Events & Speakers

The 3rd annual Contemporary China Student Symposium will be held on Saturday, April 28 from 10:00AM to 4:40PM in 401 Warren Hall. (Lunch will be served.) The theme for this year’s symposium is China in Transition. China in the Reform Era has been characterized by swift transformation at a massive scale, whether from the perspective […]

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Neoh, a leading member of the Hong Kong Bar and previously a senior public servant in Hong Kong and Beijing, will speak on the importance of future Chinese economic, social and political development of the 19th Party Congress, which has just concluded in China, and what implications these developments might have for the […]

Speaker: Professor Daniel Berkowitz Daniel Berkowitz is a Professor of Economics at University of Pittsburgh. He is a co-managing editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics. He is a well-known Chinese expert and has published extensively on Chinese economy. Abstract: Around the time that China joined the WTO, its labor shares fell while its product markups converged (e.g. […]

Speaker: Rongzhu Ke Professor Ke received his Ph.D in economics from M.I.T. in 2009. He was an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009-2016), before visiting the Department of Economics, Lingnan University in January, 2017. His research interests include microeconomic theory, mechanism design, and organizational economics. He also conducts some empirical work […]

Panle Jia Barwick is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Cornell University and a faculty research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are empirical industrial organization, applied econometrics, and Chinese economy. Her research has focused on three main topics: the effect of firm entry on market structure, the welfare […]

Xiaobo Zhang is a Professor of Economics at the National School of Development, Peking University (PKU). He is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Guangbiao visiting professor at Zhejiang University. Professor Zhang’s research areas/interests include Development Economics, Agricultural Economics and Chinese Economy. Abstract: Social networks are cornerstones of personal […]

Agenda:  ► 9:30AM | Breakfast ► 10:00AM | Opening Statements ► 10:15AM | Keynote Lecture by Xiaobo Zhang, Professor of Economics, Peking University “The Economic and Social Consequences of Gender Imbalance in China” Abstract: Sex ratios have become increasing skewed in China in the past several decades. There are at least 30 million excess men […]

Speaker: Shing-Yi Wang Shing-Yi Wang is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Abstract: This paper exploits a unique feature of China’s history, the “sent-down youth” (SDY) program, to study the effects of access to internal migration. We show that temporary migration due to the […]

Speaker: Jerome Adda Jérôme Adda is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. He is a managing editor for the Review of Economic Studies. His research interests include Health Economics, Labor Economics and Macroeconomics. His main contributions have been on the effect of public policies on health behavior, the links between income and health, the role of human […]