新经济地理学的实证研究进展述评

尽管新经济地理理论研究已经形成一个相对完整的体系，但实证研究仍相对欠缺。新经济地理学试图解释区域要素价格和人口分布的关系，以及预测行业内的经济活动的选址行为。本文梳理的实证研究显示，市场准入和工资水平高度相关，规模收益递增、本地市场效应促进了产业的集聚，这些实证检验结果支持了新经济地理学的模型预测。本文还指出了NEG与其他领域研究的联系，比如区域经济和城市经济识别问题、潜在的其他解释等，并认为未来的实证研究可能会更关注变量的识别和不同集聚程度的测量问题，并与城市经济学紧密联系。

Review of the Empirical Studies of the New Economic Geography

Although the new economic geography（NEG） theory has formed a relatively complete system, the relevant empirical study is still relatively lacking. NEG attempts to explain the relationship between the location of economic activity and the regional population distribution, and predicts the site selection of economic activities among the industry. This paper reviews the empirical studies, and shows that the market access and the wage levels are highly correlated, and the increasing - scale returns and the local market effect have promoted the industrial agglomeration. These empirical results support the NEG model. The pa- per also points out the NEG linkages with other fields, such as identification of the regional economy and urban economy, other potential explanations, and finally points out the possible direction of future study, that is the identification variables and of the measurement of different agglomeration.