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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Chinese Economy Meeting

Hanming Fang and Shang-Jin Wei, Organizers

April 25-26, 2014

NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Participant List

Friday, April 25:

7:45 am

Shuttle vans (2) depart from the hotel for the NBER

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Welcome


8:40 am


Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado and NBER
Carol Shiue, University of Colorado and NBER
Capital Markets and Colonial Institutions in China

Discussant: Ruixue Jia, University of California at San Diego

9:40 am

Coffee Break


10:00 am


Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Quanlin Gu, Peking University
Li-An Zhou, Peking University
The Gradients of Power: Evidence from Chinese Housing Market

Discussant: Matthew Kahn, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER

11:00 am

Coffee Break


11:15 am


Trevor Tombe, University of Calgary
Xiaodong Zhu, University of Toronto
Trade Liberalization, Internal Migration and Regional Income Differences: Evidence from China

Discussant: Jiandong Ju, Tsinghua University

12:15 pm

Lunch


1:30 pm


Myrto Kalouptsidi, Princeton University and NBER
Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies: The Case of World Shipbuilding

Discussant: Panle Jia Barwick, Cornell University
and NBER

2:30 pm

Coffee Break


2:45 pm


Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
Ziru Wei, Tsinghua University
Jianhuan Xu, New York University
Sizing Up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities: Some Structural Estimation Evidence

Discussant: Kala Krishna, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

3:45 pm

Coffee Break


4:00 pm


Xue Bai, Pennsylvania State University
Kala Krishna, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Hong Ma, Tsinghua University
How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning, and Productivity in China

Discussant: Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn

5:10 pm

Shuttle vans (2) depart from the NBER for the hotel

7:00 pm

Dinner
The Similans Restaurant
145 First Street
Cambridge, MA

Saturday, April 26:

8:00 am

Shuttle vans (2) depart from the hotel for the NBER

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast


8:45 am


Yen-Cheng Chang, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
Harrison Hong, Princeton University and NBER
Larissa Tiedens, Stanford University
Bin Zhao, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
Does Diversity Lead to Diverse Opinions?: Evidence from Languages and Stock Markets

Discussant: Xiaoyun Yu, Indiana University


9:45 am


Jennifer Carpenter, New York University
Fangzhou Lu, New York University
Robert Whitelaw, New York University and NBER
The Real Value of China's Stock Market

Discussant: Zhiwu Chen, Yale University

10:45 am

Coffee Break


11:00 am


Hui He, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Feng Huang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Dongming Zhu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Breaking the "Iron Rice Bowl"and Precautionary Savings: Evidence from Chinese State-Owned Enterprises Reform

Discussant: Russell Cooper, Pennsylvania State University and NBER

12:00 pm

Matthew Kahn, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Weizeng Sun, Tsinghua University
Siqi Zheng, Tsinghua University
Internet Search as Social Learning: Implications for China’s Housing Market Dynamics

Discussant: Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER

1:00 pm

Light Lunch and Adjourn





FORMAT


The format for each paper will be a 25-minute presentation by the author, followed by one 15-minute discussion.
(Note the discussant may skip a summary of the paper if it is not a new way of looking at the issue). 
The balance of time will be for general audience discussion.