Monday, January 25th, 2010 Workshop on China's Macroeconomy

DateTimeLocation
Monday, January 25, 20109:30AM - 5:30PMSeminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place

Description

ORGANIZERS:

Loren Brandt and Xiaodong Zhu
Department of Economics, University of Toronto

PROGRAM:

9:30-10:45 Shangjin Wei, Columbia University, “The Sexual Foundations of Economic Growth in China”

10:45-12:00 Marcos de Carvalho Carmon, IMF, “Idiosyncratic Risk and Household Savings in China”

12:00-1:30 Break for Lunch

1:30-2:45 Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics, “The Future of China’s Exchange Rate Policy”

2:45-3:00 Coffee Break

3:00-4:15 Kjetil Storesletten, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, “Growing Like China”

4:15-5:30 Loren Brandt, Xiadong Zhu and Trevor Tombe, University of Toronto, “Accounting for Growth in China”

For the Workshop program, papers, and speakers, please visit:
http://individual.utoronto.ca/ttombe/china/papers.htm

Sponsors

Department of Economics

Co-Sponsors

Rotman Institute for International Business

Centre for International Studies

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