中国经济暑期研讨会（China Economics Summer Institute 2010）

China Economics Summer Institute

July 2-4, 2010

Conference Venue: Room 418, Shunde Building, Tsinghua University

July 2, 2010

1:00-1:20        Registration

1:20-1:30        Welcome remarks
Yingyi Qian, Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

Chair: Garard Roland, University of Berkeley

1:30-2:30         Albert Park, University of Oxford
“Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms”
Authors: Hongbin Cai, Hongbin Li, Albert Park and Li-an Zhou

2:30-3:30         Qiong Wang, Yale University
“Costly Blackouts? Measuring Productivity and Environmental Effects of Electricity Shortages”
Authors: Karen Fisher-Vanden, Erin Mansur and Qiong Wang

3:30-4:00         Coffee Break

4:00-5:00         Xuepeng Liu, Kennesaw State University
“Tax Avoidance, Tax Preference and Re-imports: The Case of ‘edundant’Trade”
Author: Xuepeng Liu

5:00-6:00         Yinghua He, Toulouse School of Economics
“Gaming the School Choice Mechanism”
Author: Yinghua He

6:30                  Dinner

July 3, 2010   

Chair: Chong-En Bai, Tsinghua University

9:00-10:00       Xiaodong Zhu, Tsinghua University
“Accounting for China’s Growth”
Authors: Loren Brandt and Xiaodong Zhu

10:00-11:00     Monica Martinez-Bravo, MIT
“Accountability and Growth: The Costs of Village Democracy in China”
Authors: Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padro, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao

11:00-11:30     Coffee Break

11:30-12:30     Junsen Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Picking up the Losses: the Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Human Capital Re-Investment in Urban China”
Authors: Jun Han, Wing Suen and Junsen Zhang

12:30-2:00       Lunch

July 4, 2010   

                        Chair: Robin Burgess, London School of Economics

9:00-10:00       Xiaoyan Lei, Peking University
“The Impact of Retirement on Health: Evidence from China”
Authors: Xiaoyan Lei, Li Tan and Yaohui Zhao

10:00-11:00     Lingsheng Meng, Tsinghua University
“Son Preference and Early Childhood Investments in China”
Authors: Doug Almond, Hongbin Li and Lingsheng Meng

11:00-11:30     Coffee Break

11:30-12:30     Kai Liu, Johns Hopkins University
“Idiosyncratic Risk and Household Savings in China”
Authors: Marcos Chamon, Kai Liu and Eswar Prasad

Sponsored by
Hong Kong University
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
UC Berkeley Center on Institutions and Governance
National Institute for Fiscal Studies, Tsinghua University
School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University
LICOS-Center for Institutions and Economic Performance, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Contact Person:    Wang Yu, Cellphone: 159 1060 6359  

Paper Download:  http://www.nifs.org.cn