報(bào)告人：翁翕教授北京大學(xué)光華偉德國際1946bv官網(wǎng)
時(shí)間：2023年4月11日（星期二）下午14:00
地點(diǎn)：主樓317
報(bào)告內(nèi)容簡介：
This paper examines how local Chinese officials respond to hybrid contracts (i.e., minimum air pollution control targets together with high-powered promotion incentives for economic growth), and make trade-offs between economic development and environmental protection. Using a novel prefecture-day level dataset on air quality and applying a regression discontinuity design, we find strong evidence that air quality tends to improve when the air quality target is doomed to fail, but deteriorates significantly after the early fulfillment of the target is guaranteed. These responses are mainly driven by ``outsiders'' – local officials who had no previous working experience in the locality and probably valued the local environment less. We also find evidence that for those cities facing a higher pressure of local economic development, the improvement in air quality performance after doomed failure will be weakened while the deterioration in air quality performance after early fulfillment will be more severe. We build a simple theoretical model to rationalize these key findings. Our study sheds light on how minimum air quality targets have functioned in China’s context and highlights the role of minimum performance targets in balancing efforts at environmental protection and economic development.
報(bào)告人簡介：
翁翕，現(xiàn)為北京大學(xué)光華偉德國際1946bv官網(wǎng)應(yīng)用經(jīng)濟(jì)系長聘教授，教育部青年長江學(xué)者，國家自然科學(xué)基金委杰出青年科學(xué)基金獲得者，中國信息經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)會副理事長，北京大學(xué)經(jīng)管學(xué)部學(xué)術(shù)委員會委員。他的主要研究領(lǐng)域?yàn)椴┺恼摚畔⒔?jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)和組織經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)。他本科、碩士均畢業(yè)于北京大學(xué)，博士畢業(yè)于美國賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)。他的研究成果發(fā)表于國外頂級學(xué)術(shù)期刊，如Journal of Finance，Management Science，Economic Journal，American Economic Journal: Microeconomics，Journal of Economic History，Journal of Economic Theory，International Economic Review，Rand Journal of Economics。他主持或參與國家自然科學(xué)基金、北京市社科基金、發(fā)改委、市場監(jiān)管總局、中國科協(xié)等課題十余項(xiàng)。翁博士在科研方面曾獲獎項(xiàng)有：2022張培剛發(fā)展經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)青年學(xué)者獎，2020第八屆高?？茖W(xué)研究優(yōu)秀成果獎（人文社會科學(xué)）青年成果獎，2019中國信息經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)優(yōu)秀成果獎，2019厲以寧科研獎，2017中國信息經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)青年創(chuàng)新獎，2017第十三屆北京大學(xué)人文社會科學(xué)研究優(yōu)秀成果一等獎，2016中國信息經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)烏家培獎。
（承辦：管理工程系、科研與學(xué)術(shù)交流中心）
