报告题目：Bilateral Economies of Scope

主讲嘉宾：

Yao Amber Li（李瑶）

香港科技大学工商管理学院经济系副教授

报告摘要：

International transactions are costly because they require investments in logistics, contracts, and the acquisition of local institutional knowledge. We posit that a portion of the fixed costs of entering a specific export market can be used toward costs of acquiring imports from that same market, and vice versa. Using dis-aggregated transactions data for Chinese firms from 2000 to 2015, we document firm-level trading patterns that suggest such market-specific bilateral economies of scope. Using a structural model, we estimate that the simultaneous export and import in a given country reduces export and import fixed costs by over 41 and 37 percent, respectively.

报告时间：2023年5月17日（周五），16:40-18:10

地 点：厦门大学经济楼N302