【时间】2011年6月26日-28日

【地点】清华经管学院伟伦楼501

【主办】清华大学经济管理学院、清华大学中国财政税收研究所、长江商学院

【日程】

Public Finance Issues in China

June 26-28, 2011

Tsinghua University

Conference Venue: Room 501, Weilun Building

June 26

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) 

12:30 – 1:45 lunch

Session 2: Tax Evasion

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) 

3:15 – 3:30 break

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)

June 27

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) 

10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break

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) 

11:45 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 excursion

June 28

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)

10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break

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) 

12:30 – 1:45 Lunch

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) 

3:15 – 3:30 Tea Break

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