Chair: TBA
9:30-10:20
Shuhei Kitamura
(Hitotsubashi University)
Political Selection and State Capacity: Evidence from Candidate Entry Reform in India
10:30-11:20
Ting Chen
(Hong Kong Baptist University)
Reformers in the Making: Early Careers, Political Ideology, and Policy Innovation in China
11:30-12:20
Tianyang Xi
(Peking University)
Coordinating Supply Chains: Evidence from China's Chain Chief System
12:20-13:30
Lunch
Chair: TBA
13:30-14:20
Liang Diao
(University of Osaka)
Native-Settler Violence and Weak Institutions on the American Frontier
14:30-15:20
Tomohiro Hara
(Musashi University)
Market-Driven Social Cohesion in a Diverse African City
15:30-16:20
Ying Bai
(University of Hong Kong)
Fabricating the Heavens: Strategic Rumor Production in Historical China
Chair: TBA
16:30-18:00
Keynote Talk: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
(Paris School of Economics)
How Mobile Broadband and Social Media Changed Politics Globally
18:10-
Dinner (by invitation)
Chair: TBA
9:30-10:20
Junichi Yamasaki
(Kyoto University)
Regime Change and Local Industrialization: Evidence from the Meiji Restoration
10:30-11:20
Yifan Zhang
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Decomposing the Gender Productivity Gap in Science: Selection, Sorting and Within Institution Inequality
11:30-12:20
Jun Goto
(GRIPS)
Yakuza Rule: Market Structure, Political Capture, and Urban Transformation
12:20-13:30
Lunch
Chair: TBA
13:30-14:20
Ce Shi
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Targeted Fraud
14:30-15:20
Atsushi Yamagishi
(Tohoku University)
Martyrs, Morale, and Militarism: The Political Impact of Devastation and Slaughter
15:30-16:20
Ruixue Jia
(UC San Diego and University of Hong Kong)
Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood
17:30-
Dinner (by invitation)