The Department of Economics (ECON) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) will host the 3rd Workshop of the East and South-East Asian Macroeconomic Society on 5-6 September 2026 (Saturday & Sunday) in Hong Kong, China. The workshop will be held in person.
We are pleased to announce the following confirmed keynote speakers:
- Vivian Yue (Emory University)
- Benjamin Born (University of Bonn)
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PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE |
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Saturday, 5 September 2026 |
Sunday, 6 September 2026 |
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09:00-10:00 |
Keynote Speech |
Keynote Speech |
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10:00-10:15 |
Break |
Break |
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10:15-12:15 |
Parallel Sessions 1, 2, 3 |
Parallel Sessions 10, 11, 12 |
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12:15-13:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:00 |
Parallel Sessions 4, 5, 6 |
Parallel Sessions 13, 14, 15, 16 |
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15:00-15:30 |
Break |
Break |
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15:30-17:30 |
Parallel Sessions 7, 8, 9 |
Parallel Sessions 17, 18, 19 |
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17:45 onwards |
Conference Reception |
Campus Tour |
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Saturday, 5 September 2026 10:15-12:15 |
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Session 1 Session Chair: Jaehyeok Lee |
Session 2 Session Chair: Ryan Kim |
Session 3 Session Chair: Harlly Zhou |
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10:15-12:15 |
Sentiment-Driven Fluctuations under Robust Hypothesis Testing |
Two-Way Traders and Dollar Shocks: Absorbers or Amplifiers? |
Going Public over the Business Cycle |
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On the Optimal Precision of Central Bank Communication |
Exchange Rate Shocks and Capital Flows: High-Frequency Evidence from China |
Deterministic Debt Maturity Towers |
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How Do Stimulus Policies Move Firms’ Expectations? Evidence from Chinese Micro and Small Enterprises |
From Invoicing to Anchoring: How RMB Swap Lines Shape Exchange Rate Anchoring in Small Open Economies |
Corporate-Sovereign Debt Nexus and Externalities |
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Do Major Legislative Elections Change Household Expectations and Consumption? Evidence from Korea’s 2024 General Election |
Exchange Rate Transmission through Multinational Firms: Evidence from Japan |
Optimal Stake-Share Issuance Rule in Proof-of-Stake Blockchains |
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Saturday, 5 September 2026 13:30-15:00 |
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Session 4 Session Chair: Jiaming Huang |
Session 5 Session Chair: Sang Seok Lee |
Session 6 Session Chair: Terry Cheung |
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13:30-15:00 |
Tracing Data Through Analytical General Equilibrium |
When Uncertainty Fragments Markets: Geopolitical Risk and Equity Connectedness |
Malthus Meets Romer: Population Growth under Information Frictions |
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Max-Share Misidentification |
Survey Expectations Meet Option Prices: New Insights from the FX Market |
Spatial Population Dynamics: Fertility, Migration, and Policies |
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Heterogeneous Monetary Policy Shocks |
The International Transmission of Commodity Shocks: High-Frequency Evidence from Futures Markets in the Interwar Period |
From Slavery to Stagnation: Agricultural Technology and Structural Transformation in the U.S. South |
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Saturday, 5 September 2026 15:30-17:30 |
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Session 7 Session Chair: Shaoshuang Yang |
Session 8 Session Chair: Byoungchan Lee |
Session 9 Session Chair: Kenji Wada |
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15:30-17:30 |
A Model of Knowledge Creation and Diffusion |
Information Treatments, Hypotheticals, and Event Studies: Comparative Estimates |
Learning from Sales: Endogenous Uncertainty and Business Cycles |
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Inventor Mobility, Knowledge Diffusion, and Growth |
Heterogeneous Firms, Rational Inattention, and Monetary Policy |
Information Acquisition and the Finance-Uncertainty Trap |
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Ideas Reallocation and Misallocation |
Inflation Surprises and Real Economic Activity |
Financial Frictions with Rational Inattention |
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The Macroeconomic Implications of R&D Ownership |
Cyclical Returns to Scale and the Slopes of the Phillips Curves |
