On the afternoon of November 23, 2019, the award ceremony for the 2nd  Masahiko Aoki Award for Economics Paper, joint hosted by CIDEG and  Comparative Studies Magazine, was held at the Multifunctional Hall of  the Weijin Hotel Beijing. The ceremony announced winners and nominees  of the award. As a special guest, the wife of Masahiko Aoki Mrs. Reiko  Aoki was invited at the ceremony, along with members of the Award  Review Committee as well as members of CIDEG Board of Directors and  Academic Committee. The Ceremony was presided over by Chen Ling,  Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management and  Director of CIDEG at Tsinghua University.

At the ceremony, Prof. Hoshi Takeo unveiled the 5 papers nominated and  the winner of the award: There Will Be Killing: Collectivization and Death  of Draft Animals by Prof. Chen Shuo from the School of Economics, Fudan  University and co-authored by Lan Xiaohuan. Nominated papers are: Agricultural Reforms and production in China by  Gong Binlei, Assistant Professor of the School of Public Affairs of Zhejiang  University; Competition-Driven Career Concerns, Multi-task Assignments  and Heterogeneous Bureaucrats: Theory and Evidence by Assistant  Professor Xu Xiaoshu of Antai College of Economics and Management of  Shanghai Jiaotong University and co-authored by Huang Shaoqing and Xie  Weisi; Trade Liberalization and Domestic Vertical Integration : Evidence  from China by Assistant Professor Zhan Chaoqun of Lingnan College of  Sun Yat-Sen University and co-authored by Liu Qing and Larry D. Qiu; State  Ownership and Regulatory Costs: A Law and Economic Explanation for the  Prevalence of State-Owned Enterprises in China by Assistant Professor  Zeng Si of the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong;  Countering Capture: Elite Networks and Government Responsiveness in  China’s Land Market Reform by Assistant Professor Zeng Yu of the School  of Government of Peking University and co-authored by Jiang Junyan.

Guests at the award ceremony