The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
Email: wolfgangk at ust.hk
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
Email: wolfgangk at ust.hk
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Department of Economics, University of Colorado-BoulderUSARecent & Upcoming Presentations
People versus Places: Elite Strategies in the Fall of the Ming, Stone Center, U Chicago, 4/2027
Marriage and Multigenerational Mobility, Northwestern, 3/2027
FDI, Trade, and Industrial Policy Spillovers, IMF Training Institute, 2/2027
Intergenerational Mobility and the Health-Status Gradient, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford U, 2/2027
Multinational Expansion and Intangibles, Keynote, Taiwan Symposium on Innovation Economics, Taipei, 11/2026
The Economic Consequences of the Opium War, Keynote, Inaugural Silk Road FREIT Conference, Astana, Kazakhstan, 8/2026
Multinational Expansion in the Times of Intangibles, AIEA-NBER Innovation Conference, Singapore Management University, Singapore, 8/2026
Economic Opportunity and the Health-Status Gradient, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 8/2026
The Economic Consequences of the Opium War, Keynote, Asian Development Bank Conference, Hong Kong, 6/2026
People versus Places: Elite Persistence and the Fall of the Ming, Keynote, International Conference on China and Development Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 6/2026
Mobility through Marriage over Multiple Generations, CEPR Economic History Symposium, Roda de Bara (Spain), 5/2026
In the long-run, Ming elite families become Qing elites despite dynastic change causing short-run losses in status
Treatment of People
Families adapt to the shock
In contrast: Comparing elite status across regions, losses in the short-run remain losses in the long run
Treatment of Regions
Elite Strategies for Big Shocks: The Case of the Fall of the Ming, CEPR # 19642 (with Carol H. Shiue)