Endogenous Ambiguity and Risk Premia in a Nonlinear Macro-Finance Model |
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Sunday, 6 September 2026 10:15-12:15 |
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Session 10 Session Chair: Qing Liu |
Session 11 Session Chair: Jiaxin Wang |
Session 12 Session Chair: Youngjin Yun |
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10:15-12:15 |
Monetary-Fiscal Nexus and Unintended Equilibria |
Shipping to America |
Monetary Policy and the Homeownership Rate |
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A Step Towards a Solution to the Confidence-Driven Liquidity Trap Morass |
Tariffs, Automation, and Business Dynamism |
Intrahousehold Inequality and Savings in Retirement |
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Fiscal Price Puzzle: One Monetary Policy, Many Fiscal Incidences |
The Unequal Trade War |
Housing Ladder Congestion and the Scarring of Young Households |
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Efficient Political Budget Cycles |
Trade War, the Dollar, and Welfare |
Soft Lending Standards, Hard Consequences: How Housing Booms Undermine Productive Investment |
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Sunday, 6 September 2026 13:30-15:00 |
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Session 13 Session Chair: Eri Satake |
Session 14 Session Chair: Chun-Che Chi |
Session 15 Session Chair: Shenzhe Jiang |
Session 16 Session Chair: Yicheng Wang |
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13:30-15:00 |
Macroeconomic Expectations and Limited Awareness |
Default, Inflation Expectations, and the Currency Denomination of Sovereign Bonds |
Universities and the Rise of Services |
Automation and Dynamic Efficiency: When Do Robots Benefit Every Generation? |
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Misperceived Propagation in Macroeconomic Expectations |
The Spillover of US Monetary Policy Uncertainty on Global Bank Lending |
Housing Vintage and Regional Structural Transformation |
The Spatial Distribution of Markups |
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Households' Inflation Expectations Formation: the Role of Perceived Inflation and Inflation Experiences |
Subjective Beliefs and Systematic Debt Cycles in Emerging Economies |
Transforming Luxuries into Necessities: How Inequality Affects Growth? |
Subsidizing New Technologies: the dynamic, distributional impacts |
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Sunday, 6 September 2026 15:30-17:30 |
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Session 17 Session Chair: Chang Ma |
Session 18 Session Chair: Haozhou Tang |
Session 19 Session Chair: Ruopu Hu |
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15:30-17:30 |
Semiconductor Export Controls and Innovation in the U.S.-China Technology War |
Lifelong Gains from a Strong Start: Early Career Fit and the College Wage Premium |
The Inventory Decelerator for Monetary Policy |
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Make or Buy? Trade-Induced Shifts in Firms’ Innovation Behavior |
Transit Infrastructure and Spatial Mismatch in Urban Labor Markets |
An Asset-Price Centric New Keynesian Model |
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Reshoring Policies in the Intangible Economy |
Automation, Polarization, and Taxation |
Mortgage Type Choice and the Distribution of Interest-Rate Exposure |
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How Does Stock Market Liberalization Spur Growth? |
Sorting along Business Cycles |
Bank Regulation and Post-2008 US Monetary Policy |
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Last update: 8 Aug 2026
- Zhang Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Marc Dordal Carreras (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Jiaming Huang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Yang Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Kosuke Aoki (University of Tokyo)
- Chun-Che Chi (Academia Sinica)
- Ippei Fujiwara (Keio University and University of Tokyo)
- Ryan Kim (Seoul National University)
- Sang Seok Lee (Asia School of Business)
- Yang Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Wenlan Luo (Tsinghua University)
- Zheng Michael Song (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Donghai Zhang (National University of Singapore)
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The Royal Garden Kowloon East (RGKE)
Location: 3 Tong Tak Street, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong
Room Type
Urban Oasis Room (36 sq. m.)
(King or Twin beds, subject to availability)
Room Rates
• HK$1,300 per room per night, including daily breakfast for one person
The above rates are subject to a 10% service charge and a 3% Hotel Accommodation Tax (HAT) per room per night.
Reservation
Guests should make their reservations directly with RGKE using the designated booking link: Booking Link
* Note: All participants are responsible for arranging and covering the costs of their own accommodation.