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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Panle Jia Barwick — From Free Rider to Innovator: The Rise of China’s Drug Development
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Panle Jia Barwick\, Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor\, Department of Economics\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \n\n\n\nThis paper examines China’s transition from pharmaceutical “free rider” to global innovator over the last decade. In 2010\, China accounted for less than 8% of global clinical trials; by 2020\, it had surpassed the US in annual registered clinical trial volume. To study this transformation\, we compile a comprehensive\, synchronized database spanning the pharmaceutical drug development supply chain\, covering scientific publications\, clinical trials\, drug development milestones for China\, the U.S.\, and Europe\, alongside drug sales and government policies over the same period. We provide strong evidence that China’s rise was primarily driven by the National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL) reform\, which dramatically expanded the effective market size for innovative drugs. We document a sharp rise in both the quantity (86% increase) and novelty of drug trials post reform\, with growth concentrated in reform-exposed disease categories\, first- or best-in-class drugs\, and among domestic firms. A decomposition exercise reveals that the NRDL reform accounts for 43% of the growth in oncology trial activity\, nearly doubling the combined contribution of upstream knowledge accumulation and talent flows (24%)\, while other government policies play a minor role. Finally\, dynamic gains from induced innovation exceed the reform’s static gains in consumer access to innovative drugs by threefold\, underscoring the importance of accounting for the reform’s long-run effects on innovation incentives in addition to near-term improvements in drug affordability. \n\n\n\nPanle Jia Barwick is the Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at UW-Madison. Her expertise includes Industrial Organization\, Chinese Economy\, Applied Microeconomics\, and Applied Econometrics with a strong interest in environmental economics. Her papers have appeared in top Economic journals\, including the American Economic Review\, Econometrica\, the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, and the Review of Economic Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director of UW-Madison’s Pan Asia Pacific Sustainability Initiative (PAPSI). She also co-founded Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER) and currently serves as its board member. She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)\, associate editor for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics\, Journal of Economic Perspectives\, Rand Journal of Economics\, and International Journal of Industrial Organization\, and an editorial board member of Journal of Urban Economics and VoxChina. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-panle-jia-barwick/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T131500
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture Series Panel Discussion — Can China Pay for its Technological Ambitions?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Andrew Collier\, Senior Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy SchoolKellee Tsai\, Dean\, College of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Northeastern UniversityDavid Bulman\, Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs\, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) \n\n\n\nModerator: Meg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School \n\n\n\nAndrew Kemp Collier is the former President of the Bank of China International USA\, where he helped to launch BOCI’s U.S. office. BOCI was one of the first investment banks established in China and remains one of the largest global Chinese firms. Previously\, he was an equity analyst with Bear Stearns and CLSA in Hong Kong\, covering the Asian airline sector and media companies. Earlier in his career\, he was a journalist in New York\, Chicago\, London and Beijing\, for Bloomberg\, the South China Morning Post and other publications. He has a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Chinese Studies from Yale University and studied Chinese at Peking University. He also is a Senior Fellow at the Mansfield Foundation in Washington. He currently conducts macroeconomic research on China’s economy for institutional investors that is distributed through Global Source Partners in New York. Mr. Collier has published three books on China: “Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China” (2017); “China Buys the World: Analyzing China’s Overseas Investments” (2018); and “China’s Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants” (2022). \n\n\n\nKellee Tsai is Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University.  She previously served as Dean of Humanities and Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Vice Dean of Humanities and Social Science at Johns Hopkins University. Tsai has published seven books\, including Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China (Cornell 2002); Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China (Cornell 2007); State Capitalism\, Institutional Adaptation\, and the Chinese Miracle (co-edited Cambridge 2015); Evolutionary Governance under Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China (co-edited\, Harvard 2021); and The State and Capitalism in China (co-authored\, Cambridge 2023).  