暨南经院学术系列活动之
区域科学系列Seminar第15期
主题:Expanding Footprints: The Impact of Passenger Transportation on Corporate Locations
主讲人:林娅棠(香港科技大学)
主持人:武文杰(88858cc永利官网)
会议时间:2021 年 11 月 18 日(周四)15:00-17:00
会议工具:腾讯会议(ID:570 840 528)
摘要
This paper investigates how transportation networks shape firms’ geographic footprint by reducing monitoring costs of distant investments. Exploiting the staggered expansions of China’s passenger high-speed rail (HSR) network, we document that the amount of intercity investment between a pair of cities increase by 45% with the introduction of an HSR line connecting the cities. We enhance the causal inference by applying high-dimensional fixed effects, and focusing on city pairs that are “accidentally” connected in the network. The HSR effect is the strongest in industries that require on-site monitoring, as well as for controlling stakes in large distant investments.
★主讲人简介★
林娅棠,香港科技大学经济系和公共政策系助理教授,主要研究方向为城市经济学与能源环境经济学,在 Nature Climate Change, Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics 等期刊发表论文数篇。