2008 International Workshop on Chinese Productivity

September 20-21, 2008, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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

Sponsors: Angang Hu, Jinghai Zheng, and Jinchuan Shi

Cosponsors:Economic Research, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
                   Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (JCEBS)

Organizer: Jinghai Zheng,
                  CEA(UK) committee for European Affairs
                  Department of Economics, Gothenburg University, Sweden
                  Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway

Organizing Committee

Jinchuan Shi, School of Economics, Zhejiang University
Jinghai Zheng Dept. of Economics, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Cheng Wang Economic Research, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Xiaming Liu JCEBS, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Angang Hu Center for China Studies, Tsinghua University

Program Committee

Justin Yifu Lin     China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
Angang Hu         Center for China Studies, Tsinghua University
Finn F rsund     Dept of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway
Lennart Hjalmarsson     Dept of Economics, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Gary Jefferson     Brandies University, USA
Louis Kuijs     World Bank Beijing Office
Jinchuan Shi     School of Economics, Zhejiang University
Daokui Li     School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University
Xiaoxuan Liu     Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Ruoen Ren     School of Economics & Management, Beihang University
Yuxin Zheng     Institute of Quantitative & Technical Economics, CASS
Jun Zhang     School of Economics, Fudan University
Xiaolu Wang     National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation
Yanrui Wu     School of Economics and Commerce, University of Western Australia
Shujie Yao     School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
Liming Wang Irish     Institute for Chinese Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland
Eric Gerardin     Universite de la Mediterranee, France

Contact person at Zhejiang University: Professor Yuexiang Jiang, School of Economics

For workshop information send E-mail to productivityworkshop@yahoo.com

Please send submission to Jinghai.Zheng@economics.gu.se

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.