The China Economics Summer Institute’s (CESI) objective is to create a network and community of top level scholars working on Chinese economic development. The CESI is currently co-sponsored by iGov Program at UC Berkeley, the Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the LICOS-Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University. The Summer Institute is organized in collaboration with the BREAD, NBER and CEPR networks of academic economists.

The Summer Institute brings together between 20 and 30 participants for a period of three and a half days. The first half day will be devoted to issues of Chinese economic policy. The next three days, there will be a half day of seminar presentations and the rest of the day will be free to allow scholars to interact and explore the possibility of doing joint research projects. Senior scholars who will attend will be available for consultations with junior scholars, usually during the afternoons and there will be some lectures by senior scholars.

The scientific committee of the China Summer Institute is composed of Chong-En Bai, Robin Burgess, Hongbin Cai, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Hongbin Li, Albert Park, Gérard Roland, Jo Swinnen, Shang-Jin Wei, Chenggang Xu and Yaohui Zhao. More about CESI>

2012 Conference

The fifth China Economics Summer Institute will take place June 22-24, 2012. Learn more>
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2011 Conference

The fourth China Economics Summer Institute took place July 1-3, 2011 at Tsinghua University.
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