Centers & Institutes

Scholars convened by Johnson’s Emerging Markets Institute and Cornell’s Latin American Studies Program shared their views on “Sino–Latin American Relations in the Age of Trump.” by Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 During the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and NAFTA came under intense public scrutiny. President Donald Trump’s commitment to […]

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 […]

China is taking advantage of the accelerated growth of its economy. Contrary to other emerging markets, China has managed to disburse growth to large pools of its population, increased disposable income of a previously impoverished population. by German Peralta, MBA ’17 Thanks to the Cunningham Fund, a fund part of the Emerging Markets Institute of […]

The symposium focused on addressing questions and issues within a multidisciplinary framework that covered the topics related to the trends in financial instruments, areas of tension and broader finance frameworks. April 19, 21-22, 2017 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY  The Cornell Institute for African Development (IAD) in collaboration with the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture […]

Shifting consumer behaviors, supported by advances in infrastructure, have increasingly enabled the Colombian economy through technology. More than ever before, Colombian entrepreneurs today have new opportunities within their reach – and they know it: 72% of Colombian adults view entrepreneurship as a worthy career path. by Vince Wong, Cornell Tech MBA ’17 In Latin America, there […]

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 […]

  ISSUE NO. 14 by Otaviano Canuto Brazil has been suffering from “anemic productivity growth”. This is a major challenge because in the long run, sustained productivity increases are necessary to underpin inclusive economic growth. Without them, increases in real labor earnings tend to conflict with global competitiveness; collecting taxes in order to fund government […]