Thursday, December 15, 2016

8:15-8:30

Registration

8:30-9:15

Welcoming remarks

Chair

Yong Wang, Academic Deputy Director of Center for NSE, Peking University

Speakers

Justin Yifu Lin, Director, Center for NSE; Honorary Dean, National School of Development, Peking University

Kan Huang, Deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission

9:15-9:30

Group photo

9:30-11:00

Keynote speech 1

Chair

Yong Wang, Academic Deputy Director of Center for NSE, Peking University

Speakers

Ricardo Hausmann, Director of Center for International Development, Harvard University

TBD

Daniel Trefler, Douglas and Ruth Grant Canada Research Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity, Professor of Business Economics, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

TBD

11:00-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-13:00

Panel 1

Chair

Xin Wang, Assistant Professor, Center for NSE, Peking University

Presenters

Yang Yao, Dean of National School of Development, Peking University

Co-author: Rui Mao, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Zhejiang University

Co-author: Jingxian Zou

Fixed Exchange Rates, the Balassa-Samuelson Effect and Export-led Growth

Yong Wang, Academic Deputy Director of Center for NSE, Peking University

Co-author: Justin Yifu Lin, Director, Center for NSE; Honorary Dean, National School of Development, Peking University

Structural Change, Industrial Upgrading and Middle Income Trap

Sandra Poncet, Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics

Co-author: Julien Gourdon, Economist, OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate

Co-author: Laura Hering, Professor of Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Co-author: Stéphanie Monjon, Professor of University Dauphine

How effective are VAT export taxes? Evidence from China

13:00-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:15

Keynote speech 2

Chair

Miaojie Yu, Deputy Dean of National School of Development, Peking University

Speakers

Kuen Lee, Director, Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University; Co-Editor of Research Policy

IPRs, Innovation and Economic Development at Different Stages

15:15-15:45

Coffee break

15:45-17:30

Panel 2

Chair

Jiajun Xu, Executive Deputy Director, Center for NSE, Peking University

Presenters

Miaojie Yu, Deputy Dean of National School of Development, Peking University

Co-author: Wei Tian, Professor of International Trade and Economics, University of Hong Kong

Co-author: Cheng Chen, Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Hong Kong

Outward FDI and Domestic Input Distortions: Evidence from Chinese Firms

Xin Wang, Assistant Professor, Center for NSE, Peking University

International trade and internal migration with Labor Market Distortions: Theory and Evidence from China

Liuchun Deng, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University

Specialization Dynamics, Convergence, and Idea Flows

17:45-19:30

Reception Dinner

Friday, December 16, 2016

8:45-9:00

Registration

9:00-9:45

Keynote speech 3

Chair

Jiajun Xu, Executive Deputy Director, Center for NSE, Peking University

Speaker

Deborah Brautigam, Director of the IDEV and CARI, Johns Hopkins University/SAIS

What Kinds of Chinese “Geese” Are Flying to Africa? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms

9:45-10:15

Coffee break

10:15-12:35

Panel 3

Chair

Jiajun Xu, Executive Deputy Director, Center for NSE, Peking University

Presenters

Zhihua Zeng, Senior economist at the Financial and Private Sector Development Department of the Africa Region, World Bank

SEZs as a Solution for Structural Transformation: Global Lessons and Policy Implications

Tilman Altenburg, Head of Department, Sustainable Economic and Social Development, German Development Institute

Co-author: Maria Kleinz

Co-author: Wilfried Lutkenhorst, Associate Fellow, Department of Sustainable Economic and Social Development, German Development Institute

Directing structural change: From tools to policy

Paul Hubbard, Sir Roland Wilson PhD Scholar, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

Co-author: Jiajun Xu, Executive Deputy Director, Center for New Structural Economics, Peking University

Structural change and rising wage costs in China: drivers of overseas direct investment for Chinese private and state-owned firms

Felwine Sarr, Professor of Economics at University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis

Co-author: Muhammad Ba, PhD Student in Economics at University Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis

The capability approach and evaluation of the well-being in Senegal: an operationalization with the models of structural equations

12:35-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Keynote speech 4

Chair

Yong Wang, Academic Deputy Director of Center for NSE, Peking University

Speaker

Loren Brandt, Noranda Chair Professor of International Trade and Economics, Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China

Yi Wen, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University; Assistant Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank

China’s Industrial Revolution: Past, Present, and Future

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:45

Panel 4

Chair

Xin Wang, Assistant Professor, Center for NSE, Peking University

Presenters

Xiaoqian Zhang, Associate Professor, Zhejiang University

Co-author: Jinchuan Shi, Professor of Zhejiang University

How to explain Corporate Investment Heterogeneity in China's New Normal: Structural models by State-owned Property Rights

Wen Yao, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tsinghua University

Co-author: Xiaodong Zhu, Professor of Economics, University of Toronto