Research Seminars Schedule
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For this Fall semester, Wednesday seminars will be held in Conference Room 5047 (5th floor, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST) while Friday seminars will be held in Conference Room 6045 (6th floor, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST), during 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm.
Notes to visitors:
Department of Economics is located on the 6th floor of the Lee Shau Kee Business Building in the Lee Shau Kee Campus at the southern end of HKUST. To obtain a Chinese address of HKUST to show the taxi driver, click HERE or download a location map HERE.
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| 5 Sept (Wed) |
Prof. Yanhui Wu University of Southern California |
Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market |
| 7 Sept (Fri) |
Prof. Isa Hafalir University of Technology Sydney |
Integrating School Districts: Balance, Diversity, and Welfare |
| 21 Sept (Fri) |
Prof. Konrad Menzel New York University |
Strategic Network Formation with Many Agents |
| 26 Sept (Wed) |
Prof. Ippei Fujiwara Keio University & |
Optimal Inflation Rates for Young and Old |
| 28 Sept (Fri) |
Prof. Navin Kartik Columbia University |
Lemonade from Lemons: Information Design and Adverse Selection |
| Joint IEMS 5 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Aprajit Mahajan University of California, Berkeley |
Financial Inclusion and Contract Terms: Experimental Evidence from Mexico |
| 12 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. John McLaren University of Virginia |
A Swing-State Theorem, with Evidence |
| 26 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Yonghong An Texas A&M University |
Dynamic Decisions under Subjective Expectations: A Structural Analysis |
| 7 Nov (Wed) |
Prof. Peter Morrow University of Toronto |
Is Processing Good? Theory and Evidence from China |
| 9 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Guoshi Tong Remin University |
Online Borders of the U.S. Dollar: Price Stickiness and Exchange Rate Sensitivities |
| Joint IEMS 22 Nov (Thu) MB LTE 4:00-5:00pm |
Prof. Sunny Yangguang Huang HKUST |
Financial Fraud and Investor Awareness |
| 23 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Heiko Gerlach University of Queensland |
Price Discrimination in Cartels |
| 30 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Matthew Shum California Insitute of Technology |
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| 7 Dec (Fri) LSK6045 11:00-12:30pm |
Prof. Qihui Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
Inference on Functionals under First Order Degeneracy |
| 12 Dec (Wed) |
Prof. Robin Lee Harvard University |
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| 14 Dec (Fri) |
Prof. Gary Biglaiser Univeristy of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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| 17 Dec (Mon) LSK6045 3:00-4:30pm |
Prof. Vincenzo Quadrini University of Southern California |
Commitment and Competition |
Summer 2018
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| 1 June (Wed) |
Prof. Jiangtao Li University of New South Wales |
Strategically Simple Mechanisms |
| 11 June (Mon) LSK6045 3:30-5:00pm |
Prof. Nathaniel Baum-Snow University of Toronto |
Long Run Consequences of Neighborhood Change |
| 12 June (Tues) LSK6045 3:30-5:00pm |
Dr.. Christian Matthes Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
Are the Effects of Financial Market Disruptions Big or Small? |
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| 21 Feb (Wed) |
Mr. David Yang Stanford University |
The Impact of Media Censorship: Evidence from a Field Experiment in China |
| 2 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Jason Kerwin University of Minnesota |
Pay Me Later: A Simple Employer-based Saving Scheme |
| 7 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Federico Bugni Duke University |
Inference under Covariate-Adaptive Randomization with Multiple Treatments |
| 14 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Julian Wright National University of Singapore |
Search Platforms: Showrooming and Price Parity Clauses |
| 16 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Shih En Lu Simon Fraser University |
Monotonic Cheap Talk |
| 21 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Dilip Moohkerjee Boston University and HKUST |
Community Networks and Growth of Private Enterprise in China |
| 22 Mar (Thu) LSK4047 3:30-5:00pm |
Prof. Christopher Pissarides London School of Economics & IAS HKUST |
China's Mobility Barriers and Employment Allocations |
| 23 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Ying Fan Michigan University |
Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market |
| 28 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Wooyoung Lim and Prof. Sujata Visaria HKUST |
The Financial Behaviour of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong |
| 11 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Francesc Dilme University of Bonn |
Optimal Languages |
| 13 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Liyan Yang University of Toronto |
Disclosure, Competition, and Learning from Asset Prices |
| 18 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Peter Neary University of Oxford |
Structural Foundations for Gibrat's Law |
| 20 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Keith Maskus University of Colorado |
Intellectual Property-Related Trade Preferential Trade Agreements and the Composition of Trade |
| 25 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Wonki Cho Korea University |
Fractional Group Identification |
| 27 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Hiroyuki Kasahara University of British Columbia |
Identification and Estimation of Production Function with Unobserved Heterogeneity |
| 2 May (Wed) |
Prof. Hengjie Ai University of Minnesota |
A Model of the Macroeconomic Announcement Premium with Production |
| 4 May (Fri) |
Prof. Philip Neary University of London and HKUST |
Neighbors and Neighborhoods |
| 9 May (Wed) |
Prof. Yuya Sasaki Vanderbilt University |
Inference for Moments of Ratios with Robustness against Large Trimming Bias and Unknown Convergence Rate |
| 11 May (Fri) |
Prof. Joshua Graff Zivin University of California, San Diego |
Incentivizing Learning-By-Doing: The Role of Compensation Schemes |
| 16 May (Wed) |
Prof. Zheng Fang Texas A&M University |
Improved Inference on the Rank of a Matrix |
| 18 May (Fri) |
Prof. Ruixue Jia University of California, San Diego |
The Oriental City: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000 |
| 23 May (Wed) |
Prof. Jidong Zhou Yale University |
Multiproduct Intermediaries and Optimal Product Range |
| 25 May (Fri) |
Prof. Alberto Martin Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional |
Monetary Policy for a Bubbly World |
| 30 May (Wed) |
Prof. Beata Javorcik University of Oxford |
Forensics, Elasticities and Benford's Law: Detecting Tax Fraud in International Trade |
Last modified: 30 October 2018
