2025/2026 HIEEC哈佛国际经济学论文竞赛

HIEEC 哈佛国际经济学论文竞赛不强调专业化背景，而是希望参赛者在真实问题中锻炼思考，利用经济学的基础逻辑解释现象、提出观点。

与偏重知识记忆或模型计算的竞赛不同，HIEEC 以英文论文为主要形式，强调从身边现象或全球议题出发进行经济学分析。参赛者无需掌握高深理论，更不需要复杂计算，而是通过清晰的推理、翔实的证据和合理的论证展现思考深度。

今年的题目延续了竞赛一贯的现实导向，聚焦全球与本地经济所面临的典型挑战。无论是能源转型、国际贸易格局变化，还是数字经济、人工智能、劳动力结构等议题，都强调从真实世界出发进行分析。

2025—2026 年度 HIEEC 题目已发布！

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Environment: As climate change intensifies, governments and corporations are turning to carbon offset markets and nature-based solutions (like reforestation or carbon capture) to meet emission targets. Yet critics argue these mechanisms allow wealthy nations and firms to “buy their way out” of real reductions, while creating new inequities for developing economies.

环境：随着气候变化加剧，各国政府和企业正转向碳抵消市场和基于自然的解决方案（例如植树造林或碳捕获）来实现减排目标。然而，批评者认为，这些机制使得富裕国家和企业能够“花钱逃避”真正的减排责任，同时给发展中经济体带来新的不平等。

Prompt: Evaluate the economic and environmental effectiveness of carbon offset markets as a tool for reducing global emissions. How might these markets influence international trade, investment, and development? Should countries prioritize direct emission reductions over offset schemes, or can both coexist effectively? Propose economic policies that could enhance the credibility and fairness of global carbon offset systems.

提示：评估碳抵消市场作为全球减排工具的经济和环境效益。这些市场将如何影响国际贸易、投资和发展？各国是否应该优先考虑直接减排而非碳抵消机制，或者两者能否有效共存？提出能够增强全球碳抵消体系信誉和公平性的经济政策。

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Inequality: The rapid rise of generative AI and automation has sparked fears of a “productivity boom without wage growth,” where capital owners capture most of the benefits. Some economists propose implementing a universal basic income (UBI) or data dividend to redistribute the value created by automation.

不平等：生成式人工智能和自动化技术的快速发展引发了人们对“生产力繁荣但工资增长停滞”的担忧，即资本所有者攫取了大部分收益。一些经济学家建议实施全民基本收入（UBI）或数据红利，以重新分配自动化创造的价值。

Prompt: Analyze the potential of universal basic income or data dividends as policy responses to technological inequality. What economic trade-offs might arise from decoupling income from labor, and how could these affect long-term growth, innovation, and social cohesion? Consider how different income groups and countries at varying levels of development might respond to such policies

提示：分析全民基本收入或数据红利作为应对技术不平等政策措施的潜力。收入与劳动脱钩可能会带来哪些经济权衡？这些权衡将如何影响长期增长、创新和社会凝聚力？思考不同收入群体和不同发展水平的国家将如何应对此类政策。

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Workforce & Education: Hybrid and remote work, accelerated by global digitalization, has reshaped labor markets and urban economies. As geographic proximity becomes less critical, cities face shifting housing demand, changing tax bases, and new infrastructure needs.

劳动力与教育：全球数字化加速了混合办公和远程办公的兴起，重塑了劳动力市场和城市经济。随着地理位置的邻近性不再那么重要，城市面临着不断变化的住房需求、税基变化和新的基础设施需求。

Prompt: Examine the long-term economic implications of a global shift toward remote and hybrid work. How might this transformation affect productivity, urban inequality, and educational priorities? What role should governments and institutions play in balancing the benefits of flexibility with the risks of labor market fragmentation?

提示：探讨全球向远程办公和混合办公模式转变的长期经济影响。这种转变将如何影响生产力、城市不平等和教育优先事项？政府和机构应在平衡灵活性带来的益处与劳动力市场碎片化的风险方面发挥什么作用？

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Crypto/Finance: Amid rising debt levels and global inflation uncertainty, some governments have explored issuing tokenized sovereign bonds or blockchain-based currencies to improve transparency and accessibility. Yet such innovations raise questions about security, regulation, and the role of private intermediaries.

加密货币/金融：在债务水平上升和全球通胀不确定性加剧的背景下，一些政府探索发行代币化主权债券或基于区块链的货币，以提高透明度和可及性。然而，此类创新也引发了关于安全、监管以及私人中介机构角色等方面的疑问。

Prompt: Assess the economic and financial stability implications of tokenized government bonds and blockchain-based public finance systems. Could such technologies democratize investment and improve fiscal transparency, or do they introduce new systemic risks? How should central banks and regulators adapt to a financial system increasingly built on distributed ledger technology?

提示：评估代币化政府债券和基于区块链的公共财政体系对经济和金融稳定的影响。此类技术能否促进投资民主化并提高财政透明度？还是会带来新的系统性风险？中央银行和监管机构应如何适应日益依赖分布式账本技术的金融体系？

从四个题目中选择一个写出论文，限制在1500字以内。参赛者只能提交一篇论文，只有第一篇提交才会被考虑。每篇论文提交都支付30美元申请费；这些论文将由 HUEA 董事会评审，前10名提交的作品将由哈佛大学经济学教授评审。

参赛规则

作为一项国际知名的经济学写作竞赛，HIEEC 已逐渐成为全球范围内具有一定认可度的学术活动。HIEEC在申请经济学、政治学、商科与社会科学相关专业时具有一定展示价值。