Workshop on:Trade, Migration and Their Impacts in the East Asia Time Zone
(RIEBセミナー/六甲フォーラム/科研基盤研究(A)「タイムゾーンとサービス・タスク貿易理論の動学的展開および経済成長への含意」共催)

Workshop on:Trade, Migration and Their Impacts in the East Asia Time Zone
(Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A))

日時 2017年8月29日(火)午前10時00分から午後5時30分まで
会場 神戸大学経済経営研究所 会議室(新館2階)
対象 教員、院生、学部生、および製造企業などで技術・製品開発に関わりを持たれている方
使用言語 英語
備考 論文のコピーは共同研究推進室にご用意いたします。

10:00am~10:50am

報告者 Miaojie YU
所属 北京大学国家発展研究院/神戸大学経済経営研究所
報告者 Wei TIAN
所属 対外経済貿易大学国際経済貿易学院/神戸大学経済経営研究所
論題 Input Trade Liberalization and Import Switching

11:00am~11:50am

報告者 Weimin HU
所属 国立政治大学財政学系
論題 Automobile Sales and the Chinese Boycotts of 2012

11:50am~1:30pm

昼休憩

1:30pm~2:20pm

報告者 内藤 巧
所属 早稲田大学政治経済学術院
論題 Growth and Welfare Effects of Unilateral Trade Liberalization with Heterogeneous Firms and Asymmetric Countries
概要 How do reallocations across heterogeneous firms induced by unilateral trade liberalization affect long-run growth and welfare? To answer this question, we formulate a two-country model of endogenous growth, heterogeneous firms, and asymmetric countries. The relative wage and number of domestic varieties are endogenously determined. We show that even unilateral trade liberalization can raise the balanced growth rate. Although growth-enhancing trade liberalization is always welfare-enhancing in the symmetric country case, it does not generally ensure higher long-run welfare for at most one country because of asymmetric real wage effects caused by a change in the relative number of varieties.

2:30pm~3:20pm

報告者 Bing LI
所属 中央財経大学国際経済貿易学院
論題 Immunizing from the Terror: China's New Comparative Advantage?
概要 This study empirically investigates the impact of terrorist attacks on bilateral trade between Belt & Road countries and China comparing with other countries by employing the gravity model augmented with terrorism indexes, based on a panel data set from 1984 to 2014 covering 186 countries. We find that Belt & Road countries, where terrorist attacks happened more frequently, trade more with China comparing with other countries, which seems a new comparative advantage of China. We further test two possible mechanisms from both supply side and demand side. From the supply side, Chinese tend to take more risk than others when they encounter terrorist attacks, which may due to the lower value of statistical life (VSL) of Chinese; from demand side, terrorists have less incentives to attack Chinese because China's foreign policy of mutual non-interference in each other's internal affairs gains kindness from the local populace. Our findings are robust through series of robustness checks by including various control variables, replacing various measurements of terrorism indexes, adopting instrumental variable approach, and implementing alternative empirical specifications of the gravity model.

3:30pm~4:20pm

報告者 趙 来勲
所属 神戸大学経済経営研究所
論題 International Talent Inflow & Chinese Exports: Firm Level Analysis
概要 We offer a new perspective to explain the rapid growth of Chinese exports, by empirically testing the impacts of international talent inflow (ITI) on Chinese exports from two levels: the firm level and the country level. We find that at the country level, ITI significantly increases the scale of Chinese exports, at both the extensive margin (numbers of export firms) and intensive margin (average exports per firm), but with greater impact on the former margin. In contrast, at the firm level, the effect on the intensive margin (average value per product) is higher than on the extensive margin (the number of products). Further, the export-promoting effect of ITI is stronger on differentiated products than on homogeneous products, on medium-sized firms than on large or small firms, on foreign-owned firms than on domestically owned firms (state- owned or private-owned), and on firms in coastal regions than inland. As for multi- product exporters, ITI can significantly decrease the relative export sales of their core products, but increase the diversification of export products. Robustness checks with different samples, using multiple methods and different fixed effects including time lags confirm our results.

4:30pm~5:20pm

報告者 Zhiyuan LI
所属 復旦大学経済学院
論題 Terms of Trade Gains from Task Offshoring & Complementarity between Tasks
概要 In this paper, I show that there are terms of trade effects associated with task offshoring. The offshoring source country may enjoy terms of trade gains associated with offshoring when the elasticity of substitution between tasks is low. These gains may stem from technology transfer from the source to the destination country or from the productivity improvement in the offshoring destination. Importantly, the offshoring destination country may suffer a total welfare loss due to the terms of trade effects. I illustrate that the source country will enjoy larger terms of trade gains when the elasticity of substitution between tasks is smaller and when the comparative advantage schedule has a steeper slope at the cutoff task.