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Our Hybrid Seminars are scheduled to take place on Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the Fall Semester of 2024/25, 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:

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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

 Last Update 7 January 2024

 

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
The Ohio State University

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?

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
Princeton University       

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
Peking 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: 29 November 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
University of California, San Diego

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
Seoul National University

High-skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics
  6 Mar (Wed) 
 

Prof. Yucheng Liang
Carnegie Mellon University

Boundedly Rational Information Demand
  8 Mar (Fri) 
 

Prof. Andrei Zeleneev
University College London

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation with Non-Classical Errors-in-Variables
11 Mar (Mon) 
 

Prof. Venky Venkateswaran
New York University 

Scalable Expertise
11 Mar (Mon) 
  1:30-3pm AB2405

Prof. Junjie Zhang
Duke University 

Joint ECON, ENVR & SOSC Seminar
The Impact of Climate Change on Rural Finance
12 Mar (Tues)

Prof. Cristian (Kiki) Pop-Eleches
Columbia University

The Effects of a STEM High School Curriculum
15 Mar (Fri) 

Prof. Yi Xin
California Institute of Technology

Competing on Information in Selection Markets: Evidence from Auto Insurance
20 Mar (Wed)

Prof. Zhanna Kapsalyamova
Nazarbayev University

Measuring Energy Poverty: Empirical Evidence from Kazakhstan
22 Mar (Fri) 
 

Prof. Joyee Deb
New York University

Similarity of Information and Regime Change
27 Mar (Wed)

Prof. Frank Westermann
Osnabrück University

Renminbi Trading after the Pandemic: The Role of Trade, Economic and Policy Factors

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

  3 Apr (Wed)

Prof. Rachel Ngai
Imperial College London and                                London School of Economics

Structural Transformation over 150 years of Women’s and Men’s Work
12 Apr (Fri)
 

Prof. Suanna Oh
Paris School of Economics

Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?

15 Apr (Mon)

Prof. Junichi Yamasaki
Kobe University

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
Paris School of Economics

Quantal Response Equilibrium with a Continuum of Types: Characterization and Nonparametric Identification
26 Apr (Fri) 
 

Prof. Zi Wang
Hong Kong Baptist University

Optimal Spatial Emission
  8 May (Wed)
 

Prof. Masakazu Ishihara
New York University

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
London School of Economics

Joint ECON & SOSC Webinar
Evaluating Urban Planning: Evidence from Dar es Salaam
14 May (Tues)

Prof. Paymon Khorrami
Duke University

Risk Premia, Subjective Beliefs, and Forward Guidance
17 May (Fri)
 

Dr. Sina Ates
Federal Reserve Board

Ready, Set, Unify: The Uneven Race between Trabants and BMWs
22 May (Wed)
 

Prof. Brian McCaig
Wilfrid Laurier University

Trade, Structural Change and Labour Market Transitions in Vietnam

29 May (Wed)

Prof. Wenzhang Zhang
Zhejiang University

Consumer Search, Firm Heterogeneity, and Platform Design
   5 Jun (Wed)

Prof. Lorenz Goette
National University of Singapore

Identity and Economic Incentives
   7 Jun (Fri)

Prof. Seung Joo Lee
Oxford University

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
University of Pennsylvania

Business, Liquidity, and Information Cycles

 

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
Hitotsubashi University

Asymmetric Platform Oligopoly
8 Sep (Fri) 
9:00-10:30am

Prof. Soonwoo Kwon 
Brown University

Bias-Aware Inference in Regularized Regression Models
13 Sep (Wed)
 

Prof. Peter Klibanoff
Northwestern University

Persuasion with Ambiguous Communication
20 Sep (Wed)   
9:00-10:30am

Prof. Shengwu Li
Harvard University

Sequential Cursed Equilibrium
22 Sep (Fri)   
 

Prof. Sarah Auster
University of Bonn

Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection
26 Sep  (Tues) 
3:00-4:30pm IAS LT

Prof. Donald Kenkel
Cornell University

IAS Distinguished Lecture
Reducing the Harms from Opioids, Tobacco, and Other Addictions: 
A Cross-Country Perspective

