Keynote Lecture
China in the World Trading System JOHN WHALLEY (University of Western Ontario)
Coffee Break
China's Progress Towards a Knowledge-Based Economy MARTIN SCHAAPER (OECD, Paris)
Discussant: Frank Westermann (University of Munich)
Discussant: Ulrich Klüh (University of Munich)
Discussant: Assaf Razin (Tel Aviv University) Rainer Frey (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Discussants: Christa Hainz (University of Munich) Tamara Trinh (Deutsche Bank Research)
16:30 - 17:30
Is the peg helping or hurting China's banking system? BRAD SETSER
Discussant: Adam Posen (Institute for International Economics, Washington)
Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Capital Account Liberalization and Exchange Rate Flexibility in China ESWAR PRASAD, Thomas Rumbaugh and Qing Wang (IMF, Washington)
Corporate Governance in China: Current Practices, Economic Effects, and Institutional Determinants QIAO LIU (University of Hong Kong)
Discussants: Efraim Sadka (Tel Aviv University) Markus Taube (University of Duisburg)
Regional Disparities of Educational Attainment in China Anwar Shah (World Bank), QINGHUA ZHANG (Peking University) and Heng-Fu Zou, (World Bank)
Discussant: Michael Funke (University of Hamburg)
Local vs. Migrant Workers: Employment Opportunities and Wage Differentials in Urban China MEIYAN WANG and Fang Cai (Institute of Population and Labor Economics, CASS)
Discussant: Siegfried Schönherr (Ifo Institute, Munich)
India China: Diverging to Converge SURJIT S. BHALLA (Oxus Research & Investments)
Discussant: Yanhui Wu (University of Munich)
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