Saturday, December 9, 2017

8:15-8:30

Registration

8:30-9:05

Welcoming remarks

Chair

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

Speaker

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

9:05-9:20

Group photo

9:20-10:50

Policy Session

Chair

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

Speaker

Qifan Huang，Vice-Chairman of Financial and Economic Committee of National People’s Congress

TBA

Juzhong Zhuang, Deputy Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank 

Meeting Asia’s Infrastructure Needs

10:50-11:50

Keynote speech 1

Chair

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

Speaker

Shang-Jin Wei, N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia University

International competitive bidding in infrastructure projects

11:50-12:35

Panel 1

Chair

Shenzhe Jiang, Assistant Professor, Center for NSE, Peking University

Presenter

Kenichi Ueda, Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo

Industrial Revolutions and Global Imbalances

12:35-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Keynote speech 2

Chair

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

Speaker

Jong-Wha Lee, Professor of economics and director of the Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University

Convergence Success and the Middle-Income Trap

15:00-15:15

Coffee break

15:15-16:45

Panel 2

Chair

Shenzhe Jiang, Assistant Professor, Center for NSE, Peking University

Presenter

Xubei Luo, Senior Economist, World Bank

Transformation through Infrastructure

Yanrui Wu, Professor, The University of Western Australia

Intangible Capital, ICT and Economic Growth in China

16:45-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-18:30

Panel 3

Chair

Jianye Yan, Associate Professor, Center for NSE, Peking University

Dan Liu, Associate Professor, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Highways and Firms' Exports: Evidence from China

18:30-20:00

Reception Dinner

Sunday, December 10, 2017

8:45-9:00

Sponsor Speech

Qingyang Gu, Associate Professor, editor of the Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development, National University of Singapore

9:00-10:30

Panel 4

Chair

Junjie Xia, Assistant Professor, Center for NSE, Peking University

Speaker

Shenzhe Jiang, Assistant Professor, Center for NSE, Peking University

Boom and Bust in China’s Housing Market

Qinghua Zhang, Associate Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

TBA,

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:15

Panel 5

Chair

Bo Hu, Assistant Professor, Center for NSE, Peking University

Presenter

Han Li, Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Highway Access and Local Employment Response in China's Urban Hierarchy

Guiying Laura Wu, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University

Estimating Productivity of Public Infrastructure Investment

12:15-14:00

Lunch