| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP15372 |
| DP15372 China's Dazzling Transport-infrastructure Growth: Measurement and Effects | |
| Peter Egger; Gabriel Loumeau; Nicole Loumeau | |
| 发表日期 | 2020-10-15 |
| 出版年 | 2020 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We document an unprecedented change in the size and the quality of China's transport-infrastructure network between 2000 and 2013. This documentation is based on hand-collected and digitized data on roads and railways. The changes are summarized and portrayed as shortest-possible transport times of people and goods between 330 prefectures of mainland China. A quantitative model of China's prefectures and a Rest of the World, featuring both goods trade and migration, suggests that the long-run consequences of the transport-infrastructure changes induce regional convergence of lagging-behind prefectures in terms of population density and, to a lesser extent, in terms of real per-capita income. Not only changes in highway and high-speed-railway networks but also ones in lower-level road and railway networks are quantitatively important. Key drivers behind the effects are the facilitation of goods transport as well as technology diffusion, while the reduction of mobility costs and the diffusion of amenities appear less important. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Transport infrastructure Regional economics General-equilibrium models Structural estimation Migration Transportation problem |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp15372 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544355 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Peter Egger,Gabriel Loumeau,Nicole Loumeau. DP15372 China's Dazzling Transport-infrastructure Growth: Measurement and Effects. 2020. |
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