5th Annual NBER-CCER Conference China"s Reform in A Global Perspective

发布日期:2002-06-21 11:23    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

June 30-July 2, 2002

Organizors: Justin Lin and Ping Chen (CCER)

Martin Feldstein and Shang-Jin Wei (NBER)

Conference Site: China Center for Economic Research, Wan Zhong Building


June 29, Saturday, 2002

NBER participants check in at Wan Chun Yuan

7:00 p.m.  Informal Reception at CCER


June 30, Sunday, 2002

8:45-9:00   Opening Remarks: Justin Lin and Martin Feldstein
       Chair: Wen Hai (CCER)

9:00-10:30  Overview
       Chair: Justin Lin (CCER)
       Gang Yi (People''s Bank and CCER):The Chinese Economy
       Martin Feldstein (Harvard): The U.S. and the World Economy

10:30-10:45  Coffee/tea break

10:45-12:15  Banking, Corporate Finance and Taxation
       Chair: Martin Feldstein
       Ben Friedman (Harvard): Banking in the U. S.
       Ran Tao and Justin Lin (CCER):
        Rural Taxation and Fiscal Reforms
       Xianchun Xu (State Statistics Bureau):
        Issues in China’s Statistics

12:15-1:25 Buffet Lunch at Shao Yuan

1:30-3: 00 Monetary Policy and Financial Crisis
       Chair: Gang Yi (People''s Bank of China and CCER)
       Benjamine Bernanke (Princeton):
        Monetary Policy Strategies for Emerging-Market Economies
       Ping Chen (CCER): Growth Cycles and Financial Crisis

3:00-3:15 Coffee/tea break

3:15-5:15 Labor and Inequality
       Chair: Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia)
       Richard Freeman (Harvard) China’s Labor Problems
       Shang-Jin Wei (IMF) Globalization and Inequality in China
       Yaohui Zhao (CCER) Wage Inequality in Urban China

6:30 Dinner (Ting Li Guan -- in the Summer Palace)


July 1, Monday, 2002

9:00-10:45 Education and Health
      Chair: Shangjin Wei (IMF)
      Charles Clotfelter (Duke): Higher Education in the U.S.
      Yaohui Zhao(CCER),Junsen Zhang(Chinese University of Hong        Kong):Economic returns to schooling in China
      Victor Fuchs (Stanford) Economics of Health Care

10:45-11:00 Tea/coffee break

11:00-12:45 Development Strategy
      Chair: Richard Freeman (Harvard)
      Justin Lin (CCER): Development Strategy, Viability, and
       Economic Convergence
      Xin Zhang (CSEC) China’s mode of growth
      Martin Feldstein (NBER) Issues on Development Strategy

12:45-1:50 Lunch at CCER

2:00-5:00 Company visit (Taiji Group)
    (2:00 pm Departure by bus from Wan Chun Yuan)

5:30-6:30 A walk near the Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tiananmen Square).

7:00 Dinner
 Oasis (Chinese name: 静颐洲), Dongchen District, 29 Dongzhong Jie,  Donghuai Guangchang B 2nd floor). Tel: 6418-1072
 Comment: The best Shanghai-style restaurant in town.


July 2, Tuesday, 2002

9:00-10:30 WTO and China
    Chair: Yaohui Zhao (CCER)
    Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia) China and the WTO
    Feng LU (CCER) East Asian Financial Cooperation

10:30-10:45 Tea/coffee break

10:45-12:15 Security Market and Executive Compensation
    Chair: Ben Bernanke (Princeton)
    Haiying ZHAO (China Securities Regulatory Commission):
     Security market reforms in China
    Brian Hall (Harvard Business School): Executive Compensation
    John Yang (CCER):
     Cultural Orientations and Firm Performance Efficiency in China

12:15-1:15 Lunch at CCER

1:15-2:45 Lessons from Russia and East Asia
    Chair: Feng Lu (CCER)
    Padma Desai (Colombia) Reflections on Russia and China
    Yuanzheng Cao (BoC International) Issues in transition economics

2:45-3:00
    Closing Remarks: Martin Feldstein and Justin Lin
    Chair: Ping Chen (CCER)
    
    4 pm Bus leaving from Wan Chun Yuan for Datong, Shanxi Province

Other invited participants:
Fanzhang Huang (State Planning Commission)
Xiaojuan Jiang (CASS)
Zhigang Yang (CASS)
Qixiang Sun (School of Economics, PKU)
Ruoen Ren (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)
Jikun Huang (CAS)
Di Sun (China Construction Bank)
Chunze Jiang (Research Institute of Asia Study)
Shuanglin Lin (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore)
Xingdong Chen (BNP Beijing)
Min Tang (Asian Development Bank, Beijing)
Wei Ding (Deutsche Bank, Beijing)
Hengfu Zou (Guanghua School of Management, PKU)
Yongding Yu (CASS)


Residence for NBER participants: Wan Chun Yuan (or Old Summer Palace)
Tel: 86-10-62616611(operator), fax: 62560134

For logistics help, contact Ms. Ma Xiaoping, or Ms. Chen Xi
Tel: (86-10) 6275 3098 or 6275 7375; fax: (86-10) 6275 4719 or 6275 1474

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