Events

Watch Video in English Watch Video in Spanish The infiltration of political institutions by organized crime is a serious problem in many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Could these ties between criminal organizations and institutions be an obstacle for economic growth? Evidence on the effects of a policy that removed (allegedly) corrupt city […]

The Tsinghua University - University of Chicago Joint Research Center for Economics and Finance, in collaboration with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics in China (BFI-China), the National Institute for Fiscal Studies (NIFS) and School of Economics and Management (SEM) at Tsinghua University, will host a virtual seminar series to inspire research and discussion on […]

China has set ambitious goals to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030 and to become carbon neutral by 2060. The journey there will require significant, long-term effort by the Chinese government, its people and economy. Energy Foundation CEO & President Ji Zou joins the next China in Today’s World seminar for a special discussion with Jun […]

The Tsinghua University - University of Chicago Joint Research Center for Economics and Finance, in collaboration with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics in China (BFI-China), the National Institute for Fiscal Studies (NIFS) and School of Economics and Management (SEM) at Tsinghua University, will host a virtual seminar series to inspire research and discussion on […]

HOSTING ORGANIZERS COLLABORATING ORGANIZERS Using comprehensive account-level data from 2016 to 2019, the authors examine retail investor trading behavior in the Chinese stock market. The authors separate millions of retail investors into five groups by their account sizes and document strong heterogeneity in their trading dynamics and performance. Retail investors with smaller account sizes cannot […]

Watch Video in English Watch Video in Spanish Young people account for a disproportionate high fraction of perpetrators and victims of violence, due in part to their involvement with criminal groups. Still, very little is known about the organization of these groups and how they function. A better understanding of how criminal organizations attract the […]

An artificially low interest rate on household savings is a common form of financial repression in developing economies and typically benefits incumbent banks. Using proprietary data from a leading Chinese FinTech company, the authors study the role of Fintech in ending the financial repression by introducing to households money market funds (MMFs) with deposit-like features. […]

The Tsinghua University - University of Chicago Joint Research Center for Economics and Finance, in collaboration with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics in China (BFI-China), the National Institute for Fiscal Studies (NIFS) and School of Economics and Management (SEM) at Tsinghua University, will host a virtual seminar series to inspire research and discussion on […]

About the Seminar Series China is poised to become the world’s largest economy in the near future. However, such growth is not guaranteed. China faces increasingly complex questions about how to manage the tension between state control and market influence within its own borders, and how to address international disputes that often arise with expanded […]