Agenda

Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Noon Lunch
12:45 p.m. Welcome Remarks
Chun Chang, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)
12:50 Keynote Speech

Structural Reforms—A European Perspective
Klaus Masuch, European Central Bank
Session 1: Growth in China
Chair: Bernd Schnatz, European Central Bank
2:00 Firm Entry and Regional Growth Disparities: The Effect of SOEs in China
Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto
Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo
Discussant: Min Ouyang, Tsinghua University
Session 2: Income Inequality in China
Chair: Bing Li, Tsinghua University
3:00 Income and Consumption Inequality in China
Haiyan Ding, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Hui He, International Monetary Fund
Discussant: Lei Fang, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
4:00 Break
Session 3: Monetary Policy in China
Chair: Liu Jun, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)
4:15 Reserve Requirements and Optimal Chinese Stabilization Policy
Chun Chang, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Mark Spiegel, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Jingyi Zhang, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
Discussant: Alistair Dieppe, European Central Bank
5:15 China Pro-Growth Monetary Policy and Its Asymmetric Transmission
Kaiji Chen, Emory University
Patrick Higgins, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Daniel Waggoner, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Tao Zha, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Discussant: Bing Li, Tsinghua University
7:15 Dinner
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Session 4: Financial Markets
Chair: Livio Stracca, European Central Bank
9:00 a.m. Empirical Determinants of Exchange Rates
Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
Ben Johannsen, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern University
Discussant: Oreste Tristani, European Central Bank
Session 5: Growth in China
Chair: Bernd Schnatz, European Central Bank
10:00 Institutional Foundations of China's Growth and Slowdown
Chong-En Bai, Tsinghua University
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago
Zheng Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Discussant: John Fernald, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
11:00 Break
11:15 The Making of an Economic Superpower–Unlocking China's Secret of Rapid Industrialization
Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Discussant: Nancy Qian, Yale University
12:15 p.m. Lunch
Keynote Speech
Can China Transition to a More Innovative Economy?
Shang-Jin Wei, Asian Development Bank
Session 6: Banking and Credit
Chair: Jun Qian, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)
2:00 Do Banks Pass through Credit Expansions to Households That Want to Borrow?
Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore
Souphala Chomsisengphet, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Neale Mahoney, University of Chicago
Johannes Stroebel, New York University
Discussant: Feng Dong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
3:00 Break
3:15 Policy Panel Discussions: International Monetary Policy
Moderator: Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University

International Monetary Policy
Yudong Yao, Director of Research Department, People's Bank of China
Panelist: Peter Praet, Executive Board Member, European Central Bank

Financial Cycles and Monetary Policy
Charles Evans, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Are Low Monetary Policy Rates the New Normal?
Eric Rosengren, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Observations on Financial Stability Concerns for Monetary Policymakers
Yiping Huang, Member of Monetary Policy Committee, People's Bank of China; Professor of Economics, Peking University
5:15 Concluding Remarks
David Altig, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
7:00 Dinner
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Session 7 (optional): Recent Development and Challenge of China's Fin-Tech and Payment System
Organized jointly with Financial Research Institute of People's Bank of China
Four presentations: For each one, there are 15 minutes for open-floor Q&A after the presentation.

Moderator: Chun Chang, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)
9:00 Keynote Speech
Digital Finance: Logic and Practice

Long Chen, Chief Strategist, Ant Financial Services Group
10:15 Application of Block Chain
Xuchuan Wu, Secretary-General of Internet Finance Research Center, Financial Research Institute, People's Bank of China
10:45 Break
10:55 Online Payment Firms in China: Development and Challenge
Ye Zhou, Chief Executive Officer, ChinaPnR Co., Ltd
11:30 Application of Fin-Tech on the Securities Investment
Naisheng Yao, Vice President, JD Finance
12:05 Three Drivers Behind Financial Innovations Enabled by FinTech
Jie Hu, Professor of Practice, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
12:40 Concluding Remarks
Yudong Yao, Director of Financial Research Institute, People's Bank of China
12:55 Lunch
Session 8: Financial Markets (continued)
Chair: Bing Li, Tsinghua University
1:30 Impact of Securitization on Commodity Price Volatility
Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University

Discussant: Anastasios Karantounias, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Session 9: The Economy at the Zero Lower Bound
Chair: Qing Liu, Tsinghua University
2:30 Capital Flows and Global Imbalances at the ZLB
Ricardo J. Caballero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Emmanuel Farhi, Harvard University
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant: Meixin Guo, Tsinghua University