嘉    宾： Andreas Fuchs 教授 哥廷根大学

主持人： 郭士祺 副教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时    间：2025年10月29日（周三）14:00-15:30

地    点:  上海交通大学徐汇校区安泰经济与管理学院A407 

内容简介：

Timely assistance is a precondition for effective emergency relief in the aftermath of natural disasters. This article shows that donor countries take faster aid decisions if they have stronger strategic interests at stake. We analyze a trilateral panel (donor, donor, recipient) of daily humanitarian aid decisions of 43 donor countries following 516 fast-onset natural disasters between 2000 and 2022. Identification relies on daily variation in donor responses and a series of multidimensional fixed effects. Our analysis reveals a bandwagon effect as donors follow their peers' commitments. This is largely explained by trade competition: the more donors compete over export and import markets, the faster they react to each other. The results are driven by government-to-government aid and underscore the importance of recipient-specific lead donors, who are natural first movers. These findings suggest that commercial competition can distort emergency relief and highlight that strategic interests shape even ostensibly altruistic behavior in international humanitarian aid.

演讲人简介：

Andreas Fuchs is Professor of Development Economics and Global Political Economy at the University of Göttingen, Director of the Göttingen Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS), and Director of the China Initiative at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He received his doctorate from Göttingen in 2012, was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton, and held positions at Heidelberg University and Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg. His research analyzes trade, investment, and development policies with quantitative methods and a special focus on China and other emerging economies. He also investigates the political economy of natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and non-militarized conflicts. His work has appeared in leading journals including American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, and Journal of Development Economics. He is also co-author of AidData's Global Chinese Development Finance Dataset and the book Banking on Beijing: The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program (Cambridge University Press).