Research Seminars Schedule
Our Seminars are scheduled to take place on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the Spring Semester of 2025-26, running from 3:00-4:30pm unless stated otherwise. For further details, please contact us via email at ecseminar@ust.hk.
Please also refer to other economics workshop/conference that we organized:
Spring 2026
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Feb (Tue) |
Prof. Seung-Han Yoo |
Optimal Education Design |
| 4 Feb (Wed) | Prof. Antonio Ciccone University of Mannheim |
Improving Equality of Opportunity at School Entry: Primary Education Enrollment in the Netherlands |
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6 Feb (Fri) (10:30am-12nn) |
Prof. Thomas Jungbauer Cornell University |
Managerial Poaching and Talent Reallocation |
| 6 Feb (Fri) | Prof. Yena Park Seoul National University |
Optimal Redistribution Policy with Labor Market Monopsony |
| 11 Feb (Wed) | Prof. Pedro Gomis-Porqueras Queensland University of Technology |
Credit, Privacy, and Data Monetization by Digital Platforms |
| 13 Feb (Fri) | Prof. Simin He Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
Learning in Matching |
| 25 Feb (Wed) | Prof. Noah Williams University of Miami |
Uncertain Network Dynamics |
| 27 Feb (Fri) | Prof. Tai-Wei Hu University of Bristol |
Optimal Inquiry |
| 6 Mar (Fri) | Prof Yuichi Kitamura Yale University |
Estimating Stochastic Block Models in the Presence of Covariates (joint with Louise Laage) |
| 10 Mar (Tue) |
Prof Jo Van Biesebroeck |
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| 11 Mar (Wed) | Prof Maxime Sauzet Boston University |
Green Intermediary Asset Pricing |
| 12 Mar (Thu) |
Prof Junrok Park |
Optimality of Two-tier Quotas in Selection |
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13 Mar (Fri) |
Prof Xun Tang |
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| 16 Mar (Mon) |
Prof Zhuoran Lu |
Data-Driven Hold-Up and Relational Contracts |
| 18 Mar (Wed) | Prof Zefeng Chen, Peking University |
Arbitraging the US sanction: Theory and Evidence |
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19 Mar |
Prof Daniele Condorelli University of Warwick |
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| 25 Mar (Wed) |
Prof Toru Kitagawa |
Who With Whom? Learning Optimal Matching Policies |
| 27 Mar (Fri) |
Prof Aureo de Paula |
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| 30 Mar (Mon) |
Prof Mingli Chen |
Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Monetary Model |
| 1 Apr (Wed) | Prof Chris Edmond Independent Researcher |
The Spatial Distribution of Markups (co-authored with Jonathan Becker, Virgiliu Midrigan, and Daniel Yi Xu) |
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8 Apr (Wed) |
Prof Cheng Keat Tang Nanyang Technological University |
The Economic Implications of Map Distortion: Evidence from the Housing Market |
| 14 Apr (Tue) (10am) | Prof Bo Li Peking University |
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| 14 Apr (Tue) (3pm) | Prof Ziwei Wang Peking University |
Interim Agreements in Matching with Incomplete Information |
| 16 Apr (Thu) | Prof Peter Morrow University of Toronto |
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| 17 Apr (Fri) | Prof Marciano Siniscalchi Northwestern University |
Structural Forward Induction |
| 20 Apr (Mon) | Prof Xuan Zhang Singapore Management University |
Contracting on Price, Compensating on Quality: Evidence from Centralized Drug Procurement |
| 21 Apr (Tue) | Prof Jaerim Choi Yonsei University |
Cross-border Threats to Health: Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Nutritional Transition (co-authored with Jungjun Park) |
| 22 Apr (Wed) (2pm) | Prof Thomas Sampson London School of Economics |
Trade, Innovation and Optimal Patent Protection |
| 22 Apr (Wed) (4pm) | Prof Jie Zheng Shandong University |
Innovation Bubbles |
| 24 Apr (Fri) | Prof Leonard Goff University of Calgary |
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| 28 Apr (Tue) |
Prof Changhyun Kwak |
Bundling under Double-Crossing Preferences |
| 29 Apr (Wed) | Prof Seunghoon Na Korea University |
Overreactions, Debt Accumulations, and Sovereign Crises |
| 6 May (Wed) |
Prof Yoon-Jae Whang |
Uniform Inference for Almost Stochastic Dominance |
| 12 May (Tue) |
Prof Gustavo de Souza |
A.I. in the Office and the Factory: Evidence from Administrative Software Registry Data |
| 15 May (Fri) | Prof Fabiano Schivardi LUISS University |
Too much at stake? Entrepreneurial Wealth Concentration and Firm Performance |
| 19 May (Tue) | Prof Alex Smolin Toulouse School of Economics |
Menu Pricing of Large Language Models (co-authored with Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Bonatti) |
| 20 May (Wed) | Prof Annie Soyean Lee John Hopkins University |
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| 22 May (Fri) | Prof Matthias Hoelzlein University of Notre Dame |
Of Boom and Ghost Towns: Early City Formation during the California Gold Rush |
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27 May (Wed) |
Prof Lin Tian INSEAD |
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| 2 June (Tue) | Prof Leon Musolff The Warton School |
Writing Code vs. Shipping Code: Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools (co-authored with Mert Demirer and Liyuan Yang) |
| 5 June (Fri) | Prof Utku Ünver Boston College |
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| 18 June (Thu) |
Guillaume Fréchette |
Last update 4 May 2026
Winter 2026
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Jan (Wed) |
Prof. Zhiqi Chen |
Personalized Pricing in the Presence of Privacy Concerns |
Last update 16 Jan 2026
Fall 2025
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Sep (Wed) |
Prof. Eduard Talamas |
Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy |
| 10 Sep (Wed) | Prof. Manuel Mueller-Frank IESE Business School, University of Navarra |
On the Robustness of Blockchain-Based Oracle Mechanisms |
| 11 Sep (Thu) | Prof. Gerelt Tserenjigmid University of California, Santa Cruz |
Inertial Updating with General Information |
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16 Sep (Tue) |
Prof Jiangtao Li Singapore Management University |
Undominated Mechanisms |
| 19 Sep (Fri) | Prof Jing Zhang Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
Premature Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization |
| 22 Sep (Mon) | Prof Wyatt Brooks Arizona State University |
Industrial Policy with Development Characteristics: Fertilizer Policy in Rwanda |
| 24 Sep (Wed) | Prof. Francesco Zanetti University of Oxford |
Monetary Policy in the Data Economy |
| 3 Oct (Fri) | Prof Lorenz Goette National University of Singapore |
Language Models are overconfident and amplify human bias |
| 8 Oct (Wed) | Prof Wenhao Li University of Southern California |
Granular Treasury Demand with Arbitrageurs |
| 10 Oct (Fri) | Prof Paulo Natenzon Washington University in St. Louis |
Random Choice and Differentiation |
| 15 Oct (Wed) |
Prof Michael Devereux |
Productivity and Wedges: Economic Convergence and the Real Exchange Rate |
| 16 Oct (Thur, 12nn-1:30pm) | Prof Jun Zhang University of Technology Sydney |
Tournaments with and without Private Information: A Nonparametric Approach |
| 17 Oct (Fri) | Prof Yuta Suzuki Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Depopulation and Aging |
| 20 Oct (Mon) | Prof Jingyuan Wang University of Michigan |
Subsidizing Industry Growth in a Market with Lemons: Evidence from the Chinese Electric Vehicle Market |
| 22 Oct (Wed) | Prof Dan Su Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business |
The Global Change in the Corporate Production Function |
| 24 Oct (Fri) |
Prof Bernardo Riberio |
Growth with Firm-to-Firm Trade |
| 31 Oct (Fri) | Prof Fernando Broner Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) / Barcelona School of Economics |
