The NBER's Working Group on the Chinese Economy met in Cambridge on March 2–3. Faculty Research Fellow Nancy Qian of Northwestern University, working group Director Shang-Jin Wei of Columbia University, and Research Associate Daniel Xu of Duke University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:
Harald Hau, University of Geneva; Yi Huang, The Graduate Institute, Geneva; and Hongzhe Shan, Swiss Finance Institute, "TechFin at Ant Financial: Credit Market Completion and its Growth Effect"
Panle Jia Barwick, Cornell University and NBER; Dave Donaldson, MIT and NBER; Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER; and Yatang Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, "The Welfare Effects of Passenger Transportation Infrastructure: Evidence from China"
Yuyu Chen, Peking University, and David Yufan Yang, Stanford University, "The Impact of Media Censorship: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China"
Hanwei Huang, London School of Economics, "Germs, Roads, and Trade: Theory and Evidence on the Value of Diversification in Global Sourcing"
Hui He, International Monetary Fund, and Lei Ning and Dongming Zhu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, "The Impact of Rapid Aging and Pension Reform on Savings and the Labor Supply: The Case of China"
Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER, and Shuang Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder, "Do Consumers Distinguish Marginal Cost from Fixed Cost? Evidence from Heating Price Reform in China"
Shang-Jin Wei and Jianhuan Xu and Jungho Lee, Singapore Management University, "Trade Imbalance as a Source of Comparative Disadvantage: Why Does China Import So Much Waste?"
Guojun He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Shaoda Wang, University of California, Berkeley; and Bing Zhang, Nanjing University, "Environmental Regulation and Firm Productivity in China: Estimates from a Regression Discontinuity Design"
Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER; Zhe Li and Nianhang Xu, Renmin University of China; and Hongjun Yan, DePaul University, "In the Shadows of Government: Political Turnovers and Firm Perk Expenses"
Pierre-André Chiappori, Columbia University; David Ong, Peking University; Yu Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Junsen Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, "Marrying Up: Trading Off Spousal Income and Spousal Height"
Loren Brandt and Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto, and Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo, "Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China"
Summaries of these papers are at: www.nber.org/confer/2018/CEs18/summary.html
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