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National Bureau of Economic
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Chinese
Economy Working Group Meeting |
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Organized by Hanming Fang and Shang-Jin Wei |
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NBER |
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2nd
Floor Conference Room |
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PROGRAM |
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Friday, October 1: |
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Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 7:45 am and 8:00 am |
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8:00 am |
Continental
Breakfast |
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8:30 am |
Introduction |
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8:40
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Jun Qian, Boston College |
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Philip
Strahan, Boston College and NBER |
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Zhishu Yang, Tsinghua
University |
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Discussant:
Daniel Paravisini, Columbia University and NBER |
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9:40 am |
Coffee Break |
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10:00
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Hongbin Cai,
Beijing University |
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Yuyu Chen, Beijing University |
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Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and
NBER |
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Li-An
Zhou, Beijing University |
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Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development:
Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment |
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Discussant:
Esther Duflo, MIT and NBER |
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11:00 am |
Abhijit Banerjee,
MIT and NBER |
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Xin Meng,
ANU |
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Nancy Qian,
Yale University and NBER |
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The Life Cycle Model and Household Savings: Micro Evidence from Urban China |
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Discussant: Xiaobo Zhang,
IFPRI |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch |
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Lunch
Speaker: Min Zhu, Special Advisor to the Managing Director, IMF |
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1:30 pm |
Loren Brandt,
University of Toronto |
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Trevor
Tombe, University of Toronto |
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Xiaodong Zhu, University of Toronto |
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Factor
Market Distortions Across Time, Space, and Sectors in China |
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Discussant:
Daniel Xu, New York University and NBER |
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2:30 pm |
Coffee Break |
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2:50 pm |
Qingyuan Du, Columbia University |
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Shang-Jin
Wei, Columbia University and NBER |
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Discussant: Heiwai
Tang, Tufts University |
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3:50 pm |
Coffee Break |
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4:10
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Ravi Jagannathan, Northwestern University and NBER |
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Mudit Kapoor,
Indian School of Business |
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Ernst
Schaumburg, Northwestern University |
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Why Are We in a Recession? The
Financial Crisis is the Symptom Not the Disease! |
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Discussant: Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard University and
NBER |
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5:10 pm |
Adjourn |
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Shuttle leaves NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel at 5:10 pm and 5:20 pm |
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6:45 pm |
Reception and
Dinner Royal Sonesta
Hotel (Parkview Room) |
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Dinner Speaker: |
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Mai Lu, China
Development Research Foundation |
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Saturday, October 2: |
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Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 7:45 am and 8:00 am |
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8:00 am |
Continental
Breakfast |
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8:40
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Gabriella
Conti, University of Chicago |
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James
Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER |
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Junjian Yi, Chinese University of Hong
Kong |
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Junsen Zhang, Chinese University of
Hong Kong |
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Discussant:
Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania
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9:40 am |
Coffee Break |
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10:00
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Douglas
Almond, Columbia University and NBER |
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Yuyu Chen, Peking University |
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Avraham Ebenstein,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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Michael
Greenstone, MIT and NBER |
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Hongbin Li, Tsinghua
University |
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The Long-Run Impact of Air
Pollution on Life Expectancy: Evidence
from Chinas Huai River Policy not to be posted |
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Discussant: Zhigang Li, Hong Kong University |
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11:00 am |
Galina
Hale, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
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Cheryl
Long, Colgate University |
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Discussant:
Li Jin, Harvard University |
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12:00
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Lunch |
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1:00
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Peter Zeitz, UC, Los Angeles |
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Short-Run Incentives and Myopic Behavior: Evidence from
State-Owned Enterprises in China |
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Discussant:
Colin Xu, World Bank |
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2:00
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Adjourn |
Instructions
to Presenters and Discussants:
Authors: 30 minutes per paper,
discussant: 12 minutes. Discussants may skip a summary of the paper unless it
represents a new way of looking at the issue.
The balance of the time: general
questions and answers.