The Eleventh NBER-CCER Conference on
Time: July 1-4, 2009
Venue: CCER,
Evening of July 1 (Wed): Reception at CCER
July 2 (Thu)
8:30-8:45: Registration
8:45-9:00: Opening Remarks
Yang
9:00 10:45: Causes and Impacts of the Crisis
Chair:Yang Yao
Feng Lu (NSD & CCER, PKU):
Deborah Lucas (NBER & Northwestern):
Measuring and Managing Governmental Financial Risk (background
paper)
David Li (SEM, Tsinghua): The International Monetary
System
10:45-11:00: coffee break
11:00-12:45: Exchange Rates and Prices
Chair: Shang-Jin Wei
Charles Engel (NBER & Wisconsin-Madison): Exchange
Rate Policies (background paper)
Fan He (CASS):
David Weinstein (
12:45 1:45 lunch in CCER
1:45 - 3:30:
Financial Liberalization, Risks and Urbanization
Chair: Chong-En Bai
Yiping Huang (NSD & CCER, PKU):
Todd Sinai (NBER & U of
James Wen (SUFE and
3:30 3:45: Coffee break
3:45 6:00 Labor and Health Issues
Chair:
David Li
Chong-En Bai (SEM, Tsinghua): Declining Shares of
Labor Income in
Dennis
Yang (Tsinghua and Virginia Tech): Accounting for Rising Wages in
Jonathan Skinner (
Xiaoyan Lei (NSD & CCER, PKU): Health
Issues of Retirees --- Evidence from a Recent Survey
6:30 8:30: Dinner hosted by
NBER.
Bai Jia Da Zhai Men (白家大宅门)
July 3 (Fri)
9:00-10:45: Demography, Savings, and Economic Growth
Chair: Hemao Wu (CCER & NSD, PKU)
Shang-Jin Wei (NBER and
Sex
Ratios, Savings Rate, and Entrepreneurship in
Yuyu Chen (GSM, PKU): Consumption
and Savings of Chinese Urban Households
Yang
Demographic Transition and
10:45 11:00: Coffee break
11:00-12:15:
Trade
Chair: Deborah Lucas (background
paper)
Miaojie Yu (NSD & CCER, PKU):
Trade
Liberalization, Productivity, and Firm Heterogeneity
Pinelopi Goldberg (
Effects of Patent Enforcement in Pharmaceuticals in
Developing Countries
12:15 1:15 Lunch
1:15 6:30: Factory visit
7:30 9:00: Dinner hosted by CCER
(dinner speech by Mr. Gao Xiqing, CEO, China Investment Corporation)
July 4 (Sat)
8:30 am Optional visit to the
CCER contact persons:
Yang
Jiao Wang: 15901021990 (cell), 6276-6005 (office)
NBER contact person:
Shang-Jin
Wei: (NY) (212) 854-9139, (
Hotel Boya
(also known as Lakeview in English)
127 Zhong-guan-cun Beidajie,
Haidian, Beijing (海淀区中关村北大街127号)
Phone: (010) 8268-9999