Research Seminars Schedule

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Given the current Epidemic, all of the seminars in Academic Year 2020/21 are held online. On top of the normal seminar schedule on Wednesday and Friday at 3:00pm, we would also have the US Webinars to start from 9:00am. For Zoom meeting information, please contact Julie by email: fnjuwong@ust.hk.

Please also refer to other economics workshop/conference that we organized:

- Applied Economics Workshop

- Hong Kong Theory Seminars

- Webinar Series on Growth and Development in India

- Webinar Series on Targeting and Community Networks in Anti-Poverty Programs

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker	Presentation
24 Feb (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm	Prof. José Azar University of Navarra	Revisiting the Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership
*IEMS & CEP* 26 Feb (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	*Distinguished Speakers in Economics* Prof. Michael Kremer University of Chicago	Converging to Convergence
3 Mar (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm	Prof. Ruixue Jia London School of Economics and University of California, San Diego	Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China
5 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Curtis Taylor Duke University	Setbacks, Rundowns, and Overruns
10 Mar (Wed)	Prof. Jean-Jacques Forneron Boston University	Estimation and Inference by Stochastic Optimization: A Free-Lunch Bootstrap
12 Mar (Fri)	Dr. Christian Wolf University of Chicago	Interest Rate Cuts vs. Stimulus Payments: A Macro Equivalence Result
17 Mar (Wed) 10:00-11:30am	Prof. Anujit Chakraborty University of California, Davis	Procrastination in Groups
7 Apr (Wed)	Prof. Nicholas Ryan Yale University	Holding Up Green Energy
14 Apr (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm	Prof. Christoph Rothe University of Mannheim	Bias-Aware Inference in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs
16 Apr (Fri)	Prof. Jonathan Robinson University of California, Santa Cruz	Digital Credit: Filling a hole, or digging a hole? Evidence from Malawi
21 Apr (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm	Prof. Sangyoon Park The University of Hong Kong	Technology Training, Buyer-Supplier Linkage, and Quality Upgrading in an Agricultural Supply Chain
23 Apr (Fri)	Prof. Wen Zhou The University of Hong Kong	Platform Competition: Unit Fee or Proportional Fee?
28 Apr (Wed)	Prof. Shoshana Vasserman Stanford University
30 Apr (Fri) 4:00-5:30pm	Prof. Martin Peitz University of Mannheim
5 May (Wed)	Prof. James Sallee University of California, Berkeley
7 May (Fri)	Prof. Hsin-Tien Tiffany Tsai National University of Singapore
12 May (Wed) Rescheduled from 24 Mar	Prof. Olivier Coibion The University of Texas at Austin	The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
14 May (Fri)	Prof. Bingjing Li National University of Singapore
21 May (Fri)	Prof. Yongxiang Wang University of Southern California
26 May (Wed)	Prof. Yizhen Gu Peking University-HSBC
28 May (Fri)	Prof. Chang Sun The University of Hong Kong
4 June (Fri)	Dr. Nan Li International Monetary Fund

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Presentation
9 Sept (Wed) 8:00-9:30am	Dr. Nils Gornemann Federal Reserve Board	Exchange Rates and Endogenous Productivity
11 Sept (Fri) 8:00-9:30am	Prof. Mitsuru Igami Yale University	Mapping Firms' Locations in Technology Space: A Topological Analysis of Patent Statistics
18 Sept (Fri)	Prof. Zhuoqiong Chen Harbin Institute of Technology	Information Spillovers in Experience Goods Competition
25 Sept (Fri)	Prof. Lingfang (Ivy) Li Fudan University	Buying Reputation as a Signal of Quality: Evidence from an Online Marketplace
30 Sept (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Florian Ederer Yale University	Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives
2 Oct (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. John Turner University of Georgia	Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Sourcing
7 Oct (Wed) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Nathan Miller Georgetown University	Oligopolistic Price Leadership and Mergers: The United States Beer Industry
9 Oct (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Michael Sposi Southern Methodist University	Structural Change and Global Trade
16 Oct (Fri)	Prof. David Frankel The University of Melbourne	Portfolio Liquidity and Security Design with Private Information
23 Oct (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Alessandro Dovis University of Pennsylvania	Rules without Commitment: Reputation and Incentives
30 Oct (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Matthew Backus Columbia University	Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry
6 Nov (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Karthik Muralidharan University of California, San Diego	Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance in India
7 Nov (Sat) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Nicola Persico Northwestern University	Contestable Autocracies, Redistribution, and Public Goods
13 Nov (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Xiaosheng Mu Princeton University	Monotone Additive Statistics
20 Nov (Fri)	Prof. Chengsi Wang Monash University	Directed Search on a Platform: Meet fewer to Match More
SBM & IAS 25 Nov (Wed) 3:00-4:30pm	Prof. Sunny Huang and Prof. Qinggong Wu HKUST	IAS Nobel Prize Popular Science Lecture on Economics Sciences
27 Nov (Fri) 9:00-10:30am	Prof. Jorge Lemus University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Information Overload and Screening

Spring 2020

Date

Speaker

Presentation

Joint ISOM
21 May (Thu)
10:30-12:00pm

Prof. Shunya Noda

University of British Columbia

An Economic Analysis of Difficulty Adjustment
Algorithms in Proof-of-Work Blockchain Systems
(Zoom Meeting ID: 970-8878-5794)

