The Eleventh NBER-CCER Conference on China and the World Economy

Time: July 1-4, 2009

Venue: CCER, Beijing University

Evening of July 1 (Wed): Reception at CCER

July 2 (Thu)

8:30-8:45: Registration

8:45-9:00: Opening Remarks

Yang Yao, Shang-Jin Wei, and Chong-En Bai

9:00 – 10:45: Causes and Impacts of the Crisis

Chair：Yang Yao

Feng Lu (NSD & CCER, PKU): China and the Financial Crisis

Deborah Lucas (NBER & Northwestern): Measuring and Managing Governmental Financial Risk (background paper)

David Li (SEM, Tsinghua): The International Monetary System

10:45-11:00: coffee break

11:00-12:45: Exchange Rates and Prices

Chair: Shang-Jin Wei

Charles Engel (NBER & Wisconsin-Madison): Exchange Rate Policies (background paper)

Fan He (CASS): China’s Exchange Rate Regime

David Weinstein (Columbia): Variety, Prices, and Welfare: Macroeconomic Lessons from Micro-data (background paper)

12:45 – 1:45 lunch in CCER

1:45 - 3:30: Financial Liberalization, Risks and Urbanization

Chair: Chong-En Bai

Yiping Huang (NSD & CCER, PKU): China's Asymmetric Market Liberalization and Its Consequences

Todd Sinai (NBER & U of Pennsylvania): Assessing the Risks of Home Ownership

James Wen (SUFE and Trinity College): Urbanization in China

3:30 – 3:45: Coffee break

3:45 – 6:00 Labor and Health Issues

Chair: David Li

Chong-En Bai (SEM, Tsinghua): Declining Shares of Labor Income in China

Dennis Yang (Tsinghua and Virginia Tech): Accounting for Rising Wages in China

Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth): Measuring Inefficiency in Health Care: A Global Perspective

Xiaoyan Lei (NSD & CCER, PKU): Health Issues of Retirees --- Evidence from a Recent Survey

6:30 – 8:30: Dinner hosted by NBER.

Bai Jia Da Zhai Men (白家大宅门）

July 3 (Fri)

9:00-10:45: Demography, Savings, and Economic Growth

Chair: Hemao Wu (CCER & NSD, PKU)

Shang-Jin Wei (NBER and Columbia): (background paper)

Sex Ratios, Savings Rate, and Entrepreneurship in China

Yuyu Chen (GSM, PKU): Consumption and Savings of Chinese Urban Households

Yang Yao (CCER & NSD, PKU):

Demographic Transition and China’s Growth Model

10:45 – 11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:15: Trade

Chair: Deborah Lucas (background paper)

Miaojie Yu (NSD & CCER, PKU):

Trade Liberalization, Productivity, and Firm Heterogeneity

Pinelopi Goldberg (Princeton):

Effects of Patent Enforcement in Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries

12:15 – 1:15 Lunch

1:15 – 6:30: Factory visit

7:30 – 9:00: Dinner hosted by CCER (dinner speech by Mr. Gao Xiqing, CEO, China Investment Corporation)

July 4 (Sat)

8:30 am Optional visit to the Summer Palace

CCER contact persons:

Yang Yao: 13701142170 (cell), 6275-3103 (office)

Jiao Wang: 15901021990 (cell), 6276-6005 (office)

NBER contact person:

Shang-Jin Wei: (NY) (212) 854-9139, (China cell): 1380-17100-315

Hotel Boya (also known as Lakeview in English)

127 Zhong-guan-cun Beidajie, Haidian, Beijing (海淀区中关村北大街127号)

Phone: (010) 8268-9999