Aspiring for Change: A Theory of Middle Class Activism
2014/12/16
研討會日期 : 2014-12-16
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Heng Chen
主持人 : Professor Cheng-Chen Yang
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Chen received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2010. He is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong. He specializes in quantitative macroeconomics, learning in macroeconomics and political economy.
演講摘要 : When there is uncertainty about the quality of a specific regime and governance in general, poor people perceive the current regime as bad, and rationally infer that all governments are bad. They believe that mass movements are futile. The middle class are more sanguine about the prospect of good government, and they believe collective political action is effective because they expect many fellow citizens to share the same view. This coordination game admits interval equilibria but not monotone equilibrium. Only middle class people attack the regime and their action is successful only when the regime quality is intermediate.
