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The HKIMR/HKUST Joint Conference on

Macroeconomics and International Finance

 

July 2-3, 2013


This two-day event is hosted and sponsored jointly by the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research by the Department of Economics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Day 1  Morning Session at (HKIMR)

Harbour Room, 56th Floor, Two International Finance Centre, Central

 

 

 

8:00-8:30

Breakfast at Bistro

 

8:30

Departure HKUST, Tower C to HKIMR

 

9:20- 9:50

Welcome Reception

 

9:50-10:00

Opening Remarks by He Dong (HKIMR)

 

Moderator:     Larry Qiu (HKU)

 

10:00-10:50

Philippe Bacchetta (HEC-Lausanne)

“The Great Recession: A Self-Fulfilling Global Panic”

 Discussant: Tao Zhu (HKUST)

 

 

10:50-11:40

Cedric Tille (HEID-Geneva)

“A bargaining theory of trade invoicing and prices”

Discussant: Tommy Wu(HKMA)

 

 

11:40-12:10

Coffee break

 

 

12:10-13:00

Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame)

“Services and the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply”

Discussant: Yong Wang (HKUST)

 

 

13:00-14:30

Lunch

 

 

 

Day 1  Afternoon Session at (HKIMR)                                

 

Moderator:     Jianjun Miao (Boston University)                                                

 

14:30-15:20

Paul Luk (HKIMR)

“A Microfounded Model of Chinese Capital Account Liberalization”

Discussant:  Huanhuan Zheng (CUHK)

 

 

15:20-15:50

Coffee break

 

 

15:50-16:40

Hui Tong (IMF)

“Lemons with Naïveté”

Discussant: Paul Luk (HKIMR)

 

 

16:40-17:30

Pengfei Wang (HKUST)

Housing Bubbles and the U.S. Macroeconomy

Discussant: Shenghao Zhu (NUS)

 

 

 

 

 

18:00

Departure for Dinner from HKIMR (By Invitation)

 

 

 

 

Day 2  Morning Session at HKUST

Room 6602, 6th Floor, Annex, Academic Building, HKUST (Lifts 31-32)

 

 

 

8:00

Welcome Reception

 

 

8:50-9:00

 

Opening Remark by Francis Lui (HKUST)

 

 

Moderator:     Jenny Xu (HKUST)

 

9:00-9:50

Vincenzo Quadrini (University of Southern California)

"Risky Investment with Limited Enforcement"

Discussant: Danyang Xie (HKUST)

 

 

9:50-10:00

Coffee break

 

 

 

 

10:00-10:50

 

 

Davide Furceri (IMF)

“Bequest Motives, Estate Taxes, and Wealth Distributions

in Becker-Tomes Models with Investment Risk”

 

 

10:50-11:40

Jianjun Miao (Boston University)

“A Bayesian DSGE Model of Stock Market Bubbles and Business Cycles”

Discussant: Jenny Xu (CUHK)

 

 

11:40-14:00

Lunch (By Invitation)

 

 

 

Day 2  Afternoon Session at HKUST

 

Moderator:     Danyang Xie (HKUST)                                                                     

 

14:00-14:50

Jim Riedel (Johns Hopkins University)

“Making Sense of China’s Economic Policy”

Discussant: Gewei Wang (CUHK)

 

 

14:50-15:40

 

Jenny Xu (HKUST)

Eurosclerosis and International Business Cycles

Discussant: Attilio Zanetti (SNB)

 

15:40-16:00

Coffee Break

 

16:00-16:50

 

Anton Korinek (Johns Hopkins University and IMF)

“Capital Controls and Currency Wars”

Discussant: Zhiwei Xu (HKUST)

 

16:50-17:40

Harald Hau (University of Geneva)

Asset Allocation and Monetary Policy

Discussant: Yi Huang (HEID-Geneva)

 

18:30

Departure for Dinner from UST (By Invitation)