2023 Spring

2023 Spring Macro Seminars


Feb 8, 2023 (Wed)                         International Trade Finance and Learning Dynamics

                                  Shengxing Zhang (LSE/Peking U)


Feb 17, 2023 (Fri)                                 Why Women Work the Way They Do in Japan: Roles of Fiscal Policies

                                                           Sagiri Kitao (University of Tokyo)


Feb 22, 2023 (Wed)                         The Great Resignation and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

                                                           Zhifeng Cai (Rutgers)


Mar 8, 2023 (Wed)                                 A Unified Theory of the Term-Structure and Monetary Stabilization

                                                           Seung Joo Lee (Oxford)


Mar 10, 2023 (Fri)                                 Moore’s Law and Economic Growth

                                                           Pablo Azar (NY Fed)


Mar 22, 2023 (Wed)                         Credit Tightening, Trade Credit, and Misallocation on Supply Chains

                                                           Wen-Ya Wang (SUFE)


Mar 30, 2023 (Thurs)                         Optimal Exchange Rate Policy

                                                           Dmitry Mukhin (LSE)


Apr 5, 2023 (Wed)                                 Structural Transformation over 150 years of Women’s and Men’s Work

                                                           Rachel Ngai (LSE)


Apr 21, 2023 (Fri)                                 Costs of Capital Market Policy Distortions: Evidence from Overseas Listed Chinese Firms

                                                           Guiying Laura WU (NTU)


Apr 28, 2023 (Fri)                                 Monetary Policy in an International Business Cycle Model with Externalities

                                                           Konstantin Kucheryavyy (U of Tokyo)


May 19, 2023 (Fri)                                 Over-optimism About Graduation and College Financial Aid

                                                           Ming Xu (Queen's)


May 23, 2023 (Tue)                        Trade-Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 Years of U.S.-China Trade

                                                           Kim Ruhl (Wisconsin)


May 26, 2023 (Fri)                                 Firm Dynamics and Sectoral Reallocation

                                                           Julian Neira (University of Exeter)


June 2, 2023 (Fri)                                    June One-day Workshop 


                                      World Financial Cycles

                                                            Yan Bai (Rochester)


                              Globalization, Structural Change and International Comovement

                                                           Zhen Huo (Yale)


                                A Ramsey Theory of Financial Distortions

                                                           Wei Cui (UCL)


                                Bottom Up Institutional Change and Growth

                                                           Xiaodong Zhu (HKU)


HKU-UCL Macro Conference


June 3-4, 2023 (Sat-Sun)                 Conference Program