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Past Events & Seminars

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

Is Processing Good? Theory and Evidence from China

07 Nov 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Peter Morrow, University of Toronto

Dynamic Decisions under Subjective Expectations: A Structural Analysis

26 Oct 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Yonghong An, Texas A&M University

A Swing-State Theorem, with Evidence

12 Oct 2018 (Fri)
Prof. John McLaren, University of Virginia

Financial Inclusion and Contract Terms: Experimental Evidence from Mexico

05 Oct 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Aprajit Mahajan, University of California, Berkeley

Lemonade from Lemons: Information Design and Adverse Selection

28 Sep 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Navin Kartik, Columbia University

Optimal Inflation Rates for Young and Old

26 Sep 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Ippei Fujiwara, Keio University and Australian National University

Strategic Network Formation with Many Agents

21 Sep 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Konrad Menzel, New York University

Integrating School Districts: Balance, Diversity, and Welfare

07 Sep 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Isa Hafalir, University of Technology Sydney

Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market

05 Sep 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Yanhui Wu, University of Southern California

The 14th Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (June 29-30, 2018)

We are honored to host the APTS 2018 (The 14th Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars). APTS aims to provide a forum for the exchange of research ideas in the field of international trade and investment.
29 Jun 2018 (Fri)
Please refer to the Program Schedule
LSK G012, Lee Shau Kee (LSK) Business Building
Various Speakers

HKUST Workshop on Macroeconomics (June 13-14, 2018)

HKUST's Economics Department is honored to host the 2018 HKUST Workshop on Macroeconomics. We are extremely lucky that 14 distinguished scholars have kindly agreed to present their research at this year’s Workshop.
13 Jun 2018 (Wed)
Please refer to the Program Schedule
Room 1005, Lee Shau Kee (LSK) Business Building
Various Speakers

Are the Effects of Financial Market Disruptions Big or Small?

12 Jun 2018 (Tue)
Dr. Christian Matthes, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmone

Long Run Consequences of Neighborhood Change

11 Jun 2018 (Mon)
Prof. Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto

Workshop on Industrial Organization (June 6-7, 2018)

HKUST's Economics Department is honored to host the 2018 HKUST Workshop on Industrial Organization. We are extremely lucky that eight distinguished IO scholars have kindly agreed to present their research at this year’s IO Workshop.
06 Jun 2018 (Wed)
Please refer to the Program Schedule
Room 1005, Lee Shau Kee (LSK) Business Building
Various Speakers

Strategically Simple Mechanisms

01 Jun 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Jiangtao Li, University of New South Wales

Forensics, Elasticities and Benford's Law: Detecting Tax Fraud in International Trade

30 May 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Beata Javorcik, University of Oxford

Monetary Policy for a Bubbly World

25 May 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Alberto Martin, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional

Multiproduct Intermediaries and Optimal Product Range

23 May 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Jidong Zhou, Yale University

The Oriental City: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000

18 May 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego

Improved Inference on the Rank of a Matrix

16 May 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Zheng Feng, Texas A&M University

Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes

11 May 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Joshua Graff Zivin , University of California, San Diego

Inference for Moments of Ratios with Robustness against Large Trimming Bias and Unknown Convergence Rate

09 May 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Yuya Sasaki, Vanderbilt University

Neighbors and Neighborhoods

04 May 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Philip Neary, University of London

A Model of the Macroeconomic Announcement Premium with Production

02 May 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Hengjie Ai, University of Minnesota

Identification and Estimation of Production Function with Unobserved Heterogeneity

27 Apr 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Hiroyuki Kasahara, University of British Columbia

Fractional Group Identification

25 Apr 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Wonki Cho, Korea University

Intellectual Property-Related Trade Preferential Trade Agreements and the Composition of Trade

20 Apr 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Keith Maskus, University of Colorado

Structural Foundations for Gibrat's Law

18 Apr 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Peter Neary, University of Oxford

Disclosure, Competition, and Learning from Asset Prices

13 Apr 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Liyan Yang, University of Toronto

Optimal Languages

11 Apr 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Francesc Dilme, University of Bonn

The Financial Behaviour of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

28 Mar 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Wooyoung Lim and Prof. Sujata Visaria, HKUST

Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market

23 Mar 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Ying Fan, Michigan University

China's Mobility Barriers and Employment Allocations

22 Mar 2018 (Thu)
Prof. Christopher Pissarides, London School of Economics & IAS HKUST

Community Networks and Growth of Private Enterprise in China

21 Mar 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Dilip Moohkerjee , Boston University

Monotonic Cheap Talk

16 Mar 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Shih En Lu, Simon Fraser University

Search Platforms: Showrooming and Price Parity Clauses

14 Mar 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Julian Wright, National University of Singapore

Inference under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization with Multiple Treatments

07 Mar 2018 (Wed)
Prof. Federico Bugni, Duke University

Pay Me Later: A Simple Employer-based Saving Scheme

02 Mar 2018 (Fri)
Prof. Jason Kerwin, University of Minnesota

The Impact of Media Censorship: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China

21 Feb 2018 (Wed)
Mr. David Yang, Stanford University

Workshop on Law and Economics

HKUST's Economics Department is honored to host the 2017 HKUST Workshop on Law and Economics. We are extremely lucky that ten distinguished scholars have kindly agreed to present their research at the Workshop.
18 Dec 2017 (Mon)
Please refer to the Program Schedule
Room 1005, Lee Shau Kee (LSK) Business Building
Various Speakers

Estimation of Large Network Formation Games

13 Dec 2017 (Wed)
Prof. Shuyang Sheng, University of California, Los Angeles

Trade and Domestic Production Networks

04 Dec 2017 (Mon)
Prof. Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago

A Uniform Model Selection Test for Semi/Nonparametric Models

01 Dec 2017 (Fri)
Prof. Zhipeng Liao, University of California, Los Angeles

Finite Repeated Games with Learning of Actions

24 Nov 2017 (Fri)
Prof. Yangbo Song, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Economies of Density in E-Commerce: A Study of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network

22 Nov 2017 (Wed)
Prof. Peter Newberry, Pennsylvania State University

Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment

17 Nov 2017 (Fri)
Prof. Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal, University of Luxembourg

Identification and Inference for Dynamic Discrete Choice Panel Data Models

15 Nov 2017 (Wed)
Prof. Shakeeb Khan, Boston College

Moving the Goalposts

08 Nov 2017 (Wed)
Prof. Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University