NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Working Group on the Chinese Economy
Martin Feldstein and Shang-Jin Wei, Organizers
October 3, 2003
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2:
7:30 PM Group Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Dinner Speaker: DWIGHT PERKINS, Harvard University
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3:
8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Massachusetts Avenue
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER
Opening Remarks
9:10 AM ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER
GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER
Ownership and Control in International Outsourcing:
Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
Discussant: CHENGGANG XU, London School of Economics
10:10 AM Break
10:25 AM CHUN-CHUNG AU, Brown University
J. VERNON HENDERSON, Brown University and NBER
Estimating Net Urban Agglomeration Economies with an Application to China
Discussant: MARY AMITI, International Monetary Fund
11:25 AM GENEVIEVE BOYREAU-DEBRAY, World Bank
SHANG-JIN WEI, International Monetary Fund and NBER
A Diagnosis on the Fragmentation of the Domestic Capital Market
Discussant: CHUN CHANG, University of Minnesota
12:25 PM Lunch
1:20 PM Panel Discussion: Is China on the Verge of a Major Financial Crisis?
Chair: MARTIN FELDSTEIN, Harvard University and NBER
Panelists: ESWAR PRASAD, International Monetary Fund
LAWRENCE LAU, Stanford University
2:20 PM Break
2:35 PM YINGYI QIAN, UC, Berkeley
Federalism, Chinese Style I:
Fiscal Incentives and Regional Development
Federalism, Chinese Style II:
Economic Decentralization and Political Centralization
(Joint with HEHUI JIN and BARRY WEINGAST)
Discussant: ROGER GORDON, UC, San Diego and NBER
3:35 PM WEI LI, University of Virginia
Measuring Corruption under China's Dual-Track System
Discussant: LOREN BRANDT, University of Toronto
4:35 PM Adjourn
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