Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting
Nancy Qian, Shang-Jin Wei, and Daniel Xu, Organizers
April 1-3, 2021
on Zoom.us
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March 31 Optional Program from 9-10 pm Fireside Chat about the Publication Process with Paola Giuliano (Co-editor of the Journal of European Economic Association), Rema Hanna and Daniel Xu (Co-editors of the Review of Economics and Statistics) and Juan Carlos Serrato (Journal of Public Economics). Sponsored by China Econ Lab. |
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Conference Format: Presentation: 30 minutes per paper. Discussant (Days 1 & 2): 10 minutes. Floor Discussion: Balance of the hour. |
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| Finance, Macro | ||||
| 8:00 pm |
Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Sang Hoon Kong, Columbia University David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER Trade Protection, Stock-Market Returns, and Welfare
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| 9:00 pm |
Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER Guanmin Liao, Renmin University of China Baolian Wang, University of Florida Incentives and Firm Investment: Evidence from China's Reform
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| 10:00 pm |
Wei Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER Zheng Michael Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong Decentralized Industrial Policy
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| 11:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Friday, April 2 | ||||
| Firms and Regulation | ||||
| 8:00 pm |
Jing Cai, University of Maryland and NBER Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
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| 9:00 pm |
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Luming Chen, Stanford University Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University Entry Deregulation, Market Turnover, and Efficiency: China’s Business Registration Reform
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| 10:00 pm |
Qiaoyi Chen, Fudan University Zhao Chen, Fudan University Zhikuo Liu, Fudan University Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Stanford University and NBER Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China
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| 11:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Saturday, April 3 | ||||
| Economic History | ||||
| 8:00 pm |
Clair Yang, University of Washington, Seattle Yasheng Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Great Political Divergence |
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| 8:30 pm |
Laura Alfaro, Harvard University and NBER Ge Bao, University of International Business and Economics Maggie Chen, George Washington University Junjie Hong, University of International Business and Economics Claudia Steinwender, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era |
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| 9:00 pm |
Meng Miao, Renmin University of China Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER Yi Shao, Peking University Eclipses and the Memory of Revolutions: Evidence from China |
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| 9:30 pm |
Ting Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University James K. Kung, University of Melbourne The Rise of Communism in China |
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| 10:00 pm |
Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER Carol H. Shiue, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER The Economic Consequences of the Opium War |
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| 10:30 pm | Open discussion | |||
| 11:00 pm | Adjourn | |||