Dates：

December 12–13, 2018 (Wednesday –Thursday)

Conference Venue：

Conference Room 106, Zhonghui Builiding Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Day 1

Morning Session

9:00-9:40         

FinTech Credit and Firm Volatility: Evidence from Alibaba Loans to 2 Million Entrepreneurs in China

Huang Yi, Geneva Institute

9:40-10:20                

Quantitative Easing

Wei Cui, University of College London

10:40-11:20    

The Wobbly Economy

Tomohiro Hirano, University of Tokyo     

11:20-12:00    

Asset Bubbles and Foreign Interest Rate Shocks

Zhou Jing, Fudan University

12:00-2:00       

Lunch Break and Keynote Speech

Convergence, Financial Development, and Policy Analysis

Jianjun Miao, Boston University     

Afternoon Session

2:00-2:40

Financial intermediation and occupational choice

Gu Jiajia, Jinan University       

2:40-3:20

Debt Overhang and Inefficient Capital Reallocation     

Xu Sichuang, HKUST

3:40-4:20

Asymmetric Attention

Alexandre N. Kohlhas, University of Stockholm

4:20-5:00

Creating Confusion: Information Manipulation and Imperfect Coordination

Lu Yang, HKUST

Day 2

Morning Session

9:00-9:40

Asset Pricing with Idiosyncratic Income Risks       

Bai Jinhui, Washington State University

9:40-10:20       

Embrace or Fear Uncertainty: Growth Options, Limited Risk Sharing, and Asset Prices

Winston Wei Dou, University of Pennsylvania

10:40-11:20    

Borrowing to Save and Investment Dynamics

Jasmine Xiao, University of Notre Dame

11:20-12:00    

Innovate to Lead or Innovate to Prevail: When do Monopolist Rents Induce Growth?

Yu Zheng, Queen Mary University of London

12:00-2:00        Lunch Break and Keynote Speech

Fiscal Multipliers and Foreign Holdings of Public Debt

Fernando Broner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Afternoon Session

2:00-2:40  Price War Risks

Ji Yan, HKUST

2:40-3:20

Household Balance Sheets and Consumption Responses to Income Shocks        

Yunho Cho, Jinan University   

3:40-4:20  

Active Monetary or Fiscal Policy and Stock-Bond Correlation

Zhang Ji, Tisnghua University

4:20-5:00

The Wall Street Response to a Regulatory Sine Curve

Eric Young, University of Virginia