Seminar Calendar, ECON - Conference
HKU-UCL-ESRC Summer Workshop: Recent Research on Expectations in Macroeconomics and Finance
Auberge Discovery Bay Hong Kong
| 2023 HKU-UCL-ESRC Summer Workshop: Recent Research on Expectations in Macroeconomics and Finance [Workshop Agenda] This workshop has generous support from HKU Business School and ESRC (UK) | |
| June 2, 2023
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| 15:00 | Departing from HKU to Discovery Bay |
| 18:00 | Conference Reception |
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| June 3, 2023 | |
| 08:00 – 08:55 | Breakfast |
| 08:55 | Opening remark: Dr. Wei Cui (UCL) |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Zhen Huo (Yale): “Bias and Sensitivity under Ambiguity”
Lichen Zhang (HKU): “The Macroeconomic Implications of Uncertainty and Learning for Entrepreneurship”
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| 10:30 – 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Shihan Xie (UIUC): “How does inflation shape housing price expectations?”
Guangyu Pei (CUHK): “Heterogeneous Overreaction in Expectation Formation: Evidence and Theory”
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| 12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Zhesheng Qiu (City U HK): “Misperceived Law of Motion in Macroeconomic Expectations”
Wataru Miyamoto (HKU): “The Macroeconomic Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from Brazil”
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Yan Bai (Rochester): “Technological Rivalry and Optimal Dynamic Policy in an Open Economy”
Steve Wu (UCSD): “Collateral Advantage: Exchange Rates, Capital Flows, and Global Cycles”
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| 18:00- | Conference Dinner |
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| June 4, 2023 | |
| 08:00 – 08:45 | Breakfast |
| 08:45 – 10:15 | Xuewen Liu (HKU): “Consumption-led Industrial Upgrading”
Yena Park (Seoul National): “Taxation and Sources of Inequality”
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| 10:15 – 10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Pei Kuang (Birmingham): “Potential Output Pessimism and Austerity in the European Union”
Wei Xiong (Princeton): “ Information Discovery in a Hybrid Economy”
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| 12:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 17:00 | Open discussions |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Closing remark: Prof. Xiaodong Zhu (HKU) |
| 18:00- | Conference Dinner |
