讲座主题：Transcontinental Railway and Hinterland Development

主讲嘉宾：曹思未，北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院

讲座时间：2024年4月19日（星期五）14：00

讲座地点：37000cm威尼斯沙河校区学院11号楼308

嘉宾简介：曹思未，北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院副教授，毕业于加州大学伯克利分校，研究兴趣集中在创新经济学和区域经济学。论文发表于Journal of Regional Science，《经济研究》《世界经济》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.