Protests as Strategic Games - David Yang (Harvard)
Channel: HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)
Date: 27/09/2019

For decades economists have asked what motivates citizens to go to street protests especially under an authoritarian regime.   David Yang (Harvard) used data collected against the context Hong Kong's so called "umbrella revolution" in 2014 to investigate how "strategic substitutability" was observed which challenged some long held assumptions by economists and political observers.  

Yang presented his paper at the China Economics Summer Institute (CESI) 2018. Find out more about the conference at http://iems.ust.hk/cesi2018