建立中国-新西兰自由贸易区的经济效应

在区域经济一体化的背景下，中国和新西兰亚启动了建立自由贸易区（FTA）的谈判。如果两国正式建立FTA，将会进一步提升两国经贸关系。中新两国的经济具有互补性特征，FTA的建立对两国的货物贸易、服务贸易和投资都将产生正面效应。     

布什政府的自由贸易协定及其对中美经贸关系的影响

美国的自由贸易协定(FTA)发端于上世纪80年代。现在美国布什政府正以双边行动致力于市场开放。2005年底,布什政府完成了与13个国家的双边自由贸易协定(FTA)谈判,还有10个国家正在谈判。美国通过FTA向贸易伙伴输出环境政策、劳工标准等,提高了发展中国家贸易伙伴加入自由贸易协定的成本。美国的双边自由贸易协议行动会导致中美经贸关系中的贸易转移效应,加速中美在能源需求中形成竞争关系。同时,布什政府的贸易政策措施可用以遏制中国发展。     

自由贸易的形成及其在东亚的发展趋势

2003年12月12日,日本与东盟10国发表了旨在加强日本与东盟各国经济、政治和安全关系的《东京宣言》和《行动计划》,并首次提出了建立东亚共同体的概念。这次峰会预示着日本同东盟的区域经济关系将出现新的飞跃,是东亚自由贸易区发展进程中值得关注的新动向。本文从区域经济一体化的类型入手,深入探讨了WTO框架下自由贸易区在全球的发展状况及其原因,指出日本对东亚区域经济合作战略和方针的调整是东亚自由贸易区发展进程中值得关注的新动向,对东亚经济一体化进程将产生深远影响。     

中国自贸区战略实施的现状、效果、趋势及未来策略

随着全球经贸规则的加速重构,我国自贸协定的谈判和签署步伐明显加快,且签署协定的开放水平不断提升,协定实施对双边贸易也产生了显著的促进效果。未来,中国的自贸协定谈判将呈现出覆盖范围更广、开放层次更高、协定对象向重点国家和地区突破的态势。为了实现"形成覆盖全球的高标准自贸区网络"的目标,我国应通过积极参与构建超大型自贸区、将自贸区网络建设与"一带一路"倡议相结合、深化自身改革提供制度支撑、综合考量宏观收益开展自贸谈判、设计兼具稳定性和灵活性的自贸协定"范式"等策略来推进自贸区建设。     

“快速通关”贸易促进效应的实证分析

在低关税的时代,快速通关很可能是打破贸易壁垒,推动国际贸易发展的重要手段。文章从四个方面总结了快速通关对国际贸易的影响机制,并基于2008-2010年113个国家相互之间的出口数据,使用 Heckman两步选择模型进行了实证研究。结果显示,快速通关对贸易参与和贸易规模都有着显著的促进作用,从多个角度进行稳健性检验后,该结论依然成立。快速通关可以通过需求偏好效应、成本效应与全球化生产网络效应和遏制日益强化的非关税贸易壁垒的负面效应,使得多边谈判所形成的关税降低的效应得以真正发挥。此外,文章还发现,自由贸易协定的建立,提升了通关效率与边境管理的透明度,进而提高了国家间的贸易量。文章的研究结论对于理解目前中国建立自由贸易区以及实施在贸易谈判中主导快速通关的措施或建立条款,打破技术贸易壁垒具有重要的意义。     

Who rides the tide of regionalization: Examining the effect of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area on the exports of Chinese firms

This study draws on the institutional economics and the resource-based view to examine the impact of regional institutional changes on firm exports. Specifically, we utilize the establishment of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area as our research context. Our difference-in-difference analysis of a four-year panel of 700 Chinese listed firms lends support to our arguments that (1) regional institutional changes aimed at increasing economic incentives for intraregional business exchanges will stimulate firm exports in the regional market and that (2) private firms, more technologically competent firms, and firms with richer regional exporting experience are affected more strongly by this institutional influence.     

Domestic Political Institutions,Diplomatic Style and Trade Agreements: A Comparative Study of China and Japan

Through an analysis of the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs), this article seeks to examine the factors that caused the gap in Japan and China's relationship with Southeast Asia to emerge and expand in the new millennium. In order to address this question, the article focuses on China and Japan's diplomatic styles and domestic political institutions and examines how these two elements influenced negotiations on the formation of FTAs, as well as the evolving perceptions that the Southeast Asian nations have of these two states. The article argues that Japan and China possess different kinds of weaknesses in implementing feasible external policies – a lack of policy decisiveness for Japan and weak policy credibility for China – which have resulted from the operation of domestic political institutions. Given these differences, while China implemented pragmatic diplomacy that helped improve its policy credibility, Japan's bargaining diplomatic style did not serve to rectify its weak policy decisiveness. Such differences in their diplomatic approach have led to the differing influence of these two states on Southeast Asia.     

日本海外知识产权战略研究

日本提出知识产权立国后,在实施海外知识产权战略中注重与主要的贸易伙伴及国际组织的合作,以提高国家的全球竞争力。特别是与欧美专利局加强合作,通过自由贸易协定(FTA)和经济伙伴关系协定(EPA)与各国展开双边合作,与世界贸易组织、世界知识产权组织,亚太经合组织和G8等国际组织合作,积极推动知识产权的协调与保护水平的提高,这对中国的对日贸易带来了影响,也为中国实施知识产权国家战略提供了借鉴。     

Equilibrium coalition structures in the presence of foreign direct investment

This paper incorporates foreign direct investment (FDI) into the examination of trading bloc formation with endogenously determined coalition structures. In so doing, we build a three-country model, in which firms serve foreign markets either by exporting or undertaking FDI, and consider a coalition formation game with the Coalition Proof Nash Equilibrium as an equilibrium concept. We find that the equilibrium coalition structure varies upon firms characterization before and after the formation of a trading bloc. As in the literature, when all firms are exporters in the pre- and post-formation, bilateralism can be an equilibrium outcome. However, when trade barriers are not so high as to be trade-prohibitive and the environment is favorable to multinational activities in the pre- or post-formation, only global free trade will prevail as an equilibrium coalition structure.     

协调博弈视角下自贸区合作福利优化问题研究

在当前世界各国将参与自贸区作为自身既定战略的情况下,如何优化合作的福利成为各参与国迫待解决的问题。我国在参与自贸区合作时应优先选择与自身策略互补性强的国家(地区)作为自贸区合作伙伴,并选择对方降低关税对自身具有正溢出效应或正溢出效应明显的出口部门优先参与谈判。