Firms in Emerging Economies Workshop
Program Schedule
June 24
Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
Firms and Labor Market
8:30AM - 9:30AM Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College)
Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-income Country (with B. McCraig)
9:30AM – 10:30AM Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University)
Margins of Labor Market Adjustment to Trade in a Developing Country (with B. Kovak)
1:00PM – 2:00PM Parallel Sessions
Parallel Session I Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
| Parallel Session II Venue: Room 106, Zhonghui Building
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Xin Wang (Peking University) International Trade and Internal Migration with Labor Market Distortions | Shuaizhang Feng (Jinan University) Human Capital and Directed Technology Change: Evidence from China's College Enrollment Expansion
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Shu Cai (Jinan University) Trade Liberalization and Human Capital Acquisition: Evidence from China | Hongsong Zhang (The University of Hong Kong) Monitoring, Input Prices, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
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Firms and Trade
Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
2:15PM – 3:15PM James Tybout (Pennsylvania State University)
Born-to-Export Firms (with Bernardo Diaz de Astarloa, Jonathan Eaton, Kala Krishna, Bee Aw Roberts, and Andres Rodriguez Clare)
3:15PM – 4:15PM Pamela Medina (University of Toronto)
Within-Firm Responses to Import Competition: Quality Upgrading and Exporting in the Peruvian Apparel Industry
4:30PM – 5:30PM Jie Bai (Harvard Kennedy School)
Collective Reputation in Trade
June 25
Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
8:30AM – 10:00AM
Policy Roundtable: Industrial Policy in China
Participants:
Loren Brandt (University of Toronto)
Jiandong Ju (Tsinghua University)
Shang-jin Wei (Columbia University)
Miaojie Yu (Peking University)
Xiaobo Zhang (Peking University)
Development Policy
10:15AM – 11:15AM Shang-jin Wei (Columbia University)
Assessing the Likelihood of Missing Export Pioneers
11:15AM – 12:15PM
Parallel Sessions
Parallel Session I Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
| Parallel Session II Venue: Room 106, Zhonghui Building
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Zhiyuan Li (Fudan University) Terms of Trade Gains from Task Offshoring and Complementarity between Tasks
| Sisi Zhang (Jinan University) An Equilibrium Analysis of Housing Demand and Supply in China
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Yi Chen (Jinan University) Marriage, Childrearing, and the Gender Wage Differentials within the Firm: Evidence from China | Ting Chen (Princeton University) The Speculation Channel and Crowding Out Channel: Real Estate Shocks and Corporate Investment in China |
Firms and Innovation
Venue: Room 323, Zhonghui Building
1:15PM – 2:15PM Mark J. Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
The Long Run Return to R&D in Taiwan Electronics Industry (with B.Aw, Y. Lee, H. Zhang)
2:15PM – 3:15PM Daniel Yi Xu (Duke University)
Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China (with Z. Chen, Z. Liu, and J.C. Suarez-Serrato)
3:30PM – 5:30PM
Data Benchmarking Across Countries
Jie Bai – Micro-data of Chinese Firms
Mark J. Roberts – R&D and Innovation Data in the U.S and Europe
Rafael Dix Carneiro – Micro-data of Brazilian Firms
June 26
Venue: Room 106, Zhonghui Building
Firms, Productivity, and Industrial Organization
8:30AM – 9:30AM Loren Brandt (University of Toronto)
Stage-level Production in Chinese Steel Sector (with Y. Luo and Y. Su)
9:30AM – 10:30AM Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
Using Exchange Rate to Estimate Production Functions: Evidence from Colombia (with N. de Roux, M. Eslava, and S. Franco)
10:45AM – 11:45PM Rocco Macchiavello (London School of Economics)
The Industrial Organization of the Coffee Chain in Producing Countries
1:30PM-9:30PM Field Trip to Foshan
