Past Seminars

2024 Seminars

Date Presenter Title
JAN. 9 Prof. Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University) The Trade War and American Soft Power: Evidence from Movies, Cars, Trust, and Online Searches
JAN. 10 Prof. Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University)

Macroeconomic and Global Implications of the Sex Ratio Imbalance in China

     

 

2023 Seminars

Date Presenter Title
MAR. 28 Prof. Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University) Mild Government Failure
APR. 6 Dr. Philipp Böing (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW))

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects With One-Sided Noncompliance

JUN. 13

Prof. Loren Brandt

Land Security and Mobility Frictions (Slides)

DEC. 19 Prof. Luhang Wang (Xiamen University)

Where Has All the Dynamism Gone? Productivity Growth in China's Manufacturing Sector, 1998-2013

 

2022 Seminars

Date Presenter Title
JUL. 22 Prof. Chang-Tai Hsieh  (University of Chicago) Two Strong Hands: China's Vision for the Private Sector
AUG. 9 Prof. Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis) To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
AUG. 30 Prof. Weihong Zeng (Xi'an Jiaotong University) Persistence Despite Revolutions
SEP. 13 Prof. Zheng Song (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Special Deals from Special Investors – The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China
OCT. 4 Prof. Xiaodong Zhu (University of Hong Kong) Migration Costs, Sorting, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap
NOV. 22 Prof. Ruixue Jia (UC San Diego) Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China
DEC. 6 Prof. Bingjing Li (University of Hong Kong) Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy