Conference Agenda:

Notes: Registration will start on March 13 afternoon at PMU Union Club Hotel lobby.

  It will continue on March 14 at Stewart Center, by Fowler Hall

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Conference Program

1:00 – 6:00 pm Arrival and Registration

Venue: PMU Union Club Hotel lobby

March 14 (Friday)

8:00 – 8:30 Registration (Fowler Auditorium)

08:30 – 09:00 Opening Ceremony (Fowler Auditorium)

Moderator: Orn Bodvarsson, Vice-President of CES, St. Cloud State University

Speakers: CES President Jinlan Ni, Purdue President’s notes, Chris Earley (Dean of Krannert of School of Management), Justin Tobias (Associate Dean of Krannert School of Management), Bingtao Song (Dean of School of Economics, Henan University), Ken Foster (Department Chair of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University)

09:00-10:00   Plenary Session: Keynote Speech I (Fowler Auditorium)

 Moderator: Yan Bai, University of Rochester

Speaker: Yao Yang (Peking University)

 10:00-10:15 Coffee/Tea Break

10:15- 12:15  Plenary Session II

Moderator: Jun Ma (University of Alabama)

Speakers: Neng Wang (Columbia University)

 Guijun Lin (University of Foreign Trade and Business)

 12:15 – 13:30 Lunch (STEW)

13:30-15:15 Round Table Forum and Parallel Sessions

Round Table Forum I:  Urbanization in China (STEW)

Moderator: Ding Lu (University of the Fraser Valley) 

Panelists: Shunfeng Song (University of Nevada at Reno), Joyce Man (Indiana University), Zunfu Zhang(Clark University), Zhichao Yin (SWUFE), Gene Chang (University of Toledo)

 Round Table Forum II:  China Economic Reform and Development (STEW)

Moderator: Jack Hou (California State University at Long Beach)

Panelists: Shuanglin Lin(University of Nebraska at Omaha), Jason Yin (Seton Hall University), Guan Gong (SUFE), Lizheng Shi (Tulane University), Bingtao Song (Henan University), Wei Yu

Parallel Session: E1
Session Title: Organized Session: Recent Developments and Reforms in Chinese Financial Markets
Venue: STEW
Chair: HO KIN-YIP, THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

1. Transaction Costs, Mispricing and the Value Premium in the Chinese Stock Markets, An Jiyoun. Kyung Hee University, ja256@khu.ac.kr, Kin-Yip Ho.

2. Volatility and Correlation Dynamics of the Mainland Chinese Stock Markets: Evidence from the A-, B-, H- and Red-Chip Markets, HO KIN-YIP. THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, kin-yip.ho@anu.edu.au, Yanlin Shi, Zhaoyong Zhang.

3.  Public Information Arrivals and Foreign Exchange Volatility: Regime-Switching Evidence from the Chinese Renminbi Currency, SHI YANLIN. The Australian National Univeristy, anlin.shi@anu.edu.au, Kin-Yip Ho, Wai-Man Liu.

4. Financial Frictions and Agricultural Productivity Differences in China, Wang Wei. Washington University in St. Louis, wwangc@wustl.edu, Junmin Liao

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee/Tea  Break

15:30 – 17:00 Plenary Session III (Fowler Auditorium)

Moderator: Holly Wang (Purdue University)

Speaker: Edward Prescott (Arizona State University, 2004 Nobel Prize Laureate)

“The Revolution in Aggregate Economics”

17:00 – 17:30 Group Photos

 17:30- 19:15 Dinner Banquet (Purdue Memorial Union, North Ballroom )

19:30 – 20:45 Amazing China Dance Show (Fowler Auditorium), presented by Confucius Institute at Purdue Performing Art Troupe, and sponsored by Confucius Institute at Purdue. 

