时间：2017年6月14日 上午10：00开始

地点：邵逸夫科学馆513

题目：Ideological Taboos, Entry Barriers and FDI Attraction：Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China

主讲人：刘瑞明 中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院副教授

主讲人简介：刘瑞明，中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院副教授，复旦大学经济学博士，近年来以独立作者和第一作者身份在《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《世界经济》、《经济学季刊》等杂志发表三十余篇文章，担任《经济研究》、《管理世界》等十余家杂志的匿名审稿人。主持国家自然科学基金项目、教育部人文社会科学基金项目等多个项目。曾获得“第六届黄达-蒙代尔经济学奖”、“全国优秀博士论文提名奖”、“教育部博士研究生学术新人奖”、“首届谭崇台发展经济学奖”、“教育部高等学校优秀成果奖”等学术荣誉。

Abstract: Although foreign direct investments (FDIs) are regarded as important growth engines for developing and transitional countries, these countries often impose a wide variety of entry barriers on these investments. One important reason behind these entry barriers is ideological taboos, but do these taboos actually affect the inflow of FDIs? As the largest developing and transitional country in the world, China has conducted its large-scale "Cultural System Reform" pilot program in 2003 and 2006, which eliminated its existing ideological taboos and loosened its FDI entry barriers objectively. This quasi-natural experiment provides an excellent opportunity for us to answer the above question. By treating the Chinese cultural system reform as an "exogenous shock," this paper uses the panel data of 283 prefecture-level cities in China for 1994–2013 and the difference-in-differences method to evaluate the impact of the cultural system reform on regional FDI. We found that the cultural system reform significantly promoted the inflow of FDIs by deregulating institutions and removing entry barriers, and the attraction of FDI has gradually increased along with the deepening of the reform. Our conclusions still hold after performing several robustness tests, thereby highlighting ideologies as important barriers to the inflow of FDIs into less developed countries. Developing and transitional countries must also attract FDIs by breaking their ideological taboos.