Boundary Effects and Cross-Border Subregional Economic Cooperation Research

Author: Li Tieli
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Subregional economic cooperation is a form of regional economic integration and is reinforced alongside the development of regional economic integration. This book comprehensively applies theories and methods from international economic trade geography, institutional economics, and social sciences. Through systematic research on boundaries, border effects, border location, etc., it reveals the impact of these three factors on cross-border subregional economic cooperation, as well as the driving mechanisms, institutional arrangements, and organizational characteristics of such cooperation. Drawing on successful cases of subregional economic cooperation from abroad, the book explores the development pathways for China's participation in subregional economic cooperation with neighboring countries. Based on an analysis and summary of the nature of boundaries and the impact of border effects on cross-border subregional economic cooperation, the book focuses on the characteristics and influencing factors of border location from the perspective of enterprise agglomeration during the transformation process of border effects. On this foundation, it discusses the driving mechanisms, institutional arrangements, and evolutionary processes of organizational structures at both the regional and enterprise levels in cross-border subregional economic cooperation and their respective characteristics.