March 15 (Saturday)

Session Number:  E2
Session Title:  Government Debt
Venue:  RAWL 1057
Chair: Yan Bai, University of Rochester

Time: 8:00 – 10:00 am

1. Maturity and Repayment Structure of Sovereign Debt, Yan Bai. University of Rochester, yanbai06@gmail.com.

2. China's Sovereign Debt: A Balance-Sheet Perspective, Zhang Xun. China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, zhangxun@pku.edu.cn, Jianguo Xu.

3. Debt Maturity Management, Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions, Jin Hao. Indiana University Bloomington, jinhao@indiana.edu.     

Session Number: E3

Session Title: Industry studies
Venue: RAWL 1062
Chair:  Hao Luo, Sun Yat-sen University

Time: 8:00 – 10:00 am

1. POT Model for Operational Risk: Experience with the Analysis of the Data Collected from Chinese Commercial Banks from 1995 to 2012, Han Jinmian. Northwest University, rubyhan228@gmail.com, Wang Wei.  

2. Efficiency analysis of the hotel industry in major China’s cities.  Hao Luo,  luohao6@mail.sysu.edu.cn, Sun Yat-sen University; China Data Center, University of Michigan, Yang Yang*, Rob Law.

3. Place-based Industrial Policies and Local Economic Development: Evidence from China’s “Third Front” Movement, Zou Ben. University of Maryland, College Park, zouben@gmail.com, Fan, Jingting.

4. Technology Shock, Agricultural Productivity, and Son Preference: the Long-term Impact of Textile Production in Ming China, Xue Meng. George Mason University, mxue@gmu.edu

Session Number: E4
Session Title: Economic analysis of social movements
Venue: RAWL 2077
Chair: YUAN YICAI, University of California at Berkeley

Time: 8:00 – 10:00 am

1. Population Aging and China’s Social Security Reforms, LI SHIYU. School of Finance, Renmin University of China, shiyu00@gmail.com, Shuanglin Lin.

2. Luxury Show-Off and Social Conflicts Coefficient: A Comparative Analysis between China and U.S. from a Political Economics Perspective, Fu Hongchun. Dept.of Eco., School of Business, East China Normal University, hcfu@jjx.ecnu.edu.cn. 

 3. An interpretation of Democracy, Autocracy and the “Chinese Way” in Economic Perspective, YUAN YICAI. University of California at Berkeley, yuanyicai@berkeley.edu. Ge Song.

4.  The Long Term Impacts of the Cultural Revolution on Economic Performances of Urban Residents in China, Dong Zhou. University of California, Riverside, dzhou002@ucr.edu.

Session Number: E5
Session Title: FDI and outsourcing
Venue: RAWL 1011
Chair: Zhang Cong. University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign

Time: 8:00 – 10:00 am

1. An Empirical Analysis on Chinese Outward FDI Development Path -Based on IDP and IPI Models, Kun Ma. Shenyang University of Chemical Technology, makun0622@126.com, Wang Yinan.

2. Outsourcing to China and U.S. local wage Inequalities, Zhang Cong. University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, czhang15@illinois.edu.

3. Government Size, Trade Openness, and International Business Cycles, Jiang Mingming. University of California Riverside, mingming.jiang@email.ucr.edu.      

Session Number: E6
Session Title: Health economic research on China, Taiwan, and USA
Venue: RAWL 1071
Chair: :  Ding Lu, Ding.Lu@ufv.ca, University of the Fraser Valley

Time: 8:00 – 10:00 am

1. The Reputation of Primary-care Physicians and Information Dissemination among Patients: Evidence from China, Li Mingqiang. Harvard University, mingtsianglee@gmail.com.

2. Diffusion of Drug-Eluting Stents in PTCA Procedures, Yu Yang. Lehigh Univeristy, xmyuyang818@gmail.com, Mary E. Deily.

3.  The Intergenerational Transmission of Low Birth Weight: A Large Multigenerational Cohort Study in Taiwan, Qian Mengcen. Lehigh University, meq210@lehigh.edu, Shin-Yi Chou, Lea R. Gimenez-Duarte, and Jin-Tan Liu.

4. Is Maternal Employment Related to Childhood Obesity in China? Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, Ruizhi Xie. yuanyan@swufe.edu.cn, Titus O. Awokuse.

