Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Sizing Up Market Failure in Export Pioneering Activities: Some Structural Estimation from Chinese Exporters
Professor Wei's talk is part of the USC Department of Economics seminar on economics dynamics
Shang-jin Wei
N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy Columbia Business School
In addition to teaching at Columbia, Wei is also Director for the National Bureau of Economic Research's Working Group on the Chinese Economy and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (Europe). Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Wei served with the International Monetary Fund, the Brookings Institution, and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has undertaken consulting work for both private companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and government organizations such as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the United Nations. Wei has published extensively on topics on international finance, trade, and the Chinese economy in leading academic journals. His research has also been reported in the business and popular press. Wei's co-author Xiaobo Zhang presented their research on "bride prices and real estate prices" at our 2011 conference on the State of the Chinese Economy. Wei received his MS in business administration (finance) and Ph.d in economics from University of California, Berkeley.
See a video of Professor Wei's talk on bride prices here
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Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.