Estimating Krugman’s Economic Geography Model for the Spanish Regions

This paper estimates Krugman’s (J Polit Econ 99:413–499, 1991) economic geography model using data from the Spanish NUTS 3 regions. The econometric formalization endogenously determines wages in a region as a function of income and wages in other regions. The specification adopted also allows us to study the relation between the agglomeration of economic activity, increasing returns and market access. The first result obtained is that the Spanish economy exhibits a spatial wage structure: wages in a region are positively determined by income and wages in neighboring regions. In second place it is found support for the structural relations of the underlying theoretical model, indicating the importance of scale economies and transport costs in shaping the Spanish economic geography.     

金融地理学理论视角及中国金融地理研究

基于对国际文献和中国实际的了解和思考,从金融机构的空间结构、空间发展过程以及金融机构与环境的关系等方面分析了金融地理学的主要研究内容。主要理论问题包括地理存在论、金融变化的区域经济影响观点、区域金融系统演化模式、金融地理的路径依赖、金融全球化与地方关系等;在此基础上,从环境对金融地理影响、全球化与区域金融系统、行政格局与金融体系、金融系统与区域发展、金融企业地理5方面提出中国金融地理研究的切入点。     

中国转型期"行政区经济"现象透视——兼论中国特色人文-经济地理学的发展

文章着重介绍新发现的中国“行政区经济”现象,论述其表现特点、本质内涵、产生的背景、发展走势。在此基础上讨论转型期中国特色人文—经济地理学的发展问题。     

International Trade and the Environment: Theoretical and Policy Linkages

I review and extend three approaches to trade and environmental policies: competitive general equilibrium, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. The first two have surprisingly similar implications: deviations from first-best rules are justified only by constraints on policy choice (which motivates what I call a “single dividend” approach to environmental policy), and taxes and emissions standards differ in ways which reflect the Le Chatelier principle. I also show how environmental taxes may lead to a catastrophic relocation of industry in the presence of agglomeration effects, although not necessarily if there is a continuum of industries which differ in pollution intensity. *An earlier version was presented as an invited plenary lecture to the European Association for Environmental and Resource Economics Conference, Oslo, 1999.     

Capital Mobility, Agglomeration and Corporate Tax Rates: Is the Race to the Bottom for Real?

Based on a data set for 19 OECD countries for the period 1981–2001,we estimate the impact of FDI on corporate tax rates, wherechanges in FDI are a measure for changes in capital mobility.So far the literature has been concerned with the related butrather different question as to the sensitivity of FDI to taxrates. Our article takes an opposite perspective and asks whatthe impact of capital mobility is on corporate tax rates. Indoing so, we explicitly take the role of agglomeration intoaccount. In theory, core countries can afford a higher tax ratecompared to peripheral countries. In our estimation strategy,we instrument capital mobility to deal with reverse causality.The main conclusion is that increased international capitalmobility, measured by FDI flows, implies a lower corporate taxrate. But we also find that agglomeration matters: core countrieshave a higher corporate tax rate than peripheral countries.If there is a race to the bottom, it seems that it is more realfor some countries than others. (JEL code: H25)     

50年来我国经济地理学的发展

建国50年来,我国经济地理学的发展本着为国民经济建设服务的原则,开展了大规模的调查研究、规划和理论总结,为政府的决策提供了大量的科学咨询,同时,也培养了一大批经济地理学人才.通过大量的科学研究和教学实践我国经济地理学的学科体系、理论和方法研究获得了全面发展.     

赛博空间技术支撑及在城市地理研究中的应用

赛博空间是一种崭新的人类生活和交往空间，它以计算机技术、现代通讯网络技术、虚拟现实技术综合应用为基础，为人们提供了全亲的经济活动场所，本文讨论了赛博空间的概念，以及支撑赛博空间的关键技术，即信息高速公路、遥感技术、地理信息系统技术、数据库管理和虚拟现实技术等，并就其在城市规划，城市交通，商业布局及城市旅游中的若干应用进行探讨。     

从地理学的综合视角看新时期区域规划的编制

区域规划向来是我国人文地理学研究中的重要领域之一。在我国正在进行的“十一五”规划工作中,区域规划将占有突出重要的位置。在科学发展观的指导下,文章重新审视了区域规划对综合性的要求,并从地理学的综合视角分析了当前区域规划编制中的四大弊端,即规划阵容中经济地理学专业人才居多,跨学科人才较少;规划目标重经济增长和近期利益,轻综合效益和长远协调;规划背景重区域发展条件和发展历史的罗列,少分析,综而不合;规划内容重规划方案本身,轻综合协调和区域管治。在此基础上,认为新时期区域规划应该走出对“综合性”认识的误区;针对规划病理,厉行对症下药;加强跨学科综合研究,培养复合型区域规划人才。通过标本兼治,以达到科学发展观对新时期区域规划综合性的要求。     

The Coal Crisis in Appalachia: Agrarian Transformation,Commodity Frontiers and the Geographies of Capital

Capital's commodity frontiers strategy has at once woven together regional differences within an expanding world‐system and remade the productive and reproductive activities of humans and the rest of nature. The development of successive commodity frontiers gave way to long waves of economic expansion that have been pivotal to accelerating accumulation and transcending capital's recurrent crises. In short, commodity frontiers are constitutive of world‐ecological moments premised on booms and crises of accumulation. In this paper, I examine the coal commodity frontier in Appalachia, to illustrate the region's history as one of succeeding frontiers in and out of the region over the long twentieth century of American capitalism. I argue that the origin of Appalachia's coal frontier was decisively made through the nineteenth‐century agricultural revolution expressed outside of the region. Appalachia's full‐fledged development was an outcome of capital's under‐reproduction strategies. The crisis of the region's frontier turned on a lack of surplus from under‐reproduction strategies, competing coal basins, economic diversification and competing energy sources. I find that the commodity frontier concept not only illuminates regional political economies and ecologies of difference, but also explains the production of nature of historical capitalism.