Program Schedule
June 24
Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
Firms and Labor Market
8:30AM -9:30AMNina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College)
Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-income Country(with B. McCraig)
9:30AM – 10:30AM Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University)
Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade in a Developing Country(with B. Kovak)
10:45 – 11:45AMImran Rasul (University College London)
Demand-and-Supply-Side Policies to Tackle Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda (with L.Alfonsi, O. Bandiera, V.Bassi, R.Burgess, M.Sulaiman, and A.Vitali)
11:45AM – 1:00PM
Venue: Room 217, Zhonghui Building
Lunch Talk: Dean Shuaizhang Feng, IESR
1:00PM – 2:00PM
Parallel Session I
Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
Xin Wang (Peking University)
International Trade and Internal Migration with Labor Market Distortions
Shu Cai (Jinan University)
Trade Liberalization and Educational Choice: Evidence from China
Parallel Session II
Venue: Room 106, Zhonghui Building
Shuaizhang Feng (Jinan University)
Human Capital and Directed Technology Change: Evidence from China's College Enrollment Expansion
Hongsong Zhang (The University of Hong Kong)
Monitoring, Input Prices, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Firms and Trade
2:15PM – 3:15PM James Tybout (Pennsylvania State University)
Born-to-Export Firms(with Bernardo Diaz de Astarloa, Jonathan Eaton, Kala Krishna, Bee Aw Roberts, and Andres Rodriguez Clare)
3:15PM – 4:15PM Pamela Medina (University of Toronto)
Within-Firm Responses to Import Competition: Quality Upgrading and Exporting in the Peruvian Apparel Industry
4:30PM – 5:30PM Jie Bai (Harvard Kennedy School)
Collective Reputation in Trade
June 25
Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
8:30AM – 10:00AM
Policy Roundtable: Industrial Policy in China
Participants:
Loren Brandt (University of Toronto), Jiandong Ju (Tsinghua University),
Shang-jin Wei (Columbia University), Miaojie Yu (Peking University),
Xiaobo Zhang (Peking University)
Development Policy
10:15PM – 11:15AM Shang-jin Wei (Columbia University)
Intrinsic Openness and Endogenous Institutional Quality
11:15AM – 12:15PM
Parallel Session I
Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
Zhiyuan Li (Fudan University)
Terms of Trade Gains from Task Offshoring andComplementarity between Tasks
Yi Chen (Jinan University)
Marriage, Childrearing, and the Gender Wage Differentials within the Firm: Evidence from China
Parallel Session II
Venue: Room 106, Zhonghui Building
Sisi Zhang (Jinan University)
An Equilibrium Analysis of Housing Demand and Supply in China
Ting Chen (Princeton University)
The Speculation Channel and Crowding Out Channel:Real Estate Shocks and Corporate Investment in China
12:15PM – 1:15PM Lunch
Firms and Innovation
Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
1:15PM – 2:15PM Mark J. Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
The Long Run Return to R&D in Taiwan Electronics Industry(with B.Aw, Y. Lee, H. Zhang)
2:15PM – 3:15PM Daniel Yi Xu (Duke University)
Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China (with Z. Chen, Z. Liu, and J.C. Suarez-Serrato)
Data Benchmarking Across Countries
3:30 – 5:30PM
Jie Bai – Micro-data of Chinese Firms
Mark J. Roberts – R&D and Innovation Data in the U.S and Europe
Eric Verhoogen – Micro-data of Mexican Firms
Rafael Dix Carneiro – Micro-data of Brazilian Firms
Duncan Thomas – Micro-data of Indonesian Household
Individual Meetings
5:30PM- 6:30PM
June 26
Venue: Room 106, Zhonghui Building
Firms, Productivity, and Industrial Organization
9AM – 10AM Loren Brandt (University of Toronto)
Stage-level Production in Chinese Steel Sector(with Y. Luo and Y. Su)
10AM – 11AM Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
Using Exchange Rate to Estimate Production Functions: Evidence from Colombia(with N. de Roux, M. Eslava, and S. Franco)
11:AMBreak
11:15AM – 12:15PM Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics)
The Industrial Organization of the Coffee Chain in Producing Countries
12:15 – 1:30PM Lunch