现代产业经济学系列讲座第196期

时   间：2021年4月13日（周二）13:30-15:30

地   点：复旦大学管理学院史带楼303室

题   目：Growing through Competition: the Reduction of Entry Barriers among Chinese Manufacturing Firms

主讲人：蒋荷露 上海财经大学高等研究院 助理教授

主持人：沈煌南 复旦大学管理学院产业经济学系 助理教授

摘   要：Exploiting the gradualism of the Chinese economic reforms and cross-sectional variations in entry rates, we show empirical evidence from firm-level data that industries with higher entry rates achieve higher growth and a more competitive market struc- ture in subsequent years. We then embed firm entry into a model of endogenous productivity and market structure with heterogeneous firms and sectors, and calibrate it to the Chinese manufacturing sector in 2004-7. We find the positive impact of entry on growth is achieved primarily through a pro-competitive effect, whereby entry induces endogenously a larger fraction of industries to be more competitive in the economy. We quantify the contribution on growth from the reduction of entry barriers associated with the state-owned enterprise reforms in the late 1990s and early 2000s and find it explains 20% of the aggregate growth of the manufacturing sector from 2004-7. More generally, we highlight the critical role of reducing entry barriers in promoting competition and growth in developing countries.

主讲人简介：

Helu Jiang is an Assistant Professor at Institute for Advanced Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She obtained the Ph.D in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis and B.A. in Economics and Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research lies mainly in macroeconomics, growth and development, demographics, innovation and entrepreneurship.

产业经济学系

2021-3-30