现代产业经济学系列讲座第274期

时间：2024年11月13日（周三） 15:30-17:00

地点：复旦管院思源楼326室

题目：Technology and Legal Capacity of the State: Evidence from Online Judicial Auctions in China

主讲人：曹光宇助理教授(北京大学经济学院财政学系)

主持人：邵翔副教授

摘要：

Legal capacity is a key dimension of state capacity that shapes economic development. This paper examines the role of technology in building legal capacity to enforce contracts in the context of a weak rule of law. We leverage China's recent adoption of E-commerce platforms for judicial auctions to investigate how digital technologies increase auction success rates and improve the quality and effectiveness of court enforcement. Our findings show that the use of digital platforms has significantly increased judicial auction success rates by attracting more users and facilitating easier access to auctions. More importantly, the adoption of this technology reduces judicial corruption through its transparent and impersonal nature, strengthens court enforcement by creating greater incentives to process judicial auctions efficiently, and ultimately enhances public trust in the judicial system. Furthermore, we find evidence that the technology-driven improvement in legal capacity leads to a reduction in deliberate defaults by debtors and enables corporate and individual borrowers to secure more loans at lower interest rates from creditors.

主讲人简介:

曹光宇，北京大学经济学院财政学系助理教授。北京大学经济学学士、博士，普林斯顿大学博士后研究员。主要研究领域为数字经济和公共经济学，研究成果发表于《经济研究》和RAND Journal of Economics、Journal of Public Economics等国内外期刊，主持国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目、面上项目等课题。