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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Chinese Economy Working Group Meeting

Hanming Fang and Shang-Jin Wei, Organizers

October 5-6, 2012

NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Friday, October 5:

7:45 am

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:00 am

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER


8:00 am


Continental Breakfast

8:45 am

Welcome


9:00 am


David Dollar, U.S. Treasury
Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER
Understanding China: An Explanation for an Unusual Macroeconomy


Discussant:  Michael Song, University of Chicago


10:00 am


Break


10:20 am


Russell Cooper,
Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Guan Gong, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Ping Yan, CCER
Costly Labor Adjustment: Effects of China's Employment Regulations

Discussant:  Daniel Xu, Duke University and NBER


11:20 am


Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER
Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University
Shuang Zhang, Cornell University
Income and Sex Selection: A Cautionary Tale of Land Reform and Sex Ratios in China

Discussant:  Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER


12:20 pm


Lunch

The Future of the Chinese Economy: A Perspective from History

Lunch Speaker:  Daron Acemoglu, MIT and NBER  (
co-author of Why Nations Fail)

1:45 pm

Break


2:00 pm


Harrison Hong, Princeton University and NBER
Wenxi Jiang, Yale University
Bin Zhao, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
Trading for Status

Discussant: Jiang Wang, MIT and NBER


3:00 pm


Jing Wu, Tsinghua University
Yongheng Deng, National University of Singapore
Jun Huang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
Bernard Yeung, National University of Singapore
Incentives and Outcome: The “Environmental” Bias in China

Discussant:  Karen Eggleston, Stanford University


4:00 pm


Break


4:20 pm


Lily Fang, INSEAD
Jun Qian, Boston College
Huiping Zhang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
Out of the Limelight but In Play: Trading and Liquidity of Media and Off-Media Stocks

Discussant:  Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER


5:20 pm


Adjourn

5:30 pm

Shuttles (2) leave NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel
 

6:30 pm

Dinner
The Similans Restaurant
145 First Street
Cambridge, MA

Saturday, October 6:

8:15 am

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:30 am

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER


8:30 am


Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Yongheng Deng, National University of Singapore
Joseph Gyourko, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Jing Wu, Tsinghua University
Should We Fear an Adverse Collateral Effect on Investment in China?

Discussant:  Matthew Turner,
University of Toronto

10:00 am

Break


10:20 am


Liugang Sheng, University of California, Davis
Dennis Tao Yang, University of Virginia
The Ownership Structure of Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China

Discussant:   Dan Lu, University of Rochester


11:20 am


Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University and NBER
James Liang, Stanford University
John Roberts, Stanford University
Zhichun Jenny Ying, Stanford University
Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

FIGURES

Discussant:  Shing-Yi Wang,
University of Pennsylvania


12:20 pm


Lunch

Lunch Speaker:  Liu Shijin, Vice Minister of Development Research Center of the State Council


1:20 pm


Daniel Berkowitz, University of Pittsburgh
Chen Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yue Ma, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
The Real and Financial Effects of Property Rights: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Discussant:  R. David McLean, University of Alberta


2:20 pm


Raymond Fisman, Columbia University and NBER
Yasushi Hamao, University of Southern California
Yongxiang Wang, University of Southern California
The Impact of Cultural Aversion on Economic Exchange: Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations

Discussant:  Yasheng Huang, MIT


3:20 pm


Adjourn

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Instructions to the presenters and discussants:

25 minutes per paper; 12 minutes per discussant; and general discussion in the balance of the time. Powerpoints/slides should be installed before the start of the relevant session.