講座主題：Navigating disruptions: trade resilience amid management turnovers and COVID lockdowns

主講嘉賓：趙來勛，日本神戶大學經濟與商務研究所教授

時 間：2025年7月9日（周三）15:30-17:30

地 點：中央財經大學沙河校區(qū)學院樓13號樓321

主持人：張曉濤教授、院長

點評人：劉悅教授；鐘騰龍副教授

主 辦：中央財經大學國際經濟與貿易學院

致 謝：本講座獲得中央財經大學一流學科建設項目的支持

講座內容：

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.

嘉賓簡介：

趙來勛教授是國際知名的華人經濟學家，現(xiàn)任日本神戶大學經濟與商務研究所教授，曾任斯坦福大學訪問學者。研究領域為國際經濟和中國經濟，已經在Journal of International Economics、Journal of Labor Economics、Journal of Urban Economics、European Economic Review、Journal of Industrial Economics、Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization等國際一流或知名經濟學期刊發(fā)表論文數(shù)篇。2011年，趙來勛教授獲得日本文部科學大臣表彰，成為迄今為止唯一獲此榮譽的非日本人。趙來勛教授目前擔任Journal of International Trade & Economic Development聯(lián)合主編，以及Japanese Accounting Review的主編，并擔任多個國際一流期刊的匿名審稿人。