Cornell Institute for China Economic Research

Based on BFI Working Paper 2024-141, “Industrial Policies and Innovation: Evidence from the Global Automobile Industry,” by Yucheng Wang, University of Sydney; Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Hyuk-Soo Kwon, University of Chicago; Shanjun Li, Cornell University; and Nahim B. Zahur, Queen’s University. Industrial policies (IPs) targeting electric vehicles (EVs) are associated with an increase […]

Why we must treat decarbonization policies as an experiment and put in place measures now to evaluate what works best. This article How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum (nature.com) was published 29 October 2024 on Nature Portfolio. It is based on research by Peter Christensen, Patrick Baylis, Teevrat Garg, Shanjun Li, […]

In 2013, China launched a landmark program to monitor air quality and disclose real-time data. Did increased access to pollution information affect public behavior and health outcomes? Check out the video below by Hoai-Luu Nguyen on a published research paper “From Fog to Smog: The Value of Pollution Information“ by Panle Barwick, Shanjun Li, Liguo […]

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 […]

Examine the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976―an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao.

The lecture series “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in post-1949 China” is a pioneering initiative to delve into the complex and often obscured aspects of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since its establishment in 1949. This bold series aims to ‘unmask’ the realities that have been obscured by the Chinese Communist Party […]

The Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme, in collaboration with China Institute for Economic Research (CICER), the Cornell China Center, and the Emerging Markets Institute, brings together scholars to provide thought leadership on the role of emerging markets – and emerging market multinationals – in the global economy. Scott Rozelle, the Helen […]

Speaker: Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Keller obtained his PhD at Yale University in 1995 and 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 […]

The 2022 Emerging Markets Theme PhD Research Day will be held on Thursday, 3 November 2022 from 8:15AM to 5:40PM at Cornell Tech Campus in New York City. Organized by the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business Emerging Markets Theme, in collaboration with China Institute for Economic Research, the Cornell China Center, the Emerging Markets […]