Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting
Organized by Nancy Qian, Shang-Jin Wei, and Daniel Xu
March 29, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
1) The presenter in the morning sessions can use up to 25 minutes per paper, and the discussant can use 12 minutes. 2) The presentation in the afternoon sessions is 18 minutes per paper. There will be a general discussion at the end of each session.

Friday, March 29

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

8:45 am

Opening Remarks

9:00 am

Industrial Policy and Serial Entrepreneur

Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Ming Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK–SZ)
Zenan Wu, Peking University

Discussant:
Lee G. Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

Emigration during Turbulent Times

Kaicheng Luo, Harvard University
Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER

Discussant:
Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER

11:15 am

A Framework for Geoeconomics

Christopher Clayton, Yale University and NBER
Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
Jesse Schreger, Columbia University and NBER

Discussant:
Jeffry Frieden, Columbia University

12:15 pm

Working Lunch and Speaker: Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University

Shorter Presentations

1:45 pm

Influencer Marketing and Product Competition

Lin William Cong, Cornell University and NBER
Siguang Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

1:46 pm

Market for Patents, Monopoly and Misallocation

Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
Jianhuan Xu, Singapore Management University
Ge Yin, University of International Business and Economics
Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University

1:47 pm

Improving Regulation for Innovation: Evidence from China’s Pharmaceutical Industry

Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Xiao Ma, Peking University
Jianan Yang, Peking University
Yiran Zhang, Fudan University

3:00 pm

Break

Shorter Presentations

3:15 pm

Campaigning for Extinction: Eradication of Sparrows and the Great Famine in China

Eyal G. Frank, University of Chicago and NBER
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER
Xuebin Wang, Shanghai University
Qinyun Wang, Fudan University
Yang You, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

3:16 pm

Urban Forests: Environmental Health Values and Risks

Jianwei Xing, Peking University
Zhiren Hu, Cornell University
Fan Xia, Nanjing University
Jintao Xu, Peking University
Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER

(The following paper will not be available on YouTube)

3:18 pm

Show Me Your “Loyalty”: The Shifting Criteria of Political Selection in China

Alina Yue Wang, Queen's University

4:30 pm

Meeting Adjourns