22nd Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics

发布日期:2011-06-24 01:47    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

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National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

China Center for Economic Research

Tsinghua University

Australian National University

Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Korea Development Institute

National University of Singapore

Tokyo Center for Economic Research

 

22nd Annual East Asian Seminar on Economics

The Role of Government

 

 

 

June 24-25, 2011

 

National School of Development at Peking University

CCER

Beijing, China

 

PROGRAM

 

 

 

Thursday, June 23:

 

 

 

4:25 pm

 

Meet in Lakeview Hotel Lobby for Bus to Summer Palace

 

 

 

5:25 pm

 

Meet in Lakeview Hotel Lobby for Bus to Summer Palace

 

 

 

7:00 pm

 

Opening Reception, Ting Li Guan Restaurant in Summer Palace

 

 

 

Friday, June 24:

 

 

 

8:45 am

 

Meet in Lakeview Hotel Lobby for Bus to Conference Site

 

 

 

Session 1. International Finance and Trade

 

 

 

9:00 am

 

Qingyuan Du, Columbia University

 

Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

 

A Darwinian Perspective on the Chinese Exchange Rate

 

 

 

Discussants: Francis Lui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

Jianguo Xu, CCER

 

 

 

10:00 am

 

Martin Berka, Massey University

 

Michael Devereux, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

What Determines European Real Exchange Rates?

 

 

 

Discussants: Andrew Rose, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

 

Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

 

11:00 am

 

Break

 

 

 

11:15 am

 

Yi Wen, Tsinghua University

 

Making Sense of China’s Excessive Foreign Reserves

 

 

 

Discussants: Takatoshi Ito, University of Tokyo and NBER

 

Yiping Huang, CCER

 

 

 

12:15 pm

 

Lunch

 

 

 

1:30 pm

 

Woochan Kim, KDI School of Public Policy and Management

 

Korea Investment Corporation: Its Origin and Evolution

 

 

 

Discussants: Ludwig Linbo He, China Investment Corporation

 

Yiping Huang, CCER

 

 

 

2:30 pm

 

Break

 

 

 

2:45 pm

 

Binkai Chen, Central University of Finance and Economics

 

Yang Yao, CCER

 

The Cursed Virtue: Government Infrastructural Investment and Household Consumption in Chinese Provinces

 

 

 

Discussants: Renato Reside, University of the Philippines

 

Mark Spiegel, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

 

 

 

Session 2. Financial Markets, Consumption and Taxation

 

 

 

3:45 pm

 

Hyung-Kwon Jeong, Bank of Korea

 

Sung Wook Joh, Seoul National University

 

Risk Taking of “TBIF” Banks in a Concentrated Market: Evidence from Surviving Banks after a Financial Crisis

 

 

 

Discussants: Kaoru Hosono, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance

 

Renato Reside, University of the Philippines

 

 

 

4:45 pm

 

Adjourn by Bus

 

 

 

5:00 pm

 

Group Dinner, Quan Ju De Roast Duck Restaurant

 

Zhong Guan Cun Street No. 1

 

 

 

Saturday, June 25:

 

 

 

8:15 am

 

Meet in Lakeview Hotel Lobby for Bus to Conference Site

 

 

 

8:30 am

 

Zvi Bodie, Boston University

 

Joseph Cherian, National University of Singapore

 

Chua Wee Kang, National University of Singapore

 

Worry-Free Inflation-Indexing for Sovereigns: How Governments can Effectively Deliver Inflation-Indexed Returns to their Citizens and Retirees

 

 

 

Discussants: Kaoru Hosono, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance

 

Qing Liu, Tsinghua University

 

 

 

9:30 am

 

Chong-En Bai, Tsinghua University

 

Binzhen Wu, Tsinghua University

 

Payroll Tax and Household Consumption

 

 

 

Discussants: Martin Berka, Massey University

 

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

 

10:30 am

 

Break

 

 

 

10:45 am

 

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago and NBER

 

James Sullivan, University of Notre Dame

 

Consumption and Income Inequality in the U.S. Since the 1960s

 

 

 

Discussants: Lucas Davis, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Yongheng Deng, National University of Singapore

 

 

 

11:45 am

 

Shin-Horng Chen, CIER

 

Meng-chun Liu, CIER

 

Pei-Chang Wen, CIER

 

The ECFA and Its Effect on Cross-Strait Trade and Investment: A Taiwanese Perspective

 

 

 

Discussants: Somkiat Tangkitvanich, TDRI

 

Miaojie Yu, CCER

 

 

 

12:45 pm

 

Lunch

 

 

 

Session 3. Regulated Industries (Nuclear, Health Care)

 

 

 

2:00 pm

 

Lucas Davis, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Catherine Wolfram, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power

 

 

 

Discussants: Somkiat Tangkitvanich, TDRI

 

Jintao Xu, Peking University

 

 

 

3:00 pm

 

Break

 

 

 

3:15 pm

 

Ayako Kondo, Osaka University

 

Hitoshi Shigeoka, Columbia University

 

Effects of Universal Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Japan

 

 

 

Discussants: Janet Currie, Columbia University and NBER

 

Haruko Noguchi, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

 

 

 

4:15 pm

 

Janet Currie, Columbia University and NBER

 

Erdal Tekin, Georgia State University and NBER

 

Is the Foreclosure Crisis Making Us Sick?

 

 

 

Discussants: Yongheng Deng, National University of Singapore

 

Haruko Noguchi, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

 

 

 

5:15 pm

 

Adjourn

 

 

 

Sunday, June 26:

 

 

 

8:30 am

 

Meet in Lakeview Hotel Lobby for Optional Sight-Seeing Tour of Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and Silk Street

 

tour details

 

 

 

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Participants will be staying at:

 

The Lakeview Hotel
No. 127, Zhongguancun North Road
Haidian District, Beijing, China, TEL (86 10)82689999
http://www.thelakeviewhotel.com.cn/index_en.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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