主 题：Transfer for Disasters: Governmental Responsiveness to Typhoon Risks in China
主讲人：厦门大学 鲍小佳博士
主持人：西南财经大学财政税务学院 杨良松 博士
时 间：2015年4月16日（星期四）下午15:30
地 点：学科楼811（财税学院会议室）
主办单位：财政税务学院、科研处
主要内容：Natural disasters bring significant economic damages globally. Governmental initiated disaster reliefs, especially disaster relief transfers from the central government to local regions, play an important role of reducing damage and help economic recovery for local governments. We use typhoon disaster in China as a special case to analyze the responsiveness of central government for local disaster exposures and potential factors impacting central government's transfer efforts. By exploiting both geographic and year-to-year variations of typhoon exposure at the county level, we found that the central government responds to the current year typhoon exposure by increasing targeted transfers to local regions. Transfer efforts are significantly driven by local vulnerability, instead of political connection and governmental efficiency.