Session Number: E7
Session Title: Special topics in industrial organization
Venue: RAWL 4054
Chair: Gene Chang, Professor, University of Toledo

Time: 8:00 – 10:00 am

1. Does China's WTO Accession Reduce labor share: Empirical Evidence from Firm-level Data in Manufacturing Sector, Liang Zhonghua. Peking University, Columbia University(Visiting Scholar).liangzhonghua2008@gmail.com, Miaojie Yu.

2. Endogenous Product Cycles in Heterogeneous Industries and Intellectual Property Rights: Theory and Evidence, Shao Yuchen. University of Colorado at Boulder, shaoy@colorado.edu.

3. Influence of Ownership on Hospital Performance: Model and Empirical Evidence, Chang Kathryn. Sonoma State University, gene.chang@utoledo.edu. Gene Chang, Professor, University of Toledo.

4. Human Capital, Innovation and Imitation in Chinese Manufacturing firms, Sun Xiuli. Georgia Institute of Technology, sunline862@gmail.com.

Session Number: E8
Session Title: Organized Session: The Environment and Agriculture
Venue:  RAWL 2058
Chair:  Carnegie Rachel, Purdue University

Time: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

1. Flood Insurance in Rural China: Are Farmers Willing to Buy?, Jinzheng Ren. College of Economics and Management, China Agriculture Universtiy, rjzheng1977@163.com. Longling Li, China Agriculture University, and H. Holly Wang, Purdue University.

2. An Empirical Analysis about Effect of Agricultural Insurance on Farmers’ Income: Results from Inner Mongolia, Zhao Yuanfeng. Inner Monoglia Agricultural University, zhao453@purdue.edu, Chai zhihui. 

3.  Agricultural Suitability and Urbanization: China 1000 BC to 2000 AD, Li Xiaofei. Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, li597@purdue.edu, Raymond Florax, Brigitte Waldorf.

4. Water Scarcity and International Agricultural Trade, Taheripour Farzad. Purdue University, liu207@purdue.edu, Jing Liu; Thomas Hertel; Tingju Zhu; Claudia Ringler.

Session Number: E9
Session Title: Corporate Finance
Venue:  RAWL 1057
Chair:  Rong Zhao, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Time: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

1. Financing decision between debt and equity: evidence from China’s industries data, Wang Dalin. Econ Department, College of Business, University of Nebraska, wdlemail@gmasenil.com, Jinlan Ni.

2. Corruption News and Corporate Performance: Evidence from China, Ramirez Carlos. George Mason University, cramire2@gmu.edu, Yi Huang.

3. The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Firm Innovation, Zhao Rong, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), zrong002@fiu.edu, Jinlan Ni.

4. Corporate tax competition among Chinese provinces, Chen Yang. Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, yang.chen@xjtlu.edu.cn, Paulo Regis.

Session Number: E10
Session Title: Microeconomics
Venue: RAWL 1062
Chair: Yong Yang, Chief Economist for Asia Pacific, Corporate Economics and Strategic Issues, Ford Motor Company 

Time: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

1.  Child Gender, Parental Labor Market Outcomes, and Intergenerational Transfer of Childcare, Wang Qing. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ms.qing.wang@gmail.com.

2. How to design the optimal intergovernmental transfer scheme with perfect mobile labor under asymmetric information, SONG WEIWEI. Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, weiwei.song09@gmail.com, Yang Chen.

3. Patent statistics: A good indicator for innovation in China? Patent subsidy program impacts on patent quality, Patent statistics. University of Tokyo, dangjw@gmail.com, Jianwei Dang. 

4. A Model of Advance Selling with Consumer Heterogeneity and Limited Capacity, Zeng Chenhang. RCGEB, Shandong University, cz_sdu@163.com, X. Henry Wang.

Session Number: E11
Session Title: Migration in China
Venue: RAWL 2077
Chair: Shunfeng Song, University of Nevada at Reno

Time: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

1. Intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in China, XIE yuanyuan. University of York, yx518@york.ac.uk.

2. The impact of migration on marital instability: evidence from China, Du Fenglian. School of Economics and Management, Inner Mongolia University, dufenglian@126.com, Xiao-yuan Dong.

3. Migration and the Left-behind:Does the Migration improve the Elders’ well-being in China?, Li Fan. LICOS-KULeuven, leon52@126.com.

Session Number: E12
Session Title: Research on human capital: The role of education
Venue: RAWL 2079
Chair: Lizheng Shi, Tulane University 

Time: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

1. Can We Stop Half The Sky From Falling? The Effect of Parental Education on the Sex Ratio, Chen Cheng. Lehigh University, chc509@lehigh.edu, Lea Giménez, Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu.

2. Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Abilities and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws (CSLs) in China, Huang Wei. Department of Economics, Harvard University, weihuang@fas.harvard.edu.

3. The Impact of Stricter High School Math Requirements on College STEM Attainment, Jia Ning. University of Notre Dame, njia@nd.edu.   

4. The Peer Effects on Academic Achievement in the Computer Assisted Learning Classes: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Rural Primary Schools in Shaanxi and Qinghai Provinces, Weiming Huang. Freeman Spogli Institute, wmhuang89@gmail.com, Di Mo, Scott Rozelle.

Session Number: E13
Session Title: Organized Session: Term Structure Model of Interest Rates
Venue: RAWL 1071
Chair: Wu Jing Cynthia, University of Chicago 

Time: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm

1. A Dynamic Nelson-Siegel Yield Curve Model with Markov Switching, Levant Jared. University of Alabama, jlevant@crimson.ua.edu, Jun Ma.

2. Term Structure of Interest Rate Volatility and Macroeconomic Uncertainty, WU JING CYNTHIA. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, jjcynthia@gmail.com, Drew Creal. 

3. Measuring Monetary Policy Uncertainty, Wu Shu. University of Kansas, shuwu@ku.edu, Shangwen Huang.  

4. The S-factor and Bond Risk Premia, Ma Xuyang. University of Washington, Economics Department, maxuyang@uw.edu.

Session Number: E14
Session Title: Organized Session: China’s Environmental Economics
Venue:  RAWL 1071
Chair:  Jie He, University of Sherbrooke

Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm

1. Pollution from the Manufacturing Industries in China: the Role of Technology, Domestic Consumption and Export, lu xiaodong. Sun Yat-sen University, xiaodonglu@gmail.com, Luodan Xu, Anping Huang.

2. Environmental comparative advantage of china: An investigation based on bilateral trade data and carbon dioxide emission embodied in trade, Anping Huang. Sun Yat-sen University, anping.huang@me.com, Jie He, University of Sherbrooke, Jie.He@usherbrooke.ca.      

3. Shale Gas Development in China: A Comparison with the US Experience, Zhongmin Wang. RFF, wang@rff.org, Lei Tian, Energy Research Institute, China, Zhongmin Wang, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, Xiaoli Liu, Energy Research Institute, China.

4. Luck or Reality? The Hypothesis of Environmental Kuznets Curve Revisited  via "data snooping, Haisheng Yang. Sun Yat-Sen University, University of Sherbrooke, Jinan University, Jie He, University of Sherbrooke, Jie.He@usherbrooke.ca, Shaoling Chen. 

Session Number: E15
Session Title: Trade Balance and International Economics
Venue:  RAWL 4054
Chair: Dong Baomin. Henan University, baomindon@gmail.com

Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm

1. The China Puzzle: Theory and Evidence on the Behavior of Chinese Exports during the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis, Hao Hang-Wei. University of California, Davis, hwhao@ucdavis.edu.     

2. On the Relationship between Exchange Rates and External Imbalances: East and Southeast Asia, Regis Paulo. Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, paulo.regis@xjtlu.edu.cn, Juan Carlos Cuestas.

3. Tax Evasion through Trade Intermediation: Evidence from Chinese Exporters, Xuepeng Liu. Kennesaw State University, xuepengliu@gmail.com, Huimin Shi, Renmin University of China, Michael Ferrantino, The World Bank.

