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Nan Jia | SCCEI Seminar

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SCCEI Seminar Series (Winter 2027)


Friday, February 19, 2027 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

About the Speaker 
 

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Nan Jia is the Capt. Henry W. Simonsen Chair in Strategic Entrepreneurship and Professor of Strategic Management at the USC Marshall School of Business.

Her research examines how firms build, sustain, and renew competitive advantage in complex institutional and technological environments. Drawing on strategic management, entrepreneurship, and organizational theory, she studies business-government relations, innovation, emerging technologies, and corporate strategy, with a particular focus on how firms navigate the intersection of markets, governments, and society. 

A major stream of her research investigates how public policies and institutional environments shape entrepreneurship, innovation, and firm strategy in both developed and emerging economies. Her work has examined how government actions influence entrepreneurial activity, technological development, innovation outcomes, and the evolution of competitive advantage. More recently, she has studied how artificial intelligence and machine learning affect productivity, creativity, decision-making, and innovation in organizations ranging from entrepreneurial ventures and startups to large established firms. She also develops machine-learning-based methods to measure and study organizational and strategic outcomes, including innovation and technological change.

In addition to her research, Nan is a leader in teaching innovation in product management. She is the co-creator and academic director of USC Marshall's Graduate Certificate in Product Management and a co-creator of the Undergraduate Minor in Product Management. Her teaching focuses on product strategy, human-AI collaboration, innovation, and data-driven decision-making.


Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu
 

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Nan Jia, Professor of Strategic Management, USC Marshall School of Business
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Emma Xiaolu Zang | SCCEI Seminar

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SCCEI Seminar Series (Winter 2027)


Friday, January 15, 2027 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

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Emma Xiaolu Zang is an Associate Professor of Sociology (with tenure) at Yale University, with secondary appointments in Biostatistics and Global Affairs. She directs the Computational Aging, Family, and Evidence Lab (Z-CAFE) and serves as the founding faculty organizer of the Yale Population Studies Speaker Series, which brings together scholars working on population and health research. Additionally, she is a non-resident fellow at the Center for China Analysis at the Asia Society Policy Institute. She has completed a Ph.D. in Public Policy in 2019 and an M.A. in Economics in 2017, both from Duke University.


Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu
 

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Emma Xiaolu Zang, Professor of Sociology at Yale University
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Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong | SCCEI Seminar

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SCCEI Seminar Series (Fall 2026)


Wednesday, December 2, 2026 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

About the Speaker 
 

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Professor Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong is a political scientist working on the political economy of authoritarianism, with particular attention to East Asia. She is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Korea Foundation Chair Professor of Korean Politics at the Nam Center for Korean Studies, International Institute, University of Michigan.

Hong has various ongoing research projects related to the legacy of the authoritarian past, the long-term impact of political violence, challenges to democracy during state-building, and the determinants of elite behavior and government policies under authoritarianism. Her research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Politics, and Political Science Research and Methods, among others.

She is currently serving as an associate editor for the Political Science Research and Methods. Previously, she was an Associate Professor (2020-2022) and Assistant Professor (2014-2020) at the Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She obtained her Ph.D. in the Department of Politics at New York University. Before NYU, she studied political science, economics (BA), and international relations (MS) at Seoul National University.


Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu
 

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Ji Yeon (Jean) Hong, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
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Daniel Yi Xu | SCCEI Seminar

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SCCEI Seminar Series (Fall 2026)


Friday, November 13, 2026 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

About the Speaker 
 

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Daniel Yi Xu is the David Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Economics at Duke University, a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research.

His research focuses on the intersection of productivity, international trade, and industrial organization. Professor Xu’s current research agenda involves the use of large-scale microdata to model and estimate a broad range of dynamic individual firm decisions and to examine how these decisions impact resource allocation, industry performance, and economic growth, particularly in developing and emerging economies.

His most recent work has been published in leading economics journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, and Management Science. Professor Xu is currently a co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics and an associate editor of the RAND Journal of Economics.


Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu
 

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Daniel Yi Xu, Professor of Economics, Duke University
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Ming Li | SCCEI Seminar

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SCCEI Seminar Series (Fall 2026)


Friday, November 6, 2026 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

About the Speaker 
 

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Ming Li is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Her research interests cover topics of the Chinese economy, political economy, and urban economics. Her current research focuses on industrial policy, internal migration and trade, and the political economy of firm dynamics in China. She received the Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Peking University and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.


Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu
 

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Ming Li, Assistant Professor in Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Protest and Politics in Turkey in the 70s

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Protest & Politics in Turkey in the 70s

Protest and Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: Echoes of Dissent offers the first comprehensive academic study of Turkey’s protest cycle during the 1970s. Drawing on an original dataset, the book examines the interaction between collective action and state repression, tracing the development of leftist, nationalist, and Islamist movements throughout the decade. The book also analyzes how the 1980 military coup suppressed organized political activity and reshaped the political arena, contributing to the subsequent rise of political Islam and the country’s broader rightward shift. By connecting the political struggles of the 1970s to contemporary debates over authoritarianism, democracy, and protest, the study contributes to scholarship on social movements, repression, and political change.

This event is co-sponsored by CDDRL's Program on Turkey and the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies.

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Bengi Gümrükçü

Selin Bengi Gümrükçü

Assistant Teaching Professor at Rugers University

Selin Bengi Gümrükçü teaches political science at Rutgers University. She received her PhD from the University of Zurich. She previously taught at İzmir University of Economics and held visiting positions at Bielefeld University, Sciences Po, Paris 8, and the European University Institute. Her research focuses on social movements, political parties, the far right, political violence, and Europeanization, with an emphasis on Turkey. Her first book, Protest and Politics in Turkey in the 1970s: Echoes of Dissent, was published by Routledge in 2026.

In-person: Encina Commons 123 (615 Crothers Way, Stanford)
Online: Via Zoom

This event is open to the public. Registration is required.

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Masua Sagiv — Israel's 2026 Elections: Make or Break?

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On October 27, 2026, Israelis will vote in national elections widely seen as perhaps the most consequential in the country's modern history. Why do Israelis view the 2026 elections in such dramatic, even existential, terms? Who are the main contenders and what are the main issues on which Israel will vote in the first national elections since the October 7, 2023 attack and subsequent wars? And what are the possible scenarios for the outcome of the elections? Join Amichai Magen and Masua Sagiv in conversation about these questions.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Dr. Masua Sagiv is a Senior Faculty member of the Shalom Hartman Institute and the academic advisor of its Center for Shared Society, as well as a senior fellow at the Helen Diller Institute, U.C. Berkeley. Masua’s work addresses the fundamental challenges facing both Israeli society and North American Jewish communities, from rising antisemitism and campus tensions to Jewish peoplehood and the complex relationship between Israel and world Jewry. Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel, as a culture, religion, nationality, and as part of Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores the role of law, state actors, and civil society organizations in promoting social change across diverse issues: shared society, religion and gender, religion and state, and Jewish peoplehood.

Masua recently returned to Israel after four years in Berkeley, California, where she was a senior faculty member for the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the Helen Diller Institute at UC Berkeley. Prior to her tenure in the Bay Area, Masua was the Academic Director of the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan University and taught at the Schools of Law at Bar-Ilan University and Tel-Aviv University. She co-led a leadership program for high-school students, for which she received the Israeli Hope in Academia Prize from former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, and was awarded the Gorney Prize for Young Scholar in Public Law. Her book, Radical Conservativism (in Hebrew), on the Halachic Feminist struggle in Israel, was published by Carmel Publishing House in 2024.

Amichai Magen
Amichai Magen

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Only those with an active Stanford ID with access to Encina Hall E208 (Reuben Hills Conference Room) may attend in person. 

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Panle Jia Barwick | From Free Rider to Innovator: The Rise of China’s Drug Development

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SCCEI Seminar Series (Fall 2026)


Friday, October 23, 2026 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

From Free Rider to Innovator: The Rise of China’s Drug Development


This paper examines China’s transition from pharmaceutical “free rider” to global innovator over the last decade. In 2010, China accounted for less than 8% of global clinical trials; by 2020, it had surpassed the US in annual registered clinical trial volume. To study this transformation, we compile a comprehensive, synchronized database spanning the pharmaceutical drug development supply chain, covering scientific publications, clinical trials, drug development milestones for China, the U.S., and Europe, alongside drug sales and government policies over the same period. We provide strong evidence that China’s rise was primarily driven by the National Reimbursement Drug List (NRDL) reform, which dramatically expanded the effective market size for innovative drugs. We document a sharp rise in both the quantity (86% increase) and novelty of drug trials post reform, with growth concentrated in reform-exposed disease categories, first- or best-in-class drugs, and among domestic firms. A decomposition exercise reveals that the NRDL reform accounts for 43% of the growth in oncology trial activity, nearly doubling the combined contribution of upstream knowledge accumulation and talent flows (24%), while other government policies play a minor role. Finally, dynamic gains from induced innovation exceed the reform’s static gains in consumer access to innovative drugs by threefold, underscoring the importance of accounting for the reform’s long-run effects on innovation incentives in addition to near-term improvements in drug affordability.

