Capitalizing China.

• Position: Conferences

The National Bureau of Economic Research and the Chinese University of Hong Kong jointly organized a conference on Capitalizing China, which took place in Hong Kong on December 15-16, 2009. The organizers were Joseph Fan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Randall Morck of NBER and the University of Alberta, Canada. These papers were presented and discussed:

* "Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?"

Dennis Yang and Junsen Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Shaojie Zhou, Tsinghua University

* "The Visible Hand behind Chinas Growth"

Joseph Fan; Jun Huang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Randall Morck; and Bernard Yeung, New York University and University of Singapore

* "Financing Strategies for Nation Building"

Zhiwu Chen, Yale University, and William N. Goetzmann, Yale University and NBER

* "Chinas Financial System: Opportunities and Challenges"

Franklin Allen and Chenying Zhang, University of Pennsylvania; Jim Qian, Boston College; and Mengxin Zhao, University of Alberta

* "Assessing Chinas Top-Down Securities Markets"

William Allen, New York University, and Han Shen, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Hong Kong

* "The Governance of...