HKUST-JINAN JOINT Conference on Macroeconomics
Dates
December 12–13, 2018 (Wednesday –Thursday)
Conference Venue
Conference Room 106, Zhonghui Builiding Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Organizing committee
Pengfei Wang, Professor, HKUST (Co-chair)
Shuaizhang Feng, Professor, Dean of IESR, JNU (Co-chair)
Conference Secretariat
Xiangyan Qiu
Email junoqiu@foxmail.com
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Day 1
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45: Photo
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
10:20-10:40 Break
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
3:20-3:40 Break
3:40-4:20
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
10:20-10:40 Break
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
3:20-3:40 Break
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
