HKU Macro Mini-Workshop

The HKU One-day Macro Workshop is scheduled to take place on Friday, June 21, 2024, at Room 315 in the K. K. Leung Building, located on the HKU main campus.

Friday - June 21, 2024

8:45-9:45 Keynote Speech by Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago)

                            The Hidden Risks of Industrial Policy: When More Isn't Always Better

    9:45-10:00                         Coffee break

    10:00-10:45                        Xiaodong Zhu (University of Hong Kong)

                                                     Bottom-up Institutional Change and Growth: Theory and Evidence from China

    10:45-11:30                         Xiaomei Sui (University of Hong Kong)

                                                     Innovation, Financial Development, and the Aggregate Productivity Gap across Countries

    11:30-11:45                          Coffee break

    11:45-12:30                          Jianjun Miao (Boston University)

                            Capital Income Jumps and Wealth Distribution   

    12:30-14:00                        Lunch at Café 1951 (by invitation)

    14:00-14:45                       Yongseok Shin (Washington University at St. Louis)

                                                     Is Software Eating the World?

    14:45-15:00                       Coffee break

    15:00-15:45                       Anson Zhou (University of Hong Kong)

                                                    Asymmetric Fertility Elasticities

    15:45-16:30                       Henry Chen (University of Hong Kong)

                                                    Trend, Cycle, and Expectation Formation

    16:30-16:45                       Coffee break

    16:45-17:45                       Keynote Speech by Guillermo Ordonez (University of Pennsylvania)

                           Information Technologies and Safe Assets

    18:00-20:00                      Dinner at Ming Pavilion (by invitation)