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The Fifth HKUST Summer Workshop in Macroeconomics
June 21 - 22, 2016
Room 1005, Lee Shau Kee
Business Building, HKUST
Day 1: June 21, 2016 (Tuesday)
8:30- 8:50am
Breakfast at conference venue
8:55am Opening Remarks (Prof. Pengfei
Wang)
Morning Session: (Chair: David
Cook (HKUST))
9:00- 9:50am Jess Benhabib
(New York University): Wealth
distribution and social mobility in the US: A quantitative approach. Paper 2
9:50-10:40 am Zhu Shenghao (NUS): Using the
elasticity of the Pareto
parameter to derive top income optimal tax rates
10:40-11:00am COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:00-11:50am Liu Zheng (Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco): Reserve Requirements and Optimal
Chinese Stabilization Policy
11:50-
1:30 pm Lunch (All speakers and
UST faculty and other invited guests)
Afternoon Session: (Chair: Pengfei Wang (HKUST) )
1:30-
2:20pm Wang Yong (HKUST): International Trade and Non-convergence of
Middle-Income Countries
2:20- 2:40pm
COFFEE/ TEA BREAK
2:40-
3:30pm Stephen Terry (Boston
University): The Macro Impact of
Short-Termism
3:30- 4:20pm
Dong Feng (Shanghai Jiaotong University) :
Monetary Policy And Asset Bubbles
4:20-4:40pm COFFEE/ TEA BREAK
4:40-
5:30pm François Geerolf (UCLA): Leverage and
Disagreement
5:40 pm:
Departure for Dinner(All speakers, All UST faculty
participants, and other invited
guests)
Day 2: June 22, 2016 (Wednesday)
8:30-9:00am Breakfast at Conference Venue
Morning Session:
(Chair: Yong Wang (HKUST))
9:00-9:50am Kathy Yuan (LSE): Network Risk and Key Players: A
Structural Analysis of Interbank Liquidity
9:50-10:40am Xuewen Liu
(HKUST): Information Complementarity, Financial Markets and Real Economy
10:40-11:00am
COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:00-11:50am Huo Zhen
(NYU and Yale): Organizational
Equilibrium with Capital
11:50- 1:30pm Lunch
(All speakers, All UST faculty participants, and other invited guests)
Afternoon Session: (Chair: Liugang
Sheng (CUHK))
1:30-
2:20pm Edouard Schaal (NYU): Coordination
and the Dynamics of Unemployment
2:20-
2:40pm COFFEE/TEA BREAK
2:40-
3:30pm Zhiwei
Xu (Shanghai Jiaotong University): Firm-Level
Uncertainty, Productivity Distortions, and Aggregate Economy
3:30-
4:20pm Huang Yi (Graduate
Institute of International and Development Studies): Can Higher Minimum Wages
Accelerate Productivity Growth?
4:20-4:40
pm COFFEE/ TEA BREAK
4:40-5:30
pm Jianjun
Miao (Boston University): Land Prices And
Unemployment
5:30pm
Group Photos; Conference Adjourned
6:00pm
Departure for Dinner (All speakers, All UST faculty
participants, and other invited
guests)
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