HKU Macroeconomics Workshop

The first HKU Macroeconomics Workshop is organized by the HKU Business School, which will be a two-day workshop with eleven papers.

The 2024 conference is scheduled to take place from Friday, March 8 to Saturday, March 9, 2024, at Room 1121 in the K. K. Leung Building, located on the HKU main campus.

Day 1: Friday – March 8, 2024

9:05	Opening remark
Macro Development
9:10-10:00	The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations Diego Restuccia (Toronto)
10:00-10:50	Structural Transformation over 150 Years of Women’s and Men’s Work Rachel Ngai (LSE)
10:50-11:10	Coffee break
Keynote Speech
11:10-12:10	Population and Welfare: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number Chad Jones (Stanford)
12:10-14:00	Lunch (15/F SCR) [by-invitation]
Workers and Entrepreneurs
14:00-14:50	Composite Sorting Job Boerma (Wisconsin-Madison)
14:50-15:40	Career Choice of Entrepreneurship and the Rise of Smart Firms Harun Alp (Federal Reserve Board)
15:40-16:00	Coffee break
Business Cycle
16:00-16:50	Turbulent Business Cycles Pengfei Wang (Peking University HSBC Business School)
18:30	Dinner (Shanghai Garden) [by-invitation]

Day 2: Saturday – March 9, 2024

International Macro and Trade
9:10-10:00	Digital Asset and the Exorbitant Dollar Privilege Vincenzo Quardrini (USC Marshall)
10:00-10:50	Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization Jing Zhang (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
10:50-11:10	Coffee break
Macroeconomics of AI
11:10-12:00	Natural Selection of Artificial Intelligence Balazs Sentes (HKU)
12:00-13:30	Lunch (Ocean Palace Shek Tong Tsui) [by-invitation]
Inequality
13:30-14:20	Why are the wealthiest so wealthy? A Longitudinal Empirical Investigation Sergio Salgado (Wharton School at U Penn)
14:20-15:10	Geographical Diversification in Banking: A Structural Evaluation Venky Venkateswaran (NYU Stern)