中国在东亚区域经济一体化进程中的现状及战略定位

随着经济全球化的发展和区域经济一体化在全世界的推进,东亚区域经济一体化出现了迅猛发展的态势,中国在此态势下顺应东亚区域经济一体化迅猛发展的潮流,着眼于市场多元化战略,提出了相应的贸易、投资、金融等政策措施,整合国内机制,实现中国在东亚区域经济一体化进程中的总体协调。本文阐述了中国在东亚区域经济一体化进程中的现状、存在的问题并在此基础上提出了相应的战略定位。     

欧洲一体化对东亚经济一体化的启示

区域经济一体化是当前世界发展中的一个重要趋势。在探讨东亚经济一体化这一问题上,回顾欧洲一体化走过的道路无疑会给我们带来很多启示。针对东亚经济合作目前所呈现出来的多元化模式,我们不难看出,东亚经济一体化的发展瓶颈在于各国关系的有效处理和各国利益的合理分配。总之,从欧洲一体化的历程看东亚经济一体化,更应该确立合作的理念。同时,东亚经济一体化也可以借鉴欧洲经济一体化的经验,用具有约束力的条约机制去巩固每一个一体化成果。     

经济全球化下区域物流业发展的特点与趋势

对欧盟地区、美国、日本及中国的长江三角洲、珠江三角洲和环渤海地区等国家和地区区域物流业发展的现状和特点进行了分析；在此基础上对经济全球化、区域经济一体化背景下区域物流业的发展趋势进行了探讨。     

REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND ITS IMPACTS ON GROWTH, POVERTY AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION: THE CASE OF VIETNAM

Trade liberalization and regional economic integration have recently accelerated in East Asia, where several free trade areas have been established or are under negotiation. Vietnam, after acquiring Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) membership in 1995, has signed a bilateral trade package with the United States and participated in the China-ASEAN free trade area. This paper attempts to analyze the impact on Vietnam of ongoing regional economic integration, focusing on growth, poverty reduction and income distribution. For this purpose, we have constructed a globally linked Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model and made use of Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database version 6.0 and Vietnam's living standards surveys. The simulation analysis shows that the regional economic integration generally has a positive impact. It both enhances welfare and improves income-distribution for Vietnam. Household income and consumption increase, and poor and rural household groups benefit more than urban high income groups.     

Does Economic Integration Affect the Structure of Industries? Empirical Evidence from the CEE

In this paper we study the impacts of regional integration on the structure of industries in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) transition economies. Our empirical analysis is based on the economic geography framework, which is able to predict not only the industry location after integration, but also to capture other general equilibrium effects, such as transition to market economy, which turn out to be highly significant in the CEE. Our empirical results complement previous findings that industry location is strongly related to economic integration. We also find that CEE integration of the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) has distorted the industry location pattern predicted by the underlying economic geography theory. These distortions are higher in those regions that were more integrated in the CMEA. Our ex-ante simulation results suggest a convergence in regional specialisation after CEE integration with the EU.     

经济全球化与中东大都市的崛起

二战后随着经济全球化与城市化进程的深入,中东大都市得到了迅猛发展并成为世界城市等级体系中的重要节点。目前中东大都市已经初步具备了"世界城市"的特质,呈现出地区经济控制力增强,媒介信息中心、文化中心地位提升,以及国际国内劳动力聚集等特征。然而在经济全球化视域下,新国际劳动分工、全球性资本与技术的自由流动以及地方政府积极应对经济全球化的相关政策等,给中东大都市发展带来了巨大提升空间的同时,信息化程度低、城市经济应对经济全球化能力脆弱以及城市治理缺乏等也成为了约束当前中东大都市崛起的主要因素。     

城市群空间结构演化趋势与空间重构——以长株潭城市群为例

随着全球化和区域经济一体化进程的不断推进,未来长株潭城市群区域空间将出现三个趋势:区域一体化、信息化与知识化、生态文明趋势。在此三个趋势的影响下,长株潭城市群必然要进行空间重构,其进行空间重构的措施主要包括:构建区域一体的流动空间体系,构建区域发展所需要的五个支撑网络;构建以生态基础设施为空间分割的组团式空间结构;实现区域等级空间结构的扁平网络化,实现要素流动的无阻隔。在上述三个趋势及措施的指引下,长株潭城市群将增强区域的综合竞争力已实现其作为中部重要增长极的历史重任。     