Her articles have been published in China Journal\, China Quarterly\, Comparative Political Studies\, Foreign Affairs\, International Security\, Journal of Asian Studies\, Journal of Development Studies\, Perspectives on Politics\, Politics & Society\, Studies in Comparative and International Development\, World Development\, and World Politics\, among others.  \n\n\n\nDavid J. Bulman is the Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His research looks at economic and political development in China and the implications for US-China relations. He focuses on how central-local relations shape political incentives and local economic outcomes\, and he analyzes China’s development in a broader comparative lens to provide insights into questions related to growth slowdowns and middle income transitions. Previously\, Bulman was an Economist at the World Bank and a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. He was a 2021-2022 Woodrow Wilson Center China Fellow and a 2021-2023 National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectual Program fellow\, and he was previously a visiting scholar at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and a University of Chicago and Ford Foundation New Generation China Scholar. Bulman received his MA and PhD in China Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS and his BA in Economics from Columbia University. \n\n\n\nMeg Rithmire is James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration in the Business\, Government\, and International Economy Unit of the Harvard Business School. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University\, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her new book\, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press\, 2023)\, investigates the relationship between capital and the state and globalization in Asia\, comparing China\, Malaysia\, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. Professor Rithmire examines how governments attempt to discipline business and\, second\, how business adapts to different methods of state control. Her first book\, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, examines the role of land politics\, urban governments\, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world\, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries\, especially the United States. \n\n\n\nThis panel discussion is co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-series-panel-discussion-can-china-pay-for-its-technological-ambitions-2/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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SUMMARY:Joe Ngai — Where is the "Next China"? It's Still China — But It Will Require a Different Playbook
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joe Ngai\, Senior Partner and Chairman of Greater China Offices\, McKinsey & CompanyLocation Change: This event will now be held in WCC B015 (previously WCC 3018). \n\n\n\nJoe will share his observations of the opportunities ahead for businesses in China\, especially in the context of increasingly complex geopolitics\, slowdown in the China macro-economy\, a rapidly aging society and the emergence of AI. What is the new playbook required for businesses to succeed? What does this mean for lawyers? \n\n\n\nJoe Ngai is a senior partner at McKinsey and chairman of its Greater China offices in Beijing\, Hong Kong\, Shanghai\, Shenzhen\, and Taipei. In the past two decades\, he has led large-scale transformations for Chinese and multinational organizations and advises many corporate leaders in the region. Mr. Ngai has been named one of the 2023 and 2024 Forbes China “100 Most Influential Chinese” and one of the 2022 “CEOs of the Year for Multinational Corporations in China” by Jiemian News. He holds an AB\, JD\, and MBA from Harvard University. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\nPlease register here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/joe-ngai-where-is-the-next-china-its-still-china-but-it-will-require-a-different-playbook/
LOCATION:WCC B015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250428T160000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Ka Zeng — Chains of Resilience? The U.S.-China Trade War and Firm Backshoring
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ka Zeng\, Professor of Political Science\, University of Massachusetts-Amherst \n\n\n\nAmid rising U.S.-China strategic competition\, efforts to decouple the two largest economies or mitigate the vulnerabilities posed by increased economic interdependence through “de-risking” strategies have threatened to upend the extensive supply chain relationships between the two countries. To what extent have recent geopolitical tensions generated by events such as the trade war influenced the decision of China-based U.S. multinational corporations to bring production back home through the so-called backshoring? Are U.S. firms more heavily dependent on China-centered supply chains more or less likely to engage in such activities? This paper addresses these questions through an analysis of a novel firm-level dataset on publicly reported backshoring cases. Our analysis yields some evidence that U.S. tariffs negatively impacted firms’ investment activities. Interestingly\, firms with more Chinese supply chain partners are more likely to backshore production in response to trade protectionism\, but it also takes them longer to do so. In other words\, while trade policy uncertainty may compel firms to relocate production\, factors such as contractual commitments\, significant sunk costs\, and the high costs of switching business partners may nevertheless limit their ability to sever existing supply chain relationships and prolong the process of backshoring. Our findings therefore highlight the contradictory incentives that trade policy uncertainty presents to firms and point to the importance of a sound supply chain ecosystem in mitigating external risks\, while also serving as a potential source of resilience in U.S.-China trade relations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-ka-zeng/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T160000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Christine Wong — From Growth Engine to Fiscal Drag: Rethinking China’s Local Government Finance
