主题：Social Ties and the Selection of China’s Political Elit（社会关系网络的影响）
主讲人：Raymond Fisman，波士顿大学行为经济学Slater Family讲席教授
日期：2019年5月22（周三）
时间：上午10:00-11:30
地点：德州扑克大小
金融德州扑克大小
4号楼102教室
语言：英文
摘要:
We study how sharing a hometown or college connection with an incumbent member of China’s Politburo affects a candidate’s likelihood of selection as a new member. In specifications that include fixed effects to absorb quality differences across cities and colleges, we find that hometown and college connections are each associated with 5-9 percentage point reductions in selection probability. This “connections penalty” is equally strong for retiring Politburo members, arguing against quota-based explanations, and it is much stronger for junior Politburo members, consistent with a role for intra-factional competition. We show that our findings differ sharply from earlier work both because for our more rigorous empirical specification as well as our emphasis on shared hometown and college – rather than shared workplace – connections.
主讲人简介:
Ray Fisman holds the Slater Family Chair in Behavioral Economics at Boston University. Previously, he was the Lambert family professor of Social Enterprise and co-director of the Social Enterprise Program at Columbia University's business school. Professor Fisman's research – focused on various aspects of political economy and behavioral economics – has been published in leading economics journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. His most recent book, Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know (with political scientist Miriam Golden), was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
