跨境电商、地理距离效应与贸易发展

Geographical Distance,Cross Border E-commerce and Trade Development

基于中国与G20国家以及“一带一路”沿线国家之间的贸易数据,实证研究跨境电商对地理距离效应的影响。结果表明:贸易伙伴国跨境电商的发展会在一定程度上削弱地理距离效应,从而间接刺激贸易国之间的贸易规模扩大;对于高收入国家来说,跨境电商的发展对于地理距离负面效应的抑制作用更加明显;在我国以出口方式进行贸易时,跨境电商发展水平对于地理距离效应的抑制作用更为明显。

Based on the trade related data between China and the G20 countries as well as countries along the“Belt and Road”,the paper makes a further study about the influence of cross border e-commerce on the geographical distance effect.The results show that(1)the development of cross border e-commerce will weaken the geographical distance effect,and then indirectly stimulate the scale of trade between trading countries,(2)for high income countries,the development of cross border e-commerce will weaken the effect of negative geographic distance more significantly,(3)when China trades by way of export,the development level of cross border e-commerce will weaken the effect of geographic distance more significantly.