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报告题目：A Darwinian Force for Entrepreneurial Spirit: The Case of Chinese Digital Revolution
报  告 人：丁赛（格拉斯哥大学 教授）
主  持 人：姜坤（中山大学岭南学院 教授）
时      间：2026年6月15日 （周一） 16: 30
地      址：岭南堂林植宣会议室(103)
语      言：中英文

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. 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 strong performance, as reflected in higher survival rates and greater access to venture capital. The evidence supports a strong complementary role of the Darwinian mechanism to a major policy reform in promoting high-quality entrepreneurship in the digital sector in China.

报告人介绍：

       丁赛教授现任英国格拉斯哥大学亚当·斯密商学院经济学教授（Chair in Economics）。她于2010年加入格拉斯哥大学，此前她获得了伯明翰大学经济学博士学位，并在牛津大学经济系完成了博士后研究。
       丁教授的研究领域广泛，聚焦于公司金融、经济发展、生产率和中国经济。她的学术成果发表于众多国际顶尖的经济学和金融学期刊。丁教授于2021年至2024年间担任格拉斯哥大学经济系系主任（Head of Economics）。

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