2018 Asia Forum of International Economics
Date: 13-14th, October, 2018
Venue: Xingshen Building , Nankai University, China
Friday, 12th Oct
14:00-22:00 Registration (Saixiang Hotel)
Saturday, 13th Oct (Morning)
08:30-09:00 Welcome Speech (Groud Floor Hall, Xingshen Building)
Chair: Professor Bing Yan (Nankai University )
Professor Bin Sheng
(Dean, School of Economics, Nankai University)
Professor Guoming Xian
(Director, Center for Transnationals’ Studies, Nankai University)
09:00-09:20 Photo & Coffee Break
09:20-11:40 Keynote Speech (Groud Floor Hall, Xingshen Building)
Chair: Professor Kunwang Li (Nankai University)
09:20-10:00 Professor Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University, U.S.): New Developments in Quantitative Trade Theory
10:00-10:40 Professor Treb Allen (Dartmouth College, U.S.): The Geography of Path Dependence
10:40-11:20 Professor Kalina Manova (University College London, U.K.): The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach
11:20-11:40 Q&A
12:00-14:00 Lunch (Mingzhu Hotel, Nankai University)
Saturday, 13th Oct (Afternoon)
Session 1 Chair: Prof. Shen Zhou and Prof. Feng Zhang (Nankai University)
Room 206, Xinsheng Building, Nankai University
14:00-14:30 Yi Lu (Professor, Tsinghua University): Transportation Infrastructure with production networks
14:30-15:00 Sandra Poncet (Professor, University of Paris/Lingnan University): Looking for the bright side of the China syndrome: rising export opportunities and life satisfaction in China
15:00-15:30 Heiwai Tang (Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University): Global sourcing and domestic value added in exports
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Hong Ma (Associate Professor, Tsinghua University): Optimal ownership and firm performance: theory and evidence from China’s FDI liberalization
16:30-17:00 Changyuan Luo (Professor, Fudan University): "Go Global" Strategy and FDI Inflow: Evidence from China
17:00-17:30 Wei Jin (Assistant Professor, Nankai University): Does "America First" help America? the impact of country image on exports and welfare
Session 2 Chair: Prof. Bing Yan and Dr. Jingjia Zhang (Nankai University)
Room 208, Xinsheng Building, Nankai University
14:00-14:30 Zhiyuan Li (Professor, Fudan University): International liberalization and intranational deviations from the law of one price
14:30-15:00 Faqin Lin (Associate Professor, Central University of Finance and Economics): Intermediate input trade liberalization and the firm decentralization decision: theory and evidence from China’s SOE reform
15:00-15:30 Puyang Sun (Professor, Nankai University): Trade liberalization and the servitization of manufacturing firms: evidences from China
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16.00-16:30 Qin Liu (Professor, Renmin University of China): Trade liberalization and domestic vertical integration: evidence from China
16:30-17:00 Amanda Jakobsson (Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University): Costly exporting and FDI with heterogeneous firms
17:00-17:30 Yifan Zhang (Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong): Migration and firms: evidence from China
18:30-21:00 Welcome dinner (Saixiang Hotel)
Professor Bin Sheng (Dean, School of Economics, Nankai University )
Session 3 Chair: Dr. Zhiwei Peng and Dr. Qilin Mao (Nankai University)
Room 206, Xinsheng Building, Nankai University
8:30-9:00 Lex (Laixun) Zhao (Professor, Kobe University): Antidumping filings and product quality
9.00-9:30 Yongjin Wang (Professor, Nankai University): Trade, risk taking and volatility
9.30-10:00 Cheng Chen (Assistant Professor, Clemson University): Uncertainty, imperfect Information and learning in the international market
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10.30-11:00 Mi Dai (Associate Professor, Beijing Normal University): How do households adjust to trade liberalization: evidence from China's WTO accession
11:00-11:30 Lin Ma (Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore): Anti-globalization cycles
11:30-12:00 Lezhen Wu (Assistant Professor, Fudan University): Financial integration: a remedy for climate change?
Session 4 Chair: Prof. Lei Li and Dr. Nan Xu (Nankai University)
Room 208, Xinsheng Building, Nankai University
8:30-9:00 Yoichi Sugita (Assistant Professor, Hitotsubashi University): Wage markdowns and FDI liberalization
9.00-9:30 Haichao Fan (Associate Professor, Fudan University): Export to elude
9.30-10:00 Ge Bao (Associate Professor, University of International Business and Economics): An antomy of foreign investment news
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10.30-11:00 Yong Tan (Associate Professor, NUFE/Vanderbilt University): Firm heterogeneity, demand accumulating, and exchange rate pass-through
11:00-11:30 Xiaoping Chen (Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technology University): A Linder perspective of international technology diffusion
11:30-12:00 Hong Zhao (Assistant Professor, Nankai University): International currency, trend inflation, and indeterminacy
12:30-14:30 Closing Lunch (Saixiang Hotel)
Professor Bin Sheng (Dean, School of Economics, Nankai University )