4. Global Imbalance, Income Inequality and Saving Nexus: A New Theory with Evidence from OECD and Emerging Asia, Dong Baomin. Henan University, baomindon@gmail.com, Xinhua Gu, Bihong Huang.

Session Number: E16
Session Title: Organized Session: Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance
Venue:  RAWL 1011
Chair:  Jun Ma, University of Alabama

Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm

1. Understanding Housing Market Volatility, Ma Jun. University of Alabama, jma@cba.ua.edu, Shu Wu.

2. What Drives Housing Dynamics in China? A Sign Restrictions VAR Approach, Bian Timothy. Georgetown University, yb33@georgetown.edu, Pedro Gete.

3. Measuring the Macroeconomic Impact of Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound, Xia Fan Dora. University of California, San Diego, faxia@ucsd.edu, Wu, Jing Cynthia.

4. Macroeconomic News, Monetary Policy and the Real Interest Rate at the Zero Lower Bound, Zhang Ji. PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, zhangji@pbcsf.tsinghua.edu.cn.

Session Number: E17
Session Title: Research on problems in rural China
Venue:  RAWL 1057
Chair:  Junfu Zhang, Clark University

Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm

1. Text Messaging and Its Impacts on the Health and Education of the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Rural China, MO DI. Stanford University, di.mo.cn@gmail.com. Renfu Luo, Chengfang Liu, Huiping Zhang, Linxiu Zhang,Alexis Medina and Scott Rozelle.

2. Ordeal Mechanisms and Information in the Promotion of Health Goods in Developing Countries: Evidence From Rural China, Ma Xiaochen.          University of California, Davis. mxc4068@gmail.com.   Sean Sylvia, Matthew Boswell, Scott Rozelle.

3.  Managerial Incentives in Public Service Delivery: Evidence from School-based Nutrition Programs in Rural China, Sylvia Sean. University of Maryland, ssylvia@umd.edu. Renfu Luo, Grant Miller, Scott Rozelle, Marcos Vera-Hernandez.

Session Number: E18
Session Title: Trade
Venue:  RAWL 1062
Chair:  Jason Yin, Seton Hall University 

Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm

1. Non-Homothetic Gravity: The home-market effect and comparative advantage in international trade, XIE Weisi. Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder. weisi.xie@colorado.edu.

2.  Exporters in Cross Section: Direct vs. Intermediated Trade, WANG QIANQIAN. Henan University, angelstella02@gmail.com,  Mark Gibson.

3. Product Varieties, Extensive and Intensive Margins of China’s Exports: Evidence From US Imports, Islam Sadequl. Laurentian University, sislam@laurentian.ca.  

Session Number: E19
Session Title: Urban development and policy
Venue:  RAWL 2077
Chair:  Shuming Bao, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm

1. Rationality Evaluation on the Planning Scale of High Speed Rail Towns, Yexi Zhong. Regional development and Planning Institute of Jiangxi Normal University, zhongyexi@126.com, Shuming Bao,Jie Huang.

2. A Spatial Analysis of New Development Zones in China, Shuming Bao. University of Michigan China Data Center, sbao@umich.edu, Jianxun Rui.

3.  Are Rising College Premiums Capitalized into House Prices? Evidence from China, Shen Leilei. Kansas State University, lshen@k-state.edu, Tracy Turner.

4. Optimal contribution rate and bookkeeping interest rate of public pension, Yang Zaigui. Central University of Finance and Economics, yangzg@cufe-ins.sinanet.com. 

Session Number: E20
Session Title: Organized Session: Economic Growth and Food Market Demand
Venue:  RAWL 2079
Chair:  Holly Wang, Purdue University

Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm

1. Dietary Diversity in Urban and Rural China, Liu Jing. Purdue University, jliu46@yahoo.com, Gerald Shively, Purdue University, and James Binkley, Purdue University.

