CEANA NEWSLETTER
CHINESE ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA
http://www.ceana.org
December 2012
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This issue includes:
1. 2013 CEANA and CEANA-NTU-TEA Programs in San Diego
2. Call for Papers
3. Election Ballots
4. Banquet Reservation Form
5. Membership Application/Update Form
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2013 CEANA Program in San Diego
Joint AEA/CEANA Session
Session Title: Fiscal Policy under Macroeconomic Uncertainties
Date and Time: Friday, January 4, 2013; 2:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Ford C
Session Chair: Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington)
Papers
1. Huixin Bi (Bank of Canada), Wenyi Shen (Indiana University), and Shu-Chun Susan Yang
(International Monetary Funds) – Fiscal Policy in Highly Indebted Countries
2. Campbell Leith (University of Glasgow, U.K.), Ioana Moldovan (University of Glasgow,
U.K.), and Simon Wren-Lewis (University of Oxford, U.K.) – Debt Stabilization in a NonRicardian Economy
3. Mariano Massimiliano Croce (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Thien Tung
Nguyen (University of Pennsylvania), and Lukas Schmid (Duke University) – Fiscal Policy and
the Distribution of Consumption Risk
4. Yu-Ning Hwang (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), and Stephen Turnovsky (University
of Washington) – Exchange Rate Pass-Through and the Effects of Tariffs on Economic
Performance and Welfare
Discussants
1. Hung-Ju Chen (National Taiwan University)
2. Pei-Ju Liao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
3. Mathias Trabandt (Federal Reserve Board)
4. Daphne Chen (Florida State University)
CEANA-ASSA Session
Session Title: Health and Economic Development
Date and Time: Saturday, January 5, 2013; 8:00 – 10:00AM
Location: Manchester Grand Hyatt, Ford C
Session Chair: Michael Grossman (City University of New York Graduate Center)
Papers
1. Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University) and Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) – Why Do the Rich
Have so Few Kids?
2. Yin-Chi Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) – Does Health Matter? A Quantitative
Analysis of Cross-Country Income Differences
3. Cristina DeNardi (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Eric French (Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago), and John Jones (SUNY Albany) – Medicaid Insurance in Old Age
4. Wehn-Jyuan Tsai (Shih Hsin University, Taiwan), Jin-Tan Liu (National Taiwan University),
Shin-Yi Chou (Lehigh University), and Michael Grossman (City University of New York
Graduate Center) – Intergeneration Transfer of Human Capital: Results from a Natural
Experiment in Taiwan
Discussants
1. Masanori Kashiwagi (National Taiwan University)
2. Yi-Chan Tsai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
3. Minchung Hsu (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan)
4. Elaine Liu (University of Houston)
CEANA-NTU-TEA Session
Session Title: Applied/Empirical Economics I
Date and Time: Friday, January 4, 2013; 9:30 – 11:30AM
Location: Westin San Diego, Pearl Room
Session Chair: Tam Bang Vu (University of Hawaii-Hilo; tamv@hawaii.edu)
Papers
1. Tin-Chun Lin (Indiana University – Northwest; tinlin@iun.edu) – Does Students Behave Like
Producers? Empirical Analysis and Implications
2. Loretta Fung (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; phfung@mx.nthu.edu.tw), Jin-Tan Liu
(National Taiwan University), and Deborah Swenson (University of California, Davis) –
Location Choice of Taiwanese Multinationals in China
3. Feng-An Yang (National Taiwan University; fengan.yang@gmail.com), and Hung-Hao Chang
(National Taiwan University) – Biodiversity Protection and Consumption of GM Products? A
Case Study of A Choice Experiment in Taiwan
4. Tam Bang Vu (University of Hawaii-Hilo; tamv@hawaii.edu) – Full Capital Convertibility for
China? A Theoretical Framework and Empirics
Discussants
1. Feng-An Yang (National Taiwan University; fengan.yang@gmail.com)
2. Tam Bang Vu (University of Hawaii-Hilo; tamv@hawaii.edu)
3. Tin-Chun Lin (Indiana University – Northwest; tinlin@iun.edu)
4. Loretta Fung (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan; phfung@mx.nthu.edu.tw)
CEANA-NTU-TEA Session
Session Title: Applied/Empirical Economics II
Date and Time: Friday, January 4, 2013; 11:45AM – 1:45PM
Location: Westin San Diego, Pearl Room
Session Chair: Wan-Jiun Paul Chiou (Central Michigan University; wpchiou@gmail.com)
Papers
1. Yoshinori Kurokawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Jiaren Pang (Tsinghua University,
China), and Yao Tang (Bowdoin College; ytang@bowdoin.edu) – Exchange Rate Regimes and
the Wage Comovements
2. Sanae Tashiro (Rhode Island College; tashiro.ru@hotmail.com) – Food Stamps and Food
Consumption during the Great Recession
3. Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg (Wichita State University; chuping.vijverberg@wichita.edu), and
Wim Vijverberg (CUNY – Graduate Center) – Generalized Tukey Lambda Distribution in Time
Series Modeling
4. Chin-Wen Huang (Western Connecticut University), Chun-Pin Hsu (City University of New
York), and Wan-Jiun Paul Chiou (Central Michigan University; wpchiou@gmail.com) – Does
Applying Time-Varying Copulas Yield Economic Value in International Portfolio Optimization?
