Organizers: Andreas Fuchs, Lei Li, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Udo Kreickemeier, and Xiaohua Yu

Workshop Program

"Göttingen China Workshop on Globalization, Macroeconomics, and Development"

July 2 and 3, 2026

Central Lecture Hall ZHG (Platz d. Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen)

Thursday at ZHG 103, Göttingen

11:00 – 13:55	Registration (ZHG103) and Lunch Break
13:55 – 14:00	Welcome and Opening by Lei Li
14:00 – 15:00	Session One: Political Economy (Chair: Lei Li) Seeing Red? Perceptions of the AIIB and China’s Leadership Prospects Soo Yeon Kim (University of British Columbia) The Geoeconomics of Friendship: Strategic Realignment and the Creation of Chinese Sister City Ties Felix Turbanisch (University of Göttingen)
15:00 – 15:30	Group Photo and Break
15:30 – 16:30	Session Two: Macroeconomics (Chair: Udo Kreickemeier) Global Banks’ Macroeconomic Expectations and Credit Supply Xiang Li (IWH and Leipzig University) Sentiment Shocks and Aggregate Consumption: Evidence from a Proxy BVAR Beveridge-Nelson Decomposition Tino Berger (University of Göttingen)
16:30 – 16:50	Break
16:50 – 17:50	Session Three: Policy Session on the China-US Rivalry in the 21st Century (Chair: Udo Kreickemeier) US-China Competition and the Competitive Coexistence World Order Jiandong Ju (Tsinghua University) Discursive Warfare and Economic Science Tong Zhang (BI Norwegian Business School)
18:30	Dinner

Friday at ZHG 103, Göttingen

9:30 – 10:30	Session Four: Digital Economy (Chair: Lei Li) How Does AI Affect Employment: Insights from a Meta-analysis Faqin Lin (China Agricultural University) Use Machine Learning to Forecast Food Price Xiaohua Yu (University of Göttingen)
10:30 – 10:50	Break
10:50 – 11:50	Session Five: Trade and Finance (Chair: Xiaohua Yu) Financial Frictions, Misallocation, and Policy Design in the Open Economy Zhan Qu (University of Göttingen) Inclusive Finance Mandates, Nonlinear Incentives, and Credit Allocation Yang Jiao (Singapore Management University)
11:50 – 13:00	Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:30	Session Six: Trade and Development (Chair: Xiaohua Yu) Quality as Buffer: Tariff Pass-Through and Firm Adjustment Wei Tian (Peking University) Female Role Models and Selection in the Public Sector: Evidence from Linked Gaokao-Payroll Data Sai Luo (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) Clustering as Shield: Mitigating the Negative Effects of the US-China Trade War Lei Li (University of Göttingen)
18:00	Dinner

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Pro*Niedersachsen program for
academic events in the humanities, cultural sciences, and social sciences in Lower Saxony,
Eurasia Foundation in Japan, the University of Göttingen, the Universitätsbund Göttingen
e.V., and Centre for Modern East Asian Studies.