Call for Papers-China Summer Institute (Deadline: February 29, 2008)

UC Berkeley, the Chicago Graduate School of Business, the LICOS-Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University are jointly organizing an international Summer Institute with the objective of creating a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development. The Summer Institute will be organized in collaboration with the BREAD and CEPR networks of academic economists.

The Summer Institute will bring together between 20 and 30 participants for a period of five days. We welcome applications not only from those who want to present their research on China but also from anybody who has an interest in doing serious economic research on China and would like to use the workshop as means of exploring this possibility.

This call invites you to submit a paper or express your interest in attending the above Summer Institute which will be hosted by Tsinghua University Beijing between June 27th to July 1st. The scientific committee for the 2008 Summer Institute will be composed of Gérard Roland, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Chongen Bai, Shang-Jin Wei, Jo Swinnen and Robin Burgess.

The workshop intends to group together the best scholars working on China in China, the US and Europe with other top level scholars who have an interest in working on China in the future. Each day, there will be a half day of seminar presentations and the rest of the day will be free to allow scholars to interact and explore the possibility of doing joint research projects.

Expressions of interest in attending the meeting should be e-mailed to Gerard Roland at groland@econ.berkeley.edu by 18:00 GMT on February 29th, 2008. Papers for possible presentation at the meeting should also be sent by this date to this e-mail address.

We can cover economy apex travel and accommodation costs for selected participants. Please indicate when you reply whether you will require this funding or whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs. Please note that it will not be possible to accept all applications to attend this Summer Institute. At the moment, funding is available for travel and accommodation expenses in accordance with standard guidelines (economy apex travel), but where possible it is hoped that some of the selected participants will use grants at their disposal to cover expenses and thereby free up space for others.