Originally published on October 17, 2016
November 11th, 2016
City View Room, 7th Floor
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street NW, Washington, D.C.
The U.S.-China relationship is now second to none in importance for international economic relations and policy, and thus accordingly is a major focus of IIEP. The centerpiece of this initiative is our annual conference on China’s economic development and U.S.-China economic and political relations.
This conference is hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University. For more of our research on China, please visit our webpage at http://www.gwu.edu/~iiep
8:00 – 8:50AM Coffee and Continental Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00AM Welcome and Overview of the Conference
- Stephen Smith, Director, Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GWU
9:00 – 11:00AM Panel 1: The Future of Trade Integration in the Asia Pacific
- Jeff Schott, Peterson Institute for International Economics, “Will the US Invest in or Divest from Asia-Pacific Economic Integration?”
- Michael Plummer, JHU, “Megaregionalism in the Asia-Pacific and Options for Shared Chinese-US Leadership”
- Jiandong Ju, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, “Huaxia Community: A FTA and a New Architecture for the Global Economic System”
- Moderator: Steve Suranovic, George Washington University, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Director International Trade and Investment Policy Program
11:00 – 11:15AM Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45PM Panel 2: The Internet in China’s Economy
- Hong Xue, Beijing Normal University, “Chinese Electronic Commerce Law: the New Basic Law for Digital Economy”
- Jingting Fan, UMD, “The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and the Welfare Gains from e-Commerce”
- Maggie Chen, George Washington University, “International Trade on the Internet: Evidence from Alibaba”
- Moderator: Susan Aaronson, George Washington University, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Director International Trade and Investment Policy Program
12:45 – 2:00PM Lunch
2:00 – 3:30PM Panel 3: Trade, Migration, and Wage Premium in China
- Chao Wei, George Washington University, The Short and Long of Trade and Migration Reforms in China (joint with Xiaodong Zhu)
- RuiXue Jia, UCSD, “Access to Elite Education, Wage Premium, and Social Mobility: The Truth and Illusion of China’s College Entrance Exam”
- Eunhee Lee, University of Maryland at College Park, “Trade, Inequality, and the Endogenous Sorting of Heterogeneous workers”
4:00 – 5:30PM Panel 4: China‘s Macroeconomy, Urban Growth and Policy Analysis
- Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (also affiliated with the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance), “Reserve Requirements and Optimal ChineseStabilization Policy”
- Matthew Turner, Brown University, “Highways, Market Access and Urban Growth in China”
- Kai Zhao, University of Connecticut, “The Chinese Saving Rate: Productivity, Old Age Support and Demographics”