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christine Wong\, Visiting Research Professor\, East Asian Institute\, National University of Singapore \n\n\n\nChina’s local governments drive 85% of public spending and over 80% of infrastructure investment\, yet their finances are in crisis. A long-term fiscal erosion\, collapsing land revenues\, and soaring debt have left them struggling to meet obligations. These challenges stem from deeper structural issues—tax reforms that weakened revenue growth\, an overreliance on land sales to fund budgets\, and a misalignment between spending responsibilities and fiscal capacity. While recent debt relief measures provide temporary breathing room\, they fail to address the root causes. Bold reforms will be needed to close the fiscal gap\, reduce land dependence\, and realign revenue with spending. Without decisive action\, local fiscal distress will continue to impede economic stability and effective macroeconomic management in China. \n\n\n\nChristine Wong is Visiting Research Professor at the East Asian Institute (EAI)\, National University of Singapore; and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Asia Institute\, University of Melbourne. She also teaches at the Schwarzman College\, Tsinghua University. Prior to joining EAI Christine taught at the University of Melbourne\, University of Oxford\, University of Washington\, and Mount Holyoke College. She also held senior staff positions in the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. \n\n\n\nHer research focuses on China’s public finance and public sector reform\, especially the impact of fiscal decentralization on policy implementation in education\, health\, social welfare\, environmental protection\, and urbanization \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-christine-wong/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250403T163000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Lizhi Liu — From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lizhi Liu\, Assistant Professor\, McDonough School of Business\, Georgetown University \n\n\n\nIn merely two decades\, China has transformed from a digital newcomer to the world’s largest e-commerce market\, with 800 million users and nearly 50% of global retail sales. In From Click to Boom\, Lizhi Liu examines how China’s e-commerce boom is inherently “paradoxical\,” why it addresses a core political economy question of institutional development\, and how it illuminates a digital development path for developing countries. She also explores the profound impact of e-commerce on China’s economic governance and state-business relations. The talk will draw on extensive interviews\, original surveys\, tens of millions of proprietary data points\, and a rare field experiment conducted across three Chinese provinces. \n\n\n\nLizhi Liu is an Assistant Professor at the McDonough School of Business and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on politics of trade and technology. Her work has been published in leading journals and university presses\, including American Economic Review: Insights and Princeton University Press. Liu’s research has received funding from institutions such as the Gates Foundation and has earned multiple accolades\, including recognition from the China-Britain Business Council as one of the “Best Books on China from 2024” and the 2020 Ronald Coase Award for Best Dissertation in Institutional and Organizational Economics. In 2021\, she was named one of Poets&Quants’ Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-lizhi-liu/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T131500
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Qiao Liu — How to Understand China's Economy?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Qiao Liu\, Professor of Finance; Dean\, Guanghua School of Management\, Peking University \n\n\n\nAs China’s economy shifts from high-speed growth to a medium-to-high-speed growth stage\, maintaining an economic growth rate of around 5% per year has become a more frequently anchored goal when China plans its economic work and formulate macro policies. At the same time\, pessimistic narrative about China’s economic prospects gradually emerged and begin to pervade mainstream media. China’s economic miracle over the past four decades has benefited from productivity growth in the process of industrialization and the “government + market” growth paradigm. In the future\, the biggest challenge for China’s economic and social development is to maintain the growth rate of total factor productivity (TFP). Different from most industrialized economies that have been experiencing an inadequate TPF growth of less than one percent per year\, the driving forces for China’s continued productivity growth are real\, which is cause for optimism. \n\n\n\nQiao Liu is Dean and professor of finance at Guanghua School of Management\, Peking University. He is a leading authority on economics and finance in China and is recognized form his academic work in corporate finance\, financial markets and the Chinese economy. He was named the Chang Jiang Scholar Special Term Professor by the Ministry of Education\, a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Foundation of China and the Most Influential Economist of 2017 by China Newsweek. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-qiao-liu-understanding-the-chinese-economy/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T171500
