political Borders and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from China
主讲人：唐为（上海财经大学）
主持人：杨本建
会议时间：2021 年 4 月 16 日（周五）下午15:30-17:00
会议工具：腾讯会议（ID:625 490 278；密码：202141）
摘要
The efficiency of market hinges on the mobility of goods and production factors (i.e. labor and capital). The presence of political borders in many circumstances act as an impeding factor that leads to spatial misallocation of labor and capital. In this paper, we propose a method to measure the scope of spatial allocative efficiency and quantify the effects of inter-jurisdictional borders on economic efficiency in China. We find that provincial border leads to more severe factor market segmentation in China. To put in perspective, the distance equivalence of the border effect is approximately 1000 kilometers. We further exploit a policy shock of local governance reform, and provide supporting evidence that political integration helps reduce mobility barriers across jurisdictions.
★主讲人简介★
唐为，上海财经大学副教授，主要研究公共经济学、城市经济学和发展经济学，在《经济研究》《经济学季刊》《世界经济文汇》, Papers in Regional Science, Economics of Transition, Habitat International 等期刊发表论文多篇，主持国家自科基金、教育部人文社科基金和博士后科学基金等项目。
