Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting

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

October 7-9, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, October 7
8:00 pm
Kaiji Chen, Emory University
Yiqing Xiao, Emory University
Tao Zha, Emory University and NBER

Bank Wholesale Funding, Monetary Transmission and Systemic Risk: Evidence from China
Discussant: Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
9:00 pm
Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jing Wu, Tsinghua University
Rongjie Zhang, Tsinghua University
Li-An Zhou, Peking University

Anti-Corruption Campaign, Stereotyping, and the Resurgence of the SOEs: Evidence from China's Real Estate Sector
Discussant: Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
10:00 pm
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER
David Y. Yang, Harvard University and NBER

Policy Experimentation in China: the Political Economy of Policy Learning
Discussant: Jaya Wen, Harvard University
11:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, October 8
8:00 pm
Pengjie Gao, University of Notre Dame
Allen Hu, University of British Columbia
Cameron Peng, London School of Economics
Peter Kelly, Claremont McKenna College
Ning Zhu, Tsinghua University

Exploited by Complexity
Discussant: Jianfeng Yu, Tsinghua University
9:00 pm
Greg Buchak, Stanford University
Jiayin Hu, Peking University
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

FinTech as a Financial Liberator
Discussant: Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania
10:00 pm
Guilong Cai, Sun Yat-sen University
R. David McLean, Georgetown University
Tianyu Zhang, City University of Hong Kong
Mengxin Zhao, University of Alberta

Short Sellers in the Realm of Social Media: Arbitrageurs or Manipulators?
Discussant: Jeffrey Wurgler, New York University and NBER
11:00 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, October 9
8:00 pm
Pengfei Han, Peking University
Wei Jiang, Emory University and NBER
Danqing Mei, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Mapping US-China Technology Decoupling, Innovation, and Firm Performance
Discussant: Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
9:00 pm
Shumin Qiu, East China University of Science and Technology
Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Pierre Azoulay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry
Discussant: Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University and NBER
10:00 pm
Simon Alder, Swiss National Bank
Zheng Michael Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Zhitao Zhu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Unequal Returns to China’s Intercity Road Network
Discussant: Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
11:00 pm
Adjourn