Saturday, June 3^rd, 2017

8:15-8:30

Registration

8:30-8:45

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

Ning Wang, Editor-in-Chief, Man and the Economy; Senior Fellow, Ronald Coase Institute;International Director, Ronald Coase Center for the Study of the Economy, Zhejiang University

8:45-10:30

Keynote speech and open discussion

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

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Backwardness: A New Structural Economics Perspective

Open-floor Discussion (10:05-10:30)

10:30-10:45

Coffee break

10:45-12:15

Session 1

Chair

Ning Wang, Editor-in-Chief, Man and the Economy; Senior Fellow, Ronald Coase Institute; International Director, Ronald Coase Center for the Study of the Economy, Zhejiang University

Presenters

Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley

State Capacity and Development (with special reference to China and India)

Bill Megginson, Professor and Price Chair in Finance, University of Oklahoma’s Michael F. Price College of Business

Co-author:Bo Li, School of Business, Shantou University

Co-author: Zhe Shen, School of Management, Xiamen University

Co-author: Qian Sun, Department of Finance, School of Management, Fudan University

Why Don’t Share Issue Privatizations Improve Profitability in China?

Ning Wang, Editor-in-Chief, Man and the Economy; Senior Fellow, Ronald Coase Institute;International Director, Ronald Coase Center for the Study of the Economy, Zhejiang University

Chinese Universities and the Market for Ideas

12:15-12:30

Group Photo

12:30-14:00

Lunch (by invitations only, venue: Mashi Casserole )

14:00-15:30

Session2

Chair

Jiajun Xu, Executive Deputy Director, Center for New Structural Economics, Peking University

Presenters

Gerard Roland, E. Morris Cox professor of economics and professor of political science, University of California Berkeley

Culture, Institutions and Democratization

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

Industrial Upgrading, Structural Change, and Middle Income Trap

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

Shiping Tang, Professor of School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University

What Do Institutions Do exactly? Understanding the Institutional Foundation of Economic Growth

15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-18:00

Session3

Chair

Xuemin Tang, Post-doc Research Fellow , Center for NSE, Peking University

Presenters

Jiajun Xu, Executive Deputy Director, Center for New Structural Economics, Peking University

Market Maker: The Role of China Development Bank in Economic Structural Transformation

Siyuan Liu, Ph.D. candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Industrial Policies and Economic Development

Nathaniel Lane, Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) in Stockholm, Sweden

Manufacturing Revolutions-Industrial Policy and Networks in South Korea

Reed Zhenhuan Lei, Ph.D. student of Department of Politics, New York University

Co-author: Jeffrey B.Nugent, Professor of Economics and Business, Department of Economics, University of Sourthern California

Coordinating China's Economic Growth Strategy via Its Government-Controlled Association for Private Firms

18:00-18:20

Coffee Break/ Conference Adjourns

18:30-20:00     

Dinner (by invitations only, venue: China Lounge Restaurant )