经济地理与外资企业的区位选择

本文利用2004～2008年我国546类制造行业的省级面板数据,从新经济地理学的视角,研究了外资企业进入中国各省市区的决定因素。结果表明,各地的市场潜力、贸易成本、地理位置等新经济地理的因素对现阶段外资企业的区位选择有显著的影响,而传统FDI理论所关注的因素如工资成本、优惠政策等对外资企业的区位选择影响不显著。另外,本文还发现了各地区间还普遍存在着不同程度的市场分割现象,这会阻碍外资企业和FDI在省际的自由流动。这些结论对我国各地区今后有针对性地实施吸引外资企业和FDI的政策有一定借鉴意义。     

Farmer Gone Fish'n? Swidden Decline and the Rise of Grouper Fishing on Palawan Island,the Philippines

Considerable research has focused on understanding how upland farmers adjust land‐based livelihoods to the influences of agrarian change in Southeast Asia. In the process, an ‘upland bias’ has emerged where researchers focus narrowly on the uplands as localities with distinct, coherent features, neglecting how families engage place, social relations and ethnicity as they access opportunities in proximate spaces. This paper considers how the Tagbanua – long considered an upland swidden people – have ‘stepped back’ from swidden agriculture due to declining yields and debt to harvest the lucrative grouper (e.g. Plectropomus leopardus). We show how Tagbanua families on Palawan Island have adjusted swidden as they negotiate social relations, ethnic cleavages and economic barriers to effectively engage the grouper industry. Rather than cast such farmers and fishers as ideal types in place, we argue that how they negotiate social relations creates new livelihood opportunities in varied environments, reinforcing the dynamic, recursive context of agrarian change.     

关于中国21世纪经济地理学发展的几点思考

在深刻认识我国经济地理学发展时代背景的基础上,对经济地理学的发展现状、发展趋势以及所面临的任务进行了若干思考.     

The effect of foreign trade and investment liberalization on spatial concentration of economic activity

I examine the varying responses of countries to foreign trade and direct investment liberalization on spatial concentration of their economic activity by taking into consideration moderating factors such as their market size and level of economic development. I argue that liberalization increases the concentration under normal conditions but large market size, and underdevelopment can disperse economic activity. Using data from 168 countries for the period of time starting in 1980s, I found support for all hypotheses.     

我国经济地理学发展的哲学反思

经济地理学作为地理学中一门重要的学科,其实践和理论尚存在诸多不容忽视的问题。文章试从经济地理学发展的现实表象和存在问题入手,分析问题背后的哲学根源,对我国经济地理学发展提出一些认识。     

内蒙古地理标志资源的现状及其可地理标志性分析

内蒙古地大物博、生态环境良好,地理标志资源存量丰富,目前其利用状况和相关法律保护现状还存在一些有待改进的方面。但并非所有的资源都可以作为地理标志资源,因此,便涉及到资源的可地理标志性问题。可标志性的标准或者可以说唯一的标准是要看公众是否认为使用该标记的商品只来源于标记所指的地区。     

知识经济与经济地理学的新发展

知识经济的兴起必将对人地关系产生重大影响,一个新型的人地关系体系必将逐步形成。以人地关系为核心的研究人类经济活动与地理环境关系的经济地理学的发展,也面临机遇和挑战。面向知识经济革新、发展经济地理学,强化经济地理人才培养已成为经济地理学目前发展的首要任务。     

经济地理学的发展及其战略咨询作用

近10多年来,我国经济地理学发挥了交叉学科的优势,在国土开发战略研究、国家和重点区域的规划和可持续发展方面完成了一系列重大任务,发挥了独特的战略咨询作用。文章就继续强化这一方向提出了若干理论和实践的要求。     

Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instrumental variables for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions trumps everything else. Once institutions are controlled for, conventional measures of geography have at best weak direct effects on incomes, although they have a strong indirect effect by influencing the quality of institutions. Similarly, once institutions are controlled for, trade is almost always insignificant, and often enters the income equation with the wrong (i.e., negative) sign. We relate our results to recent literature, and where differences exist, trace their origins to choices on samples, specification, and instrumentation.