制度经济学

本科生全英文课程

山东大学经济学院

授课教师：马驰骋

电子信箱：macc@sdu.edu.cn

课程描述:

本课程介绍制度经济学的一般理论及其在中国的应用。理论部分包括交易费用、产权、契约、文化，以及制度与经济发展的关系等。中国研究部分包括农村土地产权、村庄治理，以及转型经济与私有企业等。通过本课程的学习，学生期望能够掌握制度经济学的基本理论和研究范围，及其在中国研究中的应用。

课程形式:

课程将采取教师讲授与学生研讨相结合的形式。学生在上课前需阅读指定材料，并鼓励参与课堂讨论。

课程材料：

参考教材为Handbook of New Institutional Economics,edited by Claude Menard and Mary M. Shirley, Springer, 2008。但课程材料同时包括论文和其它著作章节（见课程大纲）。课程材料影印电子版将在课前上传至课程网站(www.course.sdu.edu.cn)，同时会发送到每位同学的电子信箱。

学生成绩:

最终成绩包括三部分：课堂参与(20%)，短论文(30%)，和期末考试(50%)。其中，课堂参与包括学生在课堂上回答问题和对某一问题的讨论，以及对一篇指定论文进行评论并在课堂上进行报告。短论文是指学生对指定学术论文进行的评述，包括综述（文章的研究问题、主要理论假设、研究方法以及主要结论）和学生自己做出的评价两部分；共有两篇短论文要求提交，每篇论文的长度不超过两页纸（WORD，A4）。期末考试为闭卷，考题范围为课程大纲中的指定阅读材料。

课程大纲与阅读材料

1. 制度经济学简介

Textbook, Chapters 1 and 2.

2. 交易费用

Textbook, Chapter 3.

Coase, Ronald. 1937. “The Nature of the Firm.”Economica, 4 (16): 386–405.

Coase, Ronald. 1960. “The Problem of Social Cost.”Journal of Law and Economics, 3: 1-44.

Williamson, Oliver E. 1981. “The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach.”American Journal of Sociology, 87(3), pp. 548-577.

Williamson, Oliver E. 1985.The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting.Preview to p. 25. New York: Free Press.

3. 产权

Textbook, Chapter 22.

Besley, Timothy, and Maitreesh Ghatak. 2010. “Property Rights and Economic Development.” In Dani Rodrik and Mark Rosenzweig, eds,Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 5, The Netherlands: North-Holland.

4. 契约

Textbook, Chapters 17, 18, and 19.

MacLeod, W Bentley. 2007. “Reputations, Relationships, and Contract Enforcement.”Journal of Economic Literature, 45(3): 595-628.

5. 制度与经济发展

Textbook, Chapters 21 and 25.

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2004. “Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth.” NBER Working Paper 10481.

Sokoloff, Kenneth L. and Stanley L. Engerman. 2000. “History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World.”Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(3).

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2005.Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

6. 文化

Textbook, Chapter 27.

Guiso, L., P. Sapienza, and L. Zingales. 2006. “Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?”Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20: 23-48.

Putnam, Robert D. 1993.Making Democracy Work. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Tabellini, G., 2010. “Culture and institutions: economic development in the regions of Europe.”Journal of the European Economic Association, 8: 677–716.

Barro, R. J. and R. M. McCleary. 2006. “Religion and Economy”,Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20: 49-72.

Becker, Sascha O., and Ludger Woessmann. 2009. “Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History.”Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124(2): 531-596.

Bai, Ying, and James K. Kung. 2012. “Diffusing Knowledge While Spreading God’s Message: Protestantism and Economic Prosperity in China, 1840-1920.” Revise and resubmit,Journal of the European Economic Association.

7. 中国农村的土地产权

Lin, Justin Yifu, 1992. “Rural Reforms and Agricultural Growth in China.”American Economic Review, 82 (1).

Kung, James K. 2002. “Choice of Land Tenure in China: The Case of a County with Quasi-private Property Rights.”Economic Development and Cultural Change, 50 (4): 793-817.

Kung, James K., and Ying Bai. “Induced Institutional Change or Transaction Costs? The Economic Logic of Land Reallocations in Chinese Agriculture.”Journal of Development Studies, 3: 1–19.

8. 中国的村庄治理

Freedman, Maurice. 1970.Family and Kinship in Chinese Society. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.

Tsai, Lily. 2007. “Solidary Groups, Informal Accountability, and Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China.”American Political Science Review. 101 (2).

Martinez-Bravo, Monica, Gerard Padró-i-Miquel, Nancy Qian, and Yang Yao. 2012. “The Effects of Democratization on Public Goods and Redistribution: Evidence from China.” NBER Working Paper w18101.

9. 经济转型与民营企业

Xu, Chenggang. 2011. “The Fundamental Institutions of China’s Reforms and Development.”Journal of Economic Literature, 49(4).

Li, Hongbin, Lingsheng Meng, and Junsen Zhang. 2006. “Why Do Entrepreneurs Enter Politics? Evidence from China.”Economic Inquiry, 44(3).

Peng, Yusheng. 2004. “Kingship Networks and Entrepreneurship in China’s Transitional Economy.”American Journal of Sociology. 109 (5).

Roland, Gérard. 2000.Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets and Firms. MIT Press.