Distance and Home-market Effect: Japanese Local Port Trades with the Asia Region
2006/10/31
研討會日期 : 2006-10-31
時間 : 15:00
主講人 : Prof. Yushi Yoshida
地點 : B棟110會議室
演講者簡介 : Prof. Yushi Yoshida為大阪大學經濟學博士。
現為日本九州產業大學經濟系教授。
其主要研究領域為國際金融及國際經濟學。
演講摘要 : With a very innovative dataset for international trades of Japanese local ports, this paper investigates Japanese local port exports in an empirical gravity model. An increasing returns model with trade cost predicts that firms are located in a larger economy. We recognize that this theory will be more appropriately applied in a context of local regional economy than a nation as a whole. However, as we move on to focus on local regions within a country, we expect to observe ‘epicenter’ (agglomeration) effect for domestic market and ‘periphery’ (dispersion) effect for export-platform in a complex way. First, we aim to provide some empirical evidences to answer the basic questions. Does the difference in distance to a specific country matters even for local ports within the same national boundary? Can we observe home-market effects on local ports? More importantly, we found that distance elasticity is larger in absolute value for an industry with higher Asia-intensity and more differentiated products.
