Submission Deadline: September 14, 2025 (decisions expected in early October)
Conference: December 5 - 6, 2025
We are pleased to announce the LAEF-HKU Joint Conference on Growth and Inequality, which will take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara on December 5–6, 2025. The conference is jointly organized by the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance (LAEF) at UCSB and the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong. The aim of the workshop is to provide researchers interested in growth and inequality with a forum to present and discuss research that advances both theoretical and empirical understanding in these areas.
Keynote Speakers
- Chang-Tai Hsieh — Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Bruce Meyer — McCormick Foundation Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
For questions, please contact:
Andrew Hanebutt: andrewhanebutt@ucsb.edu
Organizing Committee:
- Boaz Abramson (Columbia University)
- Ayse Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California)
- Yulei Luo (University of Hong Kong)
- Yueyuan Ma (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Peter Rupert (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Xiaomei Sui (University of Hong Kong)
- Lichen Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
- Kai Zhao (University of Connecticut)
- Anson Zhou (University of Hong Kong)
- Xiaodong Zhu (University of Hong Kong)