Publication: NBER Reporter
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
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The NBER's Working Group on China met in Cambridge on October 13. NBER Research Associate Shang-Jin Wei of the IMF organized the meeting. The following papers were discussed:
Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER; Lena Edlund, Columbia University; and Hongbin Li and Junsen Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, "Long-Term Effects of Chinas Great Famine in Hong Kong and Mainland China"
Discussant: Xiaobo Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute
Tarun Khanna and Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard University, "The Political Economy of Firm Size Distributions: Evidence from Post-Reform China"
Discussant: Bruce Reynolds, University of Virginia
David Dollar, World Bank, and Shang-jin Wei, "Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China"
Discussant: Galina Hale, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Geert Bekaert, Columbia University and NBER; Campbell R. Harvey, Duke University and NBER; and Christian Lundblad, University of North Carolina, "Financial Openness and the Chinese Growth Experience"
Discussant: Zhiwu Chen, Yale University
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of California, Berkeley, and Peter Klenow, Stanford University and NBER, "Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India"
Discussant: Lee Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Yi Qian, Northwestern University, "Pricing and Marketing Impacts of Entry by Counterfeiters and Imitators"
Discussant: Nancy Qian, Brown University
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