题   目：How (not) to Solve the Guardianship Dilemma:  Institutional Counterbalancing and the Consequences of Military Control in  Medieval China

嘉   宾：陈雨新，助理教授，长江商学院

主持人：孟德隆，助理教授，上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时   间：2023年6月14日（周三）12:40-14:10

地   点：上海交通大学（徐汇校区）安泰经济与管理学院A503

内容简介：

What  happens when a dictator tries to resolve the guardianship dilemma? We provide  the first systematic, micro-level evidence on the implications of this  dilemma, by investigating a counterbalancing strategy widely employed for  military control – creating differing scopes  of command that lead to fragmentation of authority within the military. We  study a later part of the Tang Dynasty (769 - 877 CE), where powerful military  generals ruled provinces across China with locally-raised armies. To  strengthen civilian control of the military, the imperial government enacted a  reform that institutionally weakened the generals’ authority over the local armies. From various  archival and archaeological sources, we digitize and geocode information on  local armies, military rebellions and mutinies, and civilian uprisings. Using  a difference-in-differences strategy, we document that this reform reduced the  generals’ rebellions to the  regime. Meanwhile, it reduced the generals’ ability to enforce order, both within the military and with  respect to the local society. It led to an increase in soldier-led mutinies  against generals, and an increase in the incidence of peasant uprisings  against the regime. These findings highlight the sharp trade-offs associated  with institutionally counterbalancing the military.

演讲人简介：

Joy Chen is  an assistant professor of economics at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.  Her main fields of research are economic history, political economy and  institutions. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in  2019.

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