中国经济研究中心
研究生课程《发展经济学前沿》课程提纲
2008 秋季学期
任课教师：张鹏飞
上课时间：周二上午 9：00——12：00
上课地点：中心致福轩会议室
本课程将以通过研读当前发展经济学界研究的前沿成果来了解本领域的最新动向，并探
讨如何利用所学知识结合我国改革和发展的经验写出具有较高水准的经济学论文。
课程除了要求选课学生阅读并在课堂上讨论以下文献外，还要求学生报告自己最新的研
究成果。学期成绩由两部分组成，课堂讨论占 30%，个人的论文占 70%。学期论文的提交
时间为：2009 年春季学期开学第一周。
课程安排：
第一次课（9 月 23 日）
张鹏飞：关于林老师思想的思考和体会
陈斌开：介绍美国访学一年的心得和体会
第二次课（10 月 7 日）
徐朝阳：介绍美国访学一年的心得和体会
张晓岚：报告最近完成的关于金融结构的论文
第三次课（10 月 14 日）
待定
阅读材料：
1. Basic Framework
1. Lin, Justin Yifu. “Viability, Economic Transition and Reflection on Neoclassical Economics”,
Kyklos, Vol. 8, Issue. 2. (May 2005), pp 239-264.
2. Lin, Justin Yifu. “Development and Transition: Idea, Strategy, and Viability”, Draft prepared for
the Marshall Lectures of Cambridge University on October 31-November 1, 2007.
http://www.ccer.edu.cn/cn/ReadNews.asp?NewsID=8300.
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3. Lin Justin Yifu and Pengfei Zhang. “Development Strategy, Optimal Industrial Structure and
Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries”, CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow
Working Paper No. 19, July 2007. Available at: Harvard’s CID
http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/grad/019.htm
2. Population and Economic Growth
1. Lin, Justin Yifu. “Needham Puzzle, Weber Question and China’s Miracle: Long Term
Performance since the Sung Dynasty”, CCER Working Paper, NO. E2006017 November 22,
2006.
2. Becker Gary S, Kevin M. Murphy, and Robert Tamura. “Human Capital, Fertility, and
Economic Growth”, Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 5, Part 2: The Problem of
Development: A Conference of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise Systems. (Oct., 1990),
pp. S12-S37.
3. Galor Oded and David N. Weil. “Population, Technology, and Growth: From Malthusian
Stagnation to the Demographic Transition and beyond”, American Economic Review, Vol. 90, No.
4. (Sep., 2000), pp. 806-828.
4. Kremer Michael. “Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990”,
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 108, No. 3. (Aug., 1993), pp. 681-716.
3. Openness, Obstacles to Trade, and Development
1．Krugman Paul and Anthony J. Venables. “Globalization and the Inequality of Nations”,
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 110, No. 4. (Nov., 1995), pp. 857-880.
2．Parente, Stephen, and Edward Prescott. "Monopoly Rights: A Barrier to Riches," American
Economic Review, 89(5), 1216-1233 (1999).
3．Daron Acemoglu and Jaume Ventura (2002). “The World Income Distribution”, Quarterly
Journal of Economics.
4. Paulson A., Townsend R., and Karaivanov A. (2006) “Distinguishing Limited Liability from
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Moral Hazard in a Model of Entrepreneurship,” Journal of Political Economy, 2006
4. Income Distribution, Inequality and Economic Growth
1. Lin, Justin Yifu and Binkai Chen, “Development Strategy, Economic Performance and
Inequality”, CCER Peking University, mimeo.
2. Piketty, Thomas (1997) “The Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution and the Interest Rate with
Credit Rationing,” Review of Economic Studies, v. 64, iss. 2, pp. 173-89
3. Lloyd-Ellis, Huw; Bernhardt, Dan (2000) “Enterprise, Inequality and Economic Development,”
Review of Economic Studies, v. 67, iss. 1, pp. 147-68
4. Greenwood, Jeremy and Jovanovic, Boyan (1990) “Financial Development, Growth, and the
Distribution of Income,” Journal of Political Economy, Part 1, October 1990, v. 98, iss. 5, pp.
1076-1107
5. Benabou, R. (2000), "Unequal Societies: Income Distribution and the Social Contract,"
American Economic Review 90, 96--128.
6. Institution, Transition and Development
1. Lin, Justin Yifu, Jeffrey B. Nugent. “Institutions and economic development”, in Jere Richard
Behrman and T.N. Srinivasan eds., Handbook of Development Economics, vol. 3A, Amsterdam:
Elsevier Science Publishers (North-Holland), (1995), pp 2301-2370.
2. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. “The Colonial Origins of
Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation”, American Economic Review, Vol. 91,
No. 5 (Dec., 2001), pp. 1369-1401
3. Hoff Karla and Joseph E. Stiglitz. “After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule
of Law in Post-Communist Societies”, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2934,
December 2002.
4. Lau Lawrence J., Yingyi Qian, Gérard Roland. “Reform Without Losers: An Interpretation of
China's Dual-Track Approach to Transition”, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 108, No. 1,
(Feb., 2000), pp. 120-143
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6. Finance and Growth
1．Rajan Raghuram G and Luigi Zingales. “Financial Dependence and Growth”, American
Economic Review, Vol. 88, No. 3 (Jun., 1998), pp. 559-586.
2. Bencivenga, Valerie R. and Smith, Bruce D. (1991) “Financial Intermediation and Endogenous
Growth,” Review of Economic Studies, v. 58, iss. 2, pp. 195-209
3．林毅夫、孙希芳、姜烨，
“经济发展中的最优金融结构理论初探”
《中国经济研究中心讨
论稿》
，No. C2006013 2006 年 6 月 6 日。
http://www.ccer.edu.cn/cn/ReadNews.asp?NewsID=6752.
4. Doepke, Matthias; Townsend, Robert M (2006) “Dynamic Mechanism Design with Hidden
Income and Hidden Auctions,” Journal of Economic Theory 126, pp. 235-285.
5. Kihlstrom, R., and J-J. Laffont, "A General Equilibrium Entrepreneurial Theory of Risk-taking
Based on Risk-Aversion" Journal of Political Economy, 87 (4), 1979, pp. 719-748.
7. Overinvestment
1. 林毅夫，
“潮涌现象与发展中国家宏观经济理论的重新构建”
《经济研究》2007 年第 1 期。
2. Banerjee Abhijit V. “A Simple Model of Herd Behavior”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol.
107, No. 3 (Aug., 1992), pp. 797-817.
3. Kim Yong Jin and Jong-Wha Lee. “Overinvestment, Collateral Lending, and Economic Crisis”,
CID Working Paper No. 004, March 1999. http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/004.htm..
4. Robert Novy-Marx. “The Microfoundations of Hot and Cold Markets”. University of Chicago,
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/finance/papers/microfoundations.pdf.
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