BORDER EFFECTS WITHOUT BORDERS: WHAT DIVIDES JAPAN'S INTERNAL TRADE?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wrona, Jens
• 署名单位: Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf
• 刊物名称: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0020-6598
• DOI: 10.1111/iere.12302
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 1209-1262
• 关键词: intranational home bias; product differentiation; economic exchange; Regional growth; gravity model; UNITED-STATES; US; migration; networks; COSTS

摘要

This article identifies a border effect in the absence of a border. The finding that trade between east and west Japan is 23.1% to 51.3% lower than trade within both country parts is established despite the absence of an obvious east-west division due to historical borders, cultural differences, or past civil wars. Postwar agglomeration processes, reflected by the contemporaneous structure of Japan's business and social networks, instead of cultural differences, induced by long-lasting historical shocks, are identified as an explanation for the east-west bias in intra-Japanese trade.