Public Policy and Economic Behavior: and the World amidst a Global Pandemic

The Chinese Economists Society 2021 Annual Conference

June 18-20, 2021

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Conference Organizing Committee

Li Qi (Agnes Scott College), Co-Chair Jianhua Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Co-Chair

Guodong Gao, University of Maryland Yang Jiao, Young Harris College Xin Li, University of Arkansas Huan Xie, Concordia University Jie Wei, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Lijia Wei, Wuhan University Xueqing Yan, Georgia Tech Bochen Zhu, Wuhan University Tong Ru, University of Pittsburgh

Student Volunteers (Huazhong University of Science and Technology）

Xiaoyu Cai, Yuanqiang Cai, Yuanyuan Huang, Wenyi Li, Xingxing Liu, Yao Lin, Xinyue Ru, Xiaqin Song, Jinping Wang, Mengge Wei, Shuangshuang Wu, Rong Xie, Ruihan Xu, Bowen Yin, Dan Zhou.

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Keynote Speakers

Colin Camerer

Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral at CalTech; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Director.

Yan Chen

Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor in the School of Information, the University of Michigan; 2019 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award Winner.

David Cutler

The Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Department of Economics and Kennedy School of Government, .

Stefano DellaVigna

Daniel E. Koshland, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Business Administration, University of California at Berkeley; Co-editor, American Economic Review; Co-director of the Berkeley Initiative for Behavioral Economics and Finance.

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Matthew O. Jackson

William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University; Winner of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize, Toulouse School of Economics 2020; President of the Game Theory Society, 2020-2022.

Gordon Guoen Liu

Peking University BOYA Distinguished Professor of Economics; Dean of PKU Institute for Global Health and Development; President (2005-2006) of the Chinese Economists Society; Associate editor, Health Economics.

Emi Nakamura

Chancellor’s Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley; Co-editor, American Economic Review; 2019 John Bates Clark Medal Winner; 2014 Elaine Bennett Research Prize.

Dan Silverman

Rondthaler Family Professor, Department of Economics, Arizona State University; Co-editor of American Economic Journal – Economic Policy.

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The Chinese Economists Society 2021 Annual Conference June 18-20, 2021

[This schedule follows US Eastern Time, 12 hours behind Beijing Time] Preliminary Schedule (subject to change) Registered conference participants and presenters will receive Zoom links and the information on parallel sessions soon

June 18 (Friday) US Eastern Time

8:00 – 8:15 PM Opening ceremony

8:20 – 9:00 PM Keynote speech I Colin Camerer (CalTech)

9:10 – 10:10 PM Keynote speech II Round Table David Cutler (Harvard University) and Guoen Liu ()

10:20 PM – 12:00 AM Parallel sessions 1

June 19 (Saturday) US Eastern Time

8:00 – 8:20 AM CES Awards Gregory Chow Best Paper Award CES Best Student Paper Awards Gregory Chow Teaching Awards

8:30 – 9:20 AM Keynote speech III Matthew Jackson (Stanford University)

9:30 – 11:10 AM Parallel sessions 2

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Meet the editors Stefano DellaVigna (Coeditor, American Economic Review) Emi Nakamura (Coeditor, American Economic Review) Dan Silverman (Coeditor, American Economic Journal–Economic Policy)

9:10 – 9:50 PM Professional Development Yan Chen (University of Michigan) Li Qi （Agnes Scott College）

10:00 – 11:40 PM Parallel sessions 3

June 20 (Sunday) US Eastern Time

8:00 – 9:40 AM Parallel sessions 4 9:50 – 11:30 AM Parallel sessions 5 11:40 AM – 12:00 PM Closing ceremony

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The Chinese Economists Society

The Chinese Economists Society (CES) is a non-profit academic organization registered in the United States. The CES strives to promote scholarly exchanges among members and contribute to the advancement and dissemination of economics and management sciences in China.

Over the years more than 3000 individuals have joined the CES from academia, research institutions, and other public or private organizations throughout North America, Asia, Europe, and other regions of the world. CES members are in leadership positions in government agencies, universities, research institutes, multinational firms, and international organizations including the People’s Bank of China, the World Bank, and IMF. The CES is considered the most influential group that bridges academic exchanges in economics and management sciences between North America and China.

To promote scholarly exchanges among its members, the Society holds annual conferences, with its first conference held in Princeton, NJ in 1985. In order to promote market-based economic reforms in China, the Society has organized its Annual Conference in China since 1993, often jointly hosted with a Chinese university. The CES conferences have been widely attended by internationally renowned economists, senior government officials, and business leaders. The Society also organizes themed North America conferences. The CES conferences have had profound policy impacts on China’s market-oriented transition and reforms as well as economic development strategy.

In 1989, the CES launched an English-language journal China Economic Review (CER), which in just a few years achieved worldwide circulation and became an influential academic periodical on China’s economy. The CES became a member of the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) in 1992 and has sponsored independent and joint sessions with other associations at annual ASSA meetings since then.

