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An Economic Analysis of Difficulty Adjustment Algorithms in Proof-of-Work Blockchain Systems

21 May 2020 (Thu)
Prof. Shunya Noda, University of British Columbia

Robust Binary Voting

29 Nov 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Qinggong Wu, HKUST

Data and Competition: A General Framework

22 Nov 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Alexandre de Corniere, University of Toulouse

Are Estimates of Early Education Programs Too Pessimistic? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment that Causally Measures Neighbor Effects

13 Nov 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Yves Zenou, Monash University

Neutral Public Good Mechanisms

08 Nov 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Jin Yeub Kim, Yonsei University

Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence

01 Nov 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Arpita Chartterjee, University of New South Wales

Non-Competing Data Intermediaries

30 Oct 2019 (Wed)
Dr. Shota Ichihashi, Bank of Canada

Cascades and Fluctuations in an Economy with an Endogenous Production Network

25 Oct 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel, Cornell University

A Regional Perspective on the Economic Development of the late Russian Empire

23 Oct 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Andrei Markevich, New Economic School, Moscow

Attention, Uncertainty Reduction and Pre-announcement Premium in China

18 Oct 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Dun Jia, Renmin University

Delegating Performance Evaluation

04 Oct 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Shuo Liu, Peking University

On the Geography of Global Value Chains

02 Oct 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Alonso De Gortari, Darmouth College

A Model of Intermediation, Money, Interest, and Prices

20 Sep 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Saki Bigio, University of California, Los Angeles

Cheap-Talk with Non-Bayesian Updating

19 Sep 2019 (Thu)
Prof. Wooyoung Lim, HKUST

New Tests of Expectation Formation with Applications to Asset Pricing Models

11 Sep 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Tongbin Zhang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics

The Fiscal Multiplier

06 Sep 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Kurt Mitman, Stockholm University

2nd HKUST and Jinan Joint Workshop on Macroeconomics (June 18-19, 2019)

We are honored to host the 2nd HKUST and Jinan Joint Workshop on Macroeconomics, and we are extremely lucky that 13 distinguished scholars have kindly agreed to present their research at this year’s workshop, which will be held on June 18-19, 2019 at HKUST Campus.
18 Jun 2019 (Tue)
Please refer to the Program Schedule
Lee Shau Kee (LSK) Business Building, HKUST
Various Speakers

Workshop on Industrial Organization (June 11-13, 2019)

HKUST's Economics Department is honored to host the 2019 HKUST Workshop on Industrial Organization. We are extremely lucky that twelve distinguished IO scholars have kindly agreed to present their research at this year’s IO Workshop.
11 Jun 2019 (Tue)
Please refer to the Program Schedule
Lee Shau Kee (LSK) Business Building, HKUST
Various Speakers

On the Effect of Parallel Trade on Manufacturers' and Retailers' Profits in the Pharmaceutical Sector

31 May 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics

Tournament Rewards and Heavy Tails

29 May 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Dmitry Ryvkin, University of Florida

Revealed Neural Network Utility

24 May 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Chen Zhao, The University of Hong Kong

Likelihood Based Inference for Dynamic Panel Data Models

17 May 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Seung Chan Ahn, Arizona State University

The Wild Bootstrap with a "Small" Number of "Large" Clusters

10 May 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Andres Santos, University of California, Los Angeles

Limited Cognitive Ability and Selective Information Processing

08 May 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Benson Leung, Cambridge University

The Incentives of Patent-Ownership Fragmentation of Standard-Setting Organization: Theory and Empirical Evidence

03 May 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Xiao Fu, Fudan University

Housing Prices and the Comparative Advantage of Cities

26 Apr 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Jinyue Li, City University of Hong Kong

The Political Economy of Medicaid: Ideology, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures

17 Apr 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Claire Lim, Queen Mary University of London

Why Do People Stay Poor?

11 Apr 2019 (Thu)
Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics

Spurious Factor Analysis

10 Apr 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Alexei Onatski, Cambridge University

HKUST Conference on International Economics, 3-4 June 2019

HKUST's Economics Department is honored to host the 2019 HKUST Conference on International Economics. The theme of the conference is frontiers of research in international economics
03 Apr 2019 (Wed)
9:00am - 6:00pm
Conference Venue: Room 1005, Lee Shau Kee (LSK) Business Building, HKUST
Various Speakers

Division of Labor and Productivity Advantage of Cities: Theory and Evidence from Brazil

03 Apr 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Lin Tian, European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD)

Creating Platforms by Hosting Rivals

29 Mar 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Andrei Hagiu, Boston University

Low Homeownership in Germany - A Quantitative Exploration

27 Mar 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt

Robust Likelihood-Ratio Tests for Incomplete Economic Models

22 Mar 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Hiroaki Kaido, Boston University

Long-run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-being

20 Mar 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Erik Lindqvist, Stockholm School of Economics

Our Distrust is Very Expensive

15 Mar 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Matthew Mitchell, University of Toronto

Bargaining and Time Preferences: An Experimental Study

13 Mar 2019 (Wed)
Prof. Wooyoung Lim, HKUST

Deception under Competitive Intermediation

08 Mar 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Takeshi Murooka, Osaka University

Comparative Advantage, Competition, and Firm Heterogeneity

01 Mar 2019 (Fri)
Prof. Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University

Netflix Games: Local Public Goods with Capacity Constraints

18 Feb 2019 (Mon)
Prof. Philip Neary, University of London and HKUST

Disagreeing during Deflations

08 Feb 2019 (Fri)
Dr. Aaron Mehrota, Bank for International Settlements

Buffer Joint Ventures

15 Jan 2019 (Tue)
Prof. Thomas Ross, University of British Columbia

Commitment and Competition

17 Dec 2018 (Mon)
Prof. Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California

Migration between Platforms

14 Dec 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Gary Biglaiser, University of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill

Will the Market Fix the Market? A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation

12 Dec 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Robin Lee, Harvard University

Inference on Functionals under First Order Degeneracy

07 Dec 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Qihui Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Split-second Decision-Making in the Field: Response Times in Mobile Advertising

30 Nov 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Matthew Shum, California Institute of Technology

Price Discrimination in Cartels

23 Nov 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Heiko Gerlach, University of Queensland

Financial Fraud and Investor Awareness

22 Nov 2018 (Thu)
Prof. Sunny Yangguang Huang, HKUST

Online Borders of the U.S. Dollars: Price Stickiness and Exchange Rate Sensitivities

09 Nov 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Guoshi Tong, Remin University