Hegemonic Globalization |
| 5 Nov (Wed) | Prof Min Fang University of Florida |
Financial Frictions and Pollution Abatement Over the Life Cycle of Firms |
| 7 Nov (Fri) | Prof Edouard Schaal Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) / Barcelona School of Economics |
Echoes and Delays: Time-to-build in Production Networks |
| 12 Nov (Wed) | Prof Solomon Hsiang Stanford University |
Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Global Migration |
| 13 Nov (Thur) | Prof Liang Dai The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen |
The Fragile Promise: Job Security and Contact Design under Partial Commitment |
| 14 Nov (Fri) | Prof Shengliang Ou Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Fiscal Cyclicality and the Information Channel of Government Spending Shocks |
| 20 Nov (Thur) | Prof Junjian Yi Peking University |
Memory, Belief Updating, and Physician Decisions |
| 21 Nov (Fri) (1:30-3pm) | Prof Michael Choi University of California, Irvine |
Search Frictions and Market Power in the Deposit Market: Theory and Estimation |
| 25 Nov (Tue) (11am-12:30pm) | Prof Carl Heese The University of Hong Kong |
Quasi-Referenda |
| 26 Nov (Wed) | Prof Mishel Ghassibe Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) / Barcelona School of Economics |
Business Cycles with Pricing Cascades |
| 27 Nov (Thur) | Prof Andy Choi University of Michigan |
Providing Certainty |
| 28 Nov (Fri) | Prof Diogo Geraldes University College Dublin |
Closing the Gender Gap in Multilateral Negotiation Through Institutional Design |
| 2 Dec (Tue) | Prof Ruixue Jia University of California, San Diego |
Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood |
| 3 Dec (Wed) | Prof Donghoon Yoo Korea University |
Behavioral Expectations under Indeterminacy: An Empirical Evaluation |
| 5 Dec (Fri) (1:30-3pm) | Prof Allen Vong National University of Singapore |
Dynamic mediation and moral hazard: from private to public communication |
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5 Dec (Fri) (3-4:30pm) |
Prof Pei Kuang University of Macau |
Disagreement under Imperfect Memory: Theory and Evidence |
| 10 Dec (Wed) | Prof Loren Brandt University of Toronto |
The Anatomy of Chinese Patents: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership |
| 12 Dec (Fri) (10:30am-12nn) | Prof Martino Banchio Bocconi University |
Artificial Intelligence and Spontaneous Collusion |
| 12 Dec (Fri) |
Prof Weilong Zhang |
The DNA of Enterprise: A Life-Cycle Model of Intergenerational Entrepreneurship |
| 15 Dec (Mon) | Prof Lu HAN University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Monetary Policy and Rents |
| 16 Dec (Tue) | Prof Doh-Shin Jeon Toulouse School of Economics |
Platform Competition and App Development |
Last Update 9 Dec 2025
Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Feb (Wed) | Prof. Wonki Cho Korea University |
The Local-global Equivalence on General Networks |
| 19 Feb (Wed) | Prof. Nobuyuki Hanaki University of Limassol |
An Experiment on a Multi-Period Beauty Contest Game |
| 26 Feb (Wed) | Prof. Wyatt Brooks Arizona State University |
Capitalizing Village Economies |
| 5 Mar (Wed) | Prof. Tat How Teh Nanyang Technological University |
Competitive bottlenecks and platform spillovers |
| 7 Mar (Fri) | Prof. David Rahman University of Minnesota |
The Distribution of Information Rents |
| 14 Mar (Fri) | Prof. Can Urgun Princeton University |
Costly Verification and Money Burning |
| 19 Mar (Wed) | Prof. Alexandre de Corniere Toulouse School of Economics |
Fulfilled By Amazon: Seller-Side Tying of Platform Services |
| 21 Mar (Fri) | Prof. Harry Pei Northwestern University |
Replacement and Reputation |
| 21 Mar (Fri) | Prof. Joel Flynn Yale University |
Quick-Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption and Savings Behavior |
| 28 Mar (Fri) | Prof. John Quah National University of Singapore |
Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the Le Chatelier principle |
| 2 Apr (Wed) | Prof. Marco Gonzalez-Navarro UC-Berkeley |
Local Public Goods and Property Tax Compliance: Evidence from Residential Street Pavement |
| 9 Apr (Wed) | Prof. Moritz Lenel Princeton University |
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| 11 Apr (Fri) | Prof. Isaac Baley Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CREI |
Lumpy Forecasts |
| 14 Apr (Mon) | Prof. Nancy Chau Cornell University |
Dishonesty Concessions in Teams: Theory and Experimental Insights from Local Politicians in India |
| 16 Apr (Wed) | Prof. Pau Roldan-Blanco Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and CEMFI |
Industry Life Cycles in General Equilibrium |
| 23 Apr (Wed) | Prof. Marta Prato Bocconi University |
The Geography of Innovative Firms |
| 25 Apr (Fri) | Prof. Norio Takeoka Hitotsubashi University |
Optimal Ambiguity Attitude |
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25 Apr (Fri) 1:30 - 3pm |
Prof. Donghai Zhang National University of Singapore |
Green Business Cycles |
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30 Apr (Wed) 1:30 - 3pm |
Prof. Timo Boppart IIES, Stockholm University |
Idea Rents and Firm Growth |
| 30 Apr (Wed) | Prof. Evan Piermont University of London |
Iterated Revelation: How to Incentivize Experts to Reveal Novel Actions |
| 7 May (Wed) | Prof. Christopher House University of Michigan |
Should I Stay, or Should I Go? Labor Migration and Regional Economic Shocks |
| 12 May (Mon) | Prof. Rahul Deb Boston College |
Robust Pricing for Cloud Computing |
| 14 May (Wed) | Prof. Qing Liu Tsinghua University |
Efficiency through Incentives: A Theory of International Conditional Lending |
| 15 May (Thur) |
Prof. Amy Wang Huber |
Dollar Asset Holdings and Hedging Around the Globe |
| 19 May (Mon) | Prof. Jack Fanning Brown University |
Dynamic Integrative Bargaining |
| 21 May (Wed) | Prof. Takuo Sugaya Stanford Graduate School of Business |
Collusion with Optimal Information Disclosure |
| 23 May (Fri) | Prof. Zhang Junsen Zhejiang University |
Altruistic or Exchange Motive? Evidence on the Effect of Children's Health Shocks on Intra-household Resource Allocation in China |
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3 June (Tue) |
Prof. Jiangtao Li |
Rank-Guaranteed Auctions |
| 5 June (Thur) |
Prof. Chen Liu |
Exporting Education Services or Importing Labor? The Labor Market Impacts of International Students |
| 16 June (Mon) | Prof. Ke-Li XU Indiana University |
Impulse Responses, VARs and Local Projections |
| 26 June (Thur) |
Prof Man-Wah Cheung |
Modeling of Evolutionary Dynamics for Incomplete Information Games with Continuous Type Space and Action Space from the Interim Perspective |
| 6 Aug (Wed) | Tangren Feng Bocconi University |
Interim Strategy-Proof Auctions |
| 27 Aug (Wed) | Hulya Eraslan Rice University |
Reputation and disagreement in bargaining with imperfect commitment |
Last Update 12 August 2025
Winter 2025
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Jan (Fri) | Prof. Eungik Lee Indiana University |
Earnings Shocks, Expectations, and Spending |
| 14 Jan (Tues) | Prof. Yeon-Koo Che Columbia University |
Optimal Auction Design for Dynamic Stochastic Environments: Myerson Meets Naor |
| 16 Jan (Thu) | Prof. Gernot Müller University of Tübingen |
Dollar Trinity |
| 23 Jan (Thu) | Prof. Russell Cooper European University Institute |
Declining Responsiveness at the Establishment Level: Sources and Productivity Implications |
Last Update 13 January 2024
Past Seminar List
Fall 2024
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Sep (Wed) 1:00-2:30pm | Prof. Chang Liu University of New South Wales |
Robust Contracts with Exploration |
| 4 Sep (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm | Prof. Alexandre Kohlhas University of Oxford |
The Macroeconomics of Data |
