How to Increase the Locational Value of Free-Trade Ports: Measurement of Boundary Effects in International Trade

Liansheng Tang; Wen Qiao; Ran Ma; Tieli Liu

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How to Increase the Locational Value of Free-Trade Ports: Measurement of Boundary Effects in International Trade

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Liansheng Tang¹^{, *}, Wen Qiao¹, Ran Ma¹, Tieli Liu²

¹School of Economics and Management, Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo, 315211, China

²School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Ningbo University of Technology, Ningbo, 315211, China

^*Corresponding author. Email: lianshengtang@nbut.edu.cn

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Liansheng Tang

Available Online 19 December 2022.

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Keywords: Locational value; Free-trade port; Gravity model; Boundary effect; Bilateral trade
Abstract: Free-trade ports (FTPs) have become a means for China to promote economic upgrading, expand international trade, and attract foreign capital. Based on the variables of GDP, distance, language synergy, border conditions, and the exchange rates of trading countries, hypotheses are proposed regarding the influence of Chinese FTPs on the total import and export volume of foreign trade. The gravity model and convergence analysis are established based on the variables, and regression results are obtained using a varying coefficient model with panel data. The Levin–Lin–Chu test is used to test the hypotheses. Based on the results, it is concluded that the GDP, geographical distance, language synergy, and border conditions of Chinese FTPs and target countries significantly affect the import and export volume of foreign trade. Based on the findings, we make five suggestions for increasing the locational value of FTPs.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Diversified Education and Social Development (DESD 2022)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 19 December 2022
ISBN: 10.2991/978-2-494069-37-4_29
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-2-494069-37-4_29 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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