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Today's Speaker
Speaker: Jaya Wen (Harvard Business School), "The Party and the Firm"
Abstract
This project studies the rise of the Chinese Communist Party's influence over private firms in the last decade. We propose quantitative measures of Party influence in firms and document recent trends in those measures. We also speak to the costs and benefits of Party influence for private firms. Furthermore, we highlight one motive behind Party involvement in private firms: regulatory enforcement
Co-sponsored by FAS and IQSS, the Alberto Alesina Seminar on Political Economy supports research-related activities that integrate the study of economics and politics, whether by studying economic behavior in the political process or political behavior in the marketplace. In general, positive political economy is concerned with showing how observed differences among institutions affect political and economic outcomes in various social, economic, and political systems and how the institutions themselves change and develop in response to individual and collective beliefs, preferences, and strategies.
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