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:
- 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 |
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 |
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30 Apr (Fri) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Martin Peitz University of Mannheim |
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5 May (Wed) |
Prof. James Sallee University of California, Berkeley |
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7 May (Fri) |
Prof. Hsin-Tien Tiffany Tsai National University of Singapore |
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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 |
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21 May (Fri) |
Prof. Yongxiang Wang University of Southern California |
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26 May (Wed) |
Prof. Yizhen Gu Peking University-HSBC |
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28 May (Fri) |
Prof. Chang Sun The University of Hong Kong |
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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 |
Buffer Joint Ventures |
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