山東大學(xué)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)院講師馬馳騁講座暨180期“華南經(jīng)濟(jì)論壇”通知
題目：Political Connections and the Rise and Fall of Native Banks in Late
Imperial China
主講人:馬馳騁 （山東大學(xué)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)院講師）
時間：6月2日(周四)下午3點
地點：學(xué)院三樓會議室
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摘要：It remains a puzzle how native banks (piaohao and qianzhuang) achieved sustained growth despite the lacking of legal protection in late Qing China. Drawing upon a unique data of native banks in 17 provinces between 1823 and 1911, and the exogenous variations in the appointment of local officials from the Avoidance System, we examine the role of political connections in substituting the missing legal institutions to facilitate banking development. Our results consistently indicate a “regional favoritism” in the officials-banks nexus: the number of bank branches in a province increased significantly after the appointment of a provincial official who was born in the same native province with the bank owner’s. The importance of political connections is further evidenced by the finding that regions having produced more high officials experienced a greater decline of native banks relative to other places after the collapse of the Qing dynasty.
報告人簡介：
馬馳騁，山東大學(xué)經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)院講師，2011年獲香港科技大學(xué)社會科學(xué)博士學(xué)位。研究領(lǐng)域為經(jīng)濟(jì)史、發(fā)展經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)、政治經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)。講授經(jīng)濟(jì)史、政治經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)、中國經(jīng)濟(jì)、中國金融史課程。論文發(fā)表于Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic History。目前承擔(dān)國家自然科學(xué)基金項目“儒家文化與經(jīng)濟(jì)增長：基于歷史計量學(xué)的經(jīng)驗研究”一項。