主题：Logrolling under Fragmented Authoritarianism: Theory and Evidence from China主讲人： Li Yuan, University of Duisburg主持人：西南财经大学经济与管理研究院 梁平汉副教授
时间：2015年9月29日下午14:30—16:00
地点：西南财经大学 格致楼1211
主办单位：经济与管理研究院 科研处
主讲人简介：
Yuan Li is currently Acting Professor (W2) and Representative Chair for East Asian Economic Studies at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) and Mercator School of Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is also the President Elect of the Chinese Economic Association (Europe/UK) 2015/16. He studied economics and modern Chinese economy in Milan, San Diego and Nanjing, was Postdoctoral fellow in Duisburg, and was Assistant Professor in Stockholm. His publications appear on leading international journals such as The Economics of Transition, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, European Journal of Political Economy, etc. His Ph.D. dissertation was awarded the Best Ph.D. Dissertation by the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE). He is member of: American Economic Association; European Economic Association; International Society for New Institutional Economics; European Public Choice Society.
内容提要：
The phenomenon of logrolling among vertical bureaucratic systems has been prevalent in China but its consequence has been under researched. This paper develops a formal model to study the effect of logrolling on policy making. We find that policies under logrolling tend to be overreaching, but policies excluded from logrolling tend to fall short of input. We provide empirical evidences by studying the logrolling between Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) and Ministry of Health (MOH) in China. MCA supports MOH by paying insurance premium for poor households in rural areas; in exchange, MOH supports MCA by allowing "Dibao" recipients to be automatically eligible to access healthcare services under medical assistance programs. The consequences of the logrolling are: 1) the benefit tied to "Dibao" becomes too high such that it even crowds out unemployment insurance enrollment; 2) too many people enrolled in rural health insurance but too few really use the health service; 3) the supply of mental health care service is insufficient, because mental health care, which is not the priority issue for neither MOH nor MCA, is excluded from the logrolling.
