Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting

Hanming Fang, Zhiguo He, Shang-Jin Wei, and Wei Xiong, Organizers

December 17-19, 2020

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, December 17
Format:
Authors: 30 minutes.
Discussant: 12 minutes.
Floor discussion: the balance of the time.
7:00 pm
Lili Dai, UNSW Sydney
Jianlei Han, Macquarie University
Jing Shi, RMIT University
Bohui Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Digital Footprints as Collateral for Debt Collection
Discussant: Hongjun Yan, DePaul University
8:00 pm
Ming Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Information and Corruption: Evidence from China’s Land Auctions
Discussant: David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER
9:00 pm
Break
9:15 pm
Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER
Maggie Rong Hu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhenping Wang, University of Chicago
Vincent Yao, Georgia State University

Valuation of Long-Term Property Rights under Political Uncertainty
Discussant: Johannes Stroebel, New York University and NBER
10:15 pm
Adjourn
Friday, December 18
7:00 pm
Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER
Maggie Chen, George Washington University
Jin Liu, New York University
Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER

Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress
Discussant: Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
8:00 pm
Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Xincheng Qiu, Arizona State University

"Golden Ages": A Tale of Two Labor Markets
Discussant: Nancy Qian, Northwestern University and NBER
9:00 pm
Break
9:15 pm
Lin William Cong, Cornell University and NBER
Ke Tang, Tsinghua University
Danxia Xie, Paris School of Economics
Qi Miao, Nielsen Company

Asymmetric Cross-Side Network Effects on Financial Platforms: Theory and Evidence from Marketplace Lending
Discussant: Kelly Shue, Yale University and NBER
10:15 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, December 19
7:00 pm
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER
Ali Hortaçsu, University of Chicago and NBER
Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics
Caixia Shen, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
Bing Zhang, Nanjing University

Discharge Fees, Pollution Mitigation and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Power Plants (slides)
Discussant: Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER
8:00 pm
Franklin Allen, Imperial College London
Junhui Cai, University of Pennsylvania
Xian Gu, Durham University Business School
Jun Qian, Fudan University
Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania
Wu Zhu, University of Pennsylvania

Ownership Networks and Firm Growth: What Do Forty Million Companies Tell Us About the Chinese Economy?
Discussant: Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago and NBER
9:00 pm
Break
9:15 pm
Chong-En Bai, Tsinghua University
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Hongbin Li, Stanford University
Xin Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China
Discussant: Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University
10:15 pm
Adjourn