27 Sep (Wed) Prof. Donald Kenkel
Cornell University

Just What the Doctor Ordered?
The Benefits and Costs of E-cigarette Regulation in Australia

4 Oct (Wed) 
 

Prof. Kei Kawai
University of Tokyo and 
University of California, Berkeley

A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance
6 Oct (Fri)
 

Prof. Woong Yong Park
Seoul National University

Heterogeneity in Household Inflation Expectations: Policy Implications
11 Oct (Wed)

Prof. Jia Li 
Singapore Management University

Optimal Inference for Spot Regressions
13 Oct (Fri)

Prof. Timothy Armstrong
University of Southern California

Robust Estimation and Inference in Panels with Interactive Fixed Effects
20 Oct (Fri)

Prof. Yichuan Lou
University of Tokyo

Optimal Delegation with Information Design
25 Oct (Wed)

Prof. Lester Chan
Xiamen University 

Joint Design of Team Production Technology and Performance Pay
1 Nov Wed)

Prof. Minchul Yum
University of Southampton

Status Externalities in Education and Low Birth Rates in Korea
6 Nov (Mon) 
12:00-1:30pm

Prof. Chae Won Baek
Tufts University

Inflation Expectations and Labor Supply: Evidence From an Experimental Study

7 Nov (Tues) 
4:30-6:00pm

Dr. Dong He
International Monetary Fund

Digital Money and the International Monetary System: An Analytical Agenda
8 Nov (Wed) 
2:00-3:30pm

Prof. Juan Herreño
University of California, San Diego

The Geographic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks

8 Nov (Wed) 
4:00-5:30pm

Prof. Olivier Tercieux
Paris School of Economics

Unpaired Kidney Exchange: 
Overcoming Double Coincidence of Wants without Money
10 Nov (Fri) 
9:30-10:20am

Prof. Gaétan de Rassenfosse
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Joint ECON & IPE (GZ) Seminar  
Market Entry Timing and Patent Office Delays

17 Nov (Fri)

Prof. Jiangtao Li
Singapore Management University

Undominated Mechanisms
22 Nov (Wed)

Prof. Anton Kolotilin
University of New South Wales

Persuasion and Matching: Optimal Productive Transport
24 Nov (Fri) 
IAS LT

Prof. Xuan Li
HKUST

Business School and IAS Nobel Prize Popular Science Lecture
Claudia Goldin and Dissecting the Evolution of Labour Market Gender Gaps - The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023

27 Nov (Mon)

Prof. Sanjeev Goyal
Cambridge University and 
New York University Abu Dhabi 

Experimental Evidence on the Relation between Social Networks and individual Choice
29 Nov (Wed)

Prof. Duk Gyoo Kim
Sungkyunkwan University 

Positive Selection in Bargaining: Experiment
1 Dec (Fri)

Prof. Mert Kimya
University of Sydney

Power, Coalitions and the Stability of Hierarchies
6 Dec (Wed)

Prof. Chao Ma 
Xiamen University 

Bayesian Learning with Forgetting: 
An Empirical Analysis of Automobile Insurance Policyholders
11 Dec (Mon) 
 
Prof. Yasuyuki Sawada
University of Tokyo

Infrastructure and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Satellite, Administrative, and Muti-Generation Household Data in a Developing Country

12 Dec (Tues) 
 

Prof. Ting Liu
Stony Brook University 

Consumer-Optimal Information Design under Credence Good Monopoly
13 Dec (Wed) 
 

Prof. Ryan Kim
Johns Hopkins University

Monetary Policy and Firm Exports: 
Micro-level Evidence from the Indian Demonetization
14 Dec (Thu)

Prof. Eunseong Ma
Yonsei University

The 40-Hour Work Week

15 Dec (Fri) 
 

Prof. Shurojit Chatterji
Singapore Management University

On Efficiency with Heterogeneous Forecasts

18 Dec (Mon) 

Prof. Benjamin Leyden
Cornell University

The Effects of Platform-owner Entry on the Competitive Behavior of Third-Party Firms

 

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