Seminars

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]