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Schedule for Spring 2026 & prior
Our Seminars are scheduled to take place on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the Spring Semester of 2025-26, running from 3:00-4:30pm unless stated otherwise.
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Asian Economic Development Conference 2026
9th HKUST and Jinan Joint Workshop on Macroeconomics
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars
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The 3rd Workshop of the East and South-East Asian Macroeconomic Society (WESEAMS)
05 Sep 2026 (Sat)
05-06 Sep 2026 (Sat and Sun) Time: TBC
Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Vivian Yue (Emory University), Benjamin Born (University of Bonn)
The 21st Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS 2026)
04 Jul 2026 (Sat)
8:30pm – 6:00pm
LSK 1003 and LSK 1005, HKUST, Hong Kong
Confirmed Invited Speakers: NUNO LIMÃO (University of Maryland), GIANMARCO OTTAVIANO (Bocconi University)
9th HKUST and Jinan Joint Workshop on Macroeconomics
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 Carreras (HKUST), Weili Chen (Jinan IESR), Zhang Chen (HKUST), Jiaming Huang (HKUST), Byoungchan Lee (HKUST), Yang Lu (HKUST), Wei Qiao (Jinan IESR) and Zijian Wang (Jinan IESR). For enquiry, please contact Yang Lu (yanglu@ust.hk).
22 Jun 2026 (Mon)
9:00am – 5:30pm (2-day workshop)
LSK 1005
12 distinguished scholars
Asian Economic Development Conference 2026
13 Jun 2026 (Sat)
13-14 Jun 2026 (Sat and Sun) Time: To be announced
Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
Keynote Speakers: Ruixue Jia (Professor, University of California-San Diego), Wolfgang Keller (Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder and Visiting Professor, HKUST), Albert Park (Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank)
HKUST Economics: Past, Present, and Future – 35th Anniversary Conference
08 May 2026 (Fri)
08 May (Fri) 8:30 - 21:00; 09 May (Sat) Time to be confirmed
WM Hotel, Sai Kung, Hong Kong
We invited amazing speakers in the field from around the world. View the complete schedule for details.
The Economics and Business of Artificial Intelligence
06 Jan 2026 (Tue)
9:30am – 5:45pm
LSK 1003, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
Yang Lu (HKUST), Akira Matsushita (Kyoto University), Xiaowei Zhang (HKUST), Yi Yang (HKUST), Matthias Fahn (HKU), Hanzhe Li (HKU)
Bridging AI, Computer Science, and Economics - the Lecture Series
20 Nov 2025 (Thu)
20 Nov (Thu) 10:00-11:30 and 13:30-14:30; 21 Nov (Fri) 15:00-16:30
Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
Michihiro Kandori (University of Tokyo)
2025 HKUST Conference on Industrial Organization (June 12-13, 2025)
HKUST's Department of Economics is honored to host the 2025 HKUST Conference on Industrial Organization.
12 Jun 2025 (Thu)
Please refer to the Program Schedule
LSK 1003, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
2025 HKUST GEAR Conference on Trade and Development (June 10-11, 2025)
HKUST's Department of Economics and HKUST Greater Eurasia Research Centre (GEAR) are honored to host the 2025 HKUST GEAR Conference on Trade and Development on June 10-11, 2025.
10 Jun 2025 (Tue)
June 10 (Tue) 8:30-17:30; June 11 (Wed) 8:30-17:00
LSK 1001, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST
David De Remer, Klaus Desmet, Wentai Hsu, Jozef Konings, Pengshan Pan, Albert Park, Lyaziza G. Sabyrova, Kohei Takeda, Aigerim Yergabulova
1st HKUST-Fudan-SMU Conference on International Economics
02 Jul 2024 (Tue)
9am-5:30pm (2-day workshop)
LSK 1005