Program

2018 Workshop on Firms in Emerging Economies

Program

Day 1: 21-Jun, Thursday

Innovation and Technology Upgrading in China

Time-table	Speaker	Title	Room No.#
8:45AM-9:00AM	Opening		217
9:00AM-9:45AM	Dan Trefler	Innovation in the Global Economy: Scale and Competition	217
9:45AM-10:00AM	Group Photo
10:00AM-10:45AM	Wolfgang Keller	International Joint Ventures and Internal vs External Technology Transfer: Evidence from China	217
11:00AM-11:45AM	Hongbin Li	The Rise of Robots in China	217
11:45AM - 1:15PM	Lunch

Parallel Sessions(A1 & A2 & A3):

A1: Industrial Organization

Time-table	Speaker	Title	Room No.#
1:15PM - 2:00PM	Daniel Yi Xu	Two-sided Search in International Markets	217
2:15PM - 3:00PM	Zhao Chen	The Impact of Energy Regulation on Firm performance and Energy efficiency	217
3:15PM - 4:00PM	Jeremy Fox	A Structural Model of Repeated Matching Game	217

A2: Production Networks

1:15PM - 2:00PM	Ernest Liu	Industrial Policies in Production Networks	106B
2:15PM - 3:00PM	Banu Demir	Financial Constraints and Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks	106B
3:15PM - 4:00PM	Xiaobo Zhang	Community Networks and the Evolution of Private Enterprises in China	106B

A3: 广东侨商企业转型发展论坛（in Chinese）

（管理学院企业发展研究所主办，地点：管理学院）

2:00PM - 2:45PM

陈林

Lin Chen

湾区产业升级与政府引导Industrial upgrading and government guidance in the Bay Area industrial enterprise development and government guidance

管院314

3:00PM - 3:45PM

吴战篪

Zhanchi Wu

企业社会责任履行动因与评价体系

Evaluaitng the Level and Motivations of Corporate Social Responsibility

管院314

4:00PM - 4:45PM

邓地

Di Deng

从方太到传祺——本土品牌如何突破高端市场瓶颈

From Fotile to Trumpchi: How Can Local Brands Breakthrough the Bottleneck to High-end Market

管院314

Break and Dinner:

4:00PM - 4:15PM	Coffee Break	217
4:15PM - 5:15PM	Meetings with Local Faculty Members
5:30PM - 7:00PM	Dinner: Haocai Restaurant

Day 2: 22-Jun, Friday

Data Benchmarking

Time-table	Participators	Room No.#
9:00AM - 10:30 AM	Maggie Chen (Brazil), Zhao Chen (China), Michael Gechter (India), Kalina Manova (Belgium)	217
10:30AM - 10:45AM	Coffee Break

Parallel Sessions(B1 & B2):

B1: Financial Deepening

10:45AM -11:30AM	Joe Kaboski	Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development	217
11:45AM - 12:30PM	Jing Cai	Micro Effects of Financial Deepening	217

B2: Labor in China

10:45AM - 11:30AM	Xue Bai	Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence	106B
11:45AM - 12:30PM	Albert Park	Globalization and the Demand for Tasks and Skills in China	106B

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Lunch: Minghu Restaurant

Parallel Sessions(C1 & C2):

C1: China in Global Production

2:00PM - 2:45PM	Kalina Manova	Growing like China: Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position	217
3:00PM - 3:45PM	Yong Wang	Trade Liberalization, Input-Output Linkage and Markup	217
4:00PM - 4:45PM	Maggie Chen	Outsourcing Innovation: The China Shock Hits Brazil	217

C2: Government Policy

2:00PM - 2:45PM	Michael Gechter	Efficiency And Equity Of Land Policy In Developing Country Cities	106B
3:00PM - 3:45PM	Namrata Kala	Workhorses or White Elephants? The Effects of Earned Autonomy on State Owned Enterprises	106B
4:00PM - 4:45PM	James Roberts	The Impact of Government Entry Subsidies in the Presence of Asymmetric Information	106B

Dinner:

4:45PM – 5:00PM	Coffee Break
5:30PM - 7:00PM	Dinner: Guangzhou Restaurant

Day 3: 23-Jun, Saturday

Field Trip to Trade Malls and Local Firms

9:30AM - 12:30PM	Visiting China (Guangzhou) Intelligent Equipment & Robot Expo
3:00PM - 5:30PM	Visiting Xiaopeng Automobile Co., Ltd.

