STEG Paper Presentation: Endogenous Structural Transformation in Economic Development

Welcome: Joseph Kaboski (STEG, University of Notre Dame)
Paper Introduction: Justin Yifu Lin (Peking University)
Paper Presentation: Haipeng Xing (State University of New York)
You can find the slides mentioned in this presentation at steg.cepr.org/...
The Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) programme hosted this first paper presentation as part of its research initiative to better understand structural change, productivity, and growth in low- and middle-income countries.
In a webinar from Wednesday November 18 2020, STEG welcomed Professor Justin Yifu Lin (Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University, and former World Bank Chief Economist) and Associate Professor Haipeng Xing (Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York, Stony Brook) to present their paper "Endogenous Structural Transformation in Economic Development", which proposes a novel method to model the structural transformation in a market economy.