| 6 Sep (Fri) 1:00-2:30pm | Prof. Emanuel Vespa University of California, San Diego |
Decomposing the Winner's Curse |
| 11 Sep (Wed) 4:30-6:00pm | Prof. Xuewen Liu The University of Hong Kong |
Dynamic Big Push |
| 13 Sep (Fri) 1:00-2:30pm | Prof. Mariann Ollar New York University Shanghai |
Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions |
| 20 Sep (Fri) 1:00-2:30pm | Prof. Balazs Szentes The University of Hong Kong |
Third-Party Information Provision in Market Transaction |
| 25 Sep (Wed) |
Prof. Yao Wang |
Evaluating the Relocation of Indonesia’s Capital: A Quantitative Spatial Model Approach |
| 27 Sep (Fri) | Prof. Benjamin Pugsley University of Notre Dame |
Superstar Firms through the Generations |
| Oct 9 (Wed) | Dr. Ryungha Oh Northwestern University |
Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms |
| Oct 14 (Mon) 4:30-6:00pm | Prof. Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi Northwestern University |
Term Structure of Expectations and Expectations of Term Structures |
| Oct 16 (Wed) | Prof. Eric Swanson University of California, Irvine |
The Labor Demand and Labor Supply Channels of Monetary Policy |
| Oct 29 (Tues) | Dr. Kun Zhang University of Queensland |
From Design to Disclosure |
| Nov 5 (Tues) | Prof. David Ahn Washington University in St. Louis |
Local Priority Mechanisms |
| Nov 6 (Wed) | Prof. Haonan Zhou University of Hong Kong |
Anatomy of the Treasury Market: Who Moves Yields? |
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Nov 8 (Fri) 10:30-12:00pm |
Prof. Andrew Ching Johns Hopkins University |
Goodbye My Friends and Goodbye My Career: Evidence from the Movie Industry |
| Nov 13 (Wed) | Prof. David Jinkins Copenhagen Business School |
Gains from Trade and the Food Engel Curve |
| Nov 14 (Thu) | Prof. Wolfgang Pesendorfer Princeton University |
Lorenz Expected Utility Theory |
| Nov 20 (Wed) 10:30-12:00pm | Prof. Hidenori Takahashi Kyoto University |
Secret Floor Price in Procurement Auctions |
| Nov 21 (Thu) 4:30-6:00pm | Dr. Walker Ray Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
Optimal Macro-Financial Stabilization in a New Keynesian Preferred Habitat Model |
| Nov 25 (Mon) 4:30-6:00pm | Prof. Peter Maxted University of California, Berkeley |
Credit Card Borrowing in Heterogeneous-Agent Models: Reconciling Theory and Data |
| Nov 28 (Thu) 12:00-1:30pm |
Prof. Frederic Warzynski |
Fight or Flight? How Do Firms Adapt their Product Mix in Response to Demand and Competition |
| Nov 29 (Fri) | Prof. Yu Awaya University of Rochester |
Social Learning with Markovian Information |
| Dec 4 (Wed) | Prof. Yan Bai University of Rochester |
Financing from Workers: Can Labor Market Power Mitigate Financial Frictions? |
| Dec 5 (Thu) | Prof. Ruben Durante National University of Singapore |
The Anatomy of Censorship and Propaganda: Evidence from Russian Wikipedias |
| Dec 6 (Fri) 1:00-2:30pm | Prof. Alexey Kushnir Carnegie Mellon University |
Undergraduate Course Allocation through Competitive Markets |
| Dec 9 (Mon) | Prof. Yong Wang Pekingi University |
Endowment Structure and Role of State in Industrialization |
| Dec 11 (Wed) | Prof. Sangyup Choi Yonsei University |
Asymmetric Mortgage Channel of Monetary Policy: Refinancing as a Call Option |
| Dec 13 (Fri) | Prof. Yunmi Kong Rice University |
Risk and Information in Dispute Resolution: An Empirical Study of Arbitration |
Last Update: 24 December 2024
Summer 2024
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Jun (Wed) | Prof. Jonas Hjort University College London |
Ethnic Bias in the State: Experimental Evidence from Peru |
| 23 July (Tues) | Prof. Pengfei Wang Peking University HSBC Business School |
Reference-dependent Preferences and Sentiment-driven Asset |
| 2 Aug (Fri) 3:00-4:30pm |
Prof. Steve Wu |
Exchange Rate Models are Better than You Think, and Why They Didn't Work in the Old Days |
| 5 Aug (Mon) 3:00-4:30pm |
Prof. Jay Lu University of California, Los Angeles |
Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy Frontier |
Last Update 29 July 2024
Our Hybrid Seminars will remain on Wednesday and Friday during the Spring Semester of 2023/24, but the time will be changed to 12:00-1:30pm. For more information, kindly send an email to ecseminar@ust.hk.
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Feb (Wed) |
Prof. Eunhee Lee |
High-skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics |
| 6 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Yucheng Liang |
Boundedly Rational Information Demand |
| 8 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Andrei Zeleneev |
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation with Non-Classical Errors-in-Variables |
| 11 Mar (Mon) |
Prof. Venky Venkateswaran |
Scalable Expertise |
| 11 Mar (Mon) 1:30-3pm AB2405 |
Prof. Junjie Zhang |
Joint ECON, ENVR & SOSC Seminar The Impact of Climate Change on Rural Finance |
| 12 Mar (Tues) |
Prof. Cristian (Kiki) Pop-Eleches |
The Effects of a STEM High School Curriculum |
| 15 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Yi Xin |
Competing on Information in Selection Markets: Evidence from Auto Insurance |
| 20 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Zhanna Kapsalyamova |
Measuring Energy Poverty: Empirical Evidence from Kazakhstan |
| 22 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Joyee Deb |
Similarity of Information and Regime Change |
| 27 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Frank Westermann |
Renminbi Trading after the Pandemic: The Role of Trade, Economic and Policy Factors |
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28 Mar (Thu) 11-12:30 AB1103 |
Prof. Yi Fan National University of Singapore |
Joint ECON & ENVR Seminar The Unintended Consequences of Coal-fired Power Plant Closures: Evidence from China |
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3 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Rachel Ngai |
Structural Transformation over 150 years of Women’s and Men’s Work |
| 12 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Suanna Oh |
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| 15 Apr (Mon) |
Prof. Junichi Yamasaki |
From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo |
| 16 Apr (Tues) | Prof. Soo Hong Chew National University of Singapore |
Axiomatizing Correlation Preference |
| 17 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Evan Friedman |
Quantal Response Equilibrium with a Continuum of Types: Characterization and Nonparametric Identification |
| 26 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Zi Wang |
Optimal Spatial Emission |
| 8 May (Wed) |
Prof. Masakazu Ishihara |
A Structural Life Course Model of Dynamic Role Selection on an open Q&A Platform for Pregnancy and Childbirth |
| 10 May (Fri) |
Prof. Guy Michaels |
Joint ECON & SOSC Webinar Evaluating Urban Planning: Evidence from Dar es Salaam |
| 14 May (Tues) |
Prof. Paymon Khorrami |
Risk Premia, Subjective Beliefs, and Forward Guidance |
| 17 May (Fri) |
Dr. Sina Ates |
Ready, Set, Unify: The Uneven Race between Trabants and BMWs |
| 22 May (Wed) |
Prof. Brian McCaig |
Trade, Structural Change and Labour Market Transitions in Vietnam |
| 29 May (Wed) |
Prof. Wenzhang Zhang |
Consumer Search, Firm Heterogeneity, and Platform Design |
| 5 Jun (Wed) |
Prof. Lorenz Goette |
Identity and Economic Incentives |
| 7 Jun (Fri) |
Prof. Seung Joo Lee |
Do Cost-of-Living Shocks Pass Through to Wages? |
| 13 Jun (Thu) 10-11:30 | Prof. Zhijun Chen Monash University |
Paying Consumers for Their Data: An Economic Analysis of Data Collection and Digital Privacy |
| 13 Jun (Thu) |
Prof. Guillermo Ordonez |
Our Seminar/Webinar was held on Wednesdays and Fridays during the Fall & Winter Semester in the Academic Year 2023/24. In addition to the Hybrid Seminars at 3:00pm, we have US Webinars at 9:00am and UK Webinars at 4:00pm.
