To foster academic collaboration across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, the Department of Economics of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) at the University of Macau (UM) held the 1st Asian Conference on Expectations in Macroeconomics. The event brought together leading scholars from institutions such as the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Chicago, European Central Bank, and Bank of Canada to explore cutting-edge issues in macroeconomic and financial expectations.
In his opening remarks, Dean Weixing Hu of FSS highlighted the conference’s focus on international academic frontiers, emphasizing its role in strengthening scholarly ties in macroeconomic expectations research. He also introduced Macao’s economic landscape and outlined the faculty’s recent advancements.
Featuring 18 presentations and discussions, the conference delved into critical topics, including: the formation and biases of macroeconomic expectations, central bank communication strategies, monetary policy design, and innovation-driven investment. Key research areas spanned inflation expectations, interest rate trajectories, financial integration, and diagnostic expectations. By facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue, the conference aimed to bridge theoretical and empirical research, creating an open platform for collaboration across the Asia-Pacific and global economics community.
Distinguished speakers represented institutions such as:
Europe/UK: University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, UCL, European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, University of St. Gallen.
North America: University of Chicago, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Notre Dame, Bank of Canada.
Asia: National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Peking University, Peking University HSBC Business School, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Korea University, CEIBS.
