The Institute for Economic and Social Research (IESR) at Jinan University and the Department of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong jointly hosted the IESR-CUHK Joint Workshop from October 14 to 15, 2024.

Workshop Participants

Professor Naihua Gu, Vice president of Jinan University, and Professor Zheng Song, Head of Department of Economics at CUHK, were invited to give a welcome speech.

Title: How Does Tax and Transfer Progressivity Affect Household Consumption Insurance?

Speaker: Yunho Cho, Jinan University 

Title: Means-Tested Subsidies, Family Dynamics and Labor Supply of Men and Women

Speaker: Ning Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Title: Family Leave Policies and Gender Inequality in Executive Positions: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms

Speaker: Kaixin Liu, Jinan University 

Title: Non-Monotonic Employment and Commuting Effects by Market Structure and Minimum Wage Level

Speaker: Kevin Devereux, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Title: Heterogeneity in Migration Costs, Aggregate Productivity, and Regional Income Inequality

Speaker: Ciqiao Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Title: Moving Online under De Minimis? The Trade War and Cross-Border E-Commerce

Speaker: Lixin Tang, Jinan University 

Title: Do Multinationals Discriminate? Information Disclosure and Product Recalls in China’s

Automobile Markets

Speaker: Ce Shi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title: Going Native: Foreign Firms’ Responses to Domestic Boycotts

Speaker: Cong Liu, Jinan University 

Title: Brain Gain in Late Colonial Indonesia? New Evidence on Chinese Migration and Wages

Speaker: Mark Hup, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Title: Wealth Redistribution and Population Growth in China

Speaker: Bin Xie, Jinan University