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HKUST Summer Workshop on Macroeconomics

June 24 - 25, 2014

Room 1003, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST


 

Day 1: June 24, 2014 (Tuesday)

8:00- 8:50am       Breakfast at conference venue

8:50am                 Opening Remarks (Prof.  Siu Fai LEUNG, Department Head)

Morning Session: (Chair: Zhu Tao (HKUST))

 9:00- 10:00am     Lars Peter Hansen (Chicago): Shock Elasticities and Impulse Responses (with Jaraslav Borovicka and Jose A. Scheinkman)

 

10:00-10:15am     COFFEE/TEA BREAK

                               

10:15-11:15am     Lu Yang (HKUST): Optimal policy design with a skeptical forward-looking  private sector (with Robert King)

 

11:15-11:30am     COFFEE/TEA BREAK

 

11:30-12:30 pm    Tao Zha (Emory and FRB Atlanta) Trends and Cycles in China’s Macroeconomy (with Chun  Chang, Dan Waggoner, and Mei Zhu)

 

12:30- 2:10 pm     Lunch at China Garden function room (by invitation)

 

Afternoon Session: (Chair: Pengfei Wang (HKUST) )

2:00- 3:00pm      Alejandro Justiniano (FRB Chicago): Credit Supply and Housing Boom (with Giorgio E Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti)

3:00- 3:15pm       COFFEE/TEA BREAK                         

3:15-  4:15pm     Cui Wei (University College London ): Search-Based Endogenous Illiquidity and the Macroeconomy (with Soren Raddex)

4:15-  4:30pm     COFFEE/ TEA BREAK

4:30- 5:30Pm        Wen Yi (Tsinghua and FRB St. Louis):  Evaluating the Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy

6:00 pm:                    Departure for Dinner at Hung Kee Seafood Restaurant (by invitation) 


Day 2: June 25, 2014 (Wednesday)

 8:00-9:00am       Breakfast at Conference Venue

 Morning Session: (Chair:  Lu Yang  (HKUST))

 9:00-10:00am      Chad Jones (Stanford): A Schumpeterian Model of Top Income Inequality (with Jihee Kim)

 

10:00-10:15am     COFFEE/TEA BREAK

 

10:15-11:15am     Wang Yong: Structural Change and the Dynamics of Real Exchange Rate (with Jenny Xu and Xiaodong Zhu(University of Toronto)

11:15-11:30am     COFFEE/TEA BREAK

 

11:30-12:30pm     Erzo G.J. Luttmer (University of Minnesota): Knowledge Diffusion, Growth, and Inequality

 

12:30- 2:00pm      Lunch at Buffet at LSK 3/F Dining Hall (by invitation)

Afternoon Session: (Chair: Pengfei Wang (HKUST))

2:00- 3:00pm       Jonathan Heathcote (FRB Minneapolis): Wealth and Volatility (with Fabrizio Perri )

3:00- 3:15pm       COFFEE/TEA BREAK                         

3:15- 4:15pm       Dong Feng (Shanghai Jiaotong University): Capital Misallocation and Unemployment

4:15- 4:3pm        COFFEE/TEA BREAK

4:30- 5:30pm        Kaiji Chen (Emory):  Lending Efficiency Shocks (with Tao Zha)

 

5:30pm                  Group Photos; Conference Adjourned

6:00pm                  Departure for Dinner Shanghai Min, Tsimshatsui East (by invitation)