CERDI - Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International

Thursday 22 October 2009

Opening session

• Philippe Dulbecco, President, University of Auvergne
• Mary-Françoise Renard, Dean, Faculty of Economics, Head of IDREC, University of Auvergne
• Patrick Plane, Director of CERDI, University of Auvergne

Keynote speech

• Barry Naughton, University of California, San Diego (USA)

PLENARY SESSION 1 : Industry, innovation

• "The Evolution of an Industrial Cluster in China"
  • Belton Fleisher, William McGuire, Ohio State University (USA)
  • Dinghuan Hu, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences (China)
  • Xiaobo Zhang, IFPRI Washington & Zhejang University (China)
• "The determinants of the H-share discounts of Chinese-listed firms"
  • Eric Girardin, GREQAM, Université de la Méditerrannée (France)
  • Marianna Caccavaio, Bocconi University and FEEM, Milan (Italy)
• "Income of China’s Private Business Owners"
  • Björn Anders Gustafsson, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
  • Gang Shuge, Dai Jian Zhong, Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing (China)
• "Foreign Entry, Competition and Heterogeneous Growth of Firms: Do we observe “creative destruction” in China?"
  • Paul Deng, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
  • Gary Jefferson, Brandeis University (Denmark)

Lunch

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session 2 - Rural world, migrations, labor

• "Impact of Financial Crisis on Rural Labor Employment and Income in China"
  • Scott Rozelle, Stanford University (USA)
  • Jikun Huang, Zhurong Huang, Huayong Zhi, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy (China)
• "Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-program wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome"
  • Yiu Por Chen, DePaul University and IZA (USA)
• "Trente ans de réformes économiques chinoises et les transformations de la main-d’oeuvre"
  • Michel Cartier, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France)
• "Land Reallocation and Its Impacts on Technical Efficiency - Evidence from China’s Agricultural Production"
  • Wang Xiaobing, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (Germany)
  • Yanjie Zhang, Georg-August-University, Göttingen & Leibniz IAMO (Germany)

Session 3 - Political Economy, Macroeconomic Policy

• "Catch-up Strategy, Great Leap Forward and China's Famine from 1958-1961: State, Collective and Peasants in Centralised System"
  • Liu Yuan, South China Normal University (China)
• "An International Comparative Institutional Analysis of the Chinese Approach to Accounting for Business Combinations"
  • Yuri Biondi, Preg CRG-Ecole Polytechnique (France)
  • Richard Baker, Adelphi University (USA)
  • Zhang Qjusheng, Beijing Jiaotong University (China)
• "Trust in Government in China"
  • Zhao Wenzhe, Renmin University of China and Bonn University (China)
  • Yean Zhou, Renmin University of China (China)
  • Song Houze, Unirule Institute of Economics, Beijing (China)

Coffee Break

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session 4 - Rural world, migrations, labor

• "Achieving Food Security in China: Past Three Decades and Beyond"
  • Zhangyue Zhou, James Cook University (Australia)
  • Yanrui Wu, University of Western Australia (Australia)
  • Xiao Hui Zhang, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing (China)
• "Migration Constraints and Development: Hukou and Capital Accumulation in China"
  • Thomas Vendryes, Paris School of Economics (France)
• "The flow of "peasant-workers" in China since the economic reform: a longitudinal and spatial analysis"
  • Zhu Nong, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-UCS, Montréal (Canada)
  • Cécile Batisse, CERDI, University of Auvergne (France)
  • Qin Li, South China Agricultural University (China)

Session 5 – International Economy

• "FDI in China, agglomeration, incentive policies and MNE’s heterogeneity: A comparison of US and European MNEs’ location"
  • Jean-Louis Mucchielli, Pei Yu, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (France)
• "Imports and Growth in China"
  
  • M. J. Herrerias, V. Orts, Universitat jaume 1 (Spain)
• "Sophistication of China's exports and foreign spillovers"
  • Joachim Jarreau, Sandra Poncet, Paris School of Economics (France)

Friday 23 October 2009

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Session 6 - Regional Policy

• "Sulphur emissions in the Chinese provinces"
  • Luc Moulin, CERDI, University of Auvergne (France)
• "Ownership, Autonomy, Incentives and Efficiency: Evidence from Forest Product Processing Industry in China"
  • Weng Qian, Haoran He, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
• "Does accounting for spatial effects help forecasting the growth of Chinese provinces?"
  • Konstantin Kholodilin, DIW Berlin (Germany)
  • Eric Girardin, GREQAM, Université de la Méditerrannée (France)
• "How Much Can Citizens’ Daily Behavior Be Changed by an Environmental Policy? Experience from a Chinese Plastic Bag Regulation"
  • Haoran He, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

Session 7 - Political Economy, Macroeconomic Policy

• "Cyclical Behaviour of Chinese Provinces"
  • Mary-Françoise Renard, Jean-Louis Combes, CERDI, Université d'Auvergne (France)
  • Jules Tapsoba, Ministère de l’Économie, de l’industrie et de l’emploi, Paris (France)
• "Fiscal Federalism and Macroeconomic Stability: The Chinese Experience"
  • Li Cheng, Université Paris-Est (France)
• "Transition China and efficiency of public management reform: an approach based on entropy"
  • Patrice Lesgourgues, LARE-fi, Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux IV (France)
• "Decentralization and efficiency of public good provision - the case of environmental protection in China"
  • Hang Xiong, CERDI, University of Auvergne (France)

Coffe Break

PLENARY SESSION 8 - Poverty, inequalities

• "A multidimensional analysis of poverty in China from 1991 to 2006"
  • Florent Bresson, Université d'Orléans (France)
  • Kelly Labar, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO) (Germany)
• "Skilled Labor, Economic Transition and Income Inequality"
  • Zou Wei, Liu Yong, Wuhan University (China)
• "On Risk-Taking and Income Mobility in Rural China since the Late 1980s: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis"
  • He Yong, CERDI, University of Auvergne (France)
  • Guang Zhen Sun, University of Macau (China)

Lunch

PLENARY SESSION 9 - Finance - Money

• "Taux de change réel et productivité du travail en Chine"
  • Ping Hua, Sylviane Guillaumont, CERDI, Université d'Auvergne (France)
• "Renminbi’s misalignment: a meta-analysis"
  • Yannick Bineau, University of Lille 1 (France)
• "Effectiveness of Capital controls in China: Evidence from Covered Interest Parity and capital flows"
  • Chen Jinzhao, Economix, University Paris X (France)
• "Multiple equilibria in the demand for money in China during its transition process"
  • Anne-Laure Delatte, Rouen Business School (France)
  • Julien Fouquau, Rouen Business School and University of Orléans (France)
• "Comovement of Chinese provincial cycles"
  • Jamel Gatfaoui, Eric Girardin, GREQAM, Université de la Méditerrannée (France)

Coffee Break

• Wing Thye Woo, University of California, Davis (USA)