China’s Rise and America’s Welfare

Presenter: Robert Z. Lawrence

Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at

Harvard Kennedy School

Language: English

Timing: Thursday 21 May, 2015, 14:00-15:30

Address: No.1 Classroom of Wanzhong Builidng, Lang Run Garden, Peking University

【Introduction of presenter】

 

Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently serves as Faculty Chair of The Practice of Trade Policy executive program at HKS. He served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1998 to 2000. Lawrence has also been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has taught at Yale University, where he received his PhD in economics. He is the author of Crimes and Punishments? Retaliation under the WTO; Single World, Divided Nations?; and Can America Compete?  Lawrence has served on the advisory boards of the Congressional Budget Office, the Overseas Development Council, and the Presidential Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy.

【Abstract】

This presentation, based on the book written by Lawrence Edwards and Robert Lawrence Rising Tide: Is Growth in Emerging Markets Good for the United States? will explore the impact of Chinese growth in US welfare. It will first consider whether the United States and China are competitive or complementary in their trade patterns. It will then evaluate the impact of Chinese imports on US employment, wages and the costs of dislocation; and finally it will provide estimates of the overall benefit-to-cost ratio of US trade with China.

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