Syracuse economist to address changing state enterprises in China

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A Syracuse University economist will take on China's changing state enterprises when she speaks this month at Western Michigan University as part of the Werner Sichel Lecture Series.

Dr. Mary E. Lovely, the Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar and professor of economics at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, will speak at noon Wednesday, Feb. 24, in 2028 Brown Hall. Her talk, titled "China's Evolving State Enterprises," is free and open to the public. A light lunch reception will be available after the lecture.

Mary e. Lovely

Lovely also serves as chair of the International Relations Program at Syracuse, is senior associate of the Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs and a research network fellow of CESifo, also known as the Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research, linking the Department of Economics at the University of Munich and the Ifo Institute with the international economic research community.

Lovely earned a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in city and regional planning from Harvard University.

Her current research programs investigate the consequences of changing ownership structures in domestic and foreign private enterprises, the role of foreign ownership and processing trade in the pollution intensity of Chinese industries, and the link between wages and access to domestic and foreign markets.

Her recent papers focus on innovation in the Chinese solar equipment industry, the pollution intensity of Chinese exports, differences in China's integration into American and Japanese production networks, and the influence of market access on the geographic dispersion of manufacturing wages.

She has recently completed work on the role of provincial differences in environmental policy and labor conditions in directing foreign direct investment flows to Chinese provinces.

Her work has been published in the Review of Economics & Statistics, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, World Economy, Regional Science and Urban Economics and Journal of Public Economics, among others.

Lovely serves as co-editor of China Economic Review and recently was guest editor for an issue of Journal of Asian Economics focused on deeper economic integration of the United States, Japan and China.

about the series

The theme for this year's Werner Sichel Lecture Series is "The Impacts of China's Rise on the Pacific and the World." The series is organized by the WMU Department of Economics and named in honor of Werner Sichel, a longtime WMU economics professor and former department chair, who retired in 2004. The series is cosponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and the Timothy Light Center for Chinese Studies. The lectures are open to the public and formatted with the general public in mind.

Other dates, presenters and topics in this year's series are:

• March 30: Dr. James G. Wen, professor of economics and international studies at Trinity College, "Why is the Exit Right the Key to the Birth of China's Land Market?"

• April 13: Dr. Xiaodong Zhu, professor of economics at the University Toronto, "Trade, Migration and Growth: Evidence from China."

This year's series is being organized by Drs. Wei-Chiao Huang and Huizhong Zhou, WMU professors of economics.

For more information, contact Huang at (269) 387-5528 or huang@wmich.edu, or Zhou at (269) 387-5550 or huizhong.zhou@wmich.edu or visit wmich.edu/economics/events.

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