NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
China
Working Group Meeting
Shang-Jin
Wei, Organizer
NBER
3rd
Floor Conference Room
Program
Friday,
October 3:
Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 8:15 am and
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
9:00 am Credit
Constraints, Job Mobility and Entrepreneurship:
Evidence from a Property Reform in China
Shing-Yi
Wang,
Discussant: Lakshmi Iyer,
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:20 am Sex
Ratios and Crime: Evidence
from Chinas One-Child Policy
Lena Edlund, Columbia University
Hongbin Li,
Junjian Yi,
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Junsen Zhang,
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: Avi Eberstein,
Harvard University
11:
Shang-Jin Wei,
Xiaobo Zhang, IFPRI
Discussant: Roger Gordon, UC, San Diego and NBER
12:20 pm Lunch
Joseph P.H. Fan,
Chinese University of
Li Jin,
Guojian Zheng, Chinese
University of Hong Kong
Discussant:
Wei Jiang, Columbia University
Yan-Leung Cheung, City University of
Ping Jiang, University of
International Business and Economics
Kai Li,
Tan Wang,
Discussant:
Zhiwu Chen,
3:30 pm Coffee Break
Lakshmi Iyer,
Xin Meng,
Nancy Qian,
Discussant:
Marcos Chamon, IMF
4:50 pm What Makes Privatization Work? The Case of China
Jie Gan, Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology
Yan Guo,
Chenggang Xu,
Discussant: Gary Jefferson, Brandeis University
5:50 pm Adjourn
6:30 pm Dinner
Legal Sea
Foods
Saturday,
October 4:
Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 8:15 am and
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
9:00 am Foreign Direct
Investment and Incentives to Innovate and Imitate
Irene Brambilla, Yale University and NBER
Galina Hale,
Federal Reserve Bank of
Cheryl Long,
Discussant: C. Fritz Foley, Harvard
University and NBER
10:00 am China's Exporters and Importers: Firms, Products, and Trade
Partners
Kalina
Manova, Stanford University and NBER
Zhiwei
Zhang, IMF
Discussant: Amit Khandelwal,
11:00 am Coffee Break
11:20 am Marketing Politics? Economic Reforms and the Selection of Political Elites in
China
Li Han,
Discussant: Yasheng Huang, MIT
12:20 pm Lunch
and Adjourn
Note on Time
Allocation (60 minutes per paper)
Author(s): 30
minutes
Discussant: 12 minutes
General
discussion: Balance of the hour
Instructions
to the Presenters and Discussants: