BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260304T192824EST-1863GM392A@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260305T002824Z DESCRIPTION:From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in Chin a\n\nHow do states build essential market institutions when political or t echnical barriers hinder the establishment of the rule of law? In From Cli ck to Boom\, Lizhi Liu suggests a digital solution: governments strategica lly outsourcing tasks of institutional development and enforcement to digi tal platforms-a process she calls 'institutional outsourcing'. Through ori ginal extensive surveys\, interviews\, 28 million proprietary data points\ , and a field experiment across three Chinese provinces\, Liu illustrates how China's BOO-million-user e-commerce market emerged scratch and why thi s market has profoundly transformed the nations economy\, politics\, and s ociety.\n\nLizhi Liu is an Assistant Professor at the McDonough School of Business and a faculty affiliate of Department of Government at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on political economy and emerging market s.\n DTSTART:20260205T173000Z DTEND:20260205T190000Z LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:ISID Speaker Series talk by Dr Lizhi Liu ARTS 160 URL:/isid/channels/event/isid-speaker-series-talk-dr-l izhi-liu-arts-160-371079 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR