All fields of applied macroeconomics are highly welcomed.

This workshop has been postponed at a future date. Since the economic reforms in 1978, China has ascended to the second largest economy on the globe (the largest when looking at purchasing power adjusted values). The financial markets have been growing correspondingly, and by the end of 2017,...

This year’s workshop will have a focus on international macroeconomics, especially topics relating to trade, exchange rate and capital market regulation. As always, we invite papers from all fields in applied macroeconomics, but papers matching those issues are particularly welcome.

Programme: - Impact of Large Investors in Distressed Housing Markets - The Impact of US Monetary Policy and Other External Shocks on the Hong Kong Economy: A Factor-augmented VAR Approach - VaR and Stress Test: The Impact of Fat-Tail Risk and Systemic Risk on Capital Requirements of Financial...

Two central themes will be related to Asia and the Pacific studies and the PRC economy. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced market-oriented reforms, openness and globalization, economic regionalization, cross-border interactions, integration, etc., which underpin the first theme....

The sixth edition of the workshop on Tourists as Consumers, Visitors and Travelers aims to provide a platform for experienced scholars in tourism and allied fields. This year the four main topics, and the corresponding workshop sessions, will be hospitality, tourism macroeconomics and policy,...

Preliminary program: - How Do Business Cycles become Global? Common Shocks or Spillovers? - Asian-Pacific Financial Market Interactions with the U.S. and China: A Structural VAR Approach - Foreign Bank Subsidiaries' Default Risk during the Global Crisis: What Factors Help Insulate Affiliates...

The goal of the workshop is to stimulate research in environmental and natural resource economics that is relevant to economic development in Latin America. Although priority will be given to papers that have empirical content, theoretical papers with clear policy implications will also be...

Programme: - Taming the Real Estate Beast: The Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Housing Prices and Credit. By Kenneth Kuttner and Ilhyock Shim* (BIS) - Rental Rate under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real-Options Approach. By Honglin Wang* (HKIMR), Fan Yu (CMC and SAIF) and...

Programme: - Recent Performance of the Hong Kong Dollar Foreign Exchange Market and the Linked Exchange Rate System - Transmitting Global Liquidity to East Asia: Dollar Credit in Mainland China and Hong Kong - Rising Mainland Exposure of Hong Kong Banks: Finding the Optimum Level and Assessing...