Topic:

The Mandarin Model of Growth

Speaker:

Zheng (Michael) SONG, Wei Lun Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Introduction to the Speaker:

Zheng (Michael) SONG is Wei Lun Professor of Economics and the Department Head at the Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and Zhejiang University, and a special-term professor at Peking University. Before joining CUHK, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth. His research areas are Chinese economy and macroeconomics. He is an Associate Editor of Econometrica and Review of Finance, a Senior Fellow of ABFER and a Fellow of Luohan Academy. He sits on a number of academic advisory boards such as China’s Economics Foundation and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. He is also a Currency Board Committee member of the Hong Kong Exchange Fund Advisory Committee. His papers were published by leading academic journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica and Journal of Political Economy. His paper “Growing like China” won the Sunyefang Economic Science Award.

Host: Liu Shouying, Dean of the School of Economics, Renmin University of China (RUC)

Time: 3 pm, September 13, 2023 (Wednesday)

Venue: Meeting Room 728, Mingde Main Building, RUC