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)
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