伟德平台怎么样雙周論壇講座通知

【主題】Regional Tournament, Trade Cost and Corruption: Evidences from China

【報告人】葛嬴，現任對外經濟貿易大學國際經濟貿易學院教授、副院長，2004年獲得加拿大多倫多大學經濟學博士，研究領域包括國際貿易、公司金融、發展經濟學、區域與城市經濟學等，研究成果發表于Journal of Development Economics, World Development, World Economy, Journal of Banking and Finance等國際知名期刊。

【時間】2015年4月15日（星期三）下午3:00-5:00

【地點】伟德平台怎么样會議室（中财大廈1032室）

【論文摘要】It remains a challenging task to identify how prevalent is the corruption in the developing countries. In this paper we use firm-level data to identify the corruption-related domestic trade cost and local extortion in China. We construct two firm-level indicators to measure the corruption: Entertainment and Travel Cost (ETC) and Non-Tax Burden (NTB). We identify systematic differences in ECT and NTB between the exporters and non-exporters, using export tax rebate policy as the instrument. Our study suggests that globalization plays a complementary role to regional tournament in driving the "China's puzzle". Access to global markets provides an opportunity to pursue high growth under weak domestic institutions. On the one hand, regional tournament encourages local government to protect local market and hence significantly increases the relative cost of domestic trade to export. On the another hand, local bureaucrats have strong motive to promote export and thus significantly reduce the extortion on the exporters.