外部规模经济与国际贸易区域化及其对中国的启示

The External Scale Economy, Regionalization of International Trade and their Inspirations to China

在世界贸易格局的形成中,贸易区域化现象引人注目。文章运用外部规模经济理论对这种现象予以新的解释,即在世界经济一体化浪潮中,一些地理位置邻近、文化背景相似的国家为获取有利的贸易区位,通过产业分工、对内合作和对外竞争形成区域贸易集团,并由此产生“区域外部规模经济”。作者认为,为获得有利的贸易区位和区域外部规模经济,中国一方面要加强与国际贸易区域组织的合作,另一方面要加强次区域及国内地区间的合作。

The regionalization phenomena of international trade has been characterized during the formation of international trade structure. This paper explains further such phenomena with the theory of external scale economy. During integration of the world economy, countries located close each other and with some how the samilaw cultural background form regional trade groups by industrial division, internal cooperation and external competitiveness in order to acquire favorable trade position. Based on this, it has been proposed that China should strengthen cooperations with the international trade groups and at the same time, strengthen cooperations with orerseas regions externally and between domestic regions internally.