The CES is committed to serving its members and promoting the scholarly exchange between academic and research communities in North America and in China.

CES Institutional Members, 2020-2021 National School of Development, Peking University School of Economics, Henan University Agnes Scott College School of Economics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics Institute for Advanced Economic Research, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics International School of Business Finance, Sun Yat-sen University Center for Experimental Economics in Education, Shaanxi Normal University Business School, Guangxi University South China University of Technology School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University

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China Center for Agricultural Policy, Peking University Shanghai University Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Economics, Shandong Technology and Business University

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The Chinese Economists Society (CES) Officers (2020-2021)

President (2020-2021) Li Qi, Agnes Scott College

President-Elect Guodong Gao, University of Maryland

Vice President Jianhua Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Board of Directors Yang Jiao, Young Harris College Xin Li, University of Arkansas Huan Xie, Concordia University Lijia Wei, Wuhan University Xueqing Yan, Georgia Tech

Executive Director Shuming Bao, China Data Institute

Academic Publications Council Jinlan Ni, Chair, University of Washington, Tacoma Orn Bodvarsson, Westminster College Li Gan, Texas A&M and SWUFE Ding Lu, ShanghaiTech University Wing Thye Woo, UC Davis

Finance Committee Jason Yin, Chair, Seton Hall University

Regents Junfu Zhang, Chair, Clark University Shuming Bao, China Data Institute Zongwu Cai, University of Kansas Zhuo Chen, University of Georgia Ding Lu, ShanghaiTech University Jinlan Ni, University of Nebraska at Omaha Li Qi, Agnes Scott College Jason Yin, Seton Hall University

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Conference Sponsors

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) is a comprehensive research university located in Wuhan, China under the direct supervision of the Ministry of Education. It is a participant university of the former “985” Project in China, and also one of the first universities approved under the national "Double First-Class" Initiative, China’s “Excellence Initiative” for institutions of higher education.

Agnes Scott College Since 1889, Agnes Scott College has empowered students to fulfill their potential as inclusive leaders through an innovative liberal arts education. We believe in big questions, global perspectives, and leading change. This is a community where the dreamers, the intellectually curious, and the socially- engaged fulfill their potential.

China Research Center Founded in 2001, the China Research Center promotes understanding of greater China based on in-depth research and experience. The Center draws much of its expertise from the universities and institutions around the region, working collaboratively across institutions and jointly with the public and private sectors. The universities represented include Agnes Scott, Dalton State, Emory, Georgia Gwinnett College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Perimeter, Georgia St, Kennesaw State, Mercer, Oglethorpe, and the University of Georgia, as well as The Carter Center.

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Frontiers of Economics in China (FEC)

Frontiers of Economics in China (FEC) is a double-blind peer-reviewed economics journal edited at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and published by Higher Education Press of China. With 630 institutional subscribers worldwide and indexed in 10+ databases including EBSCO-BSU, EconLit, ESCI, ProQuest, RePEc and SCOPUS, the journal was ranked as one of “The Highest International Impact Academic Journals of China” in 2016, 2019 and 2020.

The FEC welcomes submissions of theoretical and empirical papers from all fields of economics, particularly those with an emphasis on the Chinese economy and other emerging, developing or transition economies.

Editor: Guoqiang Tian Texas A&M University Executive Editor: Zhiqi Chen Carleton University Co-Editors: Chunrong Ai Chinese University of (Shenzhen) Kevin X. D. Huang Vanderbilt University Neng Wang Quan Wen University of Washington

Selected Papers Published since 2020（Click paper title to see details）

Chinese Economy under the New "Dual Circulation" Strategy: Challenges and Opportunities—A Summary of the Annual SUFE Macroeconomic Report (2020–2021) …...... Kevin X.D. Huang, Shuangjian Li, Guoqiang Tian Dual Circulation and China's Development …………………...... Justin Yifu Lin The Belt and Road Initiative and China's Export: A Soft Power Perspective……………………...……………………………………… Jiadong Tong, Ziliang Yu, Jiayun Xu, Meng Tong Analysis of High Frequency Data in Finance: A Survey…………………………………………… George J. Jiang, Guanzhong Pan Tuition Fees for Higher Education and Intergenerational Mobility in China……………………………………………………………… Yuanyuan Chen, Quanlin Liu, Kun Wu Social Distancing, Labor Market Outcomes, and Job Characteristics in the COVID-19 Pandemic………………………………. Suqin Ge, Yu Zhou China’s Exports during the Global COVID-19 Pandemic…………………………… Yi Che, Weiqiang Liu, Yan Zhang, Lin Zhao Past Experiences, Personality Traits, and Risk Aversion: Evidence from Individual Risk Attitudes during the COVID- 19 Pandemic………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………..… Yun Wang, Mingyang Yan Quantitative Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Shock to Household Consumption in China…Lei Ning, Yuqin Wang

Full-Text Available: ProQuest, EBSCO-BSU, Gale Online Submission: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fec Website: http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec

Email: [email protected] Tel.:86-21-6590 2330

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