The Emergence and Spatial Distribution of Chinese Seaport Cities
2010/10/05
研討會日期 : 2010-10-05
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Michael Funke
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Michael Funke got his Ph.D. in Economics from Free University of Berlin in 1984. He is currently serving as Professor of Department of Economics at Hamburg University. His main research field is in applied macroeconomics.
演講摘要 : Seaports have historically played a key role in facilitating trade and growth. This paper is the first attempt in the literature to analyse the formation of Chinese seaport cities and the dynamics that drives it. First, we aim to identify theoretically the emergence of urbanized seaports with the help of a formal economic geography model. Second, employing an empirically plausible parameterisation of the model, we calibrate the evolutionary process and spatial distribution of seaports along the Chinese coastline.
