Workshop

09/19/2023, Danny Sokol, USC Marshall/USC Gould School of Law 

• • Big Tech Regulation and Tech Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China 

10/10/2023, Matthew (Matt) Lowenstein, Stanford University Hoover Institution  

• • The Nature of the Chinese Firm: From Partnership to Business Entity to Corporation

10/17/2023, Valerie Karplus, Carnegie Mellon University 

• • Management Practices and Energy Efficiency: Experimental Evidence from Manufacturing Firms

10/23/2023, Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania Department of Economics

• • Reluctant Entrepreneurs: Evidence from China’s SOE Reform

10/31/2023, TJ Wong, USC Marshall

• • TBA

11/29/2023, Yanhui Wu, Hong Kong University

• • TBA

03/03/2023, Valerie Karplus, Carnegie Mellon University

• • When “Low-Hanging Fruit” Are Beyond Reach: Management Practices and Firm Energy Efficiency 

03/07/2023, Andrew Sinclair, University of Hong Kong/Caltech

• • Government Policy Uncertainty and Stock Returns 

03/21/2023, Jeffrey Ding, George Washington University

• • Constructing Autonomy: Globalization’s Challenge to Assessing Technological Dependence

03/28/2023, Yiming Cao, University of Hong Kong/Stanford University 

• • Social Learning in Policymaking

04/04/2023, Pablo Henandez, Yeshiva University

• • Beijing’s Central Role in Global Artificial Intelligence Research  

04/11/2023, Liz Liu, Georgetown University

• • A China Shock or a Multinational Shock?: The Role of MNC Value Chains in the Trade Shock 

04/18/2023, Yue Hou, University of Pennsylvania/Stanford University

• • Winning Hearts, Minds, and Taste Buds? An Assessment of Public Diplomacy of China

04/25/2023, Victor Shih, University of California San Diego

• • Noisy Signaling and the Consolidation of Dictatorial Control: Evidence from China’s 2016 PLA Reform

09/06/2022, Zhiwu Chen, University of Hong Kong Business School

• • Quantitative History Program

09/13/2022, Aaron Yoon, Northwestern University

• • Local vs Foreign ESG Raters: Evidence from China

09/20/2022, Kelvin Liu, Northeastern University

• • Political Pressure and Firms' Resource Allocations

09/27/2022, Hai Lu & Yue Zhang, University of Toronto

• • AI Startups and VC Financing: Evidence from China

10/04/2022, Jun Yang, Indiana University & Wei Wei, University of Chicago

• • The role of the Communist Party of China in Non-SOE: Benefit and Cost

10/11/2022, Guojun He, University of Hong Kong Business School

• • Market vs. Planning: Emission Abatement under Incomplete Information and with Local Externalities 

10/18/2022, Bo Yang, USC Marshall

• • TBA

10/25/2022, Xiongfei Li, USC Econ

• • TBA

03/22/2022, Nan Jia, USC Marshall

• • Clash of the Titans? Development of Artificial Intelligence(AI) Technologies in the U.S. and China

03/29/2022, Katarzyna Burzynska, Radboud University

• • Interbank Relations, Environmental Uncertainty, and Corporate Credit Access in China

04/05/2022, Yanhui Wu, University of Hong Kong

• • Social Media and Government Responsiveness: Evidence from Vaccine Procurements in China

04/12/2022, Greg Distelhorst, University of Toronto

• • The Political Beliefs of Chinese Officials

04/19/2022, Dan Breznitz & Scott McNight, University of Toronto

• • Platformizing the Economy? Building and Regulating Chinese Digital Platforms

04/26/2022, Eric Zheng, University of Texas Dallas

• • Blockchain and Crypto-Currency: An Overview of Research and Practice

05/03/2022, Minyuan Zhao, Washington University at St. Louis

• • TBA

05/10/2022, Liz Liu & Dennis Quinn, Georgetown University

• • A China Shock or a Multinational Shock? The Role of MNC Value Chains in the Trade Shock

09/14/2021, Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania

• • Anti-Corruption Campaign, Stereotyping, and the Resurgence of the SOEs:  Evidence from China's Real Estate Sector

09/21/2021, Hongbin Li, Stanford University

• • Can Elite College Education Change One's Fate in China?

09/28/2021, John Matsusaka, USC Marshall

• • Street-Level Responsiveness of City Governments in China, Germany, and the United States

10/05/2021, Hai Lu, University of Toronto

• • Inside the “Black Box” of Corporate ESG Practice: Field Evidence from China

10/12/2021, Yue Hou, University of Pennsylvania

• • Ethnic Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing in China 

10/19/2021, Lei Li, University of Mannheim

• • Who Pays the Tariffs? the Case of the US-China Trade War

10/26/2021, Frank Zhang, Yale School of Management

• • Earnings Management via Not-wholly-owned Subsidiaries

11/02/2021, Peter Murmann, Univresity of St. Gallen

• • The Management Transformation of Huawei

11/09/2021, Chenggang Xu, Imperial College of London & Stanford University

• • Judicial Slant and Private Sector: Evidence from China

01/19/2021, Aaron Yoon, Northwestern Kellogg

• • The Dark Side of Fair Disclosure in a Relational Economy: Evidence from China

