Chinese Political Economy Working Group (CPEWG) Workshop at NYU is a weekly meeting for graduate students studying Chinese political economy to share their recent research. The aim of this working group is to provide a platform for scholars studying China to present their work and receive feedback. We welcome scholars and graduate students from NYU and other universities to present in our working group. Please contact Reed Lei ([email protected]) if you are interested in presenting or joining in our meetings.
The schedule for 2019 Fall:
The schedule for 2019 Spring:
Feb 14 Research Presentation: Shaoguang Wang (Tsinghua)
Feb 28 TBD
Mar 14 Research Presentation: Patrick Chester (NYU), Propagandizing Democracy: How China Manipulates Information about Democratic Transitions
Mar 28 Research Presentation: Aaron Zhou (NYU) on environmental regulation in China
April 4 Research Presentation: Reed Lei (NYU), Political Career Incentives and Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from China
Apr 18 Research Presentation: Yishuang Li (NYU), Political Factional Ties and Meritocratic Bureaucracy: Evidence from China
Apr 26 QCSS-3 conference
May 2 Research workshop: MA and QP ideas for first and second year students
May 9 Research workshop: MA and QP ideas for first and second year students
The schedule for 2019 Fall:
- Sep 24. Austin Strange (Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard), "Who Pursues Prestige Development Projects, and Why?"
- Oct 1. Patrick Chester (Ph.D. Candidate, NYU), “Holding Back Democratic Diffusion: China's Anti-Democratic Media Coverage of Foreign Regimes.”
- Oct 8. Meir Alkon (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard), “Economic Interdependence, Political Risk, and the Limits to Liberalization.”
- Oct 22. Fengming Lu (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Princeton), "Who Believes Government Propaganda? Experimental Evidence from China."
- Oct 29. Reed Lei (Ph.D. Candidate, NYU), "The Political Resource Curse: Factional Political Ties, Infrastructure Investment, and the Variety of Growth Model in China."
- Nov 5. Naijia Liu (Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton), " A latent utility approach to missing not at random."
- Nov 12. Siyao Li (Ph.D. Candidate, UPenn), "Crossing the Oceans by Feeling Stones: Explaining the limits of RMB internationalization."
- Nov 19. Sidak Gebre Yntiso (Ph.D. Candidate, NYU), “A Silent Corrupting Force? Recall Elections and Criminal Sentencing,” (joint with Sanford Gordon).
- Dec 3. Taylor Mattia (Ph.D. Candidate, NYU), “Long-Run Effects of School Segregation on Whites' Partisanship: Evidence for the Racial Threat Hypothesis.”
- Dec 4. Xun Pang (Professor, Tsinghua University), Topic TBD.
- Dec 10. Rafael J Chduran (Ph.D. Candidate, NYU), “Without them there is no us: Security Underprovision to Strengthen Clientelistic Incumbents in Mexico and Colombia.”
The schedule for 2019 Spring:
Feb 14 Research Presentation: Shaoguang Wang (Tsinghua)
Feb 28 TBD
Mar 14 Research Presentation: Patrick Chester (NYU), Propagandizing Democracy: How China Manipulates Information about Democratic Transitions
Mar 28 Research Presentation: Aaron Zhou (NYU) on environmental regulation in China
April 4 Research Presentation: Reed Lei (NYU), Political Career Incentives and Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from China
Apr 18 Research Presentation: Yishuang Li (NYU), Political Factional Ties and Meritocratic Bureaucracy: Evidence from China
Apr 26 QCSS-3 conference
May 2 Research workshop: MA and QP ideas for first and second year students
May 9 Research workshop: MA and QP ideas for first and second year students