Networks,Regional Development and Democratic Control

The networking literature has burgeoned in recent years within a complex cross‐disciplinary field and particularly in economic geography and regional planning. Networks have been analysed both as organizational expressions of globalization, linked to claims about the rise of the network society, and as territorial and cultural systems of exchange. Concepts of networks and networking have been accepted as positive, and sometimes also as progressive or radical within both social science and policy discourses. In this article we analyse regionally embedded economic networks and the EU’s urban and regional policy networks as a new mode of administration, at a variety of spatial scales. Little attention has been paid to the theoretical implications of using the concept of network as a social metaphor or to the operation of actually existing networks, as a result of conceptualizing networks in ways that deny their constitutive inequalities, asymmetries and democratic deficits. This darker side has been pushed into the shadows by the rhetorical emphasis on the benefits claimed for networked organizational forms.     

区域经济一体化的基本模式

区域经济一体化,既需要形成一定的发展模式,也需要依托一定的发展载体。在经济全球化的大背景下,城市群逐渐成为区域经济一体化的基本模式之一。城市群形成的过程,是区域经济一体化的过程。而区域经济一体化的进程,需要大城市群作为重要的依托。     

Global and regional financial integration in East Asia and the ASEAN

Financial integration is East Asia and the ASEAN nations is investigated using a new approach based on entropy theory. An important advantage of the proposed framework is that it takes into account changes in integration arising from higher order moments including coskewness and cokurtosis as well as more traditional measures based on second order moments. The analysis focusses on the role of the U.S. in understanding changes in global integration over time, as well as changes in regional integration arising from China. Using daily stock returns from 1997 to 2016, the empirical results show an overall trend to improvements in financial integration over time with deviations from the trend occurring during periods of financial crises in Asia in 1997–98, the U.S. in 2007–10 and the recent European debt crisis. The influence of the Chinese economy mainly through its trading linkages is found to be an important determinant of financial integration over time both regionally as well as globally.     

TRADE AND FACTOR FLOWS IN A DIVERSE EU: WHAT LESSONS FOR THE EASTERN ENLARGEMENT(S)?

Abstract.  This paper reviews the neoclassical and new economic geography (NEG) theoretical frameworks used to analyse the effects of integration on trade and factor flows, and the empirical work carried out within those theoretical frameworks for the European case. The European Union (EU) is of particular interest because it is illustrative of the tensions between deepening of the integration process and widening membership: whereas deepening requires homogeneity, widening has made the EU increasingly diverse. The orthodox framework saw trade and factor flows as substitutes, thus separating their analysis, and was mainly concerned with efficiency issues of trade integration. The NEG framework saw trade and factor flows as complements, and analysed them jointly, looking mainly at distribution issues such as disparities in industry location and wages arising from a single market for goods and factors. The main lesson for the Eastern enlargement(s) is that integration in its various forms leads to an uneven distribution of gains across member countries when these have very diverse economic structures.     

区域经济一体化经济增长收敛性的实证研究

本文采用δ收敛考察欧盟(欧共体)在1955年-2000年和东盟在1965年-2005年区域经济一体化与经济增长收敛的关系,发现欧盟在1955年-1990年呈现显著的经济增长收敛,而东盟成立后经济增长呈发散趋势。本文通过分析认为,呈现经济增长收敛的区域经济一体化具有如下特点:一是经济一体化成员国消除了彼此间的贸易壁垒,区域内部基本实现自由贸易;二是经济一体化成员国之间的贸易流量成为各自对外贸易的主要流量;三是FDI效应导致成员国之间的资源配置进一步优化。     

Conclusion: A new learning curve and new economic relations

The European Union has a strong interest in fostering sustainable growth in the central Asian economies, one dimension being to underpin its future energy security. This means supporting reforms that can further strengthen economic institutions, catalyze higher levels of FDI outside the energy sector, promote more broadly based economic growth, and promote financial stability. The EU thus needs to encourage policies that facilitate trade, including notably WTO membership; support institution-building, with a special emphasis on the financial sector; and foster greater regional co-operation (but not preferential regional trade). These are indeed areas in which the EU has developed a strong capacity for assistance during its engagement in Eastern Europe. The EU's policy agenda for central Asia suggests a shift of focus consistent with economic priorities along these lines.     

