15 July 2022, Friday (10:00 am – 12:00 pm)
Moderator: Peter Morgan, ADBI
SMEs Amidst the Pandemic and Reopening: Digital Edge and Transformation
Lin William Cong (Cornell University), Xiaohan Yang (Peking University), and Xiaobo Zhang (Peking University)
The Impacts of Different COVID-19 Containment Policies on Online Merchants and Recovery: Evidence from Alibaba's Large-Scale Administrative Data
Xiaolan Zhou (East China Normal University), Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo), Matthew Shum (California Institute of Technology), and Elaine S. Tan (Asian Development Bank)
Cashless Payment and Financial Inclusion
Shumiao Ouyang (Princeton University)
Rise and Fall of New Technology: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Developing Country
Sachiko Miyata (Ritsumeikan University), Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo), and Kazuma Takakura (University of Tokyo)