Chinese economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research meetings on Chinese economy - Conference news

The NBER's Working Group on the Chinese Economy met in Cambridge on April 25 and 26, 2014. Working Group Director Shang-Jin Wei of Columbia University and Research Associate Hanming Fang of the University of Pennsylvania organized the conference. They chose these papers to discuss:

* Siqi Zheng and Weizeng Sun, Tsinghua University, and Matthew Kahn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, "Internet Search as Social Learning: Implications for China's Housing Market Dynamics"

* Trevor Tombe, University of Calgary, and Xiaodong Zhu, University of Toronto, "Trade Liberalization, Internal Migration, and Regional Income Differences: Evidence from China"

* Hui He, Feng Huang, and Dongming Zhu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, "Breaking the 'Iron Rice Bowl' and Precautionary Savings: Evidence from Chinese StateOwned Enterprises Reform"

* Xue Bai, Pennsylvania State University; Kala Krishna, Pennsylvania State University and NBER; and Hong Ma, Tsinghua University, "How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning, and Productivity in China"

* Myrto Kalouptsidi, Princeton University and NBER, "Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies: The Case of World Shipbuilding"

* Jennifer Carpenter and Fangzhou Lu, New...