Thursday, October 7
8:00 pm

Bank Wholesale Funding, Monetary Transmission and Systemic Risk: Evidence from China

Kaiji Chen, Emory University
Yiqing Xiao, Emory University
Tao Zha, Emory University and NBER

Discussant:
Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
9:00 pm

Anti-Corruption Campaign, Stereotyping, and the Resurgence of the SOEs: Evidence from China's Real Estate Sector

Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jing Wu, Tsinghua University
Rongjie Zhang, Tsinghua University
Li-An Zhou, Peking University

Discussant:
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
10:00 pm

Policy Experimentation in China: the Political Economy of Policy Learning

Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Jaya Wen, Harvard University
11:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, October 8
8:00 pm

Exploited by Complexity

Pengjie Gao, University of Notre Dame
Allen Hu, University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business
Cameron Peng, London School of Economics
Peter Kelly, Claremont McKenna College
Ning Zhu, Tsinghua University

Discussant:
Jianfeng Yu, Tsinghua University
9:00 pm

FinTech as a Financial Liberator

Greg Buchak, Stanford University
Jiayin Hu, Peking University
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania
10:00 pm

Short Sellers in the Realm of Social Media: Arbitrageurs or Manipulators?

Guilong Cai, Sun Yat-sen University
R. David McLean, Georgetown University
Tianyu Zhang, City University of Hong Kong
Mengxin Zhao, University of Alberta

Discussant:
Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University and NBER
11:00 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, October 9
8:00 pm

Mapping US-China Technology Decoupling, Innovation, and Firm Performance

Pengfei Han, Peking University
Wei Jiang, Emory University and NBER
Danqing Mei, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Discussant:
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
9:00 pm

Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry

Shumin Qiu, East China University of Science and Technology
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Discussant:
Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 pm

Unequal Returns to China’s Intercity Road Network

Simon Alder, Swiss National Bank
Zheng Michael Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhitao Zhu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Discussant:
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
11:00 pm
Adjourn