Chinese Economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news

The NBER's Working Group on the Chinese Economy met in Cambridge on April 10-11. Working Group Director ShangJin Wei of Columbia University and Research Associate Hanming Fang of the University of Pennsylvania organized the conference. These papers were discussed:

* Xiaoxue Zhao, Duke University, "To Reallocate or Not? Optimal Land Institutions under Communal Tenure: Evidence from China"

* Teng Li, Haoming Liu, and Alberto Salvo, National University of Singapore, "Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity"

* Nancy Qian, Yale University and NBER, and Java Wen, Yale University, "The Impact of Xi Jinping's Anti-Corruption Campaign on Luxury Imports in China"

* Brent Ambrose, Pennsylvania State University; Yongheng Deng, National University of Singapore; and Jing Wu, Tsinghua University, "Understanding the Risk of Chinas Local Government Debts and Its Linkage with Property Markets"

* Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Yang Tang, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); and Ping Wang, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER, "Rural-Urban Migration, Structural Transformation, and Housing Markets in China"

* Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown Lfniversity and NBER; Loren Brandt, University of Toronto; J. Vernon Henderson, London School of Economics; Matthew Turner, Brown University; and Qinghua Zhang, Peking University, "Transport...