西方海关制度对中国企业创新的长期影响

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2025-08-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107154

Gan Jin , Günther G. Schulze

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摘要

历史机构培养的文化规范会影响今天的企业创新吗？我们分析了1902年发生在中国的一个历史实验，当时，以高效透明的管理著称的外商经营的中国海关总署（CMC）接管了一些中国本土海关站，并改善了它们的管理。利用中国当代工业企业的大量数据集和利用收购标准进行识别的IV策略，我们发现，历史上受CMC规则影响的地区的企业今天表现出更高的创新强度，这可以归因于CMC制度中嵌入的持续的诚实和合法规范。尽管正式的中央军委制度在1949年被废除，但它们减少了地方政府和企业的腐败和不当行为。

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The long-term effect of western customs institution on firm innovation in China

Can cultural norms fostered by historical institutions affect today’s firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in China in 1902, when the foreign-run Chinese Maritime Customs Service (CMC), known for its efficient and transparent governance, took over some of the Chinese Native Customs stations and improved their governance. Using a large data set of contemporary industrial firms in China and an IV strategy that exploits the takeover criterion for identification, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation intensities today, which can be attributed to the persisting norms of honesty and lawfulness embedded in the CMC institution. They reduce corruption and misconduct for local governments and firms, even though the formal CMC institution was abolished in 1949.

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.