6月12日中午，浙江大学共享与发展研究院主办的第十二期“共享与发展·季度论坛”将邀请格拉斯哥大学亚当斯密商学院经济学教授丁赛（Ding Sai）作题为“中国数字创业蓬勃发展的达尔文主义视角(Growing Digital Entrepreneurship in China: A Darwinian Perspective)”的分享。
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论坛安排
时间
2026年6月12日中午12:00-13:30
地点
紫金港校区成均苑8幢406会议室
主讲人
丁赛（Ding Sai）
格拉斯哥大学亚当斯密商学院经济学教授
主持人
李实
浙江大学文科资深教授
浙江大学共享与发展研究院院长
评论人
庄巨忠
亚洲开发银行高级经济顾问，前副首席经济学家
张磊
浙江大学经济学院长聘教授
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内容摘要
China experienced a boom in new digital-economy enterprises following a policy reform in 2015 that lowered entry barriers to entrepreneurship. We investigate whether and how a Darwinian mechanism, entrepreneurship for marriage market competition, has amplified the effect of the policy change. We first develop a general-equilibrium framework in which a male-biased youth sex ratio raises the private return to entrepreneurship via marriage-market competition, creating a Darwinian channel linking entrepreneurial entry to sons’ marital prospects. By exploiting cross-city variation in the youth-cohort sex ratio as a measure of local marriage market competition, we find that those cities with a higher sex ratio systematically exhibit a significantly greater response to the national policy in terms of the creation of new digital-economy firms. Such patterns are concentrated in the creation of privately owned firms, particularly within subset of the digital economy that require relatively low start-up capital, and in cities with higher levels of human capital. These firms exhibit moderately strong performance in terms of survival rates, but there is no evidence of improved access to venture capital or future stock market listing. Our results support a strong complementary role of the Darwinian mechanism to a major policy reform in promoting entrepreneurship in the digital sector in China.
主讲人简介
Sai Ding is a Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. Before joining Glasgow in 2010, she obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Birmingham and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in Economics at the University of Oxford. Professor Ding’s research focuses on corporate finance, economic development, productivity, and the Chinese economy, and has been published in leading economics and finance journals, including the Journal of Corporate Finance, European Economic Review, and Journal of Comparative Economics, among others. She is also the co-author of a book on China’s Remarkable Economic Growth with Professor John Knight, published by Oxford University Press in 2012. She serves as Co-editor of the Review of Development Economics, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Chinese Economic & Business Studies and a guest editor of China Economic Review. From 2021 to 2024, she served as Head of Economics at the University of Glasgow.