2025 Spring Macro Seminars
Feb 21, 2025 Two Tales of the China Shock: Comparative Analysis of the Impacts on Germany and the United States
Christian Dustmann (UCL)
Feb 26, 2025 Overhyped? Can Machine Learning Models Reliably Predict Stock Returns?
Allan Timmermann (UCSD)
Feb 28, 2025 Multiproduct Firms and Monopsony Power
Michael Koch (Aarus U)
Feb 28, 2025 The Effects of Startup Acquisitions on Innovation and Economic Growth
Tom Schmitz (Queen Mary University of London)
Mar 7, 2025 Fertility and Family Labor Supply
Hamish Low (Oxford)
Mar 14, 2025 Cancelled
Annika Bacher (BI Norwegian)
Mar 21, 2025 Are Markups Too High? Competition, Strategic Innovation and Industry Dynamics
Laurent Cavanielle (U of Toronto)
Mar 28, 2025 Are Big Cities Important for Economic Growth?
David Weil (Brown)
Apr 11, 2025 Optimal Monetary Policy under Menu Costs
Basil Halperin (U of Virginia)
Apr 17, 2025 (Thur) Industry Life Cycles in General Equilibrium
Pau Roldan-Blanco (Bank of Spain and CEMFI)
Apr 25, 2025 Transition to Green Technoloy along the Supply Chain
David Hémous (U of Zurich)
May 2, 2025 Capital Services in Global Value Chains
Xiang Ding (Georgetown)
May 9, 2025 Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Responses of Labor Migration to Economic Shocks
Christopher House (U of Michigan)
May 25-26, 2025 (Fri-Sat) Annual HKU Macro Workshop
Keynote speakers: Hélène Rey and Gianluca Violante
June 10, 2025 (Tues) Optimal Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis
Vincent Stark (UCL)