讲座主题：Navigating disruptions: trade resilience amid management turnovers and COVID lockdowns

主讲嘉宾：赵来勋，日本神户大学经济与商务研究所教授

时 间：2025年7月9日（周三）15:30-17:30

地 点：3044am永利集团沙河校区学院楼13号楼321

主持人：张晓涛教授、院长

点评人：刘悦教授；钟腾龙副教授

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讲座内容：

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.

嘉宾简介：

赵来勋教授是国际知名的华人经济学家，现任日本神户大学经济与商务研究所教授，曾任斯坦福大学访问学者。研究领域为国际经济和中国经济，已经在Journal of International Economics、Journal of Labor Economics、Journal of Urban Economics、European Economic Review、Journal of Industrial Economics、Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization等国际一流或知名经济学期刊发表论文数篇。2011年，赵来勋教授获得日本文部科学大臣表彰，成为迄今为止唯一获此荣誉的非日本人。赵来勋教授目前担任Journal of International Trade & Economic Development联合主编，以及Japanese Accounting Review的主编，并担任多个国际一流期刊的匿名审稿人。