武汉城市圈的产业一体化

随着经济全球化和区域经济一体化的不断深入,区域产业协作已经成为区域经济发展的重要环节。中国城市与区域发展的重要趋势便是以大城市为核心的城市经济圈的迅速崛起。而城市经济圈形成和发展的核心是产业一体化。文中从分析武汉城市圈产业一体化的现状及内外在动力机制,使各市应该重点发挥自身的优势产业,在良性竞争的背景下,加强分工协作,提高生产效率,促进经济发展。     

国外新城建设的经验与教训

伴随着经济全球化、市场化和区域化发展,加强新城的规划建设,始终是西方国外大都市空间结构优化和功能配置的主要途径.本文较为系统全面地分析和总结了国际大都市新城建设的经验和教训,这对我国一些特大城市开展新城规划建设具有十分重要的借鉴意义.     

中国区域经济一体化研究

在经济全球化的浪潮下,区域经济一体化已经成为各国经济发展的趋势。本文从区域经济一体化的发展历史入手,结合中国经济发展的实际状况,分析在这发展过程中出现的现象与问题,提出了今后区域经济一体化发展的措施。     

美国大都市区规划管理经验及启示

随着经济全球化与区域经济一体化发展 ,如何有效管理以促进大都市区经济的空间整合 ,日益成为国内外关注的焦点。本文分析和总结了美国大都市区规划管理的经验 ,在此基础上对我国大都市区的行政分割有效治理提出了建议。     

FUNCTIONAL ECONOMIES OR ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS IN GREECE: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE FOR POLICY?

This paper considers the 2001 income mosaic of Greece at the local level. It constructs a model based on occupational, territorial, and demographic factors to isolate their impact on declared income and study clusters of income at the disaggregated territorial level. The new cluster-based spatial specification provides a better econometric fit compared to the specification based on the existing official regional framework. This suggests that the economy does not operate according to the country's administrative divisions, but rather according to local-specific factors and transportation linkages, as is the case in a fragmented land united by its transportation network. Accordingly, if income disparities are larger within rather than between administrative regions, regional economic development policy might best be conducted within a functional-area framework rather than the current administrative-region framework. These findings entail important policy implications for EU regional development and resource allocation, and are also useful in additional tentative policy proposals.     

A composite policy tool to measure territorial resilience capacity

The 2007–2008 global recession and consequent slow recovery have revealed considerable heterogeneity in economic performance across countries and regions. This study contributes innovatively to existing resilience literature by identifying a life cycle resilience framework and computing a “handy” composite Regional Economic Resilience Indicator. We analyse economic resilience by means of a cluster and exploratory spatial data analysis, revealing well-defined spatial patterns in the EU. National resilience trends dominate in the EU-15, while a more heterogeneous spatial pattern is present in the EU-13. Our findings can support the monitoring of economic resilience at regional level and facilitate a common understanding of this complex and dynamic process for policy purposes.     

Too big to fail? The dynamics of EU influence and fiscal consolidation in Italy and Spain (2008–2016)

ABSTRACT

The article studies the dynamics of fiscal consolidation and public sector reforms in Italy and Spain under the EU governance that took shape as a reaction to the Eurozone crisis. We show how three types of EU pressure – fiscal and economic coordination rules, conditionality, and back-room diplomacy have operated in conjunction. We also show that Italy was more willing than Spain to resist EU pressure. Based on a Two-Level Game framework, we argue that this can be explained by the greater opposition to European integration that has developed in Italy compared to Spain.