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Presentation
6 Sept (Fri)	Prof. Kurt Mitman Stockholm University	The Fiscal Multiplier
11 Sept (Wed)	Prof. Tongbin Zhang Shanghai University of Finance & Economics	New Tests of Expectation Formation with Applications to Asset Pricing Models
19 Sep (Thu) LSK6045 11:00-12:00pm	Prof. Wooyoung Lim HKUST	Cheap-Talk with Non-Bayesian Updating
20 Sept (Fri)	Prof. Saki Bigio University of California, Los Angeles	A Model of Intermediation, Money, Interest, and Prices
2 Oct (Wed)	Prof. Alonso De Gortari Darmouth College	On the Geography of Global Value Chains
4 Oct (Fri)	Prof. Shuo Liu Peking University	Delegating Performance Evaluation
18 Oct (Fri)	Prof. Dun Jia Renmin University	Attention, Uncertainty Reduction and Pre-announcement Premium in China
Joint IEMS 23 Oct (Wed)	Prof. Andrei Markevich New Economic School, Moscow	A Regional Perspective on the Economic Development of the late Russian Empire
25 Oct (Fri) LSK1005 10:30-12:00pm	Prof. Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel Cornell University	Cascades and Fluctuations in an Economy with an Endogenous Production Network
30 Oct (Wed)	Dr. Shota Ichihashi Bank of Canada	Non-Competing Data Intermediaries
1 Nov (Fri)	Prof. Arpita Chatterjee University of New South Wales	Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
8 Nov (Fri)	Prof. Jin Yeub Kim Yonsei University	Neutral Public Good Mechanisms
13 Nov (Wed)	Prof. Yves Zenou Monash University	Are Estimates of Early Education Programs Too Pessimistic? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment that Causally Measures Neighbor Effects
22 Nov (Fri)	Prof. Alexandre de Corniere University of Toulouse	Data and Competition: A General Framework
29 Nov (Fri)	Prof. Qinggong Wu HKUST	Robust Binary Voting

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Presentation
8 Feb (Fri)	Dr. Aaron Mehrota Bank for International Settlements	Disagreeing during Deflations
18 Feb (Mon) LSK6045 4:00-5:30pm	Prof. Philip Neary University of London and HKUST	Netflix Games: Local Public Goods with Capacity Constraints
1 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Gianmarco Ottaviano Bocconi University	Comparative Advantage, Competition, and Firm Heterogeneity
8 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Takeshi Murooka Osaka University	Deception under Competitive Intermediation
13 Mar (Wed) LSK6045 12:00-1:30pm	Prof. Wooyoung Lim HKUST	Bargaining and Time Preferences: An Experimental Study
15 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Matthew Mitchell University of Toronto	Our Distrust is Very Expensive
20 Mar (Wed)	Prof. Erik Lindqvist Stockholm School of Economics	Long-run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-being
22 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Hiroaki Kaido Boston University	Robust Likelihood-Ratio Tests for Incomplete Economic Models
27 Mar (Wed)	Prof. Leo Kaas Goethe University Frankfurt	Low Homeownership in Germany - A Quantitative Exploration
29 Mar (Fri)	Prof. Andrei Hagiu Boston University	Creating Platforms by Hosting Rivals
Joint IEMS 3 Apr (Wed)	Prof. Lin Tian European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD)	Division of Labor and Productivity Advantage of Cities: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
10 Apr (Wed)	Prof. Alexei Onatski Cambridge University	Spurious Factor Analysis
Joint SOSC & IEMS 11 Apr (Thu) AB3301 12:00-1:30pm	Prof. Maitreesh Ghatak London School of Economics	Why Do People Stay Poor?
Joint SOSC 17 Apr (Wed)	Prof. Claire Lim Queen Mary University of London	The Political Economy of Medicaid: Ideology, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures
26 Apr (Fri)	Prof. Jinyue Li City University of Hong Kong	Housing Prices and the Comparative Advantage of Cities
3 May (Fri)	Prof. Xiao Fu Fudan University	The Incentives of Patent-ownership Fragmentation of Standard-setting Organizations: Theory and Empirical Evidence
8 May (Wed)	Prof. Benson Leung Cambridge University	Limited Cognitive Ability and Selective Information Processing
10 May (Fri) LSK1003 1:30-3:00pm	Prof. Andres Santos University of California, Los Angeles	The Wild Bootstrap with a “Small” Number of “Large” Clusters
17 May (Fri)	Prof. Seung Chan Ahn Arizona State University	Likelihood Based Inference for Dynamic Panel Data Models
24 May (Fri)	Prof. Chen Zhao The University of Hong Kong	Revealed Neural Network Utility
29 May (Wed)	Prof. Dmitry Ryvkin University of Florida	Tournament Rewards and Heavy Tails
31 May (Fri)	Prof. Pierre Dubois Tolouse School of Economics	On the Effect of Parallel Trade on Manufacturers’ and Retailers’ Profits in the Pharmaceutical Sector

Winter 2019

Date

Speaker

Presentation

15 Jan (Tues)
LSK1001
12:00-1:00pm

Prof. Thomas Ross

University of British Columbia

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