The 1st Firm and Industry Dynamics Workshop launched the workshop series that later became associated with FIPA. Hosted by The University of Hong Kong in June 2023 and sponsored by the HKU Business School’s Institute of China Economy, the workshop brought together leading scholars to discuss frontier research on firm heterogeneity, multi-product firms, economic shocks, trade, quality, and policy. The programme featured keynote lectures by Mark Roberts and Eric Verhoogen, along with sessions on markup estimation, productivity and quality, tariffs, agglomeration spillovers, entrepreneurship, and tax policy.
Event
The 1st Firm and Industry Dynamics Workshop
Programme
Day 1
June 26, 2023 (Monday)
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
Tea and Coffee
09:00 - 09:10
Remarks
Opening Remarks
Xiaodong ZHU (HKU Business School)
09:10 - 10:10
Keynote
Special Lecture: "Firms and industrial dynamics: Literature and Perspective"
Chair: Hongsong Zhang (HKU Business School)
Mark Roberts (The Pennsylvania State University)
10:10 - 10:25
Tea Break and Group Photo
Session
Multi-product Firms and Industry Dynamics
Chair: Chang SUN (HKU)
10:25 - 11:25
"Novel Methodologies for Markup Estimation with Multiproduct Firms"
Frederic Warzynski (Aarhus University)
11:25 - 12:25
"Productivity and Quality of Multi-product Firms"
Shengyu Li (UNSW Sydney)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
Session
Economic Shocks and Industry Dynamics
Chair: Heiwai TANG (HKU)
14:00 - 15:00
"The Welfare Impacts of U.S. Solar Panel Tariffs"
Daniel Yi Xu (Duke University)
15:00 - 16:00
"Super Factory Comes to Town: Identifying the Agglomeration Spillovers from Foxconn Factory in Henan"
Hong Ma (Tsinghua University)
16:00 - 16:15
Tea Break
16:15 - 17:15
"How Does Digitization Impact Female Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China"
Xiaobo Zhang (Peking University)
17:15 - 18:15
"Food, Fuel, and Facts: Distributional Effects of External Shocks"
Arpita Chatterjee (UNSW Sydney)
18:45 - 21:00
Dinner
Day 2
June 27, 2023 (Tuesday)
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
Tea and Coffee
09:00 - 10:00
Keynote
"Price-Cost Margins and Quality: Evidence from the Colombian Coffee Sector"
Chair: Shengyu Li
Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
10:00 - 10:15
Tea Break
Session
Output Quality, Trade, and Industry Dynamics
Chair: Haishi Harry Li
10:15 - 11:15
"Bilateral Economies of Scope"
Yao Amber Li (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
11:15 - 12:15
"Tax Policy, Selling Expenses, and the Growth of Young Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Tax Incentive Policy"
Hongsong Zhang (HKU Business School)
12:15 - 12:20
Remarks
Concluding Remarks
Hongsong ZHANG (HKU)
12:15 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 18:00
Session
Individual Meetings with Faculty Members and Students
14:00 - 18:00
Session
Group Discussion on New Development of the Literature
18:30 - 21:00