President’s message on the 2017 ASSA/KAEA meetings in Chicago
I and all KAEA Executive Committee team welcome you to the 2017 ASSA/KAEA meetings in Chicago.
The KAEA organizes 3 sessions — a Macro session by Chang-Jin Kim (University of Washington), a Micro session by Karam Kang (Carnegie Mellon University) and a joint session with the AEA by In-Uck Park (University of Bristol & SKKU). All these sessions will take place on January 7th (Saturday) at Hyatt Regency Chicago.
Information on the 3 KAEA sessions: https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2017/preliminary
[1] Jan 07, 2017 8:00 am, Hyatt Regency Chicago, New Orleans (Room)
Korea-America Economic Association
Empirical Macro and Time Series (C1, E0)
Presiding: Jinill Kim (Korea University)
Organized by Chang-Jin Kim (University of Washington)
[2] Jan 07, 2017 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency Chicago, New Orleans (Room)
Korea-America Economic Association
Empirical Studies on Contracts and Auctions (C5, D4)
Organized and Presiding: Karam Kang (Carnegie Mellon University)
[3] Jan 07, 2017 12:30 pm, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Toronto (Room)
Korea-America Economic Association/American Economic Association
Advances in Information Economics: 10 Years Since Nobel on Mechanism Design (D8, C7)
Organized and Presiding: In-Uck Park (University of Bristol & SKKU)
Please come to the sessions. The ASSA people count the number of attendants. Your attendance will help greatly KAEA’s efforts to increase the number of KAEA sessions in the future.
Maekyung (MK) Forum will take place at 5 pm, January 7th (Saturday), at Hyatt Regency Chicago, Regency A. The speaker is Dr. Changyong Rhee at the IMF (https://www.imf.org/external/np/bio/eng/cyr.htm).
Immediately after the MK Forum, about 6:30 pm, there will be the KAEA Annual Business Meeting and Dinner Banquet at Shaw’s Crab House – Chicago (http://shawscrabhouse.com/chicago/) which is about 0.5 miles away from Hyatt Regency Chicago. All the KAEA members including KAEA institutional members are welcome for meeting people and enjoying an exquisite course banquet dinner.
On January 8th (Sunday), we plan to have a panel discussion session on the Korean economy in the morning, followed by KAEA workshop sessions. See the separate announcement on this workshop.
[Registration and hotel reservation] The ASSA headquarters hotel is Hyatt Regency Chicago. The Conference registration and housing will be open on September 14th.
We look forward to seeing you ALL in Chicago in January 2017.
In-Uck Park
President, KAEA 2016