The Fourteenth NBER-CCER Conference on China and the World Economy
Time: June 24-June 26,
2012
Venue: CCER, Beijing University
June 25 (Monday)
8:45 – 9:00 am: Opening remarks
Yang Yao (CCER), James Poterba (NBER), Chong-En Bai (Tsinghua)
9:00 – 11:00: Macroeconomics
Chair: Yang
Yao
Justin Yifu Lin (CCER): China and the World Economy
Martin Feldstein (NBER & Harvard): The Future of the US Economy
David Li (Tsinghua): The Outlook of the Chinese Economy (tentative)
Alan Auerbach (Berkeley): Long-term
Fiscal Issues
11:10 – 11:30: coffee break and group photo
11:30 – 12:30: Education
Chair:
Shang-Jin Wei
Caroline Hoxby (Stanford):
Economics of Education
Xinzheng Shi (Tsinghua): High School
Quality and Academic Performance
in China
12:30 – 1:45
pm: Lunch
Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of
NBER Engagement with China
Chair: James
Poterba
Main speakers:
Martin Feldstein and Huang Fanzhang
2:00 – 3:30 pm: International
Economics
Chair: Alan
Auerbach
Yang Yao (CCER): Differential Growth Rates and Global Imbalances
Shang-Jin
Wei (Columbia): Underappreciated Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate
Miaojie Yu (CCER): Export Intensity and Trade Liberalization
3:30 – 3:45 pm: Coffee break
3:45 – 5:45 pm: Savings and Retirement
Chair: Chong-En
Bai
Brigitte Madrian (Harvard):
Behavioral Economics of Savings
Yaohui Zhao (CCER): Patterns of Retirement in China
David Wise (Harvard): Economics of
Retirement
Ho-mou Wu (CCER): China’s Local Government Debts
7:00 pm: Dinner hosted by the
NBER
June 26 (Tuesday)
9:00 – 10:30
am: Fiscal Policy 1
Chair: Martin
Feldstein
Lei Zhang (Tsinghua): Social Security Taxation and Compliance
James
Poterba (NBER & MIT):
Tax Reforms
Lixing Li (CCER): The Political Economy of Corporate Finance
10:30 – 10:45
am: Coffee break
10:45-12:15
am: Fiscal Policy 2
Chair: Justin Lin
Christine Wong (Oxford University): Fiscal Federalism
Min Ouyang (Tsinghua): Property Tax and Home Price
Yu Liu (Guanghua School): Disclosure and Efficiency in Noise-driven
Markets
12:15-12:25 Concluding remarks
12:30-1:45
pm: Lunch
1:45 pm: Adjourn
Other information:
Emergency
contact:
CCER contact persons:
Prof. Yang Yao: 137-0114-2170 (cell), 6275-3103 (office)
Ms. Gillian Li: 1861-842-8200 (cell), 6276-6005 (office)
NBER contact person:
Prof. Shang-Jin Wei: (NY) (212) 854-9139, (China cell): 1580-1700-315
Lakeview Hotel
Address: No.127, Zhongguancun North Road, Haidian District, Beijing
(海淀区中关村北大街127号)
Phone: (010) 8268-9999 Fax:
(010) 8268-9998
http://www.thelakeviewhotel.com.cn/index_en.html
Program Committee: Yang Yao (CCER), Chong-En Bai (Tsinghua), and
Shang-Jin Wei (NBER)