时间：2016年4月19日（周二）13：30－15：00
地点：国家发展研究院 朗润园 万众楼小教室
主持人：霍德明 王敏 赵波
主讲人：Binkai Chen （陈斌开）

题目：Urban Housing Privatization and Household Saving in China

摘要： During the past three decades, the housing market in China has transformed from an employer-based public housing system to a private market. This transformation has been carried out in a gradual approach since 1978. It was then terminated by a radical reform in 1998, which suddenly prohibits the provision of public housing. This paper studies how the 1998 reform and the resulting rapid housing price growth raise the saving rates of urban households, and therefore, exacerbate economic imbalance in China. This paper has three sets of results. First, urban households raise their saving rates by 1.4 percent shortly after the 1998 reform. Particularly, difference-in-difference estimations show that households who are potential beneficiaries of the old public housing system save 1.7 percent more than other groups of households. Second, the implementation of the 1998 reform has large regional variations. Cities with rapid privatization are associated with higher household saving rates during the reform period and higher housing prices after the reform period. Third, higher housing prices impose a larger financial burden on urban households and encourage them to save more even after the reform period.

主讲人简介：陈斌开，中央财经大学经济学院教授、副院长，北京大学经济学博士，美国威斯康辛大学访问学者，世界银行研究顾问，入选2015年教育部“长江学者”（青年项目）、2014年中组部“青年拔尖人才”（万人计划）、2014年北京市“优秀青年人才” 和2012年教育部“新世纪优秀人才”。研究兴趣主要包括发展经济学和宏观经济学，在World Development, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics等SSCI源刊发表英文论文多篇，在《中国社会科学》（2篇）、《经济研究》（12篇）、《世界经济》（5篇）、《经济学季刊》（2篇）、《管理世界》（2篇）等国内外一流经济学刊物发表论文二十余篇。主持国家社科基金重大招标项目1项，自然科学基金面上项目和青年项目各1项，教育部后期资助项目、北京市社会科学基金规划项目、霍英东教育基金会青年教师基础性研究项目各1项