Speaker: Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Moderator: Junyan Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
In merely two decades, China has transformed from a digital newcomer to the world’s largest e-commerce market, with 800 million users and nearly 50% of global retail sales. In From Click to Boom, Lizhi Liu explores why this e-commerce boom is “paradoxical” in a weak-rule-of-law environment, how it highlights a digital path for developing countries, and the profound impact it has had on China’s economic and political governance. The talk will draw on extensive interviews, original surveys, tens of millions of proprietary data points, and a rare field experiment conducted across three Chinese provinces.
Speaker’s Bio: Lizhi Liu is an Assistant Professor in the McDonough School of Business and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Her research specializes in political economy and emerging markets. Her work has been published by American Economic Review: Insights, Studies in Comparative International Development, Minnesota Law Review, Oxford University Press, and Princeton University Press. In particular, her research on the political economy of China’s e-commerce market has garnered multiple research awards and grants. In 2021, she was honored as one of Poets&Quants Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors.
This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by China and the World Program.
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