经济与社会研究院SEMINAR第21期

题目：Airports, Market Access, and Local Economic Performance: Evidence for China

报告人：Stephen Gibbons

时间：2016年12月5日13:30-15:00

地点：暨南大学中惠楼106B

主办方：暨南大学经济与社会研究院

报告人简介: 

Stephen Gibbons,伦敦政治经济学院空间经济研究中心主任、Center for Economic Performance城市项目主任（urban programme director）。兼任皇家统计学会会刊（Journal of Royal Statistical Society A）和多个国际期刊的编委。研究方向主要是教育，医疗，环境，交通等基础设施和房地产市场的空间计量经济应用研究。论文发表于Journal of European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Environment Economics and Management等。

摘要:

In this paper we study the effect of airports on local economic performance that arises from better access to domestic markets, using China’s recent rapid air network expansion. We estimate the effects of the implied changes in access to population on measures of economic performance using a panel of counties built from administrative records and micro data on industrial firms. To mitigate endogeneity concerns we focus on a subsample of ‘incidentally’ affected counties, whose location midway between existing and new airports implies they not were explicitly targeted for development nor directly affected by airport operations. We also decompose market access into land-side and air-side components. Our key finding is that improved population access due to land-side distance reductions to airports increased industrial output and GDP.