About the Speaker 
 

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Panle Jia Barwick is the Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Economics at UW-Madison. Her expertise includes Industrial Organization, Chinese Economy, Applied Microeconomics, and Applied Econometrics with a strong interest in environmental economics. Her papers have appeared in top Economic journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies. She is a co-founder and co-director of UW-Madison's Pan Asia Pacific Sustainability Initiative (PAPSI). She also co-founded Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER) and currently serves as its board member. She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), associate editor for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Rand Journal of Economics, and International Journal of Industrial Organization, and an editorial board member of Journal of Urban Economics and VoxChina.


Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu
 

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Panle Jia Barwick, Professor of Economics, UW Madison
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Guojun He | SCCEI Seminar

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SCCEI Seminar Series (Fall 2026)


Friday, October 16, 2026 | 12:00 pm -1:20 pm Pacific Time
Goldman Room E409, Encina Hall, 616 Jane Stanford Way

About the Speaker 
 

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Guojun He is an economist working on environmental, development, and governance issues. Currently, he is a professor in Economics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He serves as the director of HKU’s ESG Research Institute and the associate director of HKU’s Institute of China Economy. He holds a concurrent appointment at the Energy Policy Institute of the University of Chicago (EPIC) and leads research activities of its China center (EPIC-China).

He’s research tries to address some of the most challenging problems faced by developing countries and seeks to produce empirically grounded estimates for optimal policy design. The majority of his work focuses on understanding the benefits and costs of environmental policies, while he also has a broader research interest in development and governance issues.

He has won multiple academic awards, including the Zhang Pei-Gang Award for Outstanding Achievement in Development Economics (the highest award in China for development economics research) and the Gregory Chow Best Paper Award from the Chinese Economists Society. In addition, He is also a Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Financial Economic Research, an external research affiliate of the Institute of Sustainable and Green Finance at the National University of Singapore, a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, and a consultant to the Asian Development Bank, CICC Research Institute and other institutions.


Questions? Contact Xinmin Zhao at xinminzhao@stanford.edu
 

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Guojun He, Professor in Economics, University of Hong Kong
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Strategic Stability during the Cold War and Beyond | Robert Litwak

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About the event: During the Cold War, after the advent of survivable second-strike nuclear capabilities, assured retaliation became the foundation of strategic stability. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union had an incentive to strike first in a crisis. A stable “balance of terror” deflected superpower competition to areas of peripheral interest in the “Third World,” and created conditions for diplomacy to stabilize the arms race. Throughout the Cold War and for thirty years thereafter, this stability architecture prevailed. With China’s emergence as a peer nuclear power in the 2020s, however, a tripolar order is emerging amidst destabilizing new technologies and the erosion of the arms control regime. Two interlocking Cold War risks are being recast. First, the three powers are engaged in intensified competition over areas of vital, not peripheral interest—Ukraine and Taiwan. Second, while assured retaliation remains the sine qua non of strategic stability, the “balance of terror” is becoming less stable because of the revived incentive to strike first in a crisis. A first strike would occur in the ungoverned domains of cyberspace and outer space, most likely against nuclear command and control systems, and would be highly escalatory. Litwak elucidates these transformed Cold War risks and explains how they can be mitigated in this era of unmanaged tripolar competition.
 
About the speaker: Robert S. Litwak is a research professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University. He worked for 40 years at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he was senior vice president and director of international security studies. Litwak was a longtime consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory and served on the National Security Council staff as director for nonproliferation. He is author of Détente and the Nixon Doctrine, Rogue States and US Foreign Policy, Regime Change: US Strategy through the Prism of 9/11, and Outlier State: American Strategies to Change, Contain, Or Engage Regimes.

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