进口贸易、消费者异质性与民生改善

Import Trade,Consumer Heterogeneity and Livelihood Improvement

本文在理论方面将消费者异质性引入模型中,发现消费者异质性对进口贸易有重要影响。实证方面,本文选取了GDP含金量和国民幸福指数衡量消费者异质性,并选取2000年至2014年86个国家的平衡面板数据进行分析,结果表明,中国进口贸易与贸易双方的GDP显著正相关、与贸易距离显著负相关,与中国的消费者异质性显著正相关,但与贸易伙伴的消费者异质性无关。

Does the consumer heterogeneity have influence on imports of Chinese trade？ Import trade of China is important to economic growth, but the existing studies mostly focus on export trade and producers of import trade, and the demand side is ignored. This article introduces the consumer heterogeneity into the theory model, and finds that consumer heterogeneity has important influence on import trade. From empirical aspect, this article selects the GDP value and national happiness index to measure consumer heterogeneity, using balance panel data from 2000 to 2014 with 86 countries and gravity model to analyze, and the results show that the Chinese import trade has significantly positive relation to GDP of both sides and significantly negative correlation with their distance, and has significantly positive correlation with the Chinese consumer heterogeneity, but has nothing to do with trade partners of consumer heterogeneity.