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:

Applied Economics Workshop
Hong Kong Theory Seminars

Spring 2026

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Date	Speaker	Presentation
3 Feb (Tue)	Seung-Han Yoo Korea University	Optimal Education Design
4 Feb (Wed)	Antonio Ciccone University of Mannheim	Improving Equality of Opportunity at School Entry: Primary Education Enrollment in the Netherlands
6 Feb (Fri) (10:30am-12nn)	Thomas Jungbauer Cornell University	Managerial Poaching and Talent Reallocation
6 Feb (Fri)	Yena Park Seoul National University	Optimal Redistribution Policy with Labor Market Monopsony
11 Feb (Wed)	Pedro Gomis-Porqueras Queensland University of Technology	Credit, Privacy, and Data Monetization by Digital Platforms
13 Feb (Fri)	Simin He Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	Learning in Matching
25 Feb (Wed)	Noah Williams University of Miami	Uncertain Network Dynamics
27 Feb (Fri)	Tai-Wei Hu University of Bristol	Optimal Inquiry
6 Mar (Fri)	Yuichi Kitamura Yale University	Estimating Stochastic Block Models in the Presence of Covariates (joint with Louise Laage)
10 Mar (Tue)	Jo Van Biesebroeck KU Leuven	Tracing Sanctions through the Value Chain: Evidence from the US Cotton Ban (co-authored with Jean-Fran¸cois Maystadt & Kampui Tsang)
11 Mar (Wed)	Maxime Sauzet Boston University	Green Intermediary Asset Pricing
12 Mar (Thu)	Junrok Park National Taiwan University	Optimality of Two-tier Quotas in Selection
13 Mar (Fri)	Xun Tang Rice University	Heterogeneous Treatment Effects via Linear Dynamic Panel Data Models (co-authored with Philip Marx and Elie Tamer)
16 Mar (Mon)	Zhuoran Lu Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Data-Driven Hold-Up and Relational Contracts
18 Mar (Wed)	Zefeng Chen, Peking University	Arbitraging the US sanction: Theory and Evidence
19 Mar (Thur)	Daniele Condorelli University of Warwick	Commitment via Third-Party Contracts in Bilateral Trade: A Three-Way Equivalence (co-authored with Joseph Basford and Tanay Kasyap)
25 Mar (Wed)	Toru Kitagawa Brown University	Who With Whom? Learning Optimal Matching Policies (co-author with Yagan Hazard)
27 Mar (Fri)	Aureo de Paula University College London	Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data (co-authored with John Van Reenen and Agnes Norris Keiller)
30 Mar (Mon)	Mingli Chen University of Warwick	Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Monetary Model
1 Apr (Wed)	Chris Edmond Independent Researcher	The Spatial Distribution of Markups (co-authored with Jonathan Becker, Virgiliu Midrigan, and Daniel Yi Xu)
8 Apr (Wed)	Cheng Keat Tang Nanyang Technological University	The Economic Implications of Map Distortion: Evidence from the Housing Market
14 Apr (Tue) (10am)	Bo Li Peking University	Million Dollar on the Roof: Development Effects of Solar Energy (co-authored with Robin Burgess, John Van Reenen, and Yifan Wang)
14 Apr (Tue) (3pm)	Ziwei Wang Peking University	Interim Agreements in Matching with Incomplete Information
16 Apr (Thu)	Peter Morrow University of Toronto	Identifying Firm vs. Product Markups Using Production Data: Micro Estimates and Aggregate Implications (co-authored with John Cairncross, Scott Orr, and Swapnika Rachapalli)
17 Apr (Fri)	Marciano Siniscalchi Northwestern University	Structural Forward Induction (co-authored with Emiliano Catonini)
20 Apr (Mon)	Xuan Zhang Singapore Management University	Contracting on Price, Compensating on Quality: Evidence from Centralized Drug Procurement
21 Apr (Tue)	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)	Thomas Sampson London School of Economics	Trade, Innovation and Optimal Patent Protection
22 Apr (Wed) (4pm)	Jie Zheng Shandong University	Innovation Bubbles
24 Apr (Fri)	Leonard Goff University of Calgary	Identification of causal effects with a bunching design
28 Apr (Tue)	Changhyun Kwak Academia Sinica	Bundling under Double-Crossing Preferences
29 Apr (Wed)	Seunghoon Na Korea University	Overreactions, Debt Accumulations, and Sovereign Crises
6 May (Wed)	Yoon-Jae Whang Seoul National University	Uniform Inference for Almost Stochastic Dominance (co-authored with Wonwoo Bae and Oliver Linton)
12 May (Tue)	Gustavo de Souza Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	A.I. in the Office and the Factory: Evidence from Administrative Software Registry Data
15 May (Fri)	Fabiano Schivardi LUISS University	Too much at stake? Entrepreneurial Wealth Concentration and Firm Performance
19 May (Tue)	Alex Smolin Toulouse School of Economics	Menu Pricing of Large Language Models (co-authored with Dirk Bergemann and Alessandro Bonatti)
20 May (Wed)	Annie Soyean Lee John Hopkins University	Are Exporters Naturally Hedged? Corporate Dollar Debt and Global Trade (co-authored with Junhyong Kim and Saiah Lee)
22 May (Fri)	Matthias Hoelzlein University of Notre Dame	Of Boom and Ghost Towns: Early City Formation during the California Gold Rush
27 May (Wed)	Lin Tian INSEAD	Field Choice, Skill Specificity, and Labor Market Disruptions (co-authored with Sharon Traiberman and Valerie Smeets)
2 June (Tue)	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)
4 June (Thu)	Kevin Liu Zhejiang University	Top-down Monitoring or Top-down Encroachment? How Centralized Tax Administration Undermined State Capacity in China
5 June (Fri)	Utku Ünver Boston College	Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care (co-authored with Ludwig Dierks, Nils Olberg, Sven Seuken, Vincent W. Slaugh)
18 June (Thu)	Guillaume Fréchette New York University	Extracting Models From Data Sets: An Experiment (co-authored with Emanuel Vespa and Sevgi Yuksel)
6 July (Mon)	Xiaosheng Mu Princeton