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture Featuring Heng Wang — How is China Affecting the International Economic Order?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Heng Wang\, Professor\, Yong Pung How School of Law\, Singapore Management UniversityModerator: Mark Wu\, Henry Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \n\n\n\nChina’s practices\, such as those under the extra-regional Belt and Road Initiative\, are selectively reshaping international economic order. More recently\, China’s role in the international economic governance has been evolving rapidly\, affected by a range of new dynamics\, ranging from central bank digital currency to artificial intelligence. Meanwhile\, external factors — such as the policy measures of the new Trump administration — will both influence and be influenced by China’s engagement with the international economic system. \n\n\n\nNotably\, the shifting landscape features increasing and likely unprecedented complexities. It spans technological\, regulatory\, geoeconomic and other dimensions\, including environmental implications of digitalization such as energy\, water\, raw materials demands\, and the challenge of e-waste. Both the “hardware” (e.g. new infrastructure) and “software” (e.g. emerging standards and institutions\, agreements\, practices) would develop\, reshaping key aspects of the transnational economic system. China’s unique approach to international economic governance will carry long-term implications. The talk will explore how China is affecting the international economic order in the new context of the digital age and a multipolar world —and what this means for the future. \n\n\n\nHeng Wang is a Professor at Yong Pung How School of Law\, Singapore Management University. Previously\, he was a professor at UNSW Sydney. Heng is a recipient of major grants and awards\, including being named Australia’s research field leader in international law by The Australian newspaper. His work has often been cited in intergovernmental organisation documents. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance\, Future of Blockchain and Digital Assets Initiative\, and Technology\, Innovation and Systemic Risk Initiative. He has advised or been a (keynote) speaker at events organised by esteemed institutions\, including the Asian Development Bank\, APEC\, Bundesbank\, CPMI/BIS\, HCCH\, ICC\, ICSID\, IMF\, INTERPOL\, MAS\, UNDP\, UNCITRAL\, the World Bank\, the WTO\, and the private sector. His research evolves to explore the future of international economic governance\, including that of the international financial system\, and solutions to risks. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-heng-wang-how-is-china-reshaping-the-international-economic-order/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T173000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Scott Kennedy — The Slow Tech Dragon: The Material and Ideational Sources of a Slumping Economy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Scott Kennedy\, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics\, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)Compared to a decade ago\, China’s S&T capabilities have grown substantially. Nevertheless\, the country’s growth prospects have diminished considerably. This presentation attempts to explain this paradox by analyzing how China’s political economy is shaping the material and ideational foundations of growth. \n\n\n\nScott Kennedy is senior adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). A leading authority on Chinese economic policy and U.S.-China commercial relations\, Kennedy has traveled to China for 36 years. Ongoing focuses include China’s innovation drive\, Chinese industrial policy\, U.S.-China relations\, and global economic governance.  \n\n\n\nKennedy hosts the China Field Notes podcast\, featuring on-the-ground voices from China\, and the Trustee Chair co-runs the Big Data China initiative\, which introduces pathbreaking scholarly research to the policy community. From 2000-2014\, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU)\, where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. Kennedy received a PhD in political science from George Washington University\, his MA from Johns Hopkins-SAIS\, and his BA from the University of Virginia.  \n\n\n\nPart of Worldwide Week at Harvard 2024 | October 5 – 12\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-scott-kennedy/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230920T180000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture Featuring Arthur Kroeber - Has China's Economy Hit the Wall?