Chinese Economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Chinese Economy Working Group met April 22-23 in Cambridge and online. Working Group Director Shang-Jin Wei of Columbia University and Research Associates Nancy Qian of Northwestern University and Daniel Xu of Duke University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Joris M. Mueller, Northwestern University, "China's Foreign Aid: Political Determinants and Economic Effects"

* Jaya Wen, Harvard University, "State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China"

* Shengmao Cao, Xuejie Yi, and Chuan Yu, Stanford University, "Competitive Bidding in Drug Procurement: Evidence from China"

* Lei Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Guangli Lu, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen; and Wei Xiong, Princeton University and NBER, "The Big Tech Lending Model" (NBER Working Paper 30160)

* Ying Bai and Jiaojiao Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego and NBER, "The Web of Power: How Elite Networks Shaped War and China"

* Loren Brandt and Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto; Ruochen Dai, Central University of Finance and Economics; Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota; and Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University, "Serial...