Winter 2024
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan (Fri) | Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti European University Institute and CEPR |
The Theory of International Reserves, Revisited |
Fall 2023
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 4 Sep (Mon) 9:30-11:00am |
Prof. Susumu Sato |
Asymmetric Platform Oligopoly |
| 8 Sep (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Soonwoo Kwon |
Bias-Aware Inference in Regularized Regression Models |
| 13 Sep (Wed) |
Prof. Peter Klibanoff |
Persuasion with Ambiguous Communication |
| 20 Sep (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Shengwu Li |
Sequential Cursed Equilibrium |
| 22 Sep (Fri) |
Prof. Sarah Auster |
Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection |
| 26 Sep (Tues) 3:00-4:30pm IAS LT |
Prof. Donald Kenkel |
IAS Distinguished Lecture |
| 27 Sep (Wed) | Prof. Donald Kenkel Cornell University |
Just What the Doctor Ordered? |
| 4 Oct (Wed) |
Prof. Kei Kawai |
A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance |
| 6 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Woong Yong Park |
Heterogeneity in Household Inflation Expectations: Policy Implications |
| 11 Oct (Wed) |
Prof. Jia Li |
Optimal Inference for Spot Regressions |
| 13 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Timothy Armstrong |
Robust Estimation and Inference in Panels with Interactive Fixed Effects |
| 20 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Yichuan Lou |
Optimal Delegation with Information Design |
| 25 Oct (Wed) |
Prof. Lester Chan |
Joint Design of Team Production Technology and Performance Pay |
| 1 Nov Wed) |
Prof. Minchul Yum |
Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea |
| 6 Nov (Mon) 12:00-1:30pm |
Prof. Chae Won Baek |
Inflation Expectations and Labor Supply: Evidence From an Experimental Study |
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7 Nov (Tues) |
Dr. Dong He |
Digital Money and the International Monetary System: An Analytical Agenda |
| 8 Nov (Wed) 2:00-3:30pm |
Prof. Juan Herreño |
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| 8 Nov (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Olivier Tercieux |
Unpaired Kidney Exchange: Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money |
| 10 Nov (Fri) 9:30-10:20am |
Prof. Gaétan de Rassenfosse |
Joint ECON & IPE (GZ) Seminar |
| 17 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Jiangtao Li |
Undominated Mechanisms |
| 22 Nov (Wed) |
Prof. Anton Kolotilin |
Persuasion and Matching: Optimal Productive Transport |
| 24 Nov (Fri) IAS LT |
Prof. Xuan Li |
Business School and IAS Nobel Prize Popular Science Lecture |
| 27 Nov (Mon) |
Prof. Sanjeev Goyal |
Experimental Evidence on the Relation between Social Networks and individual Choice |
| 29 Nov (Wed) |
Prof. Duk Gyoo Kim |
Positive Selection in Bargaining: Experiment |
| 1 Dec (Fri) |
Prof. Mert Kimya |
Power, Coalitions and the Stability of Hierarchies |
| 6 Dec (Wed) |
Prof. Chao Ma |
Bayesian Learning with Forgetting: An Empirical Analysis of Automobile Insurance Policyholders |
| 11 Dec (Mon) |
Prof. Yasuyuki Sawada University of Tokyo |
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| 12 Dec (Tues) |
Prof. Ting Liu |
Consumer-Optimal Information Design under Credence Good Monopoly |
| 13 Dec (Wed) |
Prof. Ryan Kim |
Monetary Policy and Firm Exports: Micro-level Evidence from the Indian Demonetization |
| 14 Dec (Thu) |
Prof. Eunseong Ma |
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| 15 Dec (Fri) |
Prof. Shurojit Chatterji |
On Efficiency with Heterogeneous Forecasts |
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18 Dec (Mon) |
Prof. Benjamin Leyden |
The Effects of Platform-owner Entry on the Competitive Behavior of Third-Party Firms |
Summer 2023
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 5 July (Wed) | Prof. Frederic Warzynski Aarhus University |
The Effect of R&D on Quality, Productivity and Welfare |
| 24 July (Mon) 10:30am-12:00pm |
Prof. Steve Wu |
Collateral Advantage: Exchange Rates, Capital Flows, and Global Cycles |
Spring 2023
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Feb (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Christoph E. Boehm |
The US, Economic News, and the Global Financial Cycle |
| 1 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Shunya Noda |
A Dynamic Model of Rational 'Panic Buying' |
| 3 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Seung Joo Lee |
Growth, Heterogeneous Beliefs, and Risk Amplification |
| 8 Mar (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Yao Luo |
Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Wage-Setting in Ride-Hailing |
| 10 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Brian Viard |
Evaluating Air Pollution Regulation: Separating Firm Competitiveness and Ambient Effects |
| 16 Mar (Thu) |
Prof. Lixin Ye |
Competitive Nonlinear Income Taxation Revisited |
| 17 Mar (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Marc Rysman |
Bank Branching Strategies in the 1997 Thai Financial Crisis and Local Access to Credit |
| 22 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Albert Marcet |
Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes |
| 24 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Wei Huang |
Motivated Beliefs, Independence and Cooperation |
| 29 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Keeyoung Rhee |
ESG Integration under Asymmetric Information |
| 31 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Dmitry Mukhin |
Optimal Exchange Rate Policy |
| 3 April (Mon) | Prof. Lung-fei Lee Shanghai University of Finance & Economics |
Best Linear and Quadratic Moments for Spatial Econometric Models |
| 12 Apr (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Oleg Itskhoki University of California, Los Angeles |
Dominant Currencies - How firms choose currency invoicing and why it matters |
| 14 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Jun Yu |
Latent Local-to-Unity Models |
| 19 Apr (Wed) 2:30-4:00pm |
Prof. Yi-chun Chen |
Distributionally Robust Auction Design |
| 21 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Wei Cui |
A Ramsey Theory of Financial Distortions |
| 26 Apr (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Antonin Bergeaud |
From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude and Channels of R&D Spillovers |
| 28 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Jungmin Lee |
Minimum Wage, Social Insurance Mandate, and Working Hours |
| 3 May (Wed) |
Prof. Xiaogang Che |
Game Changers: Evidence from Tesla Model 3 Unveiling Announcement |
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10 May (Wed) |
Prof. Yohanes Eko Riyanto |
Cooperation and Cognition in Social Networks |
| 12 May (Fri) |
Prof. Mu Zhang |
The Efficient Allocation of Indivisible Goods |
| 16 May (Tues) |
Prof. Remi Jedwab |
The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings |
| 17 May (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Shing-Yi Wang |
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| 17 May (Wed) |
Prof. Michael Pesko |
The Effect of Vertical Identification Card Laws on Teenage Tobacco and Alcohol Use |
| 19 May (Fri) 10:30am-12:00pm |
Prof. Takashi Kano |
Welfare Costs of Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Evidence from the 1972 Okinawa Reversion |
| 24 May (Wed) |
Prof. Kim Ruhl |
Trade-Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 Years of U.S.-China Trade |
| 24 May (Wed) |
Prof. Philip Neary University of London Royal Holloway |
Unique Stable Matchings |
| 25 May (Thu) 10:30am-12:00pm |
Prof. Junjie Zhou Tsinghua University |
A Simple Model of Network Multiplexity |
| 31 May (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Jose Luis Montiel Olea |
On the Testability of the Anchor Words Assumption in Topic Models |
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6 Jun (Tues) |
Prof. Yilan Xu University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Seeding Efficient Large-Scale Public Health Interventions in Diverse Spatial-Social Networks |
| 7 Jun (Wed) 12:00-1:30pm |
Prof. Weining Wang University of York |
Winter 2023
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Jan (Mon) |
Prof. Tangren Feng |
Interim and Ex Post Strategy-Proof Mechanisms: Designing Simple Mechanisms in Complex Environments |
Fall 2022
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
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| 21 Sep (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Songzi Du |
On the Structure of Informationally Robust Optimal Mechanisms |
| 23 Sep (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Stephen Williamson |
Narrow Banks |
| 5 Oct (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Nancy Qian |
The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the US Economy |
| 10 Oct (Mon) |
Prof. Allen Vong |
Certifying Firms |
| 14 Oct (Fri) 8:30-10:00am |
Prof. Albert Choi |
Liability for Non-Disclosure in Equity Financing |
| 19 Oct (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Lee Branstetter |
Who Gains and who Loses from more Information in Technology Markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act |
| 21 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Lichen Zhang |
Personal Income Taxation and Entrepreneurship |
| 28 Oct (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Francesco Bianchi |
Monetary-Based Asset Pricing: A Mixed-Frequency Structural |
| 4 Nov (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Yuya Sasaki |
Standard Errors for Two-Way Clustering with Serially Correlated Time Effects |
| 4 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Dongkyu Chang |
Perverse Ethical Concerns: Online Misinformation and Offline Conflicts |
| 11 Nov (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Teresa Fort |
Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States |
| 16 Nov (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Toru Kitagawa |
Policy Choice in Time Series by Empirical Welfare Maximization |
| 18 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Zhesheng Qiu |
Misperceived Law of Motion in Macroeconomic Expectations |
| 21 Nov (Mon) |
Prof. Soo Hong Chew |
Recursive Source Preference with Evidence from Laboratroy Experiments |
| 23 Nov (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Yuhei Miyauchi |
Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Depopulation and Aging |
| 23 Nov (Wed) 4:00-5:15pm |
Prof. David Cook HKUST |
IAS Nobel Prize Popular Science Lectures |
| 25 Nov (Fri) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Pierre Dubois |
Soda Taxes and Advertising Dynamics |
| 30 Nov (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Dr. Zhu Wang |
Idea Diffusion and Property Rights |
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1 Dec (Thu) |
Prof. Yuan Mei |
Horizontal Regulatory Barriers in International Trade: Evidence from Electric Plugs |
| 7 Dec (Wed) |
Prof. YingHua He |
Leveraging Uncertainties to Infer Preferences: Robust Analysis of School Choice |
| 9 Dec (Fri) |
Prof. Liangjun Su |
Low-rank Panel Quantile Regression: Estimation and Inference |
| 14 Dec (Wed) |
Prof. Guojun He |
Market vs. Planning: Abating Carbon Emissions when Incomplete Information Meets Local Externalities |
| 16 Dec (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Elie Tamer |
Efficient Estimation of Average Derivatives in NPIV Models: Simulation Comparisons of Neural Network Estimators |
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Feb (Wed) |
Prof. Robin Gong Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
Tickets to the Global Market: First U.S. Patents and Firm Export in China |
| 11 Feb (Fri) 4:00-5:30am |
Prof. Vardges Levonyan University of Zurich |
Balanced Reporting, the BBC, and Brexit |
| 16 Feb (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Yuehao Bai University of Michigan |
Optimality of Matched-Pair Designs in Randomized Controlled Trials |
| 23 Feb (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Wayne Yuan Gao University of Pennsylvania |
Logical Differencing in Network Formation Models under Non-Transferable Utilities |
| 2 Mar (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Jonathan Morduch New York University |
Poverty Measurement and Consumption Smoothing |
| 4 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Ippei Fujiwara Keio University |
Competition and Phillips Curve |
| 9 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Zheng (Michael) Song The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Unequal Returns to China's Intercity Road Network |
