报告题目：Risk culture as a blessing in tourism development: Long-run effects of epidemic disasters

时间：6月19日下午15:00-16:30

地点：中关村校区主楼216会议室

报告人：贵州大学 符通 教授

报告人简介：

符通，贵州大学经济学院教授，担任《Managerial and Decision Economics》的常务副主编，负责期刊的发展和专刊相关事宜。同时，担任《International Review of Financial Analysis》和《International Review of Economics and Finance》的副主编。其研究旨在发展新制度经济学，重点关注于环境规制、公司金融和其他经济发展/转型问题。在《Ecological Economics》, 《Journal of International Financial Market, Institutions and Money》, 《International Review of Financial Analysis》, 《Journal of Futures Markets》等著名期刊上发表数十篇论文。

报告内容简介：

Using a unique dataset from China, this paper shows that the intensity of epidemic disasters during the country’s last feudal period (1644–1895 AD) has promoted tourism businesses’ contemporary performance. Results remain robust when considering geography, institutions, culture, confounding factors, and potential endogeneity bias. Three sources of tourism performance are referenced: business census data from individual travel agencies, visit data at national parks, and tourism revenue data in Chinese prefectures. To explain this complex but apparently uniform finding, we perform causal mediation analysis to demonstrate the importance of the promotional effect by encouraging corporate risk taking with robustness to cultural shocks and fusion. Overall, historical epidemics can be a blessing from risk culture to promote modern tourism performance.

（承办：应用经济系、科研与学术交流中心）