Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting

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

April 22-23, 2022

Conference Code of Conduct

Friday, April 22
 I. Finance and Innovation
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Lei Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Guangli Lu, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen
Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER

The Big Tech Lending Model
Discussant: Zhiguo He, Stanford University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am
Claire Yurong Hong, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
Xiaomeng Lu, Fudan University
Jun Pan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

FinTech Platforms and Mutual Fund Distribution
Discussant: Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania
11:20 am
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
Jianhuan Xu, Singapore Management University
Ge Yin, Peking University
Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University

Losses from Trade: The Case of China’s Pro-Innovation Subsidy Program
Discussant: Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch
II. Political Economy
1:30 pm
Ying Bai, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Jiaojiao Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and China
Discussant: Gerard Padró I Miquel, Yale University and NBER
2:30 pm
Mark Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER
Guojun He, University of Hong Kong
Mengdi Liu, University of International Business and Economics
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER
Bing Zhang, Nanjing University

Citizen Participation and Government Accountability: National-Scale Experimental Evidence from Pollution Appeals in China
Discussant: Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
3:30 pm
Break
3:50 pm
Joris M. Mueller, National University of Singapore

China's Foreign Aid: Political Determinants and Economic Effects
Discussant: Martin Fiszbein, Boston University and NBER
4:50 pm
Adjourn
Saturday, April 23
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
III. Firms
9:00 am
Jaya Wen, Harvard University

State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China
Discussant: Emanuele Colonnelli, University of Chicago and NBER
10:00 am
Break
10:20 am
Shengmao Cao, Northwestern University
Xuejie Yi, Stanford University
Chuan Yu, Harvard University

Competitive Bidding in Drug Procurement: Evidence from China
Discussant: Jia Xiang, Indiana University
11:20 am
Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
Ruochen Dai, Central University of Finance and Economics
Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto
Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota and NBER
Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University

Serial Entrepreneurship in China
Discussant: Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER
12:20 pm
Lunch and Adjourn