The Chinese Economy.

• Position: Bureau News

The NBER's Working Group on the Chinese Economy, organized by Shang-Jin Wei, NBER, University of Maryland, and International Monetary Fund, met in Cambridge on September 30. This Working Group provides a forum for discussing recent research related to various aspects of Chinese economic development, including China's macroeconomic policies, trade and financial interactions with the rest of the world, reform strategies, lessons from China for other developing and transition economies, and lessons from other countries for China. The program for this meeting was:

Xuepeng Liu, Jan Ondrich, and Mary Lovely, Syracuse University, "How Much Do Low Wages Matter for Foreign Investment? The Case of China" Discussant: Lee J. Branstetter, NBER and Columbia University

Nancy Qian, Brown University "Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance" Discussant: John Giles, Michigan State University

Hongbin Cai, University of California, Los Angeles: Hanming Fang, Yale University; and Colin Xu, World Bank, "Eat, Drink. Firms and Governments: An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms" (NBER Working Paper No. 11592) Discussant: Thomas Rawski...