NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

China Working Group Meeting

 

Shang-Jin Wei, Organizer

 

October 3-4, 2008

 

NBER

3rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

Program

 

Friday, October 3:

 

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 8:15 am and 8:30 am

 

8:30 am            Continental Breakfast

 

9:00 am            Credit Constraints, Job Mobility and Entrepreneurship:

Evidence from a Property Reform in China

Shing-Yi Wang, New York University

 

Discussant: Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard University

 

10:00 am          Coffee Break

 

10:20 am          Sex Ratios and Crime: Evidence from China’s One-Child Policy

Lena Edlund, Columbia University

Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University

Junjian Yi, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Junsen Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Discussant: Avi Eberstein, Harvard University

 

11:20 am          Sex Ratio Imbalances Stimulate Savings Rates: Evidence from the “Missing Women” in China

Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

Xiaobo Zhang, IFPRI

 

Discussant: Roger Gordon, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

12:20 pm          Lunch

 

1:30 pm            Internal Capital Market in Emerging Markets: Expropriation and Mitigating Financing Constraints

Joseph P.H. Fan, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Li Jin, Harvard University

Guojian Zheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Discussant: Wei Jiang, Columbia University

 

2:30 pm            Privatization and Risk Sharing: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

Yan-Leung Cheung, City University of Hong Kong

Ping Jiang, University of International Business and Economics

Kai Li, University of British Columbia

Tan Wang, University of British Columbia

 

Discussant: Zhiwu Chen,Yale University

 

3:30 pm            Coffee Break

 

3:50 pm            Property Rights and Household Decisions: The Impact of China’s Urban Housing Reforms

Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard University

Xin Meng, Australian National University

Nancy Qian, Brown University

 

                        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, Peking University

Chenggang Xu, University of Hong Kong

 

Discussant: Gary Jefferson, Brandeis University

 

5:50 pm            Adjourn

 

6:30 pm            Dinner

                        Legal Sea Foods

                        Charles Square

                        20 University Road

                        Cambridge, MA

 

 

Saturday, October 4:

 

Shuttle leaves Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER at 8:15 am and 8:30 am

 

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 San Francisco

Cheryl Long, Colgate University

 

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, Columbia University

 

11:00 am          Coffee Break

 

11:20 am          Marketing Politics? Economic Reforms and the Selection of Political Elites in China

Li Han, Stanford University

 

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:

 

  • Authors: Please send a “final” version of the paper to Brett Maranjian at the NBER conference department (maranjian@nber.org) and your discussant by September 15, 2008.
  • Presenters and discussants should load their ppts or other presentation files onto the laptop in the conference room before the relevant session.
  • Discussants are encouraged to skip a detailed summary of the paper unless that represents an insightful, new way to look at the material.