Economics
2025 International Workshop on Chinese Economy
9-10 Oct 2025 | 08:30-18:00
K. K. Leung Building, HKU
2025 International Workshop on Chinese Economy
Date: 9-10 October 2025
| Day 1 – 9 October 2025 | |
| Session 1 – Applied/Political Economy | |
| Chair: TBA | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Yulu Tang (LSE) “Protectionism on the Screen: Endogenous Preferences, Learning, and Investment” |
| 15:00-15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15-16:15 | Shaoda Wang (U of Chicago) “Laboratories of Autocracy: Landscape of Central–Local Dynamics in China’s Policy Universe” |
| 16:15-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30-17:30 | Ruixue Jia (UCSD) “Capital, Censorship and Chinese Cinema” |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner (By Invitation) |
| Day 2 – 10 October 2025 | |
| Session 2 – Applied & Trade | |
| Chair: TBA | |
| 08:30-09:30 | Hongsong Zhang (HKU) “Returns to Scale, Productivity, and Markup: Revisit the Export Premium” |
| 09:30-09:45 | Coffee Break |
| 09:45-10:45 | Zi Wang (Baptist University) “Quantifying Global Trade and Industrial Policy Competition: A Deep Learning Approach” |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Naijia Guo (HKU) “Migration Restrictions and the Migrant-Native Wage Gap: The Roles of Wage Setting and Sorting” |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch Talk by Professor Shouying Liu (Renmin University) “China’s Agricultural Development” (TBC) (Location TBC) |
| Session 3 – PhD Session | |
| Chair: TBA | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Tianyu Fan (Yale) “The Geopolitical Determinants of Economic Growth, 1960 – 2019” |
| 14:45-15:30 | Junjie Xiao (HKU) “Beyond Personal Ties: The Power of Impersonal Accountability in China’s Bureaucratic System” |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-16:45 | Qinrui Xiahou (HKU) “The Demand, Supply, and Market Responses of Corporate ESG Actions: Evidence from a Nationwide Experiment in China” |
| 16:45-17:30 | Zhengang Wang (HKU) “Accsess to Migration and Rural Education: Examining Different Types of Hukou Reforms” |
| 18:00-20:00 | Dinner (By Invitation) |
