June 18-20, 2018

Organized by

Economics and Management School, Wuhan University

Center for Economic Development Research, Wuhan University

Department of Economics, Wuhan University

Monday, June 18

Chair: Xun Li (Wuhan University)

8:30 Opening remarks

8:45-9:45 Is Processing Good?

Loren Brandt (U of Toronto), Bingjing Li (NUS) and Peter Morrow (U of Toronto)

9:45-10:45 Political Distortions and Infrastructure Network in China: A Quantitative Spatial

Equilibrium Analysis

Simon Alder (UNC Chapel Hill) and Illenin Kondo (U of Notre Dame)

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:00 The War Origin of Property Rights and State Capacity: The Lasting Impact of Taiping

Rebellion

Lixin Xu (World Bank) and Li Yang (PSE)

12:00-13:45 Lunch

Chair: Xiang Sun (Wuhan University)

13:45-14:45 Intangible, Inequality and Stagnation

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton) and Shengxing Zhang (LSE)

14:45-15:45 Contracting Frictions with Managers, Financial Frictions, and Misallocation

Ashique Habib (IMF), Chaoran Chen (NUS) and Xiaodong Zhu (U of Toronto)

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00 Flight to Housing

Feng Dong (SJTU), Jianfeng Liu (SJTU), Zhiwei Xu (SJTU) and Bo Zhao (Peking

University)

18:00-20:00 Conference Dinner

Tuesday, June 19

Chair: Jun Chen (Wuhan University)

8:45-9:45 The Elasticity of Intergenerational Substitution, Parental Altruism, and Fertility Choice

Juan Carlos Cordoba (Iowa State University) and Marla Ripoll (University of Pittsburgh)

9:45-10:45 Accounting for the International Quantity-Quality Trade-off

Juan Carlos Cordoba (Iowa State University), Xiying Liu (Wuhan University) and

Marla Ripoll (University of Pittsburgh)

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Childbearing Postponement, its Option Value, and the Biological Clock

David de la Croix (Universite catholique de Louvain) and Aude Pommeret (City U of Hong Kong)

12:00-13:45 Lunch

Chair: Jingbo Cui (Wuhan University)

13:45-14:45 Unemployment and Development

Ying Feng (UCSD), David Lagakos (UCSD) and James Rauch (UCSD)

14:45-15:45 Sectoral Productivity and Structural Transformation in China

Junmin Liao (Wuhan University) and Wei Wang (UIBE)

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00 Computerizing Industries and Routinizing Jobs: Explaining Trends in Productivity

Sangmin Aum (Washington University in St Louis), Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee (Toulouse

School of Economics) and Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St Louis)

18:00-20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, June 20

Chair: Yucheng Ding (Wuhan University)

8:45-9:45 Community Networks and the Evolution of Private Enterprises in China

Xiaobo Zhang (Peking University)

9:45-10:45 Taking Off and Slowing Down Like China

Eric Girardin (AMSE, Aix Marseille University) and Harry Wu (Hitotsubashi University)

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Growth and Welfare Gains from Financial Integration under Model Uncertainty

Yulei Luo (University of Hong Kong), Jun Nie (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City), and Eric Yong (University of Virginia)

12:00-14:00 Lunch