Working group on the Chinese economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference notes

The NBER's Working Group on the Chinese Economy met in Cambridge on October 5 and 6, 2012. Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, and Shang-Jin Wei of Columbia University who directs the group, organized the conference. These papers were discussed:

* David Dollar, U.S. Treasury, and Benjamin Jones, Northwestern University and NBER, "Understanding China: An Explanation for an Unusual Macroeconomy"

* Russell Cooper, Pennsylvania State University and NBER; Guan Gong, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; and Ping Yan, CCER, "Costly Labor Adjustment: Effects of China's Employment Regulations" (NBER Working Paper No 17948)

* Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER; Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University; and Shuang Zhang, Cornell University, "Income and Sex Selection: A Cautionary Tale of Land Reform and Sex Ratios in China"

* Harrison Hong, Princeton University and NBER; Wenxi Jiang, Yale University; and Bin Zhao, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, "Trading for Status"

* Jing Wu, Tsinghua University; Yongheng Deng and Bernard Yeung, National University of Singapore; Jun Huang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics; and Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER, "Incentives and Outcome: The 'Environmental' Bias in China"

* Lily Fang, INSEAD; Jun Qian, Boston College; and Huiping Zhang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, "Out of the Limelight but In Play: Trading and Liquidity of Media and Off-media Stocks"

* Yongheng Deng, National University...