Discussants
1. Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg (Wichita State University; chuping.vijverberg@wichita.edu)
2. Wan-Jiun Paul Chiou (Central Michigan University; wpchiou@gmail.com)
3. Yao Tang (Bowdoin College; ytang@bowdoin.edu)
4. Sanae Tashiro (Rhode Island College; tashiro.ru@hotmail.com)
CEANA-NTU-TEA Session
Session Title: Economic Theory
Date and Time: Friday, January 4, 2013; 2:00 – 4:00PM
Location: Westin San Diego, Pearl Room
Session Chair: Siu Fai Leung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;
sfleung@ust.hk)
Papers
1. Masanori Kashiwagi (National Taiwan University; mkashiwagi@ntu.edu.tw) – Implications of
Export Invoicing Currency to International Policy Cooperation
2. Chu Ping Lo (National Taiwan University; cplo@ntu.edu.tw) –The Impact of Offshore
Production on Within-Industry Reallocation and Aggregate Industry Productivity
3. Chien-Chieh Huang (Soochow University, Taiwan), Ci-Ru Huang (National Dong Hwa
University, Taiwan), and Wei-Wei Lee (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan;
wwlee@mail.ndhu.edu.tw) – MCO Competition and Quality of Health Care: A Two-Sided
Market Approach
4. Siu Fai Leung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; sfleung@ust.hk) – Optimal
Resource Allocation with a Continuum of Producers
Discussants
1. Wei-Wei Lee (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan; wwlee@mail.ndhu.edu.tw)
2. Siu Fai Leung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; sfleung@ust.hk)
3. Masanori Kashiwagi (National Taiwan University; mkashiwagi@ntu.edu.tw)
4. Chu Ping Lo (National Taiwan University; cplo@ntu.edu.tw)
CEANA-NTU-TEA Session
Session Title: Macroeconomics
Date and Time: Saturday, January 5, 2013; 9:30 – 12:00PM
Location: Westin San Diego, Pearl Room
Session Chair: Hung-Ju Chen (National Taiwan University; hjc@ntu.edu.tw)
Papers
1. Been-Lon Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Yu-Shan Hsu (National Chung Cheng
University; yushanshie@gmail.com), and Kazuo Mino (Kyoto University, Japan) – Welfare
Implications and Equilibrium Indeterminacy in a Two-Sector Growth Model with Consumption
Externalities
2. Shu-Hua Chen (National Taipei University, Taiwan; shchen@mail.ntpu.edu.tw), and JangTing Guo (University of California, Riverside) – Progressive Taxation and Macroeconomic
(In)stability with Utility-Generating Government Spending
3. Minchung Hsu (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan), Pei-Ju Liao (Academia
Sinica, Taiwan; pjliao@econ.sinica.edu.tw), and Chang-Ching Lin (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) –
Revisiting Private Health Insurance and Precautionary Saving – A Theoretical and Empirical
Analysis
4. Been-Lon Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Chih-Fang Lai (National Taiwan University), and
Chia-Hui Lu (National Taipei University, Taiwan; chlu@mail.ntpu.edu.tw) – Quantifying
Declines in Labor Supply between Employment and Hours: Labor Taxes vs. Labor Regulations