| 11 Mar (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Timothy Christensen New York University |
Adaptive Estimation and Uniform Confidence Bands for Nonparametric IV |
| 16 Mar (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Alan Manning London School of Economics |
The Wage Elasticity of Recruitment |
| 18 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Kohei Kawaguchi Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
Estimating Market Power of Employers in Job Matching |
| 23 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Byoungchan Lee Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
Wealth Inequality and Endogenous Growth |
| 25 Mar (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Kaspar Wuthrich University of California, San Diego |
(When) should you adjust inferences for multiple hypothesis testing? |
| 30 Mar (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Matthew Grant Darthmouth College |
Cutting Out the Middleman: The Structure of Chains of Intermediation |
| 1 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Kim-Sau Chung Hong Kong Baptist University |
Designing Open Source Licenses |
| 6 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Qingliang Fan The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Testing Instrumental Variable Validity with High-Dimensional Data and Heteroskedasticity |
| 8 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Junlong Feng Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
Micro-Level Counterfactual Heterogeneous Consumer Welfare Analysis with Confidence |
| 20 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Zhen Huo Yale University |
Bias and Sensitivity under Ambiguity |
| 22 Apr (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Raymond Fisman Boston University |
The Transparency Gap |
| 27 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Guangyu Pei The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Heterogeneous Overreaction in Expectation Formation: Evidence and Theory |
| 29 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. James Bergin City University of Hong Kong |
Optimal Variation of Incentive Compatible Allocations |
| 11 May (Wed) |
Prof. Xiaodong Zhu University of Toronto and |
Migration Costs, Sorting, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap |
| 13 May (Fri) |
Prof. Wataru Miyamoto The University of Hong Kong |
Local Multipliers from Cash Transfers to the Poor: Evidence from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program |
| 18 May (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Julien Prat CREST and IP Paris |
The Detrimental Effect of Job Protection on Employment: Evidence from France |
| 20 May (Fri) |
Prof. Songfa Zhong National University of Singapore |
Narrowly Rational |
Winter 2022
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
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| 10 Jan (Mon) |
Prof. Soo Hong Chew Southwestern University of Finance & Economics and National University of Singapore |
Attention Theory: Modeling Attention and Salience in Decision Making |
February, 2021
February 24, 2021
Prof. José Azar, University of Navarra
Revisiting the Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership
February 26, 2021
Prof. Michael Kremer, University of Chicago
Converging to Convergence
March, 2021
March 3, 2021
Prof. Ruixue Jia, The London School of Economics and University of California, San Diego
Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China
March 5, 2021
Prof. Curtis Taylor, The Duke University
Setbacks, Rundowns, and Overruns
March 10, 2021
Prof. Jean-Jacques Forneron, The Boston University
Estimation and Inference by Stochastic Optimization: A Free-Lunch Bootstrap
March 12, 2021
Dr. Christian Wolf, The University of Chicago
Interest Rate Cuts vs. Stimulus Payments: A Macro Equivalence Result
March 17, 2021
Prof. Anujit Chakraborty, The University of California, Davis
Procrastination in Groups
April, 2021
April 7, 2021
Prof. Nicholas Ryan, Yale University
Holding Up Green Energy
April 14, 2021
Prof. Christoph Rothe, University of Mannheim
Bias-Aware Inference in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs
April 16, 2021
Prof. Jonathan Robinson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Digital Credit: Filling a hole, or digging a hole? Evidence from Malawi
April 21, 2021
Prof. Sangyoon Park, The University of Hong Kong
Technology Training, Buyer-Supplier Linkage,and Quality Upgrading in an Agricultural Supply Chain
April 23, 2021
Prof. Wen Zhou, The University of Hong Kong
Platform Competition and Equilibrium Proportional Fee
April 28, 2021
Prof. Shoshana Vasserman, Stanford University
Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
April 30, 2021
Prof. Martin Peitz, University of Mannheim
Ad Clutter, Time Use, and Media Diversity
May, 2021
May 5, 2021
Prof. James Sallee, University of California, Berkeley
Pigou Creates Losers: On the Implausibility of Achieving Pareto Improvements from Efficiency-Enhancing Policies
May 7, 2021
Prof. Hsin-Tien Tiffany Tsai, National University of Singapore
The Real Impact of FinTech: Evidence from Mobile Payment Technology
May 12, 2021
Prof. Olivier Coibion, The University of Texas at Austin
The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
May 13, 2021
Prof. Pak Hung Au, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Attraction vs Persuasion
May 17, 2021
Prof. Bingjing Li, National University of Singapore
Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?
May 21, 2021
Prof. Yongxiang Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
The Chinese Collectibles Bubble
May 26, 2021
Prof. Yizhen Gu, Peking University HSBC Bsuiness School
Delineating China’s Metropolitan Areas Using Commuting Flows
May 28, 2021
Prof. Chang Sun, The University of Hong Kong
Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Expectation Formation over the Firm's Life Cycle
June, 2021
June 4, 2021
Dr. Nan Li, International Monetary Fund
The S-curve: Understanding the Dynamics of Worldwide Financial Liberalization
September, 2021
September 1, 2021
Prof. Gedeon Lim, The University of Hong Kong
Why Pay The Chief? Land Rents and Economic Development in Indonesia
September 15, 2021
Prof. Farzana Afridi, Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi) and National University of Singapore
The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory
September 17, 2021
Prof. Ying Bai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shaking Legitimacy: The Impact of Earthquakes on Conflict in Historical China
September 24, 2021
Prof. Ivan Canay, Northwestern University
On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making
September 29, 2021
Prof. Jae Won Lee, Seoul National University
Redistribution and the Monetary-Fiscal Policy Mix
October, 2021
October 6, 2021
Prof. Martin Weidner, Oxford University
Bounds on Average Effects in Discrete Choice Panel Data Models
October 8, 2021
Prof. Fuhai Hong, Lingnan University
A Deduction Mechanism for Public Goods Provision: Theory and Experiment
October 15, 2021
Prof. Walker Ray, London School of Economics
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy Spillovers
October 20, 2021
Prof. Chen Zhao, The University of Hong Kong
Learning from a Black Box
October 22, 2021
Prof. Jinzhao Du, The University of Hong Kong
How can Publishers Collaborate and Compete with News Aggregators?
October 27, 2021
Prof. Ali Yurukoglu, Stanford University
Concentration in Product Markets
October 29, 2021
Prof. Jimmy Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Institution of Merit: A Study of Chinese College Admissions
November, 2021
November 3, 2021
Prof. Koen Jochmans, Toulouse School of Economics
Nonparametric Estimation of Finite-Mixture Models of Dynamic Discrete Choices
November 5, 2021
Prof. Katja Seim, Yale University
Welfare Consequences of Nominal Excise Taxation
November 12, 2021
Prof. Wei He, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Correlation-Robust Auction Design
November 17, 2021
Prof. Jeanine Miklos-Thal, University of Rochester
Opportunism in Vertical Contracting: A Dynamic Perspective
November 26, 2021
Prof. Debopam Bhattacharya, Cambridge University
Incorporating Social Welfare in Program-Evaluation and Treatment Choice
December, 2021
December 1, 2021
Prof. Vincent Sterk, University College London
Startup Types, Structural Policy and Macroeconomic Performance in Europe
December 3, 2021
Prof. Ralph Luetticke, University College London
Financial Frictions: Macro vs Micro Volatility
December 8, 2021
Prof. Ayako Kondo, The University of Tokyo
Revisiting the Scarring Effect of a Recession at Entry to the Labor Market in Japan
May, 2020
May 21, 2020
Prof. Shunya Noda, University of British Columbia
An Economic Analysis of Difficulty Adjustment Algorithms in Proof-of-Work Blockchain Systems
September, 2020
September 9, 2020
Dr. Nils Gornemann, Federal Reserve Board
Exchange Rates and Endogeneous Productivity
September 11, 2020
Prof. Mitsuru Igami, Yale University
Mapping Firms' Locations in Technology Space: A Topological Analysis of Patent Statistics
September 18, 2020
Prof. Zhuoqiong Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology
Information Spillovers in Experience Goods Competition
September 25, 2020
Prof. Lingfang (Ivy) Li, Fudan University
Buying Reputation as a Signal of Quality: Evidence from an Online Marketplace
September 30, 2020
Prof. Florian Ederer, Yale University
Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives
October, 2020
October 2, 2020
Prof. John Turner, University of Georgia
Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Sourcing
October 7, 2020
Prof. Nathan Miller, Georgetown University
Oligopolistic Price Leadership and Mergers: The United States Beer Industry
October 9, 2020
Prof. Michael Sposi, Southern Methodist University
Structural Change and Global Trade
October 16, 2020
Prof. David Frankel, The University of Melbourne
Portfolio Liquidty and Security Design with Private Information
October 23, 2020
Prof. Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania
Rules without Commitment: Reputation and Incentives
October 30, 2020
Prof. Matthew Backus, Columbia University
Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry
November, 2020
November 6, 2020
Prof. Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego
Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance in India
November 7, 2020
Prof. Nicola Persico, Northwestern University
Contestable Autocracies, Resdistribution, and Public Goods
November 13, 2020
Prof. Xiaosheng Mu, Princeton University
Monotone Additive Statistics
November 20, 2020
Prof. Chengsi Wang, Monash University
Directed Search on a Platform: Meet Fewer to March More
November 27, 2020
Prof. Jorge Lemus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Information Overload and Screening
January, 2019
January 15, 2019
Prof. Thomas Ross, University of British Columbia
Buffer Joint Ventures
February, 2019
February 8, 2019
Dr. Aaron Mehrota, Bank for International Settlements
Disagreeing during Deflations
February 18, 2019
Prof. Philip Neary, University of London and HKUST
Netflix Games: Local Public Goods with Capacity Constraints
March, 2019
March 1, 2019
Prof. Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University
Comparative Advantage, Competition, and Firm Heterogeneity
March 8, 2019
Prof. Takeshi Murooka, Osaka University
Deception under Competitive Intermediation
March 13, 2019
Prof. Wooyoung Lim, HKUST
Bargaining and Time Preferences: An Experimental Study
March 15, 2019
Prof. Matthew Mitchell, University of Toronto
Our Distrust is Very Expensive
March 20, 2019
Prof. Erik Lindqvist, Stockholm School of Economics
Long-run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-being
March 22, 2019
Prof. Hiroaki Kaido, Boston University
Robust Likelihood-Ratio Tests for Incomplete Economic Models
March 27, 2019
Prof. Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt
Low Homeownership in Germany - A Quantitative Exploration
March 29, 2019
Prof. Andrei Hagiu, Boston University
Creating Platforms by Hosting Rivals
April, 2019
April 3, 2019
Prof. Lin Tian, European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD)
Division of Labor and Productivity Advantage of Cities: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
April 10, 2019
Prof. Alexei Onatski, Cambridge University
Spurious Factor Analysis
April 11, 2019
Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics
Why Do People Stay Poor?
