Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting
Organized by Nancy Qian, Shang-Jin Wei, and Daniel Xu
April 22-23, 2022
Cambridge, MA and on Zoom.us
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, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-SZ)
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 and NBER
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, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Jiaojiao Yang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

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, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)
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, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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