6th HKUST and Jinan Joint Workshop on Macroeconomics

Introduction

We are honored to host the 6th HKUST and Jinan Joint Workshop on Macroeconomics, and we are extremely lucky to have 12 distinguished scholars present their research at this year’s workshop, which will be held on June 15-16, 2023.

Confirmed Speakers (Alphabetical):

Marc Dordal i Carreras	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yunho Cho	IESR-Jinan University
Wei Cui	University College London
Martin Ellison	Oxford University
Yan Ji	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Byoungchan Lee	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hanbaek Lee	University of Tokyo
Albert Marcet	CREI, UPF, and BSE
Sergio Salgado	Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania
Kjetil Storesletten	University of Minnesota
Yucheng Yang	University of Zurich
Minchul Yum	University of Southampton

This exciting two-day workshop is jointly funded by Jinan University IESR and the Department of Economics of HKUST. The organizing committee for this year's workshop includes Marc Dordal i Carreras (HKUST), Yunho Cho (Jinan IESR), Byoungchan Lee (HKUST), and Yang Lu (HKUST). For enquiry, please contact Byoungchan Lee (bclee@ust.hk).

We hope to see you in June!

Warm regards,

Byoungchan, Marc, Yang, and Yunho

Program Schedule

Day 1: June 15, 2023 (Thursday)

Morning Session (Chair: Yang Lu, HKUST)
8:55	Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00	Albert Marcet, CREI, UPF, and BSE “Learning the Yield Curve” with Klaus Adam and Kenneth Singleton
10:00 - 10:30	Group Photo + Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30	Yan Ji, HKUST “Asset Pricing with Misallocation” with Winston Wei Dou, Di Tian, and Pengfei Wang
11:30 - 12:30	Wei Cui, UCL “Risk-taking with financing constraints” with Richard Cong Xie and Renbin Zhang
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch by invitation
Afternoon Session (Chair: Byoungchan Lee, HKUST)
2:00 - 3:00	Yunho Cho, IESR-Jinan University “How Much Insurance from Progressive Income Taxes and Transfers?” with James Morley and Aarti Singh
3:00 - 4:00	Minchul Yum, University of Southampton “Lifestyle Behaviors and Wealth-Health Gaps in Germany” with Lukas Mahler
4:00 - 4:30	Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:30	Sergio Salgado, Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania “Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? A Longitudinal Empirical Investigation” with Serdar Ozkan, Joachim Hubmer, and Elin Halvorsen
5:45	Departure for Dinner (by invitation)

Day 2: June 16, 2023 (Friday)

Morning Session (Chair: Yunho Cho, IESR-Jinan)
9:00 - 10:00	Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota “Serial Entrepreneurship in China” with Loren Brandt, Ruochen Dai, Gueorgui Kambourov, and Xiaobo Zhang
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:30	Martin Ellison, Oxford University “The Ends of 27 Big Depressions” with Sang Seok Lee and Kevin O’Rourke
11:30 - 12:30	Marc Dordal i Carreras, HKUST “Active Taylor Rules Still Breed Sunspots: Sunspot Volatility, Risk-Premium, and the Business Cycle” with Seung Joo Lee
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch by invitation
Afternoon Session (Chair: Marc Dordal i Carreras, HKUST)
2:00 - 3:00	Byoungchan Lee, HKUST “Consumption and labor wedges and inequality since the 1980s”
3:00 - 4:00	Hanbaek Lee, University of Tokyo “Solving DSGE Models Without a Law of Motion: An Ergodicity-Based Method and an Application”
4:00 - 4:30	Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:30	Yucheng Yang, University of Zurich “DeepHAM: A Global Solution Method for Heterogeneous Agent Models with Aggregate Shocks” with Jiequn Han and Weinan E
5:45	Departure for Dinner (by invitation)

Organization Committee and Contacts

Chair and Contact Person

Byoungchan Lee (bclee@ust.hk)

Organizing Committee

Marc Dordal Carreras (HKUST)
Yunho Cho (Jinan IESR)
Yang Lu (HKUST)

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