【2024 年 1月 5日（周五）经济系学术讲座】

题   目：Trade From Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks 

嘉    宾：资  源  助理教授 日内瓦国际关系及发展高等学院

主持人：郭士祺  助理教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时   间：2024 年 1月 5日（周五）14:00-15:30

地   点：上海交通大学徐汇校区安泰经济与管理学院B716

内容简介：

This paper analyzes international externalities of a local shock to the global ship-ping network. The 2016 Panama Canal expansion removed a bottleneck in seaborne transportation, allowing much larger ships to pass. Using both reduced-form and structural methods in combination with novel satellite data on the movements of container ships, we find that trade increased significantly among country-pairs using the canal. We find that the global real income gains from the canal expansion were over three times greater than the income gains for Panama itself. A link removal analysis reveals that most shipping links are associated with positive and quantitatively important positive international externalities.

演讲人简介：

Yuan Zi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. She is a research affiliate of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and a research associate at the University of Oslo. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Geography. Her research interests include international trade and economic development, with a special focus on production networks, trade and labor market interactions, and firms in international trade. Her work has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of International Economics, the European Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Geography.