April 17, 2019
Prof. Claire Lim, Queen Mary University of London
The Political Economy of Medicaid: Ideology, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures
April 26, 2019
Prof. Jinyue Li, City University of Hong Kong
Housing Prices and the Comparative Advantage of Cities
May, 2019
May 3, 2019
Prof. Xiao Fu, Fudan University
The Incentives of Patent-Ownership Fragmentation of Standard-Setting Organization: Theory and Empirical Evidence
May 8, 2019
Prof. Benson Leung, Cambridge University
Limited Cognitive Ability and Selective Information Processing
May 10, 2019
Prof. Andres Santos, University of California, Los Angeles
The Wild Bootstrap with a "Small" Number of "Large" Clusters
May 17, 2019
Prof. Seung Chan Ahn, Arizona State University
Likelihood Based Inference for Dynamic Panel Data Models
May 24, 2019
Prof. Chen Zhao, The University of Hong Kong
Revealed Neural Network Utility
May 29, 2019
Prof. Dmitry Ryvkin, University of Florida
Tournament Rewards and Heavy Tails
May 31, 2019
Prof. Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics
On the Effect of Parallel Trade on Manufacturers' and Retailers' Profits in the Pharmaceutical Sector
September, 2019
September 6, 2019
Prof. Kurt Mitman, Stockholm University
The Fiscal Multiplier
September 11, 2019
Prof. Tongbin Zhang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
New Tests of Expectation Formation with Applications to Asset Pricing Models
September 19, 2019
Prof. Wooyoung Lim, HKUST
Cheap-Talk with Non-Bayesian Updating
September 20, 2019
Prof. Saki Bigio, University of California, Los Angeles
A Model of Intermediation, Money, Interest, and Prices
October, 2019
October 2, 2019
Prof. Alonso De Gortari, Darmouth College
On the Geography of Global Value Chains
October 4, 2019
Prof. Shuo Liu, Peking University
Delegating Performance Evaluation
October 18, 2019
Prof. Dun Jia, Renmin University
Attention, Uncertainty Reduction and Pre-announcement Premium in China
October 23, 2019
Prof. Andrei Markevich, New Economic School, Moscow
A Regional Perspective on the Economic Development of the late Russian Empire
October 25, 2019
Prof. Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel, Cornell University
Cascades and Fluctuations in an Economy with an Endogenous Production Network
October 30, 2019
Dr. Shota Ichihashi, Bank of Canada
Non-Competing Data Intermediaries
November, 2019
November 1, 2019
Prof. Arpita Chartterjee, University of New South Wales
Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
November 8, 2019
Prof. Jin Yeub Kim, Yonsei University
Neutral Public Good Mechanisms
November 13, 2019
Prof. Yves Zenou, Monash University
Are Estimates of Early Education Programs Too Pessimistic?
Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment that Causally Measures Nighbor Effects
November 22, 2019
Prof. Alexandre de Corniere, University of Toulouse
Data and Competition: A General Framework
November 29, 2019
Prof. Qinggong Wu, HKUST
Robust Binary Voting
February, 2018
February 21, 2018
Mr. David Yang, Stanford University
The Impact of Media Censorship: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China
March, 2018
March 2, 2018
Prof. Jason Kerwin, University of Minnesota
Pay Me Later: A Simple Employer-based Saving Scheme
March 7, 2018
Prof. Federico Bugni, Duke University
Inference under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization with Multiple Treatments
March 14, 2018
Prof. Julian Wright, National University of Singapore
Search Platforms: Showrooming and Price Parity Clauses
March 16, 2018
Prof. Shih En Lu, Simon Fraser University
Monotonic Cheap Talk
March 21, 2018
Prof. Dilip Moohkerjee , Boston University
Community Networks and Growth of Private Enterprise in China
March 22, 2018
Prof. Christopher Pissarides, London School of Economics & IAS HKUST
China's Mobility Barriers and Employment Allocations
March 23, 2018
Prof. Ying Fan, Michigan University
Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market
March 28, 2018
Prof. Wooyoung Lim and Prof. Sujata Visaria, HKUST
The Financial Behaviour of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
April, 2018
April 11, 2018
Prof. Francesc Dilme, University of Bonn
Optimal Languages
April 13, 2018
Prof. Liyan Yang, University of Toronto
Disclosure, Competition, and Learning from Asset Prices
April 18, 2018
Prof. Peter Neary, University of Oxford
Structural Foundations for Gibrat's Law
April 20, 2018
Prof. Keith Maskus, University of Colorado
Intellectual Property-Related Trade Preferential Trade Agreements and the Composition of Trade
April 25, 2018
Prof. Wonki Cho, Korea University
Fractional Group Identification
April 27, 2018
Prof. Hiroyuki Kasahara, University of British Columbia
Identification and Estimation of Production Function with Unobserved Heterogeneity
May, 2018
May 2, 2018
Prof. Hengjie Ai, University of Minnesota
A Model of the Macroeconomic Announcement Premium with Production
May 4, 2018
Prof. Philip Neary, University of London
Neighbors and Neighborhoods
May 9, 2018
Prof. Yuya Sasaki, Vanderbilt University
Inference for Moments of Ratios with Robustness against Large Trimming Bias and Unknown Convergence Rate
May 11, 2018
Prof. Joshua Graff Zivin , University of California, San Diego
Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes
May 16, 2018
Prof. Zheng Feng, Texas A&M University
Improved Inference on the Rank of a Matrix
May 18, 2018
Prof. Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego
The Oriental City: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000
May 23, 2018
Prof. Jidong Zhou, Yale University
Multiproduct Intermediaries and Optimal Product Range
May 25, 2018
Prof. Alberto Martin, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional
Monetary Policy for a Bubbly World
May 30, 2018
Prof. Beata Javorcik, University of Oxford
Forensics, Elasticities and Benford's Law: Detecting Tax Fraud in International Trade
June, 2018
June 1, 2018
Prof. Jiangtao Li, University of New South Wales
Strategically Simple Mechanisms
June 11, 2018
Prof. Nathaniel Baum-Snow, University of Toronto
Long Run Consequences of Neighborhood Change
June 12, 2018
Dr. Christian Matthes, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmone
Are the Effects of Financial Market Disruptions Big or Small?
