The Seventh Annual NBER-CCER Conference on China and the World Economy第七届CCER-NBER“中国与世界经济”年会

发布日期:2005-06-30 11:20    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

The Seventh Annual NBER-CCER Conference on

China and the World Economy

 

Conference Site: China Center for Economic Research, Beijing University

June 29-July 2, 2005

 

Organizers:     Justin Yifu Lin and Yang Yao (CCER)

Martin Feldstein and Shang-Jin Wei (NBER)

 

 

June 30, 2005

 

8:30 - 8:45       Registration

 

8:45 - 9:00       Welcome remarks

Justin Yifu Lin (Director, CCER) and Martin Feldstein (President, NBER)

 

9:00 - 10:45      Macroeconomic Issues in China and the US

 

Chair: Yang Yao (CCER)

 

       Xiaoling Wu (Vice Governor, PBOC)

              State-owned banking system reform and China’s WTO banking accession

       Justin Yifu Lin (Director, CCER)

              From deflation to inflation: China’s macroeconomic situation

       Martin Feldstein (NBER & Harvard)

              Macroeconomic situation in the US and its implications for other countries

 

10:45 - 11:15  Coffee break

 

11:15 - 12:30  Banks and Monetary Policy

 

Chair: Martin Feldstein

 

       Anil Kashyap  (NBER & University of Chicago)

              Monetary Policy Transmission

       David Li (Director, CCWE, Tsinghua University)

              China’s interest rate policies: 1980-2004

 

12:30 - 1:30  Lunch (Shao Yuan)

 

 

July 1, 2005

 

9:00 - 10:30  Capital Market and Tax Policy

 

Chair: Justin Yifu Lin (CCER)

 

       Richard Clarida  (NBER & Columbia University)

              Capital flows

       Bo Li (PBOC)

              Net interest margin of Chinese banks

       Jeffrey Liebman (NBER & Harvard)

              Tax credits for income maintenance

       Yan Shen and Minggao Shen (CCER)

              Financial sector efficiency, FDI, and economic growth in China

 

10:30 - 10:45  Coffee break

 

10:45 - 12:15  Governance and Economic Consequences

 

Chair: Anil Kashyap (NBER)

 

       Yang Yao (CCER)

              Grassroots democracy and farmers’ capability against major health shocks

       Ben Olken (NBER & Harvard)

              Corruption: empirical evidence from Indonesia

 

       Shang-Jin Wei (NBER & IMF)

              Entrepot trade and tariff evasion

 

12:15 - 13:30  Lunch (downstairs class room)

 

13:30 - 15:30  Migration and Health

 

Chair: Shang-Jin Wei (NBER)

 

       Yaohui Zhao (CCER)

              Migration and income disparity

       George Borjas (NBER & Harvard)

              International migration

       Ling Li (CCER)

              Hospital reform in China

       Amy Finkelstein (NBER & Harvard)

              The Growth of the Health Care Sector in the US: 1960 - 2000

 

 

15:30 - 16:00  Coffee break

 

16:00 - 17:30  Public Finance and Retirement

 

Chair: Yaohui Zhao (CCER)

 

Jeffrey Brown (NBER & Illinois)

              Insuring retirement income

Xinqiao Ping (CCER)

              Fiscal decentralization and local public good provision in China

       David Wise (NBER & Harvard)

              Social security and retirement

 

July 2, 2005

 

9:00 - 11:00    Trade and FDI

 

Chair: Ling Li (CCER)

 

       Wang Shichun (Ministry of Commerce)

              China’s move to deal with textile trade disputes

       Kent Smetters (NBER and University of Pennsylvania)

The conservative's economic agenda in the US

Feng Lu (CCER)

       Change in the trend for RMB's real exchange rate

 

Concluding Remarks: Justin Yifu Lin and Martin Feldstein

 

11:30 Adjoin

 

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Format of the sessions: presentations of 15-20 minutes per speaker, followed by questions and answers in the balance of the time.
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