【主题】Food Delivery Platforms and Urban Consumption Amenities: Evidence from China
【报告人】Liu Shimeng (刘诗濛), Jinan IESR，副教授
【时间】2023年3月23日周四上午10:00-11:30
【语言】英文
【摘要】This paper provides the first empirical evidence that food delivery platforms change the landscape of urban consumption amenities. Applying a difference-in-differences framework to a novel granular dataset with proprietary information, we study the impacts of food delivery platforms on local cuisine diversity and the economic geography of restaurants in China. We find that food delivery platforms increase the number of restaurants, restaurant entries and exits, and cuisine diversity while reducing restaurants’ spatial concentration and price levels. The effects are nonlinear across counties of different market sizes and degrees of urbanization, narrowing the core-peripheral gap in accessibility to consumption amenities.
【报告人简介】Shimeng Liu is an Associate professor at the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR), Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. His research interests are in the areas of Urban and Real Estate Economics, Labor Economics and Chinese Economy. His work has appeared in journals including Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, China Economic Review, Journal of Regional Science and Contemporary Economic Policy. He is the recipient of a Homer Hoyt Institute Best Paper Award, a GCREC Best Paper Award, and several fellowships and grants, including a NSFC grant. He has been regularly interviewed by the media, such as the Nan Fang Daily and Guangzhou Daily.