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
Jie Bai, Harvard University and NBER
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Shengmao Cao, Northwestern University
Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillovers and Industrial Quality Upgrading
Discussant: Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
8:45 pm
Francesco D’Acunto, Georgetown University
Michael Weber, University of Chicago and NBER
Jin Xie, Peking University

Punish One, Teach A Hundred: The Sobering Effect of Punishment on the Unpunished
Discussant: Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER
9:30 pm
Chun-Yu Ho, University of Albany
Marc Rysman, Boston University
Yanfei Wang, Renmin University of China

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
Xuan Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

The Costs of Workplace Favoritism: Evidence from Promotions in Chinese High Schools
Discussant: Xiao Yu Wang, CRI Foundation
8:45 pm
Filipe R. Campante, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Davin Chor, Dartmouth College and NBER
Bingjing Li, University of Hong Kong

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

The Political Economy of State Employment and Instability in China
Discussant: Eduardo Montero, University of Chicago and NBER
10:15 pm
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER
Guojun He, University of Hong Kong
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Tong Liu, National University of Singapore

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
Hui Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Zhuo Chen, Tsinghua University
Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER
Jinyu Liu, University of International Business and Economics
Rengming Xie, CITIC Securities

Pledgeability and Asset Prices: Evidence from the Chinese Corporate Bond Markets
Discussant: Andrea Vedolin, Boston University and NBER
8:45 pm
Jianjun Miao, Boston University
Shenzhe Jiang, Beijing University
Yuzhe Zhang, Texas A&M University

China's Housing Bubble, Infrastructure Investment, and Economic Growth (slides)
Discussant: Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
9:30 pm
Jin Xie, Peking University
Kang Shi, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jenny Xu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

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.