NBER Conference in Beijing.

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The thirteenth annual NBER-CCER Conference on China and the World Economy took place at the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) in Beijing on June 29--July 1, 2011. The conference program was jointly arranged by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the CCER at Beijing University, and Tsinghua University. After opening remarks by James M. Poterba of NBER and MIT, Yang Yao of CCER, and David Li of Tsinghua University, the following topics were discussed:

Macroeconomics

* Yiping Huang, CCER, "China's Capital Account Liberalization"

* David Li, Tsinghua University, "An Emerging Policy Paradigm of China's Macroeconomic Policy"

* James Poterba, MIT and NBER, "he Long-Term U.S. Fiscal Challenge"

* Julio Rotemberg, Harvard Business School and NBER, "Behavioral and Institutional Roots of Financial Instability"

Capital and Foreign Exchange

* Patrick Bolton, Columbia University and NBER, "Contingent Capital and Counter-Cyclical Investment Strategies"

Housing Markets

* Martin Schneider, Stanford University and NBER, "Borrowing and House Prices"

* Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University and NBER, "Mating Competition and Housing Market Characteristics"

* Fan He, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, "Demographic Change and Housing Prices"

Education and Marriage

* Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER, "The Anti-Lemons Effect and the Market for Education"

* Li-An Zhou, Peking University Graduate School of Management, "Estimating the Return to Education: Evidence from

China's Schooling Reform"

* Tao Li, HSBC School of Business, Peking University, "Intergeneration Status and Marital Sorting"

Land Markets and Land Reforms

* Hongbin Cai, Graduate School of Management, Peking University, "Land Market Auctions in China: Evidence of Corruption?"

* Michelle J. White, University of California, San Diego and NBER, "Land in the United States"

* Lixing Li, CCER, "Land Titling in China: the Chengdu Experiment and Its Consequences"

Financial Market

* Monika Piassezi, Stanford University and NBER, "Interest Rate Risk in Credit Markets"

* Qiao Liu, Peking University Graduate School of Management, "The Evolution and Consequence of Chinese Pyramids"

* Ailsa Roell, Columbia University...