Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting

Nancy Qian, Shang-Jin Wei, and Daniel Xu, Organizers

June 8-10, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, June 8
Micro Evidence from Firms
8:00 pm

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Quality Upgrading
Discussant: Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
8:45 pm

Punish One, Teach A Hundred: The Sobering Effect of Punishment on the Unpunished
Discussant: Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER
9:30 pm

Demand for Performance Goods: Import Quotas in the Chinese Movie Market
Discussant: Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER
10:15 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, June 9
Political Economy
8:00 pm

The Costs of Workplace Favoritism: Evidence from Promotions in Chinese High Schools
Discussant: Xiao Yu Wang, CRI Foundation
8:45 pm

The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdown
Discussant: Kevin Lim, University of Toronto
9:30 pm

The Political Economy of State Employment and Instability in China
Discussant: Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago and NBER
10:15 pm

Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from China's War on Air Pollution
Discussant: Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER
11:00 pm
Adjourn

Wednesday, June 10
Macro
8:00 pm

Pledgeability and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Chinese Corporate Bond Markets
Discussant: Andrea Vedolin, Boston University and NBER
8:45 pm

China's Housing Bubble, Infrastructure Investment, and Economic Growth (slides)
Discussant: Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
9:30 pm

Large Shareholders and Sticky Prices: Evidence from a Corporate Governance Reform
Discussant: Oleg Itskhoki, Harvard University and NBER
10:15 pm
Adjourn

FORMAT: 25 minutes for authors, 10 for discussants, 10 for Q&A.
The ZOOM room will be open for one hour after the last talk, 11pm-12am EST for those who wish to continue discussing.