CUHK 6th annual conference on Chinese economy
Room 918, Esther Lee Building, Chung Chi College, CUHK
12 - 13 December 2015
Programme
| Day 1: Saturday, 12 December | |
| 9:00 to 9:30 | Reception |
| 9:30 to 10:15 | A Staged-Development Approach to Trade and Institutions: The Dynamic Process for Establishing the Pearl of the Britain-China Trade
WANG Ping, Washington University in St. Louis |
| 10:15 to 11:00 | Geopolitics and Asia's Little Divergence: A Comparative Analysis of State Building in China and Japan after 1850
SNG Tuan Hwee, National University of Singapore |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Tea Break |
| 11:30 to 12:15 | Endogenous Neo-Confucianism: The Path of Development in Historical China
BAI Ying, CUHK |
| 12:30 to 13:45 | Lunch |
| 14:15 to 15:00 | Friends from Afar: Migration, Cultural Proximity and Primary Schooling in the Lower Yangzi, 1850-1949
HAO Yu, Peking University |
| 15:00 to 15:45 | Political Influence, Networks, and Rankings: Evidence from Advanced Degree Holders in Imperial China, 1400-1580
KE Rongzhu, CUHK |
| 15:45 to 16:15 | Tea Break |
| 16:15 to 17:00 | Long Live Keju! The Persistent Effects of China’s Imperial Examination System
KUNG James, HKUST |
| 18:00 | Conference Dinner |
| Day 2: Sunday, 13 December | |
| 9:15 to 9:30 | Reception |
| 9:30 to 10:15 | Openness to FDI and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Chinese Firms
LIN Shu, Fudan University |
| 10:15 to 11:00 | Interest Rate Liberalization and Capital Allocation
LIU Zheng, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Tea Break |
| 11:30 to 12:15 | Shifts of Distortion and Corruption over Local Political Cycles in China
CHEN Shawn, University of Western Australia |
| 12:30 to 13:45 | Lunch |
| 14:00 to 16:00 | Brain Storming
Led by WANG Pengfei, HKUST Speakers: JIN Keyu, London School of Economics and Political Science SHI Kang, CUHK |