地区专业化的度量

在封闭经济假设和地区间需求结构一致假设下,本文构造了地区专业化的度量指标——地区专业化系数;这一度量指标更具一般性,产业结构差异系数、空间分布差异系数、绝对利差及行业分工指数等指标只是作为它的特例而存在。在讨论地区专业化问题时,如果忽略地区的(或行业的)相对规模因素,除了犯有逻辑推理错误外,在实践中还存在着可能得出错误判断的倾向。本文发现:中国工业的地区专业化水平自20世纪80年代中后期以来有了较大程度的提高;如果忽略地区的(或行业的)相对规模因素来讨论中国工业的地区专业化问题,则会高估中国工业的地区专业化水平。     

西部大开发战略与武汉城市功能的发挥

西部大开发战略的实施 ,为武汉这个中部特大中心城市的发展提供了机遇 ,如何顺势起飞 ,关键在于武汉中心城市功能的发挥。处于中部承东启西 ,九省通衢 ,基础强劲的武汉特大中心城市功能的发挥 ,也会有力地促进西部大开发战略的落实。武汉立足于其区位综合优势 ,从集散功能、生产功能、管理功能、服务功能、创新功能发展出发 ,借西部大开发之势重构和强化其金融商贸中心功能、交通枢纽功能、通讯信息中心功能、科技教育文化中心功能、生产和服务中心功能 ,是武汉发展和西部大开发的双赢策略。     

A Spatial Structural Decomposition Analysis of Chinese and Japanese Energy Demand: 1985–1990

This paper proposes a spatial structural decomposition analysis to measure the effects of the changes in intra- and inter-country linkages on the embodied energy demand in the concerned country. For the empirical analysis, we have used the China- Japan inter-country input–output tables for 1985 and 1990, expressed in constant prices of 1990. The empirical results reveal that (1) at least for the period between 1985 and 1990, the effects of the non-competitive input structural changes in China on the primary energy requirements of Japan were negligible, and (2) the contribution of the Japanese final demand shifts on the total change in Chinese primary energy demand was 40 times larger than that of the Chinese final demand shifts on the primary energy requirements of Japan. The Japanese policy makers should concentrate on the energy impacts of the changes in the domestic production structure rather than the changes in the Chinese production structure.     

Overeducation, regional labor markets, and spatial flexibility

For most workers, access to suitable employment is severely restricted by the fact that they look for jobs in the regional labor market rather than the global one. In this paper we analyze how macrolevel opportunities (regional market characteristics) and microlevel restrictions (the extent to which job searchers are restricted to the regional market) can help to explain the phenomenon of overeducation. We use a two-step procedure to control selective access to employment. The results show that the size of the labor market is an important factor in avoiding overeducation.     

Finding a Nash equilibrium in spatial games is an NP-complete problem

Summary. We consider the class of (finite) spatial games. We show that the problem of determining whether there exists a Nash equilibrium in which each player has a payoff of at least k is NP-complete as a function of the number of players.Received: 15 September 2002, Revised: 9 March 2003, JEL Classification Numbers: C72.Correspondence to: H. HallerWe thank a referee for helpful comments. The hospitality of the Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen, and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, is gratefully acknowledged by the third author.     

中国城市经济增长的效率与差异

本文在利用Malmquist指数和一系列反映地区差异的统计指标对中国216个地级市1990~2004年经济增长的效率和差异进行描述的基础上,针对2000年以来中国城市经济表现出的新特点,采用因子分析和空间计量方法分析了影响中国城市经济增长的主要因素,结果表明216个地级市TFP整体呈现增长趋势,城市经济的地区差异明显且呈扩大趋势。2000年以来影响中国城市经济增长的因子强度依次为:地理位置、产业结构与市场化水平和要素投入等。     

中国经济增长与能源消费空间面板分析

近年来面板数据广泛应用于各类统计分析,但变量的空间相关并没有引起足够的重视。本文引入空间面板回归模型研究中国各省市区经济增长和能源消费的关系。利用matlab软件及其spatial econometric模块建立和比较传统面板回归模型与空间面板回归模型,结果表明空间面板回归模型较传统面板回归模型优越,本文的研究为空间面板数据分析提供了一个应用实例。     

Matching and anonymity

This work introduces a set-theoretic foundation of deterministic bilateral matching processes and studies their properties. In particular, it formalizes a link between matching and informational constraints by developing a notion of anonymity that is based on the agents’ matching histories. It also explains why and how various matching processes generate different degrees of “informational isolation” in the economy. We illustrate the usefulness of our approach to modeling matching frameworks by discussing the classical turnpike model of Townsend.This research is supported in part by the NSF grants EIA-0075506, SES-0128039, DMS-0437210, and ACI-0325846. We thank two anonymous referees for constructive comments that improved the exposition of the paper. We also thank the participants in seminars at the University of Aarhus, Purdue University, University of Texas at Austin, and at the XI Meeting on Real Analysis and Measure Theory in 2004, the spring 2004 Midwest Economic Theory Meeting, the summer 2004 North American and European Econometric Society meetings.     

“一带一路”倡议下中国口岸出入境货运量的时空格局演变探究

口岸作为国家指定的对外开放门户,承担着国与国之间货物运输和人员往来的重要功能。"一带一路"倡议的实施促进了我国口岸的发展,带动了口岸经济与区域经济的发展,反过来进一步加强了与"一带一路"沿线国家的合作。本文利用口岸运行指标中的出入境货运量数据,借助探索性空间数据分析方法,对我国2011—2017年31个省(区、市)的口岸出入境货运量的时空格局进行分析。结果表明:"一带一路"倡议提出后,尤其是2015年后,我国口岸出入境货运总量呈现快速增长态势且存在显著的空间正相关性;三类口岸(水运、陆运和空运口岸)中,水运口岸存在更显著的、更强的空间相关性;各类口岸出入境货运量中,东部沿海地区水运呈现正向空间集聚现象,西部沿边地区陆运呈现极化现象。此外,本文对全国31个省(区、市)的地区货运总量也进行了空间动态分析,发现也存在空间相关性,且集聚效应在"一带一路"倡议提出后不断增强。在此基础上,为了更好地服务于"一带一路"建设,本文提出了提升各类口岸运输能力的相关对策建议。     

Spatial Competition and Shopping Externalities: Evidence from the Housing Market

In search markets, greater spatial concentration of sellers increases price competition. At the same time, though, a greater concentration of sellers can create a shopping externality by attracting more buyers to the site. Using housing sales data, we test for spatial competition and shopping externality effects on prices and marketing time. We find that they reflect both competitive and shopping externality effects from surrounding houses, although the relative strength varies with how fresh the house is in the market, the freshness of surrounding houses, and the phase of the market cycle. New listings have the strongest shopping externality effect on neighboring houses that have been on the market for some time. Vacant houses have their strongest competition effects in the declining market and externality effects in the rising market. Fresh houses on the market reap little benefit from shopping externalities in all phases of the market cycle.