I’m here today:
Friday, November 8, 2013
Beginning at 8:45 am
Lindner Commons, Suite 602
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
Co-sponsored by the Rising Powers Initiative at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the
GW-Center for International Business Education and Research
GW-Center for International Business Education and Research
The US – China relationship is now second to none in importance for international economic relations and policy and accordingly is a major focus of IIEP. The centerpiece of this initiative is our annual Conference on China’s Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations (or the "G2 at GW"), which has become one of the premier events of its type.
8:50-9:00AM Welcome and Overview of the Conference
9:00-10:30AM Session 1: U.S.-China Trade: Jobs and Competition. Moderated by Michael Moore
1. Ann Harrison (University of Pennsylvania): Industrial Policy and Competition
2. Mary Lovely (Syracuse University): Trade Liberalization and Labor Shares in China
3. Peter Schott (Yale University): The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment
10:30-11:00AM Coffee Break
11:00AM – 12:00PM Session 2: Multinational Firms in the U.S. and China. Moderated by Maggie Chen
1. Lee Branstetter and Guangwei Li (Carnegie Mellon University): The Globalization of R&D: China, India, and the Rise of International Co-invention
2. Wenjie Chen (George Washington University): OFDI from China-Firm-and Transaction-level Evidence
12:00-1:30PM Lunch and Keynote
Steve Barnett (Division Chief-China, IMF)
1:30-3:00PM Session 3: China’s Growth and Financial Liberalization. Moderated by Jay Shambaugh
1. Xiaodong Zhu (University of Toronto): Accounting for China’s Growth
2. Chang-Tai Hsieh (University of Chicago): Institutional Foundations of China’s Growth
3. Menzie Chinn (University of Wisconsin at Madison) and Hiroyuki Ito (Portland State University):: The Rise of the “Redback” and China’s Capital Account Liberalization: An Empirical Analysis on the Determinants of Invoicing Currencies
3:00-3:30PM Coffee Break
3:30-4:30PM Session 4: China’s Economic and Political Development. Moderated by Stephen Smith
1. James Kung (HKUST): Do Land Revenue Windfalls Reduce the Career Incentives of County Leaders? Evidence from China
2. Yan Wang (GWU, Peking University, and former World Bank): China’s Role in International Development Financing: Past, Present, and Prospect.
The Ito-Chinn paper is here
I am scheduled to speak at a UN Conference here in NY in early December.
I am not sure which panel I will end up on, but the topic I have asked for is this:
“Is US Energy Independence a Threat to Persian Gulf Security?: Implications for Saudi Arabia and China”
I will be arguing that it does, and that it’s the US’s fault.
Thank you Ambassador Kopits, for fighting American Imperialism..
If you see The Royal Monarch King, of Saudi Arab, please be sure to bow or curtsy…
Professor Chinn, we are all awaiting the after conference comments for you.!
SK –
I am curious – how much of the U.S. intervention in the area derives from the fear of losing access to energy resources and how much from support for Israel.
My own opinion is that if the U.S. followed polices strictly governed by the overall national interest, our manufacturing sector and U.S. aggregate employment would be larger and China’s would be smaller.
don: Does that mean you measure “the overall national interest” by something other than GDP?
@Hans 9:53am : pls. be more kind to people suffering from narcisstic personality disorder.
Mary Lovely is the most interesting speaker from the conference schedule above (well, Menzie excluded- sorry for that). Interesting conference, would like to here more about it, hope you enjoyed it Menzie.
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/lovely/
Sorry, Johannes I forgot…
@Benamery21 & Don:
Overall national interest could be measured by GDP. It is perfectly plausible to envision that short term management interests have caused decisions in large corporations such as Cisco or WalMart that aren’t in the best interest of the nation.
Outsourcing may not even be in the best interest of the corporation, while they are in the best interest of the decision maker.
Outsourcing means that you are going with conventional wisdom – you don’t have to justify yourself if things went wrong: “I did what everybody recommended – went with the low cost supplier”
The fact that you run the risk of lower quality and trained future competition will be dealt with by future decision makers. You get your year end bonus.
“Apres nous, la deluge”. Not unique to US business, nor is it new. But it is certainly not “governed by the overall national interest”