by Tara Sinclair
Month: October 2010
Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Market
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
The Libertarian Welfare State
Robert Frank
Cornell University
Thursday, October 14, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
Bad Public Schools are Public Bads: Test-Scores and Civic Values in Public and Private Schools
Jishnu Das
The World Bank
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm
John W. Kendrick Seminar Room
Room 321 at 2115 G Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
3rd Annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and the U.S. – China Relationship
Friday, October 8, 2010
Made possible by a generous gift from an anonymous donor
Continental breakfast at 8:00 AM
8:45 AM: Welcome and Overview of the Conference
Stephen C. Smith (Director, Institute for International Economic Policy, and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GWU)
9:00-9:45 AM: Kenneth Lieberthal, Brookings Institute, “Necessary Strategic Adaptation by U.S. Multinationals to Succeed in China’s Evolving Business Environment”
9:45-11:00 AM: Economic Development Patterns in China
Moderator: Steve Suranovic, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GWU
Panelists:
Lu Ming, Fudan University, “Sustainable Growth or Not? Hukou, Land and Rural-Urban Development in China“
Zhang Xiaobo, IFPRI, “Analysis of Industrial Clusters in China“
Feng Tian, Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, “Trade Linkages of BRICs in the World Economy“
11:00-11:15 AM: Coffee Break
11:15-12:30 PM: Political Economy of Development in China
Moderator: Jiawen Yang, Professor of International Business and International Affairs, GWU
Panelists:
Maggie Xiaoyang Chen, GWU, “Firm Performance and Investment in Political Human Capital“
Bruce Reynolds, UVA, “A Macro Framework for Understanding the Exchange Rate Debate“
Meng Lingsheng, Tsinghua University, “Prenatal Sex Selection and Missing Girls in China: Evidence from the Diffusion of Diagnostic Ultrasound“
12:30-1:45 PM: Luncheon and Keynote by Huang Yasheng, MIT, “Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics“
1:45-3:00 PM: Aspects of U.S.-China Economic Relations
Moderator: Michael Moore, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GWU
Panelists:
Doug Guthrie, Dean, GWU School of Business, “Economic Development & U.S.-China Relations“
Gao Fei, China Foreign Affairs University, “Chinese View on Contemporary Sino-US Relations: Challenge and Opportunity“
Bruce Dickson, GWU, “China’s Evolving Economic Model and Its Implications for the US”
3:00-4:15 PM: China-Africa Links
Moderator: Fred Joutz, Professor of Economics, GWU
Panelists:
Deborah Brautigam, African Union, “Chinese Aid and Investment in Africa: Think Again“
Joshua Eisenman, American Foreign Policy Council and UCLA, “China’s Trade and Political Engagement in Africa“
Ambassador David Shinn , GWU, “China’s Security and Diplomatic Relations with Africa”
An archive of all previous Annual Conferences on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations is available here.
For more information, please contact Kyle Renner at iiep@gwu.edu or 202-994-5320.
Co-sponsored by:
The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Maggie Chen
The George Washington University
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
12:30 to 2:00pm