Chinese Economy Meeting

Hanming Fang and Shang-Jin Wei, Organizers

October 24-25, 2014

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, October 24
1
Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER

Better Lucky Than Rich? Welfare Analysis of Automobile License Allocations in Beijing and Shanghai
2
Shuaizhang Feng, Shanghia University of Finance and Economics
Yingyao Hu, Johns Hopkins University
Robert A. Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in China: Long Run Trends and Short Run Dynamics
3
Kaiji Chen, Emory University
Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

The Great Housing Boom of China
4
Davin Chor, Dartmouth College and NBER
Kalina Manova, University College London
Zhihong Yu, Nottingham University

The Global Production-Line Position of Chinese Firms
5
Franklin Allen, Imperial College London
Jun Qian, Fudan University
Susan Shan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Julie Zhu, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance

Best Performing Economy with Worst Performing Market: Explaining the Poor Performance of Chinese Stock Market
6
Yanhui Wu, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
David Stromberg, Stockholm University
Bei Qin, Academia Sinica

Media Bias in Autocracies: Evidence from China
7
Nancy H. Chau, Cornell University
Yu Qin, National University of Singapore
Weiwen Zhang, Zhejiang University

Networked Leaders in the Shadow of the Market -- A Chinese Experiment in Allocating Land Conversion Rights
8
Zhibo Tan, International Monetary Fund
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University

Deadly Discrimination: Implications of "Missing Girls" for Workplace Safety