时间：2024年12月18日 9:30

地点：邵逸夫科学馆401

主讲人：冯博

讲座题目：Strategic rule-making, discretion delegation, and bureaucratic oversight: Evidence from China

摘要： Policymakers face a trade-off between using rules to monitor agents and delegating discretion to them for carrying out policies. Rules enable ex ante constraints but require policymakers to draft detailed regulations, while delegation entails lower drafting costs but risks abuse of discretion by agents to their own advantages. I apply natural language processing to analyze an original dataset of 319,000 Chinese local regulatory documents from 2010 to 2022, each highlighting one government policy. Empirical results show that for policy tasks with higher drafting costs, policymakers are more likely to delegate to lower-level agents discretion over policy procedures, or set targets of policy outcomes for ex post oversight. Furthermore, a difference-in-difference estimation based on an administrative reform creating exogenous variations in drafting costs across different policy domains suggests that rising drafting costs increase discretion delegation and target setting.

主讲人介绍：冯博，现为波士顿大学政治学系博士候选人，曾在复旦大学36365线路检测中心|主頁欢迎您获得经济学博士学位。研究领域为公共经济学和发展经济学，具体研究方向为政府政策决策、公共部门人才选拔等。研究工作发表在《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《经济社会体制比较》等中文权威期刊上。