
	Friday, April 22
	I. Finance and Innovation
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	The Big Tech Lending Model Lei Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Guangli Lu, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER Discussant: Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:20 am	FinTech Platforms and Mutual Fund Distribution Claire Yurong Hong, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance Xiaomeng Lu, Fudan University Jun Pan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Discussant: Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania
11:20 am	Losses from Trade: The Case of China’s Pro-Innovation Subsidy Program Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER Jianhuan Xu, Singapore Management University Ge Yin, Peking University Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University Discussant: Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch
	II. Political Economy
1:30 pm	The Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and China Ying Bai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER Jiaojiao Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong Discussant: Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
2:30 pm	Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER Guojun He, University of Hong Kong Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER Bing Zhang, Nanjing University Discussant: Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
3:30 pm	Break
3:50 pm	China's Foreign Aid: Political Determinants and Economic Effects Joris M. Mueller, National University of Singapore Discussant: Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
4:50 pm	Adjourn
	Saturday, April 23
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
	III. Firms
9:00 am	State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China Jaya Wen, Harvard University Discussant: Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
10:00 am	Break
10:20 am	Competitive Bidding in Drug Procurement: Evidence from China Shengmao Cao, Northwestern University Xuejie Yi, Stanford University Chuan Yu, Harvard University Discussant: Jia Xiang, Indiana University
11:20 am	Serial Entrepreneurship in China Loren Brandt, University of Toronto Ruochen Dai, Central University of Finance and Economics Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota and NBER Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University Discussant: Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch and Adjourn

Participants

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Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER
Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shengmao Cao, Northwestern University
Jennifer N. Carpenter, New York University
Nancy H. Chau, Cornell University
Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Kaiji Chen, Emory University
Qiaoyi Chen, Fudan University
Wei Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhao Chen, Fudan University
Davin Chor, Dartmouth College and NBER
Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
Russell Cooper, European University Institute
Karen Eggleston, Stanford University and NBER
Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
Peter M. Garber, Deutsche Bank
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER
Guojun He, University of Hong Kong
Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER
Claire Yurong Hong, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
Allen Hu, University of British Columbia
Jiayin Hu, Peking University
Haifeng Huang, Ohio State University
Yi Huang, Fudan University
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Wei Jiang, Emory University and NBER
Yang Jiao, Fudan University
Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
Yu-Hsiang Lei, Yale-NUS College
Guangwei Li, ShanghaiTech University
Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics
Tong Liu, National University of Singapore
Zhikuo Liu, Fudan University
Dong Lou, London School of Economics
Mary E. Lovely, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Guangli Lu, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen

Xiaomeng Lu, Fudan University
Kalina Manova, University College London
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
Joris M. Mueller, National University of Singapore
Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
Jun Pan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Cameron Peng, London School of Economics
Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER
Yingyue Quan, Peking University
Zheng Michael Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota and NBER
Sean Sylvia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Baolian Wang, University of Florida
Ping Wang, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
Jaya Wen, Harvard University
Robert F. Whitelaw, New York University and NBER
Yanhui Wu, University of Hong Kong
Jia Xiang, Indiana University
Mo Xiao, University of Arizona
Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER
Jianhuan Xu, Singapore Management University
Melanie Meng Xue, London School of Economics
Hongjun Yan, DePaul University
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Jiaojiao Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bernard Yeung, National University of Singapore
Xuejie Yi, Stanford University
Ge Yin, Peking University
Chuan Yu, Harvard University
Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford
Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania
Bing Zhang, Nanjing University
Rongjie Zhang, Tsinghua University
Shuang Zhang, Imperial College London
Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University
Yu Zhang, Peking University
Xiaoxue Zhao, Wesleyan University