NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

China Working Group Meeting

Shang-Jin Wei, Organizer

October 12, 2007

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11:

7:00 pm

Group Dinner

Marriott Cambridge

2 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12:

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

8:55 am

Welcome

9:00 am

GALINA HALE, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

CHERYL LONG, Colgate University

Labor Market Imperfections and the Effects of FDI Presence in China

Discussant:  WEI LI, University of Virginia

10:00 am

Break

10:30 am

JULAN DU, Chinese University of Hong Kong

CHENGGANG XU, London School of Economics

Regional Competition and Regulatory Decentralization: The Case of China

Discussant:  PAUL WACHTEL, New York University

11:30 am

JOSEPH FAN, Chinese University of Hong Kong

JUN HUANG, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

RANDALL MORCK, University of Alberta and NBER

BERNARD YEUNG, New York University

Institutional Determinants of Vertical Integration: Evidence from China

Discussant:  ZHIWU CHEN, Yale University

12:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm

JAMES HARRIGAN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER

GEOFFREY BARROWS, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Testing the Theory of Trade Policy: Evidence from the Abrupt End of the Multifibre Arrangement

Discussant:  AMIT KHANDEWAL, Columbia University

2:30 pm

Break

3:00 pm

Panel Discussion: China’s Transformation, Finance, and Growth

LOREN BRANDT and XIAODONG ZHU, University of Toronto

Accounting for Growth and Structural Transformation in China, 1978-2004

DWIGHT PERKINS, Harvard University

THOMAS RAWSKI, University of Pittsburgh

Forecasting Growth over the Next Two Decades

4:00 pm

Adjourn