NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

 

Working Group on the Chinese Economy

 

 

October 3, 2003

 

 

Martin Feldstein and Shang-Jin Wei, Organizers

 

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA  02138

 

 

Thursday, October 2, 2003

 

 

7:30 pm,

Group Dinner

 

Sonesta Hotel

 

Dinner Speaker: Dwight Perkins, Harvard University

 

 

Friday, October 3, 2003

 

 

9:00 am

Martin Feldstein, Harvard University and NBER

 

Opening remarks

 

 

9:10 am

Robert Feenstra, UC, Davis and NBER

 

Gordon Hanson, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China

 

 

 

Discussant: Chenggang Xu, London School of Economics

 

 

10:00 am

Break

 

 

10:15 am

J. Vernon Henderson, Brown University and NBER

 

How Migration Restrictions Limit Agglomeration

 

and Productivity in China?

 

(joint with Chun-Chung Au)

 

 

 

Discussant: Mary Amiti, University of Melbourne and IMF

 

 

11:05 am

Genevieve Boyreau-Debray, World Bank

 

Shang-Jin Wei, International Monetary Fund and NBER

 

Can China Grow Faster?

 

Estimating the Segmentation of the Internal Capital Market"

 

 

 

Discussant: Wing Thye Woo, UC, Davis

 

 

12:55 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:45 pm

Panel Discussion: Is China on the Verge of a Major Financial Crisis?

 

 

 

Chair: Martin Feldstein, Harvard University and NBER

 

Panelists: Nicholas Lardy, Institute for International Economics

 

Eswar Prasad, International Monetary Fund

 

 

2:45 pm

Coffee

 

 

3:00 pm

Yingyi Qian, UC, Berkeley

 

Regional Decentralization and Fiscal Incentives:

 

Federalism, Chinese Style"

 

(joint with Hehui Jin and Barry Weingast, Stanford University)

 

 

 

Discussant:  Barry Naughton, UC, San Diego (Tentative)

 

 

3:50 pm

Wei Li, University of Virginia

 

A Great Leap Forward or Backward:

 

Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster"

 

 

 

Discussant: Loren Brandt, University of Toronto

 

 

Adjourn

 

 

 

August 2, 2003