5. Hung-Ju Chen (National Taiwan University; hjc@ntu.edu.tw), and Rezina Sultana (Bar-Ilan
University, Israel) – Job Reservation and Intergenerational Transmission of Preferences
Discussants
1. Pei-Ju Liao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan; pjliao@econ.sinica.edu.tw)
2. Chia-Hui Lu (National Taipei University, Taiwan; chlu@mail.ntpu.edu.tw)
3. Hung-Ju Chen (National Taiwan University; hjc@ntu.edu.tw)
4. Yu-Shan Hsu (National Chung Cheng University; yushanshie@gmail.com)
5. Shu-Hua Chen (National Taipei University, Taiwan; shchen@mail.ntpu.edu.tw)
CEANA-NTU-TEA Session
Session Title: Applied/Empirical Economics III
Date and Time: Saturday, January 5, 2013; 12:15 – 2:15PM
Location: Westin San Diego, Pearl Room
Session Chair: Wen S. Chern (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan;
Chern.1@ccu.edu.tw)
Papers
1. Yu-Ning Chien (National Taiwan University; d95627001@ntu.edu.tw), Yir-Hueih Luh
(National Taiwan University), and Fung-Mey Huang (National Taiwan University) – Learning
by Doing or Knowledge Sharing from Peers: Performance Evaluation of the Hysterectomy
Surgery in Taiwan
2. Mei-Ying Huang (National Taipei University, Taiwan; mayin@mail.ntpu.edu.tw) – A
Dynamic Study on the Super Efficiency and Productivity Performance of Taiwanese Integrated
Circuit Industries
3. Tsu-Tan Fu (Soochow University, Taiwan; tfu@scu.edu.tw) – Evaluating Performance of
Colleges of Business in Taiwan using a Hybrid Fuzzy AHP-DEA Model
4. Wen S. Chern (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan; Chern.1@ccu.edu.tw), and JhihCyun Yan (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) – Contribution of Student Migrants to
the United States on Economic Growth in Taiwan
Discussants
1. Tsu-Tan Fu (Soochow University, Taiwan; tfu@scu.edu.tw)
2. Wen S. Chern (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan; Chern.1@ccu.edu.tw)
3. Yir-Hueih Luh (National Taiwan University; yirhueihluh@ntu.edu.tw)
4. Mei-Ying Huang (National Taipei University, Taiwan; mayin@mail.ntpu.edu.tw)
CEANA-NTU-TEA Session
Session Title: Applied/Empirical IV
Date and Time: Saturday, January 5, 2013; 2:30 – 4:30PM
Location: Westin San Diego, Pearl Room
Session Chair: Ben-Chieh Liu (Chicago State University; bencliu678@hotmail.com)
Papers
1. Huimin Li (West Chester University of PA; HLi@wcupa.edu), Dazhi Zheng (West Chester
University of PA), and Jun Chen (Xi’an Jiaotong University, China) – Effectiveness, Cause and
Impact of Price Limit – Evidence from China’s Cross-Listed Stocks
2. Show-Ling Jang (National Taiwan University; sljang@ntu.edu.tw), Tzu-Ya Wang (National
Taiwan University), and Jennifer H. Chen (Nanhua University, Taiwan) – Cross-Border
Patenting in Emerging Countries – The Cases of China and India
3. Daisy J. Huang (City University of Hong Kong), Charles K. Leung (City University of Hong
Kong; kyc.leung@cityu.edu.hk), and Baozhi Qu (China Merchants Group and University of
International Business and Economics, China) – Can Credit and Location Choice Explain the
House Price Inflation in China?
