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Junbing Zhang (Free University of Berlin) - Chinese Dialects Diversity & Local Economic Development
Date and Time: December 24th, 2019, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Room: A 101 in the Economics Building (Museum)
Abstract
In this paper, we explore the effects of dialect diversity on economic performance by drawing evidence from Chinese prefecture-level cities. Our dataset is a panel of 5-year average data over the period from 2001 to 2015 including 274 cities. We compute five indices of dialect diversity: 1. Dialect fractionalization; 2. Adjusted dialect fractionalization; 3. Dialect polarization, 4. Adjusted dialect polarization and 5. Periphery heterogeneity. The baseline specification is done through a fixed effect model. Approaches, pooled-2SLS, FE-2SLS and IV-GMM, are also applied to reduce the impact of endogeneity. We find that in China economic benefits from dialect diversity.Fali Huang (Singapore Management University) - Institutional Hierarchy in Protection of Property Rights
Date and Time: December 18th, 2019, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Room: A 101 in the Economics Building (Museum)
Abstract
This paper shows how property rights security improves over time as a result of increasing legal quality and political democratization in a political economy context, where political and legal institutions adapt to evolving factor composition of land and capital in the dynamic economic development process. There seems to exist a clear sequence of different forms of protection in that it is unlikely to have a strong rule of law with an exploitative political regime, or to have a democratic political system when the distribution of potential coercive power is too skewed.
Pinghan Liang (Sun-Yat-Sen University) - Winter Is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions
Date and Time: November 8th, 2019, 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Room: A 101 in the Economics Building (Museum)
Abstract
This paper focuses on the role of local politicians’ early-life experiences in their policy decisions while in office. We take China’s Great Famine (1959–61) as a natural experiment and examine its impact on the fiscal decisions of County Party Secretaries (CPS) who experienced this famine in their early childhood. We construct a data set that matches the biographical information of 2,831 CPS with fiscal data of 1,715 counties during 1993–2007.