The Economics of Environmental Protection in China.

• Position: Conferences

An NBER Conference on "The Economics of Environmental Protection in China" took place in Cambridge on February 14 and 15, 2014. Joseph Fan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and NBER Research Associates Matthew Kahn of the University of California, Los Angeles and Randall Morck of the University of Alberta, organized the program. These papers were discussed:

* Maoyong Fan, Ball State University; Guojun He, Harvard School of Public Health; and Maigeng Zhou, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "The Effect of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Mortality: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games"

* Dalia Ghanem, University of California, Davis, and Junjie Zhang, University of California, San Diego, "'Effortless Perfection': Do Chinese Cities Manipulate Air Pollution Data?"

* Ruixue Jia, University California, San Diego, "Pollution for Promotion"

* Jing Wu, Tsinghua University; Yongheng Deng and Bernard Yeung, National University of Singapore; Jun Huang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; and Randall Morck, "Incentives and Outcomes: China's Environmental Policy"(NBER Working Paper No. 18754)

* Junhong Chu and Ivan Png, National University of Singapore, and Yehning Chen, National Taiwan University...