Thursday, April 1
March 31 Optional Program from 9-10 pm
Fireside Chat about the Publication Process with Paola Giuliano (Co-editor of the Journal of European Economic Association), Rema Hanna and Daniel Xu (Co-editors of the Review of Economics and Statistics) and Juan Carlos Serrato (Journal of Public Economics). Sponsored by China Econ Lab.


Conference Format:
Presentation: 30 minutes per paper.
Discussant (Days 1 & 2): 10 minutes.
Floor Discussion: Balance of the hour.
Finance, Macro
8:00 pm

Trade Protection, Stock-Market Returns, and Welfare

Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Sang Hoon Kong, Columbia University
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Michael E. Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and NBER
9:00 pm

Incentives and Firm Investment: Evidence from China's Reform

Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER
Guanmin Liao, Renmin University of China
Baolian Wang, University of Florida

Discussant:
Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
10:00 pm

Decentralized Industrial Policy (slides)

Wei Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
Zheng Michael Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Discussant:
David Baqaee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
11:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, April 2
Firms and Regulation
8:00 pm

Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing

Jing Cai, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

Discussant:
Jonas Hjort, University College London
9:00 pm

Entry Deregulation, Market Turnover, and Efficiency: China’s Business Registration Reform

Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Luming Chen, Stanford University
Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER
Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University

Discussant:
Mo Xiao, University of Arizona
10:00 pm

Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China

Qiaoyi Chen, Fudan University
Zhao Chen, Fudan University
Zhikuo Liu, Fudan University
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER

Discussant:
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER
11:00 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, April 3
Economic History
8:00 pm

The Great Political Divergence (slides)

Clair Yang, University of Washington, Seattle
Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8:30 pm

Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era

Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER
Ge Bao, University of International Business and Economics
Maggie Chen, The George Washington University
Junjie Hong, University of International Business and Economics
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
9:00 pm

Eclipses and the Memory of Revolutions: Evidence from China

Meng Miao, Renmin University of China
Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER
Yi Shao, Peking University
9:30 pm

The Rise of Communism in China

Ting Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
James K. Kung, University of Melbourne
10:00 pm

The Economic Consequences of the Opium War (slides)

Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Carol H. Shiue, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
10:30 pm
Open discussion
11:00 pm
Adjourn