2025 International Workshop on Chinese Economy
The 2025 International Workshop on Chinese Economy was held on October 9-10, 2025 (Thursday-Friday) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). The workshop was organized by the Economics Area, HKU Business School, and co-organized by the Institute of China Economy (ICE), HKU Business School.
Organizer | Economics Area, HKU Business School |
Co-organizer | Institute of China Economy (ICE), HKU Business School |
Date and Time | October 9 (Thursday) | 14:00 – 17:30 October 10 (Friday) | 08:30 – 17:30 |
Venue | October 9: Room 1121, 11/F, K.K. Leung Building, HKU October 10: Room 301, 3/F, K.K. Leung Building, HKU |
Language | English |
Programme Rundown
Day 1 – October 9 (Thursday)
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 | Break |
15:15-16:15 | Shaoda Wang (U of Chicago) “Laboratories of Autocracy: Landscape of Central–Local Dynamics in China’s Policy Universe” |
14:15-14:30 | Break |
16:30-17:30 | Ruixue Jia (UCSD) “Capital, Censorship and Chinese Cinema” |
18:00-20:00 | Dinner (By Invitation) (Location TBC) |
Day 2 – October 10 (Friday)
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 | Break |
09:45-10:45 | Zi Wang (Baptist University) “Quantifying Global Trade and Industrial Policy Competition: A Deep Learning Approach” |
10:45-11:00 | 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” |
12:45-15:30 | Junjie Xiao (HKU) “Beyond Personal Ties: The Power of Impersonal Accountability in China’s Bureaucratic System” |
15:30-16:00 | 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) |
NOTE: Please contact Darren Chung (darccy@hku.hk) for workshop secretariat support.
Organizing Committee
