Call for Contributions: 2008 International Workshop on Chinese Productivity

Private Enterprises, Environment Protection and Total Factor Productivity

 

Time: September 20-21, 2008

 

Host Institution: School of Economics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

 

Organizer: Jinghai Zheng

  CEA(UK) Committee for European Affairs

  Department of Economics, Gothenburg University, Sweden

  Department of International Economics, Norwegian Institute of International

  Affairs (NUPI), Norway

 

The main purposes of the workshop are to provide opportunities for academic researchers to present preliminary results of their research projects, encourage discussions on important issues in the field of applied productivity analysis concerning China, and promote co-operations between Chinese and foreign research institutions. The 2008 workshop also intends to bring together academic researchers, policy analysts, and business observers to exchange views on productivity issues with general public interests.

 

Zhejiang University is currently hosting a research center for the study of private enterprises in China, for which the theme of the workshop was chosen to coincide with the 30th anniversary of China’s economic reform and opening up. The other theme of the workshop concerns environment protection, which is a hotly debated issue. It turns out that the environmental issue can be studied under the standard framework of applied productivity analysis, which is based on well-founded economic theory of production. Submissions of papers in the two areas are highly recommended.

 

Contributions concerning productivity performance of service and agricultural sectors are also very welcome. A session on international comparisons of the Chinese productivity may be organized if there are enough interests. Papers comparing China and India or Brazil, former Soviet Union or Russia, US or EU, and South and East Asia including Japan are particularly interesting to the workshop. A session for productivity studies on countries other than China is also under consideration to bring forth the latest development in theoretical and applied research on productivity. Submissions on innovation and productivity, trade and productivity with firm heterogeneity, structural time series models of aggregate productivity, and real business cycle related productivity studies are all topics of interests to the workshop.

 

Submission should be sent in Word format via email to

 

Jinghai Zheng

Senior Research Fellow

Department of Economics, Gothenburg University, Sweden and

Department of International Economics

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway

Email: Jinghai.Zheng@economics.gu.se

 

Deadline for submission of abstracts of papers and sessions: February 26, 2008

 

Deadline for full paper submission will be announced later.