Pandemic and Firm-Level Exports: Evidence from the 2003 SARS

大型流行病和企业出口:来自2003年SARS的证据

时间：2020年12月25日（周五）10：00-11：30 am

地点：北京大学经济学院107教室

主持人： （国发院）沈艳、黄卓、孙振庭、张俊妮、胡博

              （经济学院）王一鸣、王熙、刘蕴霆

主讲人：尤炜

报告摘要：

How does a pandemic affect economic activity at the local level? In this paper, we estimate the local effect of the 2003 SARS pandemic on firm-level exports. Compared to Covid-19, the 2003 SARS is less infectious but much more fatal. Therefore, the discovery of a SARS patient presumably could have caused a panic, thus disrupting the local economic activity. We combine the geocoded SARS patient data with the transaction-level custom data from 2001 to 2006, and estimate whether the discovery of a SARS patient reduced the export values of the firms in the local neighborhoods. We find that, compared to firms located between 5 and 10 km of the SARS hospital, the firms located with 5 km of the SARS hospital experienced a 10% relative decrease in export value after the hospital received a SARS patient.

主讲人简介：

尤炜，北京大学新结构经济学研究院助理教授。2017年毕业于美国加州大学圣地亚哥分校（University of California San Diego）获得经济学博士学位。于2017至2020年期间，担任纽约大学（New York University）费曼房地产和城市政策研究中心（Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy）研究员（Research Fellow）。研究方向包括城市和区域经济学，发展经济学，以及经济史。