时间：2014/9/12，下午15：30～17：00

地点：威廉希尔一楼院史馆（A101）

主讲人：王丹利(香港中文大学)

题目：Owner-cultivator legacies and Contemporary Economic Development in China

摘要：in this article, we examine differences in the percentage of owner-cultivators in the rice-growing southern region and the wheat-growing northern region of China as a means to estimate the effect of private property protection on economic performance. Differences in the percentage of owner-cultivators are found to have generated significant variations in the protection of private property. During the agrarian era in China, the majority of wheat-growing owner-cultivators in the north possessed little bargaining power with the local government over protection of properties. This contrasted to the majority of big landlords of the southern region, who did possess the leverage to do so. By using the percentage of owner-cultivators as an instrument for current private property protection, we are able to demonstrate the significant effect of private property protection on income per capita, further indicating the role of the physical environment in determining private property protection.

主讲人介绍：王丹利，香港中文大学经济系，经济学博士生。主要研究方向政治经济学发展经济学中国经济国际经济学。