2. The Market Power of Chinese Wine Industry, Zheng Qiujie. University of Alaska Anchorage, qzheng3@uaa.alaska.edu,  H. Holly Wang, Purdue University.  

3. Quality Demand in the Food Service Industry in Urban China, Carnegie Rachel. Purdue University, rcarnegi@purdue.edu, H. Holly Wang, Nicole Olynk Widmar, David Ortega, Jinshan Liu.   

Session Number: E21
Session Title: Economics of the agricultural sector
Venue: RAWL 4054
Chair: Jinlan Ni, University of Nebraska at Omaha 

Time: 3:45  pm – 5:45 pm

1. Industrial output fluctuations in developing countries: General equilibrium consequences of agricultural productivity shocks, Lee Hyojung. Purdue University, Economics, lee485@purdue.edu.

2. Land acquisition, labor allocation and income growth of farm households: evidence of Xingwen County in southwestern China, Qingjiang Ju. University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, juzzy@uestc.edu.cn, Jinlan Ni, Debing Ni. 

 3. GMO Regulations and the Food Self-sufficiency Rate, Shao Qianqian. Technische Universität München / Technical University of Munich, shaoqianqian@gmail.com, Justus Wesseler, Maarten Punt. 

Session Number: E22
Session Title: China's spatial policies: Land leasing, development zones, and Hukou
Venue: RAWL 1057
Chair: Qian Xuechao. The University of Hong Kong

Time: 3:45 – 5:45 pm

1. Human Capital Investment, Endowment and Social Mobility in China: 1989-2009, Qian Xuechao. The University of Hong Kong, janexuechao@hotmail.com, Yuan Yan.

2. Residents’ Sense of Place with the Development of Development Zones---Based on Survey in Communities around the Minhang Development Zone, KONG XIANG. The Center For Modern Chinese City Studies, East China Normal University, xkong@bs.ecnu.edu.cn, yufei ZHANG.

3. Study on Local Governmental Land Leasing Choice under Financial Gap: Collusion with State-owned Firms, Zhao Wenzhe. School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, zwenzhe@163.com, Jidong Yang.

Session Number: E23
Session Title: Environmental and Agricultural Economics
Venue:  RAWL 1062
Chair:  Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky, wuyang.hu@uky.edu

Time: 3:45 – 5:45 pm

1. How Dark is the Environmental Side of China’s Economic Growth? An International Comparative Evaluation, LU Ding.  University of the Fraser Valley, ding.lu@ufv.ca.   

2. Chinese Farmer Participation in Hog Insurance, Hu Wuyang. University of Kentucky, wuyang.hu@uky.edu, Ping Qing, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wei Wan, University of Kentucky.

3. The Effects of Education Restrictions on Rural-Urban Migration in China, Liu Lihan. University of Wisconsin-Madison, lliu24@wisc.edu.

Session Number: E24
Session Title: Finance Market and Political Economy
Venue:  RAWL 2077
Chair:  Orn Bodvarsson, St. Cloud State University 

Time: 3:45 – 5:45 pm

1. Entrepreneurship: Productive, Rent Seeking and Rent Extraction - An Expansion of Baumol’s Theory with Evidence from China, Zhang Yongjing. University of Ottawa, yongjing.zhang@uottawa.ca, Zhiqiang Dong, Xiahai Wei.

2.Research on the Linkage and Spillover Effects between China’s Stock Market and Real Estate Market, Jianhua Guo. Department of Economics and Management; Shaoyang University, jhguo888@163.com.     

3. Realized Range-based Betas Based on High Frequency Data and Its Application in Shenzhen Stock Market, GUO MINGYUAN. College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, leu2@163.com.       

Session Number: E25
Session Title: Economic Growth in China
Venue:  RAWL 1011
Chair:  Liu Xiaoguang, China Center for Economic Research, National School of Development, Peking University

Time: 3:45 – 5:45 pm

1. "Climate Change and Economic Growth in China－Evidence from Spatial Econometric Analysis", Jr-Tsung Huang. National Chengchi University, tchiang@ncsu.edu, Tsun-Feng Chiang.

