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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 […]

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 […]

Watch Video in English Watch Video in Spanish Between 2011 and 2018, shooting and homicide rates fell by around 50 percent  in New York City . During this time, there was a prominent shift in policing tactics from a regime of mass enforcement centered on frequent street stops and field interrogations to a regime of […]

The authors examine the consequences of an intrusive debt-collection tactic that targets delinquent borrowers’ social circles. Their identification strategy relies on the fact that some of the delinquent loans are not worked on due to collection agents’ excessive workload. The authors show that this tactic backfires and increases the borrowers’ default rate by 5.9 to […]

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 […]