September, 2018
September 5, 2018
Prof. Yanhui Wu, University of Southern California
Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market
September 7, 2018
Prof. Isa Hafalir, University of Technology Sydney
Integrating School Districts: Balance, Diversity, and Welfare
September 21, 2018
Prof. Konrad Menzel, New York University
Strategic Network Formation with Many Agents
September 26, 2018
Prof. Ippei Fujiwara, Keio University and Australian National University
Optimal Inflation Rates for Young and Old
September 28, 2018
Prof. Navin Kartik, Columbia University
Lemonade from Lemons: Information Design and Adverse Selection
October, 2018
October 5, 2018 (Joint IEMS)
Prof. Aprajit Mahajan, University of California, Berkeley
Financial Inclusion and Contract Terms: Experimental Evidence from Mexico
October 12, 2018
Prof. John McLaren, University of Virginia
A Swing-State Theorem, with Evidence
October 26, 2018
Prof. Yonghong An, Texas A&M University
Dynamic Decisions under Subjective Expectations: A Structural Analysis
November, 2018
November 7, 2018
Prof. Peter Morrow, University of Toronto
Is Processing Good? Theory and Evidence from China
November 9, 2018
Prof. Guoshi Tong, Remin University
Online Borders of the U.S. Dollars: Price Stickiness and Exchange Rate Sensitivities
November 22, 2018 (Joint IEMS)
Prof. Sunny Yangguang Huang, HKUST
Financial Fraud and Investor Awareness
November 23, 2018
Prof. Heiko Gerlach, University of Queensland
Price Discrimination in Cartels
November 30, 2018
Prof. Matthew Shum, California Institute of Technology
Split-second Decision-Making in the Field: Response Times in Mobile Advertising
December, 2018
December 7, 2018
Prof. Qihui Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Inference on Functionals under First Order Degeneracy
December 12, 2018
Prof. Robin Lee, Harvard University
Will the Market Fix the Market? A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation
December 14, 2018
Prof. Gary Biglaiser, University of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill
Migration between Platforms
December 17, 2018
Prof. Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California
Commitment and Competition
February, 2017
February 22, 2017
Prof. Yang Lu, HKUST
Information Manipulation and Social Coordination
February 23, 2017
Prof. Renaud Coulomb, University of Melbourne
Rare Events and Risk Perceptions: Evidence from the Fukushima Accident
March, 2017
March 1, 2017
Prof. Michael Carter, UC Davis
Designing Insurance Contracts when Clients "Greatly Value" Certainty: Results from Field Experiments in Burkina Faso
March 2, 2017
Prof. Xiaoxia Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Estimating Semi-parametric Panel Multinomial Choice Models using Cyclic Monotonicity
March 8, 2017
Prof. Pak Hung Au, Nanyang Technological University
Reputation Turnaround, Negotiated Block Trade and Endogenous Cost of Corporate Control
March 10, 2017
Prof. Marc Sangnier, Aix-Marseille University (France)
What motivates French pork: Political career concerns or private connections?
March 17, 2017
Prof. Zhiqi Chen, Carleton University
Colluding on Surcharges
March 20,2017
Prof. Kalina Manova, Oxford University
Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US
March 22, 2017
Prof. Wei He, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dynamic Games with Almost Perfect Information
March 29, 2017
Prof. Matthew Shi, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Catching (Exclusive) Eyeballs: Multi-Homing and Platform Competition in the Magazine Industry
March 31, 2017
Prof. Wing Suen, Hong Kong University
Learning while Experimenting
April, 2017
April 19, 2017
Prof. Zhi Wang, George Mason University
Characterizing Global Value Chains
April 21, 2017
Prof. Shyamal Chowdhury, The University of Sydney
Effects of Emigration on Rural Labour Markets
April 26, 2017
Prof. Matthieu Crozet, Paris School of Economics/ Chinese University of Hong Kong
Trade Finance Dependence and the Trade Impact of Bank Crises
April 27, 2017
Prof. Ming He, University of Technology Sydney
Identification and Estimation of Pure Common Value Auction Models with an Application to the U.S. OCS Wildcat Auctions
April 28, 2017
Prof. Qiang Fu, National University of Singapore
The Paradox of Mediocracy
May, 2017
May 2, 2017
Prof. Patrick Francois, University of British Columbia
Reservations and the Politics of Fear
May 4, 2017
Dr. Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Optimal Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound
May 5, 2017
Prof. Alistaire Wilson, University of Pittsburgh
Diagnosing Coordination Failures in Information Relationships
May 11, 2017
Prof. Xiaobo Zhang, Peking University
Moving "Umbrella": Identify Firm Political Connections through Bureaucratic Transfers in China12 May, 2017
May 12, 2017
Prof. Luis Cabral, New York University
Mixed Bundling in Retail DVD Sales: Facts and Theories
May 17, 2017
Prof. Sergio Montero, University of Rochester
Going It Alone? An Empirical Study of Coalition Formation in Elections
May 18, 2017
Prof. Naoki Aizawa, University of Minnesota
Local Market Equilibrium and Designs of the Public Health Insurance System
May 24, 2017
Prof. Wooyoung Lim, HKUST
Herd Immunity and a Vaccination Game
May 26, 2017
Prof. Kei-Mu Yi, University of Houston
Multinational Production, International Trade, and Structural Change
May 29, 2017
Prof. Fernando Parro, Johns Hopkins University
Trade and Migration: A Quantitative Assessment
June, 2017
June 14, 2017
Prof. Ilwoo Hwang, University of Miami
Uncertainty-driven Cooperation
June 29, 2017
Prof. James Tybout, Pennsylvania State University
Two-sided Search in International Markets
September, 2017
September 1, 2017
Prof. Shengxing Zhang, London School of Economics
Intangibles, Inequality and Stagnation
September 6, 2017
Prof. Wen Quan, University of Washington
A Noncooperative Foundation of the Nash Rationing Solution
September 15, 2017
Prof. Denis Tkachenko, National University of Singapore
Using Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic to Sharpen Identification Analysis for DSGE Models
September 18, 2017
Prof. David Dorn, University of Zurich
The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms
September 20, 2017
Prof. Rachel Heath, University of Washington
Migrants, Information, and Working Conditions in Bangladeshi Garment Factories
September 27, 2017
Prof. Imran Rasul, University College London
Delivery Agents, Social Ties and Group Identity: Theory and Evidence from a Two-Layered Field Experiment
October, 2017
October 4, 2017
Prof. Xi Weng, Peking University
A Theory of Organizational Dynamics: Internal Politics and Efficiency
October 6, 2017
Prof. Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach
October 13, 2017
Prof. Adam Szeidl, Central European University
Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance
October 20, 2017
Prof. Jaimie Lien, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prediction and Learning about Credit Card Spending
November, 2017
November 1, 2017
Prof. Heski Bar-Isaac, University of Toronto
Adverse Selection, Efficiency and the Structure of Information with Application to the Labour Market
November 3, 2017
Prof. Yiyi Zhou, Stony Brook University
Middlemen as Information Intermediaries: Evidence from the Used Car Markets
November 6, 2017
Prof. Ulrich Mueller, Princeton University
Inference for the Mean
November 8, 2017
Prof. Jeffrey Ely, Northwestern University
Moving the Goalposts
November 15, 2017
Prof. Shakeeb Khan, Boston College
Identification and Inference for Dynamic Discrete Choice Panel Data Models
November 17, 2017
Prof. Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal, University of Luxembourg
Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment
November 22, 2017
Prof. Peter Newberry, Pennsylvania State University
Economies of Density in E-Commerce: A Study of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network
November 24, 2017
Prof. Yangbo Song, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Finite Repeated Games with Learning of Actions
December, 2017
December 1, 2017
Prof. Zhipeng Liao, University of California, Los Angeles
A Uniform Model Selection Test for Semi/Nonparametric Models
December 4, 2017
Prof. Felix Tintelnot, University of Chicago
Trade and Domestic Production Networks
December 13, 2017
Prof. Shuyang Sheng, University of California, Los Angeles
Estimation of Large Network Formation Games
January, 2016
January 14, 2016
Prof Ernest K. Lai, Lehigh University
Coordination via Correlation: An Experimental Study
January 29, 2016
Prof Myoung-Jae Lee, Korea University
Regression Discontinuity with Integer Running Variables
February, 2016
Feburary 15, 2016
Ms Yufei Wu, MIT
Supply Response to Consumer Inertia: Strategic Pricing in Medicare Part D
Feburary 17, 2016
Prof Yi-Chun Chen, National University of Singapore
Subgame-perfect implementation: robustness and renegotiation
Feburary 19, 2016
Mr Xiang Ma, Yale University
Economies of Scale and Heterogeneity in the Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from School Consolidation in China
Feburary 23, 2016
Mr Yangguang Huang, University of Washington
Detecting Quality Manipulation Corruption in Scoring Auctions
Feburary 24, 2016
Prof. Harry Xiaoying Wu, Hitotsubashi University
Productivity Hurdle to China's Sustainable Growth or Institutional Impediment to Raising China's Productivity?
