NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

China Working Group Meeting

Shang-Jin Wei, Organizer

October 13, 2006

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12:

7:30 pm

Group Dinner

Dante Restaurant at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13:

7:45 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:00 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 am

Welcome

8:45 am

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

LENA EDLUND, Columbia University

HONGBIN LI and JUNSEN ZHANG, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Long-Term Effects of China’s Great Famine in Hong Kong and Mainland China

Discussant:  XIAOBO ZHANG, International Food Policy Research Institute

9:45 am

TARUN KHANNA and FELIX OBERHOLZER-GEE, Harvard University

The Political Economy of Firm Size Distributions:  Evidence from Post-Reform China

Discussant:  BRUCE REYNOLDS, University of Virginia

10:45 am

Coffee Break

11:15 am

DAVID DOLLAR, World Bank

SHANG-JIN WEI, IMF and NBER

Das (Wasted) Kapital:  Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency  in China

Discussant:  GALINA HALE, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm

GEERT BEKAERT, Columbia University and NBER

CAMPBELL HARVEY, Duke University and NBER

CHRISTIAN LUNDBLAD, University of North Carolina

Financial Openness and the Chinese Growth Experience

Discussant:  ZHIWU CHEN, Yale University

2:15 pm

Panel Discussion: Financial Sector and Exchange Rate Issues

ANIL KASHYAP, University of Chicago and NBER:  Financial Sector

JEFFREY FRANKEL, Harvard University and NBER:  Exchange Rate

HAIZHOU HUANG, Barclays Capital:  Views from the “Street”

3:20 pm

Coffee Break

3:45 pm

CHANG-TAI HSIEH, UC, Berkeley

PETER KLENOW, Stanford University and NBER

Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India

Discussant:  LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

4:45 pm

YI QIAN, Northwestern University

Pricing and Marketing Impacts of Entry by Counterfeiters and Imitators

Discussant:  NANCY QIAN, Brown University

5:45 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Shuttle van departs NBER for Royal Sonesta Hotel

7:00 pm

Group Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel – Skyline Room

Speaker: JOHN TAYLOR, Stanford University and NBER

Exchange Rate Diplomacy:  The Case of China and the World Economy