报告题目：Super Factory Comes to Town: Identifying the Agglomeration Spillovers from Foxconn Factory in Henan

时间：2023年12月13日上午10:00-11:30

地点：中关村校区主楼418

报告人：清华大学 马弘 教授

报告人简介：

马弘，教授，博导，经济学博士，国家级青年人才计划获得者。从事中国经济领域的研究工作，主要集中在国际贸易和经济发展等方向。在Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics等国内外一流经济学杂志发表论文数十篇。目前兼任清华大学中国经济研究中心副主任，Journal of Comparative Economics，ChinaEconomic Review, Review of International Economics的副编辑，以及40余本学术期刊的审稿人。

报告内容简介：

This paper investigates the spillover effects of super factories on local manufacturing sector through agglomeration in developing economies. We use evidence from the largest provider of electronic manufacturing service in the world: Foxconn. Using its unexpected investment in Henan province of China as a quasi-natural experiment, we adopt a geographic difference-in-difference approach that exploits the spatial decay of the agglomeration effects from Foxconn factories. We find that the increase in the labor productivity of the regions closer to Foxconn factories is larger than those of regions further away. This finding is robust to a battery of validity checks. Consistent with the agglomeration spillovers, firm entry and labor costs increase more in regions closer to Foxconn factories than further away.

（承办：应用经济系、科研与学术交流中心）