Public Finance Issues in China(中国公共财政问题学术研讨会)
【主办】9i果冻制作厂、清华大学中国财政税收研究所、长江商学院
Public Finance Issues in China
Conference Venue: Room 501, Weilun Building
9:00 – 9:05?? Welcome by Chong-En Bai
9:05 – 9:10?? Welcome by Wei Li
9:10 – 9:15?? Conference preliminaries by Roger Gordon
Session 1:?Fiscal Federalism
9:15 – 10:00?Michelle White (UCSD and CKGSB)
Land Use and Local Tax Structures
Discussant:?? Binzhen Wu (Tsinghua)?
10:00 – 10:45?Zhigang Li (Hong Kong)
Agglomeration and Tax Competition:?Evidence from China
Discussant:?Li-An Zhou (Peking)?10:45 – 11:00?Tea
11:00 – 11:45?Jiwei Qian (Singapore)
Health Financing Reform and Fiscal Decentralization
Discussant:?Yuyu Chen (Peking)?
11:45 – 12:30?Zhikai Wang?(Zhejiang)
The Reform of China's Financial System:?Fiscal Management Innovation and Multiple Performances
Discussant:?Wei Li (CKGSB)?
1:45 – 2:30?Henrik Kleven (LSE) and Mazhar Waseem LSE)
Tax Notches in Pakistan: Tax Evasion, Real Responses, and Income Shifting
Discussant:?? Estelle Dauchy (Peking)?
2:30 – 3:15?Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia) and Joel Slemrod (Michigan)
Taxation and Family Firms
Discussant:?Chong-en Bai (Tsinghua)?
3:30 – 4:15?Henrik Kleven (LSE), Claus Kreiner (Copenhagen), and Emmanuel Saez (Berkeley)
Why can Modern Governments Tax So Much??An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries
Discussant:?Liu Rong (SWUFE)?
4:15 – 5:00?Lixing Li (Peking) and Guangrong Ma (Peking)
Government Size and Tax Evasion:?Evidence from China
Discussant: Long Chen (CKGSB)
5:00 – 5:45 Zhigang Li (Hong Kong)
Estimating the Incidences of the Recent Pension Reform in China:?Evidence from 100,000 Manufacturers
Discussant:?Jie Gan (CKGSB)
Session 3:?Government Expenditures
8:30 – 9:15?Hongbin Cai (Peking), Yuyu Chen (Peking), Hanming Fang (Pennsylvania), and Li-An Zhou (Peking)
The Effects of Microinsurance on Economic Activities:?Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment
Discussant: ?Henrik Kleven (LSE)?
9:15 – 10:00?Zhigang Li (Hong Kong)
Road Investments and Inventory Reduction: Firm level Evidence from China
Discussant:?Brian Viard (CKGSB)?
10:15 – 11:00?Liu Rong (SWUFE) and Huang Hong (SWUFE)
Financial Risks and Financial Sharing:?The Perspective of Incentive Compatibility
Discussant:?Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia)
11:00 – 11:45?Yun-min Chen (National Chengchi) and Chi-ang Lin (National Chengchi)
Green Spending, Environmental Sustainability, and Optimal Taxation
Discussant:?Joel Slemrod (Michigan)?
Session 4:?Individual Taxation
8:30 – 9:15?Chong-en Bai (Tsinghua) and Binzhen Wu (Tsinghua)
Tax Reduction and Household Consumption and Investment Behavior in Rural Areas
Discussant:?Claus Kreiner (Copenhagen)?
9:15 – 10:00?Binzhen Wu (Tsinghua) and Xin Wang (Tsinghua)
Consumer Response to the Raise of Personal Income Tax Deduction
Discussant:?Zhigang Li (Hong Kong)
Session 5:?Distributional Issues
10:15 – 11:00?Wenlan Luo (Tsinghua) and Binzhen Wu (Tsinghua)
The Effect of College Enrollment Expansion on Educational Inequality:?Chinese Evidence
Discussant: ?Michelle White (UCSD and CKGSB)?
11:00 – 11:45?Maoliang Ye, Harvard
Preference for Redistribution in China:?A Case Under Authoritarian Context
Discussant:?Lingsheng Meng (Tsinghua)??
11:45 – 12:30?Ling Yang (Wuhan)
Research on China Government Expenditure on Health
Discussant:?Xinzheng Shi (Tsinghua)?
Session 6:?Business Taxation
1:45 – 2:30?Han Li (HKUST) and James Kung (HKUST)
Urbanizing China:?The Changing Fiscal Incentives of Local Governments
Discussant:?Roger Gordon (UCSD and CKGSB)
2:30 – 3:15?Estelle Dauchy (Peking)
The Impact of Tax Incentives for High-Tech and R&D Activities in China:?An Empirical Estimation Based on the Enterprise Income Tax Reform
Discussant:?Peter DeBaere (Virginia)?
3:30 – 4:15?Yuyu Chen (Peking), Zongyan He (Peking), and Lei Zhang (Tsinghua)
The Effect of Investment Tax Incentives:?Evidence from China's Value-Added Tax Reform
Discussant:?James Poterba (MIT and NBER)?
4:15?Roger Gordon (UCSD and CKGSB) and Wei Li (CKGSB)
Firm dynamics over time in China
Discussant:?Lei Zhang (Tsinghua)?
5:00?Closing remarks by Roger Gordon