2. The Puzzle of Rising Capital Return in China, Liu Xiaoguang. China Center for Economic Research, National School of Development, Peking University, lxiaoguangccer@gmail.com, LU Feng, Professor of National School of Development, Peking University.

3. Migration, Agglomeration and Growth-Evidence from China, Shen Kunrong. School of Economics, Nanjing University, liudesu@nju.edu.cn, Jixiang Yu, Desu Liu.

Session Number: E26
Session Title: Empirical Macroeconomics
Venue:  RAWL 2058
Chair:  Hou Jack. California State University, Long Beach

Time: 3:45 – 5:45 pm

1. A Markov Switching Phillips Curve for China, Egan Paul. University of Limerick, Ireland, paul.egan@ul.ie, Dr. Anthony Leddin.

2. A DSGE-VAR Model for Forecasting the Chinese Economy, Bing Tong. Economic School, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan, 475004, China, bing1046@126.com.    

3. Lewisian Turning Point and Adjustments of China’s Employment Structure, Hou Jack. California State University, Long Beach, jack.hou@csulb.edu, Xingming Fan, SWUFE, China, and Xiana Han, Henan University, China.

4. Can Complete Sterilization Sterilize Completely?, Cun Wukuang. Rutgers University, cwk147@yahoo.com, Jie Li.

Session Number: E27
Session Title: Household Saving and Investment
Venue:  RAWL 1071
Chair:  Lugauer Steven, University of Notre Dame

Time: 3:45 – 5:45 pm

1. Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China, Lugauer Steven. University of Notre Dame,  slugauer@nd.edu  , Nelson Mark, Chadwick Curtis.

2. Financial Availability and Households' Consumption in China: Evidence from CHFS Data, Yin Zhichao. Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, yzc@swufe.edu.cn, Quanyun Song;Yu Wu.

3. Consumption risk sharing under changing trends in household-head earnings: evidence from Taiwan, Gao Bin. University of Houston, bgao@uh.edu.

4. The Extensive and Intensive Margins of Equity Home Bias: Theory and Evidence, Liu Yuan. University of California, Davis, ecoliu@ucdavis.edu.        

Continuing Education Program 继续教育培训讲座

Training Workshop on Spatial Social Science

RAWL 3082，Purdue University

March 15, 2014

Sponsored by

China Data Center, University of Michigan

Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University

Supported by

Henry Luce Foundation

This workshop will introduce theory, methodology, technology, data and online tools for spatial social science with a focus on the spatial study of society and religion. It will focus on an entry-level of training on the newly developed spatial data explorers (China Geo-Explorer, Urban and Regional Explorer, and Spatial Explorer of Religion), distributed by the University of Michigan China Data Center. Meanwhile, the training workshop will demonstrate how space-time data of different formats and sources can be integrated, visualized, analyzed and reported in a web based system. In addition, focusing on religious market, population and regional development, disaster assessment, and environment and health, several spatial applications and implications on China and global studies will be addressed.

The workshop is free and its working language is Chinese. Pre-registration is required. Please register on the web site at:http://chinadatacenter.org/Learming/SeminarsContent.aspx?id=42.

Agenda

5:00 – 6:00 PM          Dinner

 
6:00 – 6:50 PM          Introduction to Spatial Social Sciences: Theory, Methodology, Data, Technology and Applications

Dr. Shuming Bao (Director of the China Data Center at the University of Michigan)

6:50 – 7:00 PM          Break

7:00 – 7:50 PM   A Spatial Study of the Chinese Religious Market

Dr. George Hong (Professor of Economic History at Purdue University Calumet and the Co-Director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University)

Mr. Jiamin Yan (Graduate Assistant at Purdue University Calumet)

 Hu7:50 – 8:00 PM   Break

8:00 – 8:50 PM   Spatial Statistics of Chinese Religions: Explorations

Dr. Fenggang Yang (Professor of Sociology and Director of Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University)

Mr. Miao Li (Graduate Student at Purdue University)