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 (Imperial College London and 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)
Workers and Entrepreneurs
14:00-14:50 Composite Sorting
Job Boerma (Wiscconsin-Madision)
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)
Day 2: Saturday - March 9, 2024
International Macro and Trade
9:10-10:00 Digital Asset and the Exorbitant Dollar Privaleges
Vincenzo Quadrini (USC Marshall)
10:00-10:50 Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization
Jing Zhang (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
10:50-11:00 Coffee Break
Macroeconomics of AI
11:00-12:00 Natural Selection of Artificial Intelligence
Balazs Szentes (HKU)
12:00-13:30 Lunch (Ocean Palace Shek Tong Tsui)
Inequality
13:30-14:20 Why are the wealthiest so wealthy? A Longitudinal Empirical Investigation
Sergio Salgado (Wharton)
Banking
14:20-15:10 Geographical Diversification in Banking: A Structural Evaluation
Venky Venkateswaran (NYU Stern)
Day 3: Sunday - March 10, 2024
Informal discussions of research between conference speakers and HKU faculty members and PhD students on March 10.
Organizing Committee
Henry Chen
University of Hong Kong
Haishi Li
University of Hong Kong
Yulei Luo
University of Hong Kong
Wataru Miyamoto
University of Hong Kong
Xiaomei Sui
University of Hong Kong
Chang Sun
University of Hong Kong
Lichen Zhang
University of Hong Kong
Anson Zhou
University of Hong Kong
Xiaodong Zhu
University of Hong Kong
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