Tips:

Each presenter is allocated 40 minutes presentation time and 5 minutes for open discussions. The last presenter in a parallel session is designated as the session chair, who will do the timekeeping. There is a 15-minute break between each presentation and refreshments will be served in every break.

List of Participants

By Surname

No.	Name	Affiliation	Email
1	Xue Bai	Brock University	xbai@brocku.ca
2	Jing Cai	University of Maryland	cai516@umd.edu
3	Lin Chen	Jinan University	1013357515*******
4	Maggie Chen	George Washington University	xchen@gwu.edu
5	Zhao Chen	Fudan University	zhaochen@fudan.edu.cn
6	Banu Demir	Bilkent University	banup@bilkent.edu.tr
7	Di Deng	Jinan University	dengdi@jnu.edu.cn
8	Jeremy T. Fox	Rice University	jeremyfox**********
9	Michael Gechter	Penn State University	mdg5396@psu.edu
10	Zhutong Gu	Peking University	zgu@phbs.pku.edu.cn
11	Mantian Hu	CUHK	mandyhu@baf.cuhk.edu.hk
12	Ruixue Jia	UC San Diego	rxjia@ucsd.edu
13	Joe Kaboski	University of Notre Dame	jkaboski@nd.edu
14	Wolfgang Keller	University of Colorado	Wolfgang.Keller@colorado.edu
15	Namrata Kala	MIT	kala@mit.edu
16	Hongbin Li	Stanford University	hongbinli@stanford.edu
17	Kai Li	Xiamen University	likai501**********
18	Yatang Lin	HKUST	linyt@ust.hk
19	Ernest Liu	Princeton University	ernestliu@princeton.edu
20	Zhentong Lu	Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	lu.zhentong@mail.shufe.edu.cn
21	Kalina Manova	University College London	K.manova@ucl.ac.uk
22	Albert Park	HKUST	albertpark@ust.hk
23	Yulei Peng	Sun Yat-Sen University	pyulei@mail.sysu.edu.cn
24	James Roberts	Duke University	j.roberts@duke.edu
25	Leilei Shen	Kansas State University	lshen@k-state.edu
26	Dan Trefler	University of Toronto	Dtrefler@Rotman.Utoronto.Ca
27	Yong Wang	Peking University	yongwang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
28	Zhanchi Wu	Jinan University	42782191*******
29	Junjie Xia	Peking University	junjiexia@nsd.pku.edu.cn
30	Kaili Yang	Duke University	kaili.yang@duke.edu
31	Xiaobo Zhang	Peking University	x.zhang@nsd.pku.edu.cn
32	Yu Zhou	Fudan University	yuzhou@fudan.edu.cn

Organizing Committee

No.	Name	Affiliation	Email
1	Shuaizhang Feng	Jinan University	shuaizhang.feng************
2	Daniel Yi Xu	Duke University	daniel.xu@duke.edu
3	Shijun Cheng	Jinan University	shijun.cheng@jnu.edu.cn
4	Jie Bai	Harvard University	Jie_Bai@hks.harvard.edu
5	Shiyu Bo	Jinan University	boshiyu@outlook.com
6	Lijuan Yin	Jinan University	kassityyin********
7	Yingjun Su	Jinan University	yis17@pitt.edu

Local Administrator

No.	Name	Affiliation	Email
1	Feiyan Tang	Jinan University	feiyantang@jnu.edu.cn