【主题】清华大学宏观经济学国际研讨会2011(Tsinghua Workshop in Macroeconomics 2011)

【时间】2011年8月14日-17日

【地点】清华经管学院伟伦楼501

【主办】清华大学经济管理学院、清华大学中国财政税收研究所

【日程】

Tsinghua Workshop in Macroeconomics for Young Economists

August 14, 2011

Preliminary Program

8:30-9:15  Min Ouyang (University of California Irvine and Tsinghua University)

             Cyclical Persistence and the Cyclicality of R&D

9:15-10:00 Tian Can (University of Pennsylvania)

             Entry, Exit and Endogenous Firm Dispersion over the Business Cycles

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break

10:15-11:00 Tao Peng (Southwestern University of Economics and Finance)

            Interest Rate Control, Credit Constraints, and Macroeconomic Volatility: The Case of China

11:00-11:45 Min Zhang (Shanghai University of Economics and Finance)

            Labor Market Cycles, Unemployment Insurance Eligibility, and Moral Hazard

11:45-13:15 Lunch

13:15-14:00 Toan Phan (Northwestern University)

           Asymmetric Information and the Sustainability of Sovereign Debt

14:00-14:45 Zhe Li (Shanghai University of Economics and Finance)

          Capital Requirement, Securitization and Risky Investment

14:45-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-15:45 Pei Kuang (Goethe University Frankfur)

          House Price Booms and the Current Account

15:45-16:30 Yang Tang (Washington University at St. Louis)

          Understanding Housing Booms: the Case of China

16:30-17:15 Weilong Zhang (Remin University)

          Housing Purchase and Household Saving Rate

Tsinghua Workshop in Macroeconomics 2011

August 15-17, 2011

Preliminary Program

Business Cycles:

8:15-9:15 Vivian Yue (New York University)

          Export Dynamics and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies

9:15-10:15 Wen Yi (St. Louis Fed and Tsinghua University)

         Inventory Accelerator in General Equilibrium

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

Investment and Asset Prices:

10:30-11:30 Dan Cao (Georgetown University)

         Collateral Shortages, Asset Price and Investment Volatility with Heterogeneous Beliefs

11:30-12:30 Keynote Speech: Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)

         Understanding Booms and Busts in Housing Prices

12:30-2:00 Lunch

Financial Market Frictions:

2:00-3:00 Yan Bai (Arizona State University)

         Financial Markets and Fluctuations in Uncertainty

3:00-4:00 Keyu Jin (London School of Economics)

        Credit Constraints and Growth in a Global Economy

4:00-4:15 Coffee Break

4:15-5:15 Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame)

        Macroeconomics of Microfinance

Tuesday, August 16

Human Capital Investment and Risk Sharing:

8:45-9:45 Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis)

        Lifetime Labor Supply and Human Capital Investment

9:45-10:45 Heng Chen (University of Hong Kong)

        Mortgage Loans, the Decline of the Household Saving Rate and the Increase in Risk-Sharing

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Kjetil Storesletten (Minneapolis Fed)

        Redistributive taxation in a partial-insurance economy

12:00-1:30 Lunch

Financial System:

1:30-2:30 Charles Kahn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

        Private Payment Systems Collateral and Interest Rates

2:30-3:30 Benjamin Bental (University of Haifa)

        Should We Have or Should We Have Not, and Who Should Have Paid?

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

Energy:

3:45-4:45 William Garvin (St. Louis Fed)

        Monetary Policy, the Tax Code, and Energy Price Shocks

4:45-5:45 Ted Temzelides (Rice University)

        Fossil Energy: Fuels of the Past?

Wednesday, August 17

China

8:30-9:30 Yuan Xu (Tsinghua University)

        Job creation and destruction in China

9:30-10:30 Laura Wu (Nanyang Technological University)

       A Structural Estimation on Distortions in UK and Chinese Manufacturing Firms

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:45 Xiaodong Zhu (University of Toronto)

      Financial Market Frictions and Under-Investment by Entrepreneurs

11:45-1:15 Lunch

1:15-2:15 Chong-En Bai (Tsinghua University)

      Payroll Tax and Consumption

2:15-3:15 Keynote Speech Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich)

      The Growth of China in the Face of a Demographic Transition

3:15-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:15 Panel Discussion (Topics TBA)