Last update 27 May 2026

Winter 2026

Date	Speaker	Presentation
28 Jan (Wed)	Zhiqi Chen Carleton University	Personalized Pricing in the Presence of Privacy Concerns

Last update 16 Jan 2026

Fall 2025

Date	Speaker	Presentation
5 Sep (Wed)	Eduard Talamas IESE Business School, University of Navarra	Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy
10 Sep (Wed)	Manuel Mueller-Frank IESE Business School, University of Navarra	On the Robustness of Blockchain-Based Oracle Mechanisms
11 Sep (Thu)	Gerelt Tserenjigmid University of California, Santa Cruz	Inertial Updating with General Information
16 Sep (Tue)	Jiangtao Li Singapore Management University	Undominated Mechanisms
19 Sep (Fri)	Jing Zhang Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	Premature Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization
22 Sep (Mon)	Wyatt Brooks Arizona State University	Industrial Policy with Development Characteristics: Fertilizer Policy in Rwanda
24 Sep (Wed)	Francesco Zanetti University of Oxford	Monetary Policy in the Data Economy
3 Oct (Fri)	Lorenz Goette National University of Singapore	Language Models are overconfident and amplify human bias
8 Oct (Wed)	Wenhao Li University of Southern California	Granular Treasury Demand with Arbitrageurs
10 Oct (Fri)	Paulo Natenzon Washington University in St. Louis	Random Choice and Differentiation
15 Oct (Wed)	Michael Devereux The University of British Columbia	Productivity and Wedges: Economic Convergence and the Real Exchange Rate
16 Oct (Thur, 12nn-1:30pm)	Jun Zhang University of Technology Sydney	Tournaments with and without Private Information: A Nonparametric Approach
17 Oct (Fri)	Yuta Suzuki Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Depopulation and Aging
20 Oct (Mon)	Jingyuan Wang University of Michigan	Subsidizing Industry Growth in a Market with Lemons: Evidence from the Chinese Electric Vehicle Market
22 Oct (Wed)	Dan Su Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business	The Global Change in the Corporate Production Function
24 Oct (Fri)	Bernardo Riberio Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance	Growth with Firm-to-Firm Trade
31 Oct (Fri)	Fernando Broner Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) / Barcelona School of Economics	Hegemonic Globalization
5 Nov (Wed)	Min Fang University of Florida	Financial Frictions and Pollution Abatement Over the Life Cycle of Firms
7 Nov (Fri)	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)	Solomon Hsiang Stanford University	Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Global Migration
13 Nov (Thur)	Liang Dai The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen	The Fragile Promise: Job Security and Contact Design under Partial Commitment
14 Nov (Fri)	Shengliang Ou Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Fiscal Cyclicality and the Information Channel of Government Spending Shocks
20 Nov (Thur)	Junjian Yi Peking University	Memory, Belief Updating, and Physician Decisions
21 Nov (Fri) (1:30-3pm)	Michael Choi University of California, Irvine	Search Frictions and Market Power in the Deposit Market: Theory and Estimation
25 Nov (Tue) (11am-12:30pm)	Carl Heese The University of Hong Kong	Quasi-Referenda
26 Nov (Wed)	Mishel Ghassibe Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi) / Barcelona School of Economics	Business Cycles with Pricing Cascades
27 Nov (Thur)	Andy Choi University of Michigan	Providing Certainty
28 Nov (Fri)	Diogo Geraldes University College Dublin	Closing the Gender Gap in Multilateral Negotiation Through Institutional Design
2 Dec (Tue)	Ruixue Jia University of California, San Diego	Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood
3 Dec (Wed)	Donghoon Yoo Korea University	Behavioral Expectations under Indeterminacy: An Empirical Evaluation
5 Dec (Fri) (1:30-3pm)	Allen Vong National University of Singapore	Dynamic mediation and moral hazard: from private to public communication
5 Dec (Fri) (3-4:30pm)	Pei Kuang University of Macau	Disagreement under Imperfect Memory: Theory and Evidence
10 Dec (Wed)	Loren Brandt University of Toronto	The Anatomy of Chinese Patents: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership
12 Dec (Fri) (10:30am-12nn)	Martino Banchio Bocconi University	Artificial Intelligence and Spontaneous Collusion
12 Dec (Fri)	Weilong Zhang University of Cambridge	The DNA of Enterprise: A Life-Cycle Model of Intergenerational Entrepreneurship
15 Dec (Mon)	Lu HAN University of Wisconsin-Madison	Monetary Policy and Rents
16 Dec (Tue)	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)	Wonki Cho Korea University	The Local-global Equivalence on General Networks
19 Feb (Wed)	Nobuyuki Hanaki University of Limassol	An Experiment on a Multi-Period Beauty Contest Game
26 Feb (Wed)	Wyatt Brooks Arizona State University	Capitalizing Village Economies
5 Mar (Wed)	Tat How Teh Nanyang Technological University	Competitive bottlenecks and platform spillovers
7 Mar (Fri)	David Rahman University of Minnesota	The Distribution of Information Rents
14 Mar (Fri)	Can Urgun Princeton University	Costly Verification and Money Burning
19 Mar (Wed)	Alexandre de Corniere Toulouse School of Economics	Fulfilled By Amazon: Seller-Side Tying of Platform Services
21 Mar (Fri)	Harry Pei Northwestern University	Replacement and Reputation
21 Mar (Fri)	Joel Flynn Yale University	Quick-Fixing: Near-Rationality in Consumption and Savings Behavior
28 Mar (Fri)	John Quah National University of Singapore	Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the Le Chatelier principle
2 Apr (Wed)	Marco Gonzalez-Navarro UC-Berkeley	Local Public Goods and Property Tax Compliance: Evidence from Residential Street Pavement
9 Apr (Wed)	Moritz Lenel Princeton University	Exchange Rates, Natural Rates, and the Price of Risk
11 Apr (Fri)	Isaac Baley Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CREI	Lumpy Forecasts
14 Apr (Mon)	Nancy Chau Cornell University	Dishonesty Concessions in Teams: Theory and Experimental Insights from Local Politicians in India
16 Apr (Wed)	Pau Roldan-Blanco Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and CEMFI	Industry Life Cycles in General Equilibrium
23 Apr (Wed)	Marta Prato Bocconi University	The Geography of Innovative Firms
25 Apr (Fri)	Norio Takeoka Hitotsubashi University	Optimal Ambiguity Attitude
25 Apr (Fri) 1:30 - 3pm	Donghai Zhang National University of Singapore	Green Business Cycles
30 Apr (Wed) 1:30 - 3pm	Timo Boppart IIES, Stockholm University	Idea Rents and Firm Growth
30 Apr (Wed)	Evan Piermont University of London	Iterated Revelation: How to Incentivize Experts to Reveal Novel Actions (click here for the old version, revision is under process for new version)
7 May (Wed)	Christopher House University of Michigan	Should I Stay, or Should I Go? Labor Migration and Regional Economic Shocks
12 May (Mon)	Rahul Deb Boston College	Robust Pricing for Cloud Computing
14 May (Wed)	Qing Liu Tsinghua University	Efficiency through Incentives: A Theory of International Conditional Lending
15 May (Thur)	Amy Wang Huber University of Pennsylvania	Dollar Asset Holdings and Hedging Around the Globe
19 May (Mon)	Jack Fanning Brown University	Dynamic Integrative Bargaining
21 May (Wed)	Takuo Sugaya Stanford Graduate School of Business	Collusion with Optimal Information Disclosure
23 May (Fri)	Zhang Junsen Zhejiang University	Altruistic or Exchange Motive? Evidence on the Effect of Children's Health Shocks on Intra-household Resource Allocation in China
3 June (Tue)	Jiangtao Li Singapore Management University	Rank-Guaranteed Auctions
5 June (Thur)	Chen Liu National University of Singapore	Exporting Education Services or Importing Labor? The Labor Market Impacts of International Students
16 June (Mon)	Ke-Li XU Indiana University	Impulse Responses, VARs and Local Projections
26 June (Thur)	Man-Wah Cheung Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	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)	Eungik Lee Indiana University	Earnings Shocks, Expectations, and Spending
14 Jan (Tues)	Yeon-Koo Che Columbia University	Optimal Auction Design for Dynamic Stochastic Environments: Myerson Meets Naor
16 Jan (Thu)	Gernot Müller University of Tübingen	Dollar Trinity
23 Jan (Thu)	Russell Cooper European University Institute	Declining Responsiveness at the Establishment Level: Sources and Productivity Implications

