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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
China Working Group Meeting
Organized by Shang-Jin Wei
NBER
3rd Floor Conference Room
PROGRAM
Friday, October 16:
Shuttle
leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at
8:00 am Continental
Breakfast
8:30 am Raymond Fisman,
Yongxiang
Wang,
Corruption in State Asset Sales: Evidence from China
Discussant: Kai Li,
9:20 am Hongbin Cai,
Qinghua Zhang,
Chinas Land Market Auctions: Evidence of Corruption?
Discussant: Shing-Yi Wang,
10:10 am Break
10:30 am Yi Lu,
Ivan Png, National University of
Zhigang
Tao,
Do Institutions
Not Matter in China? Evidence
from Manufacturing Enterprises
Discussant: Jun Qian,
11:20 am Joseph Fan,
Chinese University of
Jun Huang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
Felix Oberholzer-Gee,
Mengxin Zhao,
Bureaucrats as Managers - Evidence
from China
Discussant: Ning Zhu, UC, Davis
12:10 pm Lunch
1:10 pm Monica
Martinez-Bravo, MIT
Gerard Padro-i-Miquel, London School of Economics
and NBER
Nancy Qian,
Yale University and NBER
Yang Yao,
Village Democracy: The Effects of Increased Accountability on Inequality and
Production
Discussant: Loren Brandt,
2:00 pm Loren Brandt,
Aloysius Siow,
Carl Vogel, NERA Economic Consulting
Large Demographic Shocks
and Small Changes in the
Marriage Market
Discussant: Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland and
NBER
2:50 pm Break
3:10 pm Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER
Xiaobo
Zhang, IFPRI
The Sexual Foundations of Economic Growth: Evidence from China
Discussant: Nancy Qian,
4:00 pm Weili Ding,
Queens
Yuan Zhang,
When a Son is Born:
The Impact of
Fertility Patterns on Family
Finance in Rural China
Discussant: Xiaobo Zhang, IFPRI
4:50 pm Adjourn
Shuttle
leaves NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel at
The Similans
Saturday, October 17:
Shuttle
leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Jie Bai,
Joel Waldfogel,
Movie Piracy and Sales Displacement in Two Samples of Chinese Consumers
Discussant: Yi Lu, University of Hong Kong
9:50 am Catherine Thomas,
Yongxiang Wang,
The Role of Agency in Mitigating Expropriation: Firm-Level
Evidence from Contract Renegotiations
Discussant: Jianjun
Miao, Boston University
10:40 am Break
11:00 am Kalina Manova,
Zhiwei
Zhang, HKMA
Export Prices and
Heterogeneous Firm Models
Discussant: Heiwai Tang,
11:50 am Lunch
Amit Khandelwal,
Shang-Jin Wei,
The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade
Discussant: Chong Xiang, Purdue University and NBER
Gary Jefferson,
Discussant: Cheryl Long,
Instructions to presenters/discussants:
Presentation: 25 minutes per paper. Please upload your ppt
before the relevant session.
Discussant: 10 minutes.
Discussants are encouraged to skip a summary of the paper unless it
represents a novel way to look at the question, and go straight into a
constructive critique of the paper.