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Arthur Kroeber\, Founding Partner and Head of Research\, Gavekal Dragonomics \n\n\n\nAs China emerged from Covid lockdowns early this year\, many expected that its economy would enjoy a roaring recovery. Instead\, it has stalled out. Is this just a short term problem? Or is it a sign that China’s economy is headed for the “middle income trap” of stagnation thanks to high debt\, an aging population\, and Xi Jinping’s increasingly autocratic rule? \n\n\n\nArthur R. Kroeber is the founder of Gavekal Dragonomics\, a China-focused economic research firm with offices in Beijing and Hong Kong; and partner in its parent firm Gavekal. Before establishing Dragonomics in 2002\, he spent fifteen years as a financial and economic journalist in China and South Asia. He is adjunct professor of economics at the NYU Stern School of Business\, a senior non-resident fellow of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center in Beijing\, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, and a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations. His book China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know (2nd edition 2020) is published by Oxford University Press. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-arthur-kroeber/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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SUMMARY:Liu Shouying - What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Liu Shouying\, Dean\, School of Economics\, Renmin University of China \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kWAxH7BoQ8q90TVUW8NOWQ \n\n\n\n\n\nYouTube recording of “Liu Shouying – What is Chinese-Style Modernization? Interpreting the Key Concept from the 20th Party Congress”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/liu-shouying-what-is-chinese-style-modernization-interpretating-the-key-concept-from-the-20th-party-congress/
LOCATION:Room S030\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Henry Gao - China\, State Capitalism and the World Trading System
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Henry Gao\, Professor of Law\, Singapore Management University; Senior Fellow\, CIGI \n\n\n\nHenry Gao is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University and Senior Fellow at CIGI. With law degrees from three continents\, he started his career as the first Chinese lawyer at the WTO Secretariat. He has been an advisor on trade issues to many national governments as well as the WTO\, UN\, World Bank\, ADB\, APEC\, ASEAN and the World Economic Forum. Widely published on China and WTO and digital trade issues\, he sits on the Advisory Board of the WTO Chairs Program\, as well as the editorial boards of the Journal of International Economic Law and Journal of Financial Regulation. He was recently interviewed by the Economist for its Money Talks podcast episode on “How globalisation gave way”\, and his new paper analyzing China’s changing perspectives on the WTO was quoted as an “invaluable” paper by the Financial Times in its feature article on China’s 20th anniversary in the WTO. His new book “Between Market Economy and State Capitalism: China’s State-Owned Enterprises and the World Trading System” was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-henry-gao-china-state-capitalism-and-the-world-trading-system/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture featuring Jonas Nahm - Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:Read the Transcript\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jonas Nahm\, Assistant Professor of Energy\, Resources\, and Environment\, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Nahm’s new book examines the development of wind and solar industries in China\, Germany\, and the United States as a window into the political economy of innovation and economic development in highly globalized industries. The book argues that new possibilities for collaboration among firms in the global economy have reinforced distinct national patterns of industrial specialization. In the decades before international economic integration made it easier for firms from around the world to work together on tasks ranging from production to innovation\, differences in national capitalisms yielded equally distinct national industrial specializations for production\, innovation\, and competitiveness. Globalization has since challenged the primacy of nation states by moving beyond their territorial reach many of the activities that now make up the global economy. However\, as shown in the book\, globalization not only continues to be mediated by domestic institutions\, it also causes persistent and consequential divergence of such institutions and national industrial specializations over time.  \n\n\n\nJonas Nahm is Assistant Professor of Energy\, Resources\, and Environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington\, DC. His research examines the intersection of economic and industrial policy\, energy policy\, and environmental politics. He studies the role of the state in processes of industrial restructuring that accompany policy responses to climate change and clean energy transitions more broadly. His work utilizes clean energy transitions in China\, Germany\, and the United States to engage two debates in comparative political economy: (1) the role of the state in shaping the international division of labor in highly globalized industries\, and (2) sources of state capacity in interest group politics during periods of industrial restructuring. \n\n\n\nAlso available on Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1saKMiC4Q72NIidKR5DQkw.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRead the Transcript Here: Read Transcript \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-featuring-jonas-nahm-collaborative-advantage-forging-green-industries-in-the-new-global-economy/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:China Economy Lecture
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