March, 2016
March 2, 2016
Prof Xuewen Liu, HKUST
Financial Markets, Information Acceleration, and Resource Misallocation
March 4, 2016
Prof Kohei Kawaguchi, Hitotsubashi University
Delegation and Productivity: Evidence from Vending Machine Management
March 9, 2016
Prof Yujing Xu, HKU
Search with Private Information: Sorting, Price Formation and Convergence to Perfect Competition
March 11, 2016
Prof Michihiro Kandori, University of Tokyo
Labor Union Members Play an OLG Repeated Game
March 16, 2016
Prof Wooyoung Lim, HKUST
The Informational Theory of Legislative Committees: An Experimental Analysis
March 18, 2016
Prof Yingyao Hu, Johns Hopkins University
Semiparametric Estimation of the Canonical Permanent-Transitory Model of Earnings Dynamics
March 23, 2016
Prof Michael Weber, Chicago Booth
Monetary Policy through Production Networks: Evidence from the Stock Market
March 30, 2016
Prof Shu Lin, Fudan University
FDI, Trade Credit, and International Transmission of Liquidity Shocks: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms
April, 2016
April 1, 2016
Prof Ricard Gil, Johns Hopkins University
Preemptive Entry and Technology Diffusion in the Market for Drive-in Theaters
April 6, 2016
Prof Yu-Chin Hsu, Academia Sinica
Testing for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Regression Discontinuity Design
April 13, 2016
Prof. Xiaohu Wang, CUHK
New Distribution Theory for the Estimation of Structural Break Point in Mean
April 20, 2016
Prof Jiao Shi, Peking University HSBC
Vertical FDI and Exchange Rates over the Business Cycle: the Welfare Implications of Openness to FDI
April 22, 2016
Prof. Naijia Guo, CUHK
Labor Market Dynamics and Long Term Unemployment in Urban China: The Role of the State Sector
April 27, 2016
Prof. Giovanni Ko, Nanyang Technological University
Institutional Corruption in the Supreme Court of India: An Empirical Investigation
April 29, 2016
Prof Xiu Chen, HKUST
Groupthink in Investments: Experimental Evidence from WeChat
May, 2016
May 6, 2016
Prof. Shenghao Zhu, National University of SingaporeG
The Rising House Price Dispersion in the United States during 1975-2007
May 11, 2016
ECON & SOSC Joint Seminar
Prof. Franco Zhang (SOSC), HKUST
Herd Immunity and Vaccination Game
May 11, 2016
Prof. Dongkyu Chang, City University of Hong Kong
Delay in Bargaining with Outside Options
May 16, 2016
Prof. Fang Yang, Louisiana State University
Financial Intermediation and Capital Reallocation
May 18, 2016
Prof. Yi Qian, University of British Columbia
Intellectual Property Rights and Access to Innovation: Evidence from TRIPS
May 20, 2016
Prof. Lata Gangadharan, Monash University
Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations
May 23, 2016
Prof. Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Princeton University
Learning, Career Paths, and the Distribution of Wages
May 26, 2016
Prof. Jonathan Newton, University of Sydney
Shared intentions: the evolution of collaboration
May 27, 2016
Prof. Hülya Eraslan, Rice University
Information Acquisition under Persuasive Precedent versus Binding Precedent
May 30, 2016
Prof. Martin Huber, University of Fribourg
Direct and indirect effects based on difference-in-differences with an application to political preferences following the Vietnam draft lottery
June, 2016
June 14, 2016
Prof. Tarun Khannan, Harvard University
Contextual Intelligence
June 15, 2016
Prof. Tarun Khannan, Harvard University
Research Methods to Study Phenomena in Emerging Markets (PhD Workshop)
July, 2016
July 7, 2016
Mr. Inseong (Lewis) Jeong, HKUST
Incremental Belief, Cognitive Flexibility, Innovative Behavior and Job Performance: The Contingent Role of Empowering Leadership (MPhil Thesis Defence)
July 18, 2016
Mr. Leyuan Xie, HKUST
Linking Top Management Team Performance and Corporate Social Performance: The Effect of CEO Team Identification (MPhil Thesis Defence)
July 21, 2016
Dr. Gilad Feldman, Maastricht University
Biases and Heuristics in Agency and Action
July 25, 2016
Mr. Chenguang (Chris) Hu, HKUST
Blockholder Rent Appropriation and Its Managerial Consequences (MPhil Thesis Defence)
July 25, 2016
Mr. Kyung Hwan (Andy) Yun, HKUST
I Will Be Back: When and Why Do Firms Hire Former CEOs (MPhil Thesis Defence)
July 28, 2016
Ms Ningxin (Jennifer) Wang, HKUST
Does Future-Focus Mind Benefit? Future-Focused Top Management Team and Corporate Entrepreneurial Pursuits (PhD Thesis Defence)
July 29, 2016
Ms Yin (Nadia) Yu, HKUST
Navigating the Political Landscape of the Organization: An Emergent Model of Group Political Climate (PhD Thesis Defence)
September, 2016
September 2, 2016
Prof. Andriy Norets, Brown University
Optimal Auxiliary Priors and Reversible Jump Proposals for a Class of Variable Dimension Models
September 7, 2016
Prof. Nianqing Liu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Transformed Model with Additive Image
September 9, 2016
Prof. Jingfeng Lu, National University of Singapore
Optimal Two-stage Auctions with Costly Information Acquisition
September 14, 2016
Prof. SangMok Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Single-Crossing Differences on Distributions
September 21, 2016
Prof. Xue Qiao, Tsinghua University
Leader Immunity and the Culture of Corruption
September 22, 2016
Mr. Anthony Lee Zhang, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Ownership of the Means of Production
September 23, 2016
Prof. Shenghao Zhu, National University of Singapore
Existence of the Stationary Equilibrium in an Incomplete-market Model with Endogenous Labor Supply
September 28, 2016
Prof. Adam Brandenburger, New York University
Rational Imprecision: Information-Processing, Neural, and Choice-Rule Perspectives
September 29, 2016
Prof. Claudio Michelacci, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Are They All Like Bill, Mark, and Steve? The Education Premium for Entrepreneurs
September 30, 2016
Prof. Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Factorisable Sparse Tail Event Curves with Expectiles
October, 2016
October 5, 2016
Prof. Sarolta Laczó, University of Surrey
Household Behaviour and Property Division upon Divorce
October 7, 2016
Prof. Alessandro Lizzeri, New York University
The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements
October 11, 2016
Prof. Ying Chen, Johns Hopkins University
Information Acquisition under Persuasive Precedent versus Binding Precedent
October 12, 2016
Prof. Rashmi Barua, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Financial Education and Financial Access for Transnational Households: Field Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
October 13, 2016
Prof. Andrew Newman, Boston University
Loopholes and the Evolution of Contract Form
October 14, 2016
Prof. Yoichi Sugita, Hitotsubashi University
Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers
October 19, 2016
Prof. Ryo Okui, Kyoto University
Confidence Set for Group Membership
October 21, 2016
Prof. Kyoungwon Seo, Seoul National University
Risk Management May Backfire!
October 28, 2016
Prof. Makoto Hanazono, Nagoya University
Theory, Identification, and Estimation for Scoring Auctions
October 31, 2016
Prof. Oleg Itskhoki, Princeton University
Granular Comparative Advantage
November, 2016
November 2, 2016
Prof. Jing Zhang, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Saving Europe?: The Unpleasant Arithmetic of Fiscal Austerity in Integrated Economies
November 4, 2016
Prof. Chris Edmond, The University of Melbourne
Industry dynamics with variable markups
November 11, 2016
Prof. Patrick Rey, Toulouse School of Economics
Cooperation vs. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes Co-opetition
November 16, 2016
Prof. Mark Armstrong, University of Oxford
Ordered Consumer Search
November 18, 2016
Prof. Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego
The Dynamics of Comparative Advantage
November 23, 2016
Prof. Klaus Wälde, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Pareto-Improving Redistribution of Wealth - The Case of the NLSY 1979 Cohort
November 25, 2016
Prof. Jimmy Chan, Fudan University
Self-Evident Sets and the Value of Linking
November 30, 2016
Prof. Feng Dong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
A Searched-Based Model of Capital Reallocation
December, 2016
December 6, 2016
Prof. Heiwai Tang, Johns Hopkins University
Global Sourcing and Domestic Production Networks
December 9, 2016
Prof. Joel Sobel, University of California, San Diego
Lying Aversion and the Size of the Lie
December 14, 2016
Prof. Kathryn E. Spier, Harvard Law School
Taking a Financial Position in Your Opponent in Litigation
December 15, 2016
Prof. Karam Kang, Carnegie Mellon University
Winning by Default: Why Is There So Little Competition in Government Procurement?
December 16, 2016
Prof. Albert Ma, Boston University
Product Differentiation with Multiple Qualities
December 21, 2016
Prof. Xiaojian Zhao, HKUST
Incentive-Compatibility in Financial Contracting with Limited Liability
December 23, 2016
Prof. Yi Huang, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
Public Debt and Private Firm Funding: Evidence from Chinese Cities
December 23, 2016
Mr. Tianle Song, HKUST
Upstream Exclusion and Information Disclosure