NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Conference on China’s Growing Role in World Trade

Robert Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei, Organizers

August 3-4, 2007

Wequassett Inn Resort

The Pavilion

Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

Thursday, August 2:
1:15 pm	Shuttle van departs NBER Cambridge Office for Wequassett Inn
7:00 pm	Reception and Dinner
Friday, August 3:
7:45 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Session 1. International Trade
	The Rising Sophistication of China’s Exports: Assessing the Roles of Processing Trade, Foreign Invested Firms, Human Capital and Government Policies
	ZHI WANG, International Trade Commission
	SHANG-JIN WEI, IMF and NBER
	Discussant: GALINA HALE, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
9:20 am	An Anatomy of China’s Export Growth
	MARY AMITI, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
	CAROLINE FREUND, IMF
	Discussant: BIN XU, China Europe International Business School
10:10 am	Break
10:40 am	China's Local Comparative Advantage
	HAIYAN DENG, The Conference Board
	JAMES HARRIGAN, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER
	Discussant: CHONG XIANG, Purdue University
11:30 am	China and the Manufacturing Exports of Other Developing Countries
	GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER
	RAYMOND ROBERTSON, Macalester College
	Discussant: IRENE BRAMBILLA, Yale University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Session 2. Macroeconomic Issues
	China’s Exports and Employment
	ROBERT FEENSTRA, UC, Davis and NBER
	CHANG HONG, IMF
	Discussant: MICHAEL DOOLEY, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER
2:10 pm	Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices
	CHRISTIAN BRODA, University of Chicago and NBER
	DAVID WEINSTEIN, Columbia University and NBER
	Discussant: JOSHUA AIZENMAN, UC, Santa Cruz and NBER
3:00 pm	Break
3:20 pm	China’s Current Account and Exchange Rate
	YIN-WONG CHEUNG, UC, Santa Cruz
	MENZIE CHINN, University of Wisconsin and NBER
	EIJI FUJII, University of Tsukuba
	Discussant: JEFFREY FRANKEL, Harvard University and NBER
4:10 pm	Adjourn
7:00 pm	Reception and Dinner
	Speaker: TIMOTHY ADAMS, former Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department
Saturday, August 4:
7:45 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Session 3. Sectoral and Policy Issues
	China’s WTO Entry: Antidumping, Safeguards, and Dispute Settlement
	CHAD BOWN, Brandeis University
	Discussant: THOMAS PRUSA, Rutgers University and NBER
9:20 am	China’s Experience Under the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) and the Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC)
	IRENE BRAMBILLA and PETER SCHOTT, Yale University and NBER
	AMIT KHANDELWAL, Yale University
	Discussant: JOSEPH FRANCOIS, Johannes Kepler University Linz
10:10 am	Break
10:40 am	Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
	JIKUN HUANG and YU LIU, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy
	WILL MARTIN, World Bank
	SCOTT ROZELLE, Stanford University
	Discussant: KYM ANDERSON, University of Adelaide
11:30 am	Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China’s Environment
	JUDITH DEAN, International Trade Commission
	MARY LOVELY, Syracuse University
	Discussant: ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER
12:20 pm	Lunch
1:20 pm	Session 4. Foreign Direct Investment
	Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China
	LEE BRANSTETTER, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
	C. FRITZ FOLEY, Harvard University and NBER
	Discussant: STEPHEN YEAPLE, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
2:10 pm	Please Pass the Catch-up: The Relative Performance of Chinese and Foreign Firms in Chinese Exports, 1997-2005
	BRUCE BLONIGEN, University of Oregon and NBER
	ALYSON MA, University of San Diego
	Discussant: RAYMOND ROBERTSON, Macalester College
3:00 pm	Break
3:20 pm	China’s Outward FDI: Past and Future
	LEONARD CHENG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
	ZIHUI MA, Renmin University of China
	Discussant: NICHOLAS LARDY, Peterson Institute for International Economics
4:10 pm	Closing Comments
4:20 pm	Adjourn
7/24/07