Time: June 27-June 29, 2013
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)
9:10–11:10 am: Labor Market (1)
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 pm: Pollution
Chair: Chong-En Bai (Tsinghua)
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
1:45–3:45 pm: Labor Market (2)
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”
Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University & NBER): Labor Protection and Stock Prices – When Does a Stronger Enforcement of Labor Regulations Lead to a Rise in the Stock Prices?
Sarah Turner (University of Virginia & NBER): Immigration and Adjustments in Science and Engineering Labor Markets
3:45–4:00 pm: Coffee/tea break
4:00–5:30 pm: Macroeconomics
Chair: Kathleen McGarry (UCLA & NBER)
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
Yi Wen (Tsinghua) and Jing Wu (Tsinghua): Withstanding Great Recession like China
7:00 pm: Dinner hosted by the NBER
June 28 (Friday)
8:45–9:45 am: Business and Economics 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): Business Education
Yang Yao (CCER): Economics Education
9:45–10:00 am: Coffee/tea break
10:00 –11:15am: Trade
Chair: Donald Davis (Columbia & NBER)
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
11:15–12:10 pm: Lunch
Afternoon: Trip to the Great Wall (Simatai)
Bus leaves from CCER at 12:10 pm and from Lakeview Hotel at 12:45 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 am: Coffee/tea break
10:20–12:05 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
Chi Wei (Tsinghua), Morris M. Kleiner (Minnesota & NBER) and Xiaoye Qian (Sichuan University), Do Occupational Regulations Increase Earnings? The influence of Professional Certification and Licensing on Wage Determination in China
12:05-12:20 pm: Concluding remarks
12:20-1:30 pm: Lunch (Open to Alumni)
1:30 pm: Adjourn
1:30 pm: Bus leaves from the CCER for Lakeview Hotel (or for Grand Hyatt)