Last Update 13 January 2024

Past Seminar List

Seminar 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 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 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

Seminar 2023

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

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 University of California, San Diego	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 University of Texas at Austin	The US, Economic News, and the Global Financial Cycle
1 Mar (Wed)	Prof. Shunya Noda University of Tokyo	A Dynamic Model of Rational 'Panic Buying'
3 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Seung Joo Lee University of Oxford	Growth, Heterogeneous Beliefs, and Risk Amplification
8 Mar (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Yao Luo University of Toronto	Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Wage-Setting in Ride-Hailing
10 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Brian Viard Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business	Evaluating Air Pollution Regulation: Separating Firm Competitiveness and Ambient Effects
16 Mar (Thu)	Prof. Lixin Ye The Ohio State University	Competitive Nonlinear Income Taxation Revisited
17 Mar (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Marc Rysman Boston University	Bank Branching Strategies in the 1997 Thai Financial Crisis and Local Access to Credit
22 Mar (Wed)	Prof. Albert Marcet Barcelona School of Economics	Pareto-Improving Optimal Capital and Labor Taxes
24 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Wei Huang The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Motivated Beliefs, Independence and Cooperation
29 Mar (Wed)	Prof. Keeyoung Rhee Pohang University of Science & Technology	ESG Integration under Asymmetric Information
31 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Dmitry Mukhin London School of Economics	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 Singapore Management University	Latent Local-to-Unity Models
19 Apr (Wed) 2:30-4:00pm	Prof. Yi-chun Chen National University of Singapore	Distributionally Robust Auction Design
21 Apr (Fri)	Prof. Wei Cui University College London	A Ramsey Theory of Financial Distortions
26 Apr (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm	Prof. Antonin Bergeaud HEC Paris	From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude and Channels of R&D Spillovers
28 Apr (Fri)	Prof. Jungmin Lee Seoul National University	Minimum Wage, Social Insurance Mandate, and Working Hours
3 May (Wed)	Prof. Xiaogang Che City University of London	Game Changers: Evidence from Tesla Model 3 Unveiling Announcement
10 May (Wed)	Prof. Yohanes Eko Riyanto Nanyang Technological University	Cooperation and Cognition in Social Networks
12 May (Fri)	Prof. Mu Zhang University of Michigan	The Efficient Allocation of Indivisible Goods
16 May (Tues)	Prof. Remi Jedwab George Washington University	The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings
17 May (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Shing-Yi Wang University of Pennsylvania	The Benefits and Costs of Guest Worker Programs: Experimental Evidence from the India-UAE Migration Corridor
17 May (Wed)	Prof. Michael Pesko Georgia State University	The Effect of Vertical Identification Card Laws on Teenage Tobacco and Alcohol Use
19 May (Fri) 10:30am-12:00pm	Prof. Takashi Kano Hitotsubashi University	Welfare Costs of Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Evidence from the 1972 Okinawa Reversion
24 May (Wed)	Prof. Kim Ruhl University of Wisconsin	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 Cornell University	On the Testability of the Anchor Words Assumption in Topic Models
6 Jun (Tues) 12:15-1:45pm	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	Beta-Sorted Portfolios

