Labor & Unemployment
The US’ decades long second Great Depression
Content from the Brookings-Tsinghua Public Policy Center is now archived. Since October 1, 2020, Brookings has maintained a limited partnership with Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management that is intended to facilitate jointly organized dialogues, meetings, and/or events.
With the fast pace of urbanization process, countries have now come to realize that congestion delays may affect specific sectors and even the overall economy. In a research conducted by Clifford Winston at Brookings Institution and Quentin Karpilow from Yale University, the scholars explored how congestion affects the California economy accounting for the growth in employment, GDP, wages, and freight flows. Moreover, they shed lights on what China may learn from this U.S. example.
The Brookings-Tsinghua Center hosted a two-day conference on U.S.-China economic analyses of urban congestion: What both countries can learn from Each Other. The conference started from Monday, 17 October 2016 at Room 302, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University and lasted until Tuesday, 18 October 2016.
Agenda
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October 18
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Session 1: A first step toward road pricing: The marginal congestion cost in Beijing
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
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Tea break
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
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Session 2: How does on-road traffic affect air quality? Analysis of the nonlinear relationship between vehicle traffic and air pollutants in Beijing
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
PQPing Qin Associate Professor - School of Economics, Renmin University of ChinaJYJun YangSCShuai Chen Researcher - School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang UniversityDMDan McMillen Professor - Department of Economics and Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign -
Tea break
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm
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Session 3: Vehicle size choice and automobile externalities in the United States: A dynamic analysis
5:00 pm - 6:15 pm
Jia Yan Associate Professor - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University
KSKenneth Small Professor Emeritus - Department of Economics, University of California at Irvine -
Session 4: Beijing subway system pricing policies and road congestion
9:45 am - 11:00 am
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Tea break
11:00 am - 11:15 am
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Session 5: Beijing's environmental factors and transportation choices
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
WCWaisum ChookJLJaimie Lien Assistant Professor - Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, Chinese University of Hong KongJZJie Zheng Assistant Professor - Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua UniversityMKMatt Kahn Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences - University of Southern California -
Session 6: Fairness, efficiency, and the allocation mechanism for vehicle license plates: A comparison of related policies in Beijing and Shanghai
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
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Tea break
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
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Session 7: The effect of highway congestion on the U.S. economy's performance: A new perspective on the benefits of ameliorating traffic delays
3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
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Closing of the conference
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm
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