01/26/2021, Fangfei Shu, USC Marshall

• • The Political Root of Business Network Evolution 

02/02/2021, Zhiguo He, Chicago Booth

• • Valuation of Long-Term Property Rights under Political Uncertainty 

02/09/2021, Curtis Milhaupt, Stanford University

• • Party Building or Noisy Signaling? The Contours of Political Conformity in Chinese Corporate Governance

02/16/2021, Yuhua Wang, Harvard University

• • Social Origins of Durable Rule in Imperial China

02/23/2021, Chuck Eesley, Stanford University

• • Stepping-Stone Strategies to Leverage Institutional Intermediaries: Entrepreneurial Strategies to Contact Investors on a Fundraising Platform

03/02/2021, Bin Ke, National University of Singapore

• • Hard to say goodbye to yesterday: interstate war memories, patriotism, and individual investors’ investment preferences

03/08/2021, Rob Seamans, NYU Stern

• • Robots at Work in China

03/16/2021, Bohui Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• • Digital Footprints as Collateral for Debt Collection 

03/23/2021, Xiaoyun Yu, Indiana University

• • Failure to Jettison: The Cost of Labor on the Path to Recovery 

03/30/2021, Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago

• • The Political Economy of Policy Experimentations in China   

04/06/2021, Reed Lei, University of Wisconsin Madison

• • The Political Resource Blessing or Curse? Patronage Networks and the Varieties of Economic Development Models in China

09/15/2020, Daniel Yi Xu, Duke University

• • Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress

09/22/2020, Colin Linxin Xu, The World Bank

• • The Transformative Effects of Privatization in China: A Natural Experiment Based on Politician Career Concern

09/29/2020, Xiaojun Li, University of British Columbia

• • Fragmenting Globalization: The Politics of Preferential Trade Liberalization in China and the United States

10/06/2020, Minhua Ling , Chinese University of Hong Kong

• • The Inconvenient Generation: Migrant Youth Coming of Age on Shanghai’s Edge

10/13/2020, Nancy Qian, Northwestern University

• • Computerizing VAT Invoices in China

10/20/2020, Kelly Shue, Yale University

• • Leverage-Induced Fire Sales and Stock Market Crashes

10/27/2020, Molly Roberts, UCSD

• • Crisis is a Gateway to Censored Information: The Case of Coronavirus in China

11/03/2020, Han Jiang, Tulane University

• • Cleaning house before hosting new guests: A political path dependence model of the adaptation of political connections in the aftermath of anticorruption shocks

11/10/2020, Yang Xie, UC Riverside

• • A Theory of Power Structure and Political Stability: China vs. Europe Revisited

11/17/2020, Luo Zuo, Cornell University

• • TBA

07/27/2020, Taisu Zhang, Yale University

• • State Building and the Emergence of the Business Corporation

07/20/2020, Yiqing Xu, Stanford University

• • Clans and Calamity: How Social Capital Saves Lives during China's Great Famine

07/13/2020, Wei Xiong, Princeton University

• • The Mandarin Model of Growth

07/06/2020, Bo Yang, University of Southern California

• • The Dynamics of Leadership Styles: Career Incentives and the Exploration/Exploitation Tendency of Chinese Local Politicians

06/29/2020, Zhaotian Luo, University of Chicago

• • Democracy and Its Vulnerabilities: Dynamics of Democratic Backsliding

06/22/2020, Ruixue Jia, UCSD

• • Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Academic Talent and Firm Creation in China

06/15/2020, Danqing Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• • The Paradox of Diversity and Female Politicians’ Promotion in Bureaucracy

06/08/2020, Shuo Chen, Fudan University

• • Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence: The Good, The Bad, and The Bloody

06/01/2020, Junyan Jiang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• • Outgroup Attitudes and Preference for Institutions: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

05/25/2020, Hai Lu, University of Toronto

• • Governance Efficiency and the Recovery of Economy from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from China 

05/18/2020, Samantha A. Vortherms, UC Irvine

• • Localized Citizenship: Economic Development, Migration and Inclusion in China

05/11/2020, Tianshu Sun, USC

• • The Value of Personal Data in Internet Commerce: a High-stake Field Experiment on Data Regulation Policy

05/04/2020, Hong Ru, Nanyang Technological University

• • What Do We Learn from SARS-CoV-1 to SARS-CoV-2: Evidence from Global Stock Markets

04/27/2020, Aaron Yoon, Northwestern University

• • The Role of Private Disclosures in Markets with Weak Institutions: Evidence from a Market Liberalization in China

04/20/2020, Daniel Armanios, Carnegie Mellon University

• • Scaffolds and Intermediaries: How Institutional Infrastructure Can Alleviate Normative and Cognitive Barriers to Regulatory Changes Supporting Entrepreneurship

04/13/2020, Liz Liu, Georgetown University

• • From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China

04/6/2020, Steven Liao, UC Riverside

• • Local Economic Benefits Increase Positivity toward Foreigners

03/30/2020, Nan Jia, USC

• • Do Trade Sanctions Induce Firm Innovation?

03/23/2020, TJ Wong, USC

• • The Effect of Real-name Registration Policy on Information Quality: Evidence From an Online Stock Forum in China

01/13/2020, Weijia Li, Monash University

• • Meritocracy and Dual Leadership: Historical Evidence and an Interpretation

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