2018 Seiji Naya Asia-Pacific Lecture: Shaping Global Engagement

January 11, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Shidler College of Business, BUSAD A-101

Join us for the 2018 Seiji Naya Asia-Pacific Lecture featuring Mary E. Lovely on "Shaping Global Engagement: How China's foreign investment policies influence trade and international relations."

Lovely is Professor of Economics and Melvin A. Eggers Faculty Scholar at Syracuse University芒鈧劉s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she combines interests in international economics and China芒鈧劉s development. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC. From 2011-2015, she served as co-editor of the China Economic Review. Her current research projects investigate the effect of China芒鈧劉s preferential foreign direct investment policies on trade flows, market access and cross-city wage variation, and the effect of Chinese tariff reductions on labor shares of value in its manufacturing firms. She has recently completed a study of the relationship between employment at American manufacturing firms and outsourcing to low-income countries, and the revealed structure of Chinese reforms of state-owned enterprises. Lovely earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a master芒鈧劉s degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University. She has taught at Syracuse University since 1989.

The Seiji Naya Asia-Pacific Lecture Series was established in honor of Seiji Naya, who was professor emeritus and former chair of the 91精品黑料吃瓜-M脛聛noa Dept. of Economics. He served as chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, program director at the East-West Center, and Director of the Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. Professor Naya was widely recognized for his contributions to understanding development issues in Southeast Asia.


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Free and open to the public.

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Economics Department in the College of Social Sciences, Mānoa Campus

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