We are honored to host the 4th HKUST/Jinan Joint Macro Workshop, and we are extremely lucky to have 8 distinguished scholars present their research at this year’s workshop, which will be held online on August 12-13, 2021.

12 Aug 2021 (Thu)

Please refer to the Program Schedule

Online

Various Speakers

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1st Hong Kong Empirical Microeconomics Workshop

We are very privileged and excited to hold a cross-institution, in-person event. The organizing committee of this event includes Guojun He (HKUST), Hyuncheol Bryant Kim (HKUST), Sujata Visaria (HKUST), Gedeon Lim (HKU), John Klopfer (HKU), and Sangtoon Park (HKU).

25 Jun 2021 (Fri)

10:00am

LSK G012

Various Speakers

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2021 HKUST Workshop on Industrial Organization

This exciting workshop is fully funded by the Center for Economic Policy. This year, the organizing committee consists of Kohei Kawaguchi, Yangguang (Sunny) Huang, Pakhung Au, and Xinyu Hua. In case of any questions, please contact Sunny Huang (huangyg@ust.hk) or Millie Tang (wingki@ust.hk).

11 Jun 2021 (Fri)

09:30 - 18:00

LSK1005

Various Speakers

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The S-curve: Understanding the Dynamics of Worldwide Financial Liberalization

04 Jun 2021 (Fri)

Dr. Nan Li, International Monetary Fund

Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Expectation Formation over the Firm's Life Cycle

28 May 2021 (Fri)

Prof. Chang Sun, The University of Hong Kong

Delineating China’s Metropolitan Areas Using Commuting Flows

26 May 2021 (Wed)

Prof. Yizhen Gu, Peking University HSBC Bsuiness School

The Chinese Collectibles Bubble

21 May 2021 (Fri)

Prof. Yongxiang Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?

17 May 2021 (Mon)

Prof. Bingjing Li, National University of Singapore

Attraction vs Persuasion

13 May 2021 (Thu)

Prof. Pak Hung Au, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending

12 May 2021 (Wed)

Prof. Olivier Coibion, The University of Texas at Austin

The Real Impact of FinTech: Evidence from Mobile Payment Technology

07 May 2021 (Fri)

Prof. Hsin-Tien Tiffany Tsai, National University of Singapore

Pigou Creates Losers: On the Implausibility of Achieving Pareto Improvements from Eﬃciency-Enhancing Policies

05 May 2021 (Wed)

Prof. James Sallee, University of California, Berkeley

Ad Clutter, Time Use, and Media Diversity

30 Apr 2021 (Fri)

Prof. Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim

Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry

28 Apr 2021 (Wed)

Prof. Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University

Platform Competition and Equilibrium Proportional Fee

23 Apr 2021 (Fri)

Prof. Wen Zhou, The University of Hong Kong

Technology Training, Buyer-Supplier Linkage,and Quality Upgrading in an Agricultural Supply Chain

21 Apr 2021 (Wed)

Prof. Sangyoon Park, The University of Hong Kong

Digital Credit: Filling a hole, or digging a hole? Evidence from Malawi

16 Apr 2021 (Fri)

Prof. Jonathan Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz

Bias-Aware Inference in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs

14 Apr 2021 (Wed)

Prof. Christoph Rothe, University of Mannheim

Holding Up Green Energy

07 Apr 2021 (Wed)

Prof. Nicholas Ryan, Yale University

Procrastination in Groups

17 Mar 2021 (Wed)

Prof. Anujit Chakraborty, The University of California, Davis

Interest Rate Cuts vs. Stimulus Payments: A Macro Equivalence Result

12 Mar 2021 (Fri)

Dr. Christian Wolf, The University of Chicago

Estimation and Inference by Stochastic Optimization: A Free-Lunch Bootstrap

10 Mar 2021 (Wed)

Prof. Jean-Jacques Forneron, The Boston University

Setbacks, Rundowns, and Overruns

05 Mar 2021 (Fri)

Prof. Curtis Taylor, The Duke University

Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China

03 Mar 2021 (Wed)

Prof. Ruixue Jia, The London School of Economics and University of California, San Diego

Converging to Convergence

26 Feb 2021 (Fri)

Prof. Michael Kremer, University of Chicago

Revisiting the Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership

24 Feb 2021 (Wed)

Prof. José Azar, University of Navarra

Information Overload and Screening

27 Nov 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Jorge Lemus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Directed Search on a Platform: Meet Fewer to March More

20 Nov 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Chengsi Wang, Monash University

Monotone Additive Statistics

13 Nov 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Xiaosheng Mu, Princeton University

Contestable Autocracies, Resdistribution, and Public Goods

07 Nov 2020 (Sat)

Prof. Nicola Persico, Northwestern University

Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance in India

06 Nov 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego

Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry

30 Oct 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Matthew Backus, Columbia University

Rules without Commitment: Reputation and Incentives

23 Oct 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania

HKUST Workshop on Experimental Economics (October 20, 2018)

20 Oct 2020 (Tue)

Please refer to the Program Schedule

LSK 3001, Lee Shau Kee (LSK) Business Building

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Portfolio Liquidty and Security Design with Private Information

16 Oct 2020 (Fri)

Prof. David Frankel, The University of Melbourne

Structural Change and Global Trade

09 Oct 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Michael Sposi, Southern Methodist University

Oligopolistic Price Leadership and Mergers: The United States Beer Industry

07 Oct 2020 (Wed)

Prof. Nathan Miller, Georgetown University

Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Sourcing

02 Oct 2020 (Fri)

Prof. John Turner, University of Georgia

Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

30 Sep 2020 (Wed)

Prof. Florian Ederer, Yale University

Buying Reputation as a Signal of Quality: Evidence from an Online Marketplace

25 Sep 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Lingfang (Ivy) Li, Fudan University

Information Spillovers in Experience Goods Competition

18 Sep 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Zhuoqiong Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology

Mapping Firms' Locations in Technology Space: A Topological Analysis of Patent Statistics

11 Sep 2020 (Fri)

Prof. Mitsuru Igami, Yale University

Exchange Rates and Endogeneous Productivity

09 Sep 2020 (Wed)

Dr. Nils Gornemann, Federal Reserve Board