2025年7月8日（周二）15:30-17:00 赵来勋 （日本神户大学）

讲座系列：开放型经济理论与政策系列讲座第19场（学科发展系列讲座总期第95场）

讲座人：赵来勋 （日本神户大学）

时间：2025年7月8日（周二）15:30-17:00 

地点：博学楼1220

主持人：唐宜红（对外经济贸易大学国际经济贸易学院院长、教授）

讲座题目：Navigating disruptions: trade resilience amid travel restrictions and management turnovers

讲座摘要：Face-to-face interactions have long been recognized to be important for international trade. With international business travel severely restricted during the Covid-19 pandemic, we find that trade volume on routes with more face-to-face meetings prior to Covid-19 are less affected in 2020. The effect is stronger for routes with larger shares of goods of high contractual frictions or higher rates of turnovers of senior managers or politicians, suggesting that face-to-face interactions make trade relationships more resilient through fostering stronger social connections. The analysis is based on trade data between provinces in China and foreign countries. For causal identification, we use cross-province variations in business travel intensities and export compositions by foreign countries, as well as an instrumental variable based on non-local shocks to the network of business travel. Our findings highlight the need to facilitate more face-to-face interactions between trading partners in the post-COVID era.

主讲人简介：

日本神户大学经济经营研究所教授。本科毕业于中国人民大学，硕士及博士毕业于美国佛罗里达大学。赵来勋教授的研究领域包括国际经济学、研发创新及经济增长、环境经济学、劳工移动、中国经济特别是户籍制度等，在包括Journal of International Economics、Journal of Labor Economics、Journal of Development Economics、Journal of Environmental Economics & Management、Journal of Urban Economics、Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control、Journal of Mathematical Economics等国际一流期刊上发表文章十几篇。2011年，日本国际经济学会向赵来勋教授颁发小岛清奖以表彰他的学术贡献，赵来勋教授是迄今为止唯一获此殊荣的非日本人。此外，赵来勋教授目前担任经济学一流期刊Journal of International Trade & Economic Development的共同主编以及Japanese Accounting Review的主编，并担任多种国际一流期刊的匿名审稿人和多个研究基金的匿名评审员。赵来勋教授撰写的有关中日关系的时政评论文章曾多次发表在《南华早报》和《新京报》，他的作品被《大公报》《欧洲时报》《参考消息》《共识网》等知名国际媒体多次转载。