China's trade, migration and growth on deck in Sichel Series talk

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A University of Toronto scholar will explore China's trade, migration and growth when he speaks later this month at Western Michigan University as part of the Werner Sichel Lecture Series.

Dr. Xiaodong Zhu, professor of economics, will speak at noon Wednesday, April 13, in 2028 Brown Hall. His talk is titled "Trade, Migration and Growth: Evidence from China" and is free and open to the public. A light lunch reception will be available after the lecture.

Xiaodong Zhu

Zhu earned a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Chicago in 1991 and is currently a special-term professor at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Zhu's areas of research include growth and development, the Chinese economy and optimal fiscal policy. His current research focuses on understanding the sources of growth and economic structural changes both in China and across countries.

Zhu is on the editorial boards of several journals and was an editor of the China Journal of Economics and a co-editor of the China Economic Review. He has published many articles in leading economics journals, such as Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of Development Economics.

He has been invited to give lectures on the Chinese economy at all the top universities in China. From 2002 to 2011 he was a special-term professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.

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.

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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