Events & Speakers
Book Talk: ‘Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi’
Speaker: Eswar Prasad Eswar Prasad is Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and the Cornell College of Business (CCB). Prasad holds the New Century Chair in International Economics at the Brookings Institution and is Research […]
The Impact of Local Trade on Export Activities, Firm Performance, and Resource Misallocation
Speaker: Jie Bai Jie Bai is an Assistant Professor in Public Policy at Harvard University. Jie’s research focuses on microeconomic issues of firms in developing countries and emerging markets, particularly to understand the role of private enterprise in economic development, the challenges and barriers firms face, and how government policies can interact with various market frictions […]
Economic Integration and Spatial Wage Differences: How Valuable Is Market Access to Workers in China?
Speaker: Mary Lovely Mary Lovely is a Professor of Economics at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she combines interests in international economics and public economics. She was a co-editor of the China Economic Review from 2011-2015. Her current research projects investigate the pollution content of Chinese exports, market access and cross-city wage variation, the […]
Joint CICER, EAP and Industrial Organization Seminar, with Ruixue Jia
Speaker: Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego Date and Time: 11:40am, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 Location: 494 Uris Hall Please stay tuned for further updates on event details.
China Research Days, October 27-28, 2016
Conference: China Research Days — An Intellectual Dialogue on Important Economic and Social Issues in China Powered by T.H. Lee Chair and Cornell Institute for China Economic Research At Cornell, an intellectual powerhouse where the breadth and depth of research expertise are unparalleled, researchers are striving to identify and study key issues on Chinese economy: […]
Capital Markets and Colonial Institutions in China
Speaker: Wolfgang Keller Wolfgang Keller, PhD, Yale University, 1995, is a professor with interests in international trade & investment and economic development. He is one of the leading experts on the international diffusion of technological knowledge. He also has recent work, funded by the National Science Foundation, on comparative development in China and Europe. He has […]
Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China
Speaker: Loren Brandt Loren Brandt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto specializing in the Chinese economy. He has been at the University of Toronto since 1987. He is also a research fellow at the IZA (The Institute for the Study of Labor) in Bonn, Germany. He has published widely on the […]
Pollution and Human Capital: New Evidence from China
Xi Chen Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University Affiliated Faculty, Department of Economics, Yale University PhD in Applied Economics, Cornell University (2012) Abstract: While there has been large economics literature evaluating the health cost of air pollution, less is known about its impact […]
CCCI & CICER STUDENT SYMPOSIUM: Topics in Contemporary China Studies
The 2016 CCCI & CICER Student Symposium took place on Saturday, April 9, 2016. Our keynote speaker is Professor Shiping Tang, Professor in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA) at Fudan Univeristy (Shanghai, China). Panel 1 discussed diaspora, market institutions, and the arts in contemporary China. And Panel 2 discussed food Safety, land […]