3rd Annual Conference on
China and the Global Economy
May 12-13, 2025 | 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: HKU iCube
Organizer: HKU Business School
The “3rd Annual Conference on China and the Global Economy” will be held on May 12-13, 2025, at the HKU Business School. The annual conference is sponsored by the Institute of China Economy (ICE) at the HKU Business School. The objective of the conference is to create a forum to discuss new economic research on China and its relationship with the global economy.
Details are as follows:
Date and Time: | May 12, 2025 (Monday) 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. May 13, 2025 (Tuesday) 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
Venue: | HKU iCube, Room 4005-07, 40/F, Two Exchange Square, 8 Connaught Place, Central |
Language: | English |
*Registration: | Please register HERE by 11:59 p.m. May 7, 2025. There is no registration fee. Seats are limited. * Note: Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email prior to the event. |
*Remarks: | Lunch and dinner will be by invitation. Participants will be responsible to cover the passage and accommodation costs. |
Samuel C. Park Jr (B.A. 1925) Professor of Economics and Political Science
Yale University
Bio
Gerard Padró i Miquel is a Professor of Economics and Political Science at Yale University, where he is also the Director of the Leitner Program of International and Comparative Political Economy. He is interested in the interplay between politics and economics as a barrier for development with a focus on civil conflict and on the politics of non-democratic regimes. His previous work has been published at the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science among others.
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics
Emory University
Bio
Vivian Zhanwei Yue is a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Emory University. She is also Research Associate at the NBER, Research Fellow at CEPR, and a senior research fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Before joining Emory University, Professor Yue worked as an assistant professor at New York University and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Her research areas are on international finance, macroeconomics, and international trade. She has published in leading academic journals such as American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Journal of Econometrics. She has served as Co-Editor for Journal of International Economics, associate editor for Journal of Monetary Economics, International Economic Review, IMF Economic Review, and on the Board of Editors for American Economic Journal- Macroeconomics.
Professor Gerard Padró i Miquel
Samuel C. Park Jr (B.A. 1925) Professor of Economics and Political Science
Yale University
Professor Vivian Yue
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics
Emory University
Day 1: May 8, 2023 (Monday) – Applied Micro
08:15 – 08:50
Registration
08:50 – 09:00
Welcome Speech by Professor Hongbin Cai, Dean of HKU Business School
09:00 – 10:00
Keynote Speech by Professor Michael Greenstone (via Zoom), University of Chicago
“Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India”
10:00 – 10:20
Coffee Break and Group Photo
Session 1: Environment
10:20 – 11:10
Yu-Hsiang Lei, Yale-NUS College
“Dams, International Rivers and Climate Change: The Impacts of Chinese Dams on the Mekong River”
11:10 – 12:00
Aaron Yoon, Northwestern University
“Green financing and politicians’ incentives: Evidence from proprietary loan assessment data”
joint with Meng Lyu, George Y. Yang, Hongqi Yuan
Hongbin CAI
Chair of organizing committee
Dean
Chair of Economics
HKU Business School
Bingjing LI
Associate Professor of Economics
HKU Business School
Professor of Economics and Management & Strategy
HKU Business School
HKU Business School
Yanhui WU
Professor of Economics and Management & Strategy
HKU Business School
Hongsong ZHANG
Associate Professor of Economics
HKU Business School
Xiaodong ZHU
Area Head of Economics
Professor of Economics
HKU Business School
Please contact the Institute of China Economy at iceinfo@hku.hk for enquiries.