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2022 , Vol. 42 >Issue 6: 92 - 102

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2022.06.010

产业经济与创新发展

贸易中介对于企业出口产品多样化的影响

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  • 1.北京大学 城市与环境学院,中国 北京 100871;
    2.北京大学—林肯研究院城市发展与土地政策研究中心,中国 北京 100871
蒋晟（1994—）,男,浙江金华人,博士研究生,研究方向为贸易地理和跨国公司。E-mail：1901111739@pku.edu.cn

收稿日期: 2022-01-09

  修回日期: 2022-04-28

  网络出版日期: 2023-10-10

基金资助

国家自然科学基金重点项目（41731278）

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Trade Intermediaries and Firm Export Product Diversification

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  • 1. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China;
    2. Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy,Beijing 100871,China

Received date: 2022-01-09

  Revised date: 2022-04-28

  Online published: 2023-10-10

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摘要

文章关注过往演化经济地理学研究中较少讨论的贸易中介。基于2002—2016年中国海关数据,文章不仅关注贸易中介对于企业出口产品多样化的影响,也对这种影响的异质性进行讨论。结果表明：①贸易中介能帮助企业与海外客户建立联系,进而促使企业学习海外产品知识,推动企业的出口产品拓展。②贸易中介能帮助企业与本地其他企业建立联系,进而促使企业学习本地产品知识,推动企业出口产品拓展。③一般型贸易中介对于企业拓展低技术复杂度产品的促进作用更强,而专精型贸易中介则更有助于企业拓展高技术复杂度产品。在理论层面,研究一方面为经济地理学理解企业出口产品多样化提供了新的证据;另一方面也丰富了经济地理学对于中介主体,尤其是贸易中介影响的认识。而在现实层面,研究也为政府贸易政策的制定提供了新思路,即通过促进贸易中介的发展,推动本地企业的出口产品拓展。

关键词： 出口多样化; 企业出口产品多样化; 贸易中介; 演化经济地理; 中国

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蒋晟, 贺灿飞 . 贸易中介对于企业出口产品多样化的影响[J]. 经济地理, 2022 , 42(6) : 92 -102 . DOI: 10.15957/j.cnki.jjdl.2022.06.010

Abstract

Under the background of export depression,firm export product diversification can not only mitigate the negative impacts of external shocks,but also promote industry upgrading by restructuring industries allocations. Due to the emergence of evolutionary economic geography,firm export product diversification becomes an important topic in economic geography research and evolutionary economic geographers argue that,due to local knowledge spillover,firms are more likely to expand new products which are related to local existing product pools. Recently,different type of agents has effect on the evolution of export products,such as the entry of FDI and intervention from government et al. However,the effects of intermediaries,especially trade intermediaries have got insufficient attention. Based on the background above,this study focuses on the effects of trade intermediaries on firm export product diversification by using China Customs data in 2002-2016. Specifically,there are 3 findings in this study: 1) Trade intermediaries help firms obtain product knowledge from foreign customers and thus promote firm export product diversification. 2) Trade intermediaries help firms learn product knowledge from other local firms and thus promote firm export product diversification. 3) Generalized trade intermediaries are more helpful when firms expand low-complexity products,while specialized trade intermediaries are more helpful when firms expand high-complexity products. This study has contributions at both theoretical and practical level. At theoretical level,this study not only provides new evidence for academia to understand the mechanism of firm export product diversification,but also helps academia learn more about the effects of intermediaries,especially trade intermediaries. At practical level,this study affords a new perspective for trade policy-making.

Key words： export diversification; firm product diversification; trade intermediaries; evolutionary economic geography; China

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