Regional growth in Mexico under trade liberalisation: how important are agglomeration and FDI?
Regional growth in Mexico under trade liberalisation: how important are agglomeration and FDI?
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贸易自由化下墨西哥的区域增长：集聚和外国直接投资有多重要？
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2012
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Eduardo Rodríguez
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J. Jordaan;Eduardo Rodríguez
墨西哥经济在1980年代末期开放后，外来外国直接投资水平不断提高，墨西哥境内经济活动的地点格局也发生了重大变化。尽管这些发展与墨西哥区域增长制度的显著变化相吻合，但以前的研究主要集中在确定物质和人力资本的区域天赋对增长的影响。在本文中，我们通过进行实证分析来扩展这一研究，该实证分析明确了集聚和FDI对区域增长的影响。我们分析的主要发现有三个方面。首先，我们发现，在过去的二十年里，集聚和外商直接投资都是区域增长的重要驱动力。其次，这两种现象都可以与积极和消极增长效应的实现联系在一起。我们确定的各种增长效应与已经发生的经济活动的区位调整是一致的。第三，我们的估计还明确了集聚和外国直接投资的增长效应的空间维度；此外，这些空间增长效应代表了墨西哥区域增长过程总体空间性的重要组成部分。
The opening of the Mexican economy in the late 1980s has generated increasing levels of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) as well as substantial changes in the location pattern of economic activity within Mexico. Although these developments have coincided with marked changes in Mexico’s regional growth regime, previous research has focused mainly on identifying growth effects from regional endowments of physical and human capital. In this paper, we extend on this research by conducting empirical analysis that centers explicitly on identifying the regional growth effects from agglomeration and FDI. The main findings of our analysis are threefold. First, we find that both agglomeration and FDI have acted as important drivers of regional growth in the last two decades. Second, both phenomena can be linked to the materialization of both positive and negative growth effects. The variety of growth effects that we identify is in line with the locational readjustments of economic activity that have taken place. Third, our estimations also identify clear spatial dimensions to the growth effects from agglomeration and FDI; furthermore, these spatial growth effects represent an important component of the overall spatiality of the regional growth process in Mexico.