East Asian Seminar on Economics
Takatoshi Ito and Andrew K. Rose, Organizers
June 21-22, 2018
Supported by the NBER, TCER, KDI, HKUST, CIER (Taiwan), CCER, Singapore NUS Business School, and CAMA (Australia)
Hosted by Korea Development Institute
Theme: Political Economy
Seoul, Korea
| Wednesday, June 20 | ||||
| 7:00 pm | Welcome Dinner - The Westin Chosun Seoul | |||
| Thursday, June 21 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 9:00 am | Welcome Remarks | |||
| Chair: Takatoshi Ito | ||||
| 9:15 am |
Gerard Roland, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Crony Capitalism, the Party-State and Political Boundaries of Corruption (joint with Weijia Li and Yang Xie)
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| 10:15 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Nobuo Akai, Osaka University Corruption, Political Stability and Efficiency of Government Expenditure on Health Care -Evidence from Asian Countries (joint with Zhenyu Cui)
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| 11:30 am |
Bernard Yeung, National University of Singapore Anti-Corruption Reforms and Shareholder Valuations: Event Study Evidence from China (joint with Chen Lin, Randall Morck, and Xiaofeng Zhao)
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| Chair: Andrew K. Rose | ||||
| 2:00 pm |
Tianyang Xi, Peking University Moving "Umbrella": Bureaucratic Transfers, Collusion and Rent-Seeking in China (joint with Xiangyu Shi, Xiaobo Zhang, and Yifan Zhang)
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:30 pm |
Sunjoo Hwang, Korea Development Institute Hwa Ryung Lee, Korea Development Institute Keeyoung Rhee, Sungkyunkwan University The Effects of Revolving Doors on Financial Regulators' Enforcement Decisions: Evidence from Korea
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| 4:30 pm |
Kenichi Ueda, University of Tokyo, CEPR, and TCER Tail-Risk Dumping
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| 5:30 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:30 pm |
Dinner Changgo43 Restaurant 2nd Floor, 21, Mugyo-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul |
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| Friday, June 22 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Continental Breakfast | |||
| Chair: Andrew K. Rose | ||||
| 9:00 am |
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University and NBER Unions and Inequality Over the Twentieth Century: New Evidence from Survey Data (joint with Henry Farber, Dan Herbst and Ilyana Kuziemko)
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:15 am |
Meng-Chun Liu, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research Chia-Hsuan Wu, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research Taiwan’s Import Protection after Acceding to the WTO
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| 11:15 am |
Ippei Fujiwara, Keio University Shunsuke Hori, University of Tokyo Aging and Deflation
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch | |||
| Chair: Takatoshi Ito | ||||
| 1:30 pm |
Dongsoo Kang, Korea Development Institute Changwoo Nam, Korea Development Institute Conflicts of Interest between Government and Creditors in Corporate Restructuring: Case of Korea
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| 3:00 pm |
Ying Bai, Chinese University of Hong Kong Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER The Oriental City: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD 1000-2000
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| 4:00 pm |
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER Information as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence from Delhi
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:30 pm |
Dinner Samcheonggak Restaurant 3, Daesagwan-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul |
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| TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION | ||||
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Emergency contact:
Ms. Jiseung Catherine Kim, Research Associate, Korea Development Institute (KDI) Tel: +82-44-550-4030 / jiseung14919@kdi.re.kr |
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Co-Sponsoring Organizations: TCER, KDI, HKUST, CIER (Taiwan), CCER, Singapore NUS Business School, CAMA (Australia) |
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