Winter 2023

Date	Speaker	Presentation
9 Jan (Mon)	Prof. Tangren Feng Bocconi University	Interim and Ex Post Strategy-Proof Mechanisms: Designing Simple Mechanisms in Complex Environments

Seminar 2022

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Presentation
21 Sep (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Songzi Du The University of California, San Diego	On the Structure of Informationally Robust Optimal Mechanisms
23 Sep (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Stephen Williamson University of Western Ontario	Narrow Banks
5 Oct (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Nancy Qian Northwestern University	The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on the US Economy
10 Oct (Mon)	Prof. Allen Vong University of Macau	Certifying Firms
14 Oct (Fri) 8:30-10:00am	Prof. Albert Choi University of Michigan	Liability for Non-Disclosure in Equity Financing
19 Oct (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Lee Branstetter Carnegie Mellon University	Who Gains and who Loses from more Information in Technology Markets? Evidence from the Sunshine Act
21 Oct (Fri)	Prof. Lichen Zhang The University of Hong Kong	Personal Income Taxation and Entrepreneurship
28 Oct (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Francesco Bianchi Johns Hopkins University	Monetary-Based Asset Pricing: A Mixed-Frequency Structural
4 Nov (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Yuya Sasaki Vanderbilt University	Standard Errors for Two-Way Clustering with Serially Correlated Time Effects
4 Nov (Fri)	Prof. Dongkyu Chang City University of Hong Kong	Perverse Ethical Concerns: Online Misinformation and Offline Conflicts
11 Nov (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Teresa Fort Dartmouth College	Structural Change Within Versus Across Firms: Evidence from the United States
16 Nov (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Toru Kitagawa Brown University and University College London	Policy Choice in Time Series by Empirical Welfare Maximization
18 Nov (Fri)	Prof. Zhesheng Qiu City University of Hong Kong	Misperceived Law of Motion in Macroeconomic Expectations
21 Nov (Mon)	Prof. Soo Hong Chew Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and National University of Singapore	Recursive Source Preference with Evidence from Laboratroy Experiments
23 Nov (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Yuhei Miyauchi Boston University	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 Financial Fragility and the Economy
25 Nov (Fri) 4:00-5:30pm	Prof. Pierre Dubois Toulouse School of Economics	Soda Taxes and Advertising Dynamics
30 Nov (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Dr. Zhu Wang Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond	Idea Diffusion and Property Rights
1 Dec (Thu)	Prof. Yuan Mei Singapore Management University	Horizontal Regulatory Barriers in International Trade: Evidence from Electric Plugs
7 Dec (Wed)	Prof. YingHua He Rice University	Leveraging Uncertainties to Infer Preferences: Robust Analysis of School Choice
9 Dec (Fri)	Prof. Liangjun Su Tsinghua University	Low-rank Panel Quantile Regression: Estimation and Inference
14 Dec (Wed)	Prof. Guojun He The University of Hong Kong	Market vs. Planning: Abating Carbon Emissions when Incomplete Information Meets Local Externalities
16 Dec (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Elie Tamer Harvard University	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 University of Hong Kong	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
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

Date

Speaker

Presentation

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

Seminar 2021

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

Seminar 2020

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

Seminar 2019

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

Seminar 2018

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

Seminar 2017

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

Seminar 2016

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