NBER Conference in Beijing.

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The tenth annual NBER-CCER Conference on China and the World Economy took place at the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) in Beijing on July 2-4. The conference program was jointly arranged by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the CCER at Beijing University, and Tsinghua University.

At this conference, the discussion topics presented by Chinese participants included: how factor income is distributed in China; the Chinese real estate market; the importance of productivity growth in China; an evaluation of Chinas poverty alleviation program; and stock market valuation, and the inelastic demand for stocks, in China.

U.S. participants at this year's conference were: NBER President Emeritus Martin Feldstein of Harvard University, and...