During May 24-26, the School of Economics and the Key Laboratory of Mathematical Economics (SUFE), Ministry of Education jointly held the 2014 Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop. Executive Associate Dean of the SOE Guan Gong, Distinguished Professor of SOE, Co-Director of Department of Economics Kevin X.D. Huang attended the workshop and delivered speeches. The workshop organizer, SOE Associate Professor Zhe Li chaired the opening ceremony.
This is the 5th year that SOE held the Shanghai Macroeconomics Workshop, as one of our summer workshop series aiming to provide a high-level academic platform. SOE also sponsors workshops in Microeconomics and Econometrics. The workshop gathered together an eminent group of scholars from all over the world to present their latest research findings that covered interesting topics in various fields of macroeconomics. The workshop invited speakers included the chief editor of International Economics Review Professor Harold Cole, associate editor of International Economics Review Professor Guido Menzio, associate editor of Journal of the European Economic Association Professor Michelacci Claudio, associate editor of Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Financial Intermediation and Quantitative Economics Professor Vincenzo Quadrini, Director of the Economic Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Professor Peter Rupert, and Professor Russell Cooper of the Pennsylvania State University. At the workshop, the scholars had an extensive exchange of views and ideas, which aroused creative thinking and helped promote their research work.
Keynote Speaker’s Speeches
1、 Harold Cole (U. of Pennsylvania)：Implications of Heterogeneity in Preferences, Beliefs and Asset Trading Technologies for the Macroeconomy
2、 Vincenzo Quadrini (U. of Southern California)：Bank Asset Channel
3、 Claudio Michelacci (Center for Monetary & Financial Studies)：Optimal Life Cycle Unemployment Insurance
4、 Guido Menzio (U. of Pennsylvania)：Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations
5、 Peter Rupert (U. of California, Santa Barbara)：Housing Dynamics and the Business Cycle
6、 Russell Cooper (Pennsylvania State U.)：Household Finance in China
