Page 113 - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Proceedings 2017-18

School of Business and Management
Department of Economics

Supervisor: LI Yao / ECON
Student: LU Lingfei / ECOF Course: UROP2100, Summer
SO Kwok Wai / ECOF UROP2100, Summer
ZHANG Jiayue / ECOF UROP2100, Summer

This progress report outlines the procedures to construct the updated Taiwanese-invested firms in China (TIFs hereafter)
sample. With the original sample, firms producing non-electronic products were excluded from the sample by setting up
some screening keywords. Then, non-TIFs were distinguished and dropped according to their registration type and pack-
in-capital. The last step was to identify the missed observations from the Chinese Industrial Enterprises (CIE hereafter)
data, since we found that large number of firms unreasonably existed only in a short period of time. This might due to
irregular expression of company name or change of company representative code (crc hereafter). The identified
observations were checked manually to adjust their crc, and then merged back to the sample. These procedures as a
result produced a much larger sample size.

Supervisor: LI Yao / ECON
Student: OUYANG Jing / MAEC Course: UROP3100, Fall
PENG Cong / ECOF UROP3100, Fall
SO Kwok Wai / ECOF UROP1100, Fall

The project focuses on studying behaviors of domestic- and foreign-invested firms in mainland China under globalization.
Our team dealt with custom data of targeted Taiwan-invested firms (TIF). In the previous semester, our work mainly
focused on generating a “year-firm-product” panel data and correcting the problem of inconsistent identifiers of
sampled companies, analyzing the annual sales growth rate of the sampled companies, and finding out the pattern of
appearance of sampled companies before and after 2010. Later, with calculated average growth rate of sales income for
years before 2010, we projected sales income for years after 2010 and summarizing the reasons of discontinuity. In this
semester, we continue the project by analyzing the export behaviors of TIF by improving the data source and generating
export variables.

Supervisor: LI Yao / ECON
Student: REN Jiaqi / MAEC Course: UROP1100, Summer

This progress report summarizes the proceedings of my UROP1100 project, Firms in Globalization: Evidence from China,
in Summer Semester 2018. By collecting the data from the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic
of China and the United States International Trade Commission, I compared the current tariff schedule of each country
with that before the trade war. Using the software Stata, I kept track of the products subject to higher tariff by creating
dummy variables. Since this is a progress report, the more detailed analysis of the datasets still requires further
investigation.

Building on flooding plains: the economic cost of sea level rise

Supervisor: LIN Yatang / ECON
Student: HONG Rongtao / ECOF Course: UROP1100, Summer

This project is mainly aiming to explore why people still built on regions that are likely to be flooded in the future as sea
level rises. A prominent factor is that the citizens may not able to receive the enough amount of information about sea
level rise, as well as that public policy has been failed to provide guidance appropriately. So, we would like to find out
the determinants of the building permits in the coastal region of the United States of America. To reach this goal, we

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