主讲人：林炜 香港中文大学（深圳）经管学院

讲座时间：2025年10月17日 10：00~12：00

讲座地点：同济大厦A楼1101会议室

讲座摘要：We combine a new collection of microdata from China with a natural policy experiment to investigate the extent to which reductions in rural-urban migration barriers affect flows of trade and investments between cities and the countryside. We find that increases in worker eligibility for urban residence registration (Hukou) across origin-destination pairs increase rural-urban exports, imports, capital inflows and outflows, both in terms of bilateral transaction values and the number of unique buyer-seller matches. To quantify the implications at the regional level, we interpret these estimates through the lens of a spatial equilibrium model in which migrants can reduce buyer-seller matching frictions. We find that a 10% increase in a rural county’s migration market access on average leads to a 1.5% increase in the county’s trade market access and a 2% increase in investment market access. In the context of China’s recent Hukou reforms, we find that these knock-on effects on market integration were on average larger among the urban destinations compared to the rural origins, reinforcing incentives for rural-urban migration.

主讲人简介：林炜，香港中文大学（深圳）经管学院助理教授，2022年获得加州大学伯克利分校博士学位。主要研究兴趣为发展经济学中的技术引进、移民决策以及企业上下游搜寻和网络匹配问题。主持自然科学基金青年项目，广东自科面上项目等。