4. Ben-Chieh Liu (Chicago State University; bencliu678@hotmail.com), Jan-Jo Chen (Chicago
State University), Jian-Chern Chen (Northwestern Polytechnic University), Johnson John
(Chicago State University), and Lee-Hsuan Lin (Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan) – Economic
Growth, Environment Green, and Marketing Greed: An Industrial Comparison among the
Richest 100 Billionaires in China and USA, 2005-2011
Discussants
1. Charles K. Leung (City University of Hong Kong; kyc.leung@cityu.edu.hk)
2. Ben-Chieh Liu (Chicago State University; bencliu678@hotmail.com)
3. Huimin Li (West Chester University of PA; HLi@wcupa.edu)
4. Show-Ling Jang (National Taiwan University; sljang@ntu.edu.tw)
****CALL FOR PAPERS****
Chinese Economic Association in North America (CEANA) is organizing several sessions
at the conferences of the Western Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, and
Allied Social Science Associations. Members and nonmembers are invited to submit papers for
presentation and/or serve as discussants and chairs in these sessions. In presentation, please observe
the following conditions:
1. Each submission of the paper must be accompanied by a submission fee of US$20 unless at
least one of the authors is a member of the association. In the latter case, please indicate
which author is a member.
2.
Multiple submissions by the same authors to the same conference are not encouraged.
3.
Please send an abstract or a paper to the organizer no later than the deadline noted below:
(1) 2013 Western Economic Association International Conference
Date and Place: June 28-July 2, 2013, Seattle Grand Hyatt, WA
Organizer: Professor Chong-Kee Yip, Department of Economics, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Phone: 852-2609-7057(O), fax: 852-2603-5805, email: chongkeeyip@cuhk.edu.hk
Sessions: Several sessions. Fields are open. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.
Deadline for submission: February 1, 2013.
(2) 2013 Southern Economic Association Conference
Date and Place: November 23-25, 2013, Tampa Waterside Marriott, FL
Organizer: Professor Yu Hsing, Department of Economics, Southeastern Louisiana University,
Hammond, LA 70402.
Phone: (504) 549-2086, fax: (504) 549-2881, email: yhsing@selu.edu
Sessions: Several joint sessions with SEA. Fields are open. Both theoretical and empirical papers are
welcome.
Deadline for submission: March 15, 2013.
(3) 2013 Joint Conference of CEANA and Taiwan Economic Association
Date and Place: late December, 2013 in Taiwan
Organizer: Professor Been-Lon Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Email: bchen@econ.sinica.edu.tw or bchen-1@econ.sinica.edu.tw
Sessions: Several sessions and fields are open. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.
Deadline for submission: September 10, 2013.
(4) 2014 Allied Social Science Association Meetings
Date and Place: January 3-5, 2014, Philadelphia Marriott, PA
Organizers: Professor Chong K. Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong, E-mail:
chongkeeyip@cuhk.edu.hk and Professor YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, E-mail:
YiLi.Chien@stls.frb.org
Sessions: Several sessions and fields are open. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.
Deadline for submission: May 1, 2013.
****Elections
(ballots on the following page)****
President: Professor Chong K. Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chong K. Yip is a professor in the Department of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong since 2001. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Macroeconomics and
Global Journal of Economics, as well as in the editorial council of the Review of International
Economics. Chong’s research areas are in macroeconomic theory and open economy
macroeconomics. He is currently working on the topic of factor substitution and economic
growth based on the normalized CES approach. Chong was an associate professor of economics
at Georgia State University when he left for Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1994. He
received an M.A. in 1986 and a Ph.D. in 1988 from Penn state University.
Vice President: Professor YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis
YiLi Chien is a senior economist at Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis. His main research
areas are in macroeconomics, household finance and asset pricing. His recent papers studied the
relationship between asset pricing, household portfolio choice and wealth distribution in a
heterogeneous agent economy. YiLi received a B.A. in economics from National Tsing-Hua
University in 1996, a M.A. from National Taiwan University in year 1998 and a Ph.D. from
University of California at Los Angeles in 2006.
Secretary-Treasurer: Professor Jen-Chi Cheng, Wichita State University
Jen-Chi Cheng has served the CEANA for years. He received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt
University and is currently the chairperson of the Economics Department at Wichita State
University. His research interests include international financial markets and applied
econometrics.
CHINESE ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION IN NORTH AMERICA
Election Ballot
INSTRUCTIONS:
(1) Indicate your choices by marking X in the space provided.
(2) E-mail your ballot to Professor Jang-Ting Guo <guojt@ucr.edu> by
January 1, 2013.
PRESIDENT (Vote for one):
Professor Chong K. Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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VICE-PRESIDENT (Vote for one):
Professor YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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SECRETARY-TREASURER (Vote for one):
Professor Jen-Chi Cheng, Wichita State University
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(Other)
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