The Third HKU Macroeconomics Workshop is organized by the HKU Business School, which will be a two-day workshop with twelve papers. It is scheduled to take place on April 29 and April 30, 2026.
Day 1 April 29
Growth
9:00-9:50 Resetting the Innovation Clock: Endogenous Growth through Technological Turnover.
Jean-Félix Brouillette (HEC Montréal)
9:50-10:00 Coffee break
10:00-10:50 Technology-Driven Market Concentration through Idea Allocation
Shaoshuang Yang (CUHK Shenzhen)
10:50-11:00 Coffee break
Keynote Speech
11:00-12:00 The Aggregate and Distributional Consequences of Large Monetary and Fiscal Interventions in the Face of Large Shocks
Greg Kaplan (Chicago)
12:00-14:00 Lunch
Housing
14:00-14:50 Matching People to Properties: A Matching Function for the Housing Market
Rachel Ngai (LSE)
14:50-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:50 Eviction Regime Severity and Household Formation
Natalia Kovrijnykh (ASU)
15:50-16:00 Coffee break
Labor Market
16:00-16:50 A Theory of Congestion and Rising Unemployment Durations
Lukas Mann (ASU)
16:50-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-17:50 Sorting into Entrepreneurial Teams
Edoardo Maria Acabbi (Mannheim)
18:00- Dinner (by invitation only)
Day 2 April 30
Contract and Tax
9:00-9:50 Recursive contracts in non-convex environments
Felix Kubler (Zurich)
9:50-10:00 Coffee Break
10:00-10:50 Taxes on Lifetime Income: A Good Idea?
Chunzan Wu (Peking U)
10:50-11:00 Coffee Break
Keynote Speech
11:00-12:00 Financing from Workers: Can Labor Market Power Mitigate Financial Frictions?
Yan Bai (Rochester)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
International
13:30-14:20 How Credible is Hong Kong’s Currency Peg?
Vivian Yue (Emory)
14:20-14:30 Coffee Break
14:30-15:20 Shipping to America
Ricardo Marto (St. Louis Fed)