Transition countries have gone through a particularly profound transformation of its economic structures and institutions. Part of that structural transformation is about redefining the role of the state to allow markets to operate. But the state must continue its transformation to facilitate the development of the private sector. And my focus is gonna be on that broader transformation of the state and how it can fill its role. Many countries have gone through dramatic transformations, and we should ask ourselves why are we interested in understan...
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I'd like to speak to you today on a topic, which is both timely about the pandemic, and also I think very relevant for the theme of the conference, which is the interaction between government and the economy. The title is mechanism design for pandemics. We are all familiar with how well competitive markets work under normal circumstances. Let's imagine that there are many consumers and many producers of some good. If each consumer i gets benefit bi (xi) from consuming quantity xi and each producer incurs a cost cj (yj) from producing a qua...
2020
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09
28
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I would like us to talk about government policies and their response to the current economic recession and focusing on the United States and Europe. As you know, the United States and Europe represent about 45% of the world economy measured by GDP and together with China, they are the largest economic blocks in the world. So they are very important, you obviously know quite a lot about China. And so what I'll try to do is supplemented with remarks that relate to the European Union and the United States. There are a number of similarities and also a number of differences, both between the U...
2020
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09
28
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The second International Conference of Government and Economics, co-hosted by the School of Social Sciences of Tsinghua University, the Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics (SAGE), and the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) was held on September 26 at Tsinghua University. The conference was attended by Xiang Botao, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee of Tsinghua University and Vice Chairperson of the University Council; Zhu Guangyao, former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Finance; Dong Zhiyong, Assistant President and Dean of the School of ...
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