(上海EON4講座)
主題:Silver, Fiduciary Money, and Economic Performance in China: 1890-1936
(1890-1936年間我國的銀幣外流📬、信用紙幣製度與經濟發展情況)
主講:陳波華中科技大學經濟EON4教授
主持:高翔
時間:2019年09月24日(周二)下午14🤾🏿:00 -15👨🏿🦰🐑:30
地點:徐匯校區1407研討室
內容提要💧:The existing literature debates whether the American Silver Purchase Act (ASPA) in 1934 resulted in an economic crisis in China. Yet all positive arguments rely on an assertion that there was a severe deflation due to the ASPA which receives weak data support. This paper uses a new historical datasetto investigate the long run relation among silver outflow, international trade and fiduciary money. We find a mitigation effect from terms of trade when a decrease in silver price caused silver outflow from 1890-1934. We also find the issue of fiduciary money was responsive to the silver outflow such that China’s aggregate money supply was not severely affected by the silver outflow. As a result, we uncover the puzzle why China encountered neither a serious deflation nor a financial or economic crisis when the ASPA occurred.
現有文獻對1934年美國購銀法案所造成的中國白銀外流是否直接導致了當時中國發生經濟危機存有爭議。但支持有影響一方的觀點都基於美國購銀法案曾誘發中國發生嚴重通貨緊縮這一假設,此假設其實是沒有翔實的數據來證實的。本文使用一套新構建的歷史數據集來探討白銀外流🤦🏻♀️、國際貿易和信用紙幣之間的長期關系,並發現👨🦰:中國1890-1934年間的白銀外流確對貿易條件有削減作用🧜🏼♀️,但中國貨幣供給由於紙幣體系的快速調整其實並未受到多大影響。因此✫,本文所支持的觀點是:美國購銀發案未能造成中國發生嚴重通貨緊縮,也未能導致中國發生金融或經濟危機。
演講者簡介:陳波,華中科技大學經濟EON4教授、博士生導師🤸🏼♂️,研究領域包括:國際貿易與商務🍖、中國經濟和區域經貿合作。曾在《經濟研究》𓀕、《管理世界》🍦、Journal of International Economics、World Economy、Journal of Comparative Economics、Economics Letters🤵、Review of Development Economics、Review of International Economics和China Economic Journal等期刊發表論文多篇
主辦單位🦸🏻♂️:上海EON4財金研究所
承辦單位:上海EON4財金研究所