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Research Seminars Schedule
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Given the current Epidemic, all of the seminars in Academic Year 2021/22 would be 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 and UK Webinars to start from 4:00pm. For Zoom meeting information, please contact Julie by email: fnjuwong@ust.hk.
Please also refer to other economics workshop/conference that we organized:
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| 1 Sep (Wed) |
Prof. Gedeon Lim The University of Hong Kong |
Why Pay The Chief? Land Rents and Economic Development in Indonesia |
| 15 Sep (Wed) |
Prof. Farzana Afridi Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi) and |
The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory |
| 17 Sep (Fri) |
Prof. Ying Bai The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Shaking Legitimacy: The Impact of Earthquakes on Conflict in Historