NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Conference on the Chinese Economy

Shang-Jin Wei, Organizer

September 30, 2005

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29:
7:00 & 7:30 pm	Reception & Group Dinner, Cambridge Marriott Hotel, 2 Cambridge Center, (Broadway & 3rd Street) Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
	Dinner Speaker:
	KRISTIN FORBES, MIT and NBER
	(Member of the President’s Council of EconomicAdvisers, 2003-2005)
	The China Question in US Policy Discussions
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30:
7:30 a.m.	Shuttle van from the Cambridge Marriott to 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
7:45 am	Continental Breakfast
8:15 am	Opening Remarks:
8:30 am	XUEPENG LIU and JAN ONDRICH, Syracuse University
	MARY LOVELY, Syracuse University and NBER
	How Much Do Low Wages Matter for Foreign Investment? The Case of China
	Discussant: LEE BRANSTETTER, Columbia University and NBER
9:20 am	NANCY QIAN, Brown University
	Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance
	Discussant: JOHN GILES, Michigan State University
10:10 am	Coffee Break
10:40 am	HONGBIN CAI, UC, Los Angeles
	HANMING FANG, Yale University
	COLIN XU, World Bank
	Eat, Drink, Firms and Governments: An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms
	Discussant: THOMAS RAWSKI, University of Pittsburgh
11:30 am	RAYMOND FISMAN, Columbia Univesity and NBER
	PETER MOUSTAKERSKI, Booz Allen Hamilton
	SHANG-JIN WEI, IMF and NBER
	Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A New Explanation for Entrepot Trade
	Discussant: MIHIR DESAI, Harvard University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:10 pm	Panel Discussion:
	Social Security Reform in China: Issues and Options
	PETER DIAMOND, MIT and NBER
	JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER
2:00 pm	MARCOS CHAMON and ESWAR PRASAD, IMF
	Determinants of Household Savings in China
	Discussant: CHANG-TAI HSIEH, UC, Berkeley and NBER
2:50 pm	Coffee Break
3:10 pm	HUI HUANG and SHUNMING ZHANG, University of Western Ontario
	YI WANG, Shanghai University
	YIMING WANG, Peking University
	JOHN WHALLEY, University of Western Ontario and NBER
	A Trade Model with an Optimal Exchange Rate Motivated by Current Discussion of a Chinese Renminbi Float
	Discussant: AART KRAAY, World Bank
4:00 pm	ALBERT HU, National University of Singapore
	GARY JEFFERSON, Brandeis University
	The Great Wall of Patents: What is Behind China's Recent Patent Explosion?
	Discussant: WEI LI, University of Virginia
4:50 pm	Adjourn