Venue: 2nd Floor, Wanzhong Building, CCER, Peking University
June 26 (Wednesday)
6:30 pm NBER participants and companions meet in the hotel lobby
7:00 pm Reception at the CCER
June 27 (Thursday)
8:45 – 9:10 am: Opening remarks
Yang Yao (CCER), Shang-Jin Wei (NBER), Chong-En Bai (Tsinghua)
9:10 – 10:10 am: Labor Market
Chair: Yang Yao (CCER)
Fang Cai, Director General, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, China Academy of Social Sciences, and Member of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of China
Amanda Pallais (Harvard University and NBER): Online Labor Market
Xiaobo Zhang (CCER & IFPRI): Competitive Pressure and Accidental Death
Donald Davis (Columbia and NBER): Cities, Skills and Wages
11:10 – 11:35 am: Group photo and Coffee/tea break
11:35 – 12:35 am: Pollution: Chong-En Bai
Yaohui Zhao (CCER): Household Fuel use, Indoor air Pollution and Health Effect
Matthew Kahn (UCLA & NBER): Understanding China’s Urban Pollution Dynamics
12:40 – 1:40 pm: Lunch
1:45-3:15 pm Education and Immigration
Chair: David Autor (MIT & NBER)
Justine Hastings (Brown University & NBER): College Choice, Student Loans, and Returns to College Education
Xin Meng (Australian National University) and Dandan Zhang (CCER): The Social Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on Urban “Natives”
Sarah Turner (University of Virginia & NBER): Immigration and Adjustments in Science and Engineering Labor Markets
3:15 -3:35 pm Coffee/tea break
3:35- – 5:05 pm: Macroeconomics
Chair: Shang-Jin Wei (NBER and Columbia)
Yiping Huang (CCER): Should Asia Be Worried about Japan's Quantitative Easing? A Structural Vector Autoregressive Analysis
Efraim Benmelech (Northwestern University and NBER): Debt and Collateral
Bing Li (Tsinghua University): Characterizing Monetary Policy Behavior in China: A Bayesian DSGE Approach
7:00 pm: Dinner hosted by the NBER
June 28 (Friday)
8:40 – 9:10 am: Business Education in China
Chair: Shang-jin Wei (Columbia & NBER)
Yingyi Qian, School of College of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the PBOC
9:10-9:30 am: Coffee/tea break
9:30 –11:15 am: Trade
Chair: Donald Davis (Columbia)
Celebrating the release of the Chinese edition of NBER book China's Growing Role in World Trade edited by Robert C. Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei
Remarks on the book by Shang-Jin Wei
David Autor (MIT and NBER): Untangling Effects of Trade and Technology on Employment Patterns
Miaojie Yu (CCER) and Fan Zhang (CCER): Wages and Export Intensity: Firm-Evidence from Chinese Firms
Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University & NBER): Tracing Value Added and Global Value Chains in Gross Exports
11:20 am – 12:15 pm: Lunch
Afternoon: Trip to the Great Wall (Jingshan Ling)
Bus leaves from CCER at 12:20 pm and from Lakeview Hotel at 1 pm
Casual dinner at/near the Great Wall
June 29 (Saturday)
8:45 am: NBER participants check out the Lakeview Hotel (optional)
9:00-10:00 am: Family
Chair: Xiaobo Zhang (CCER & IFPRI)
Kathleen McGarry (UCLA & NBER): Dynamic Aspects of Family Transfers
Xiaoyan Lei (CCER): Intergenerational Transfers in China: Parental Investment and Children’s Repayment
10:00-10:20 Coffee/tea break
10:20am-12:05 pm: Markets
Chair: Matthew Kahn (UCLA)
Zhangkai Huang (Tsinghua), Lixing Li (CCER), Guorong Ma (Renmin University) and Collin Xu (World Bank): The Use of Information and the Devolvement of China’s State Economy: Hayek is Right
Shane Greenstein (Northwestern University & NBER): The Lexicon of Network Economics in Evolving Markets: An Applied Guide
Yi Wen (Tsinghua) and Kaiji Chen (Emory University): The Great Chinese Housing Boom: Causes, Consequences, and Future Paths
12:05-12:20pm: Concluding remarks
12:20-1:30 pm: Lunch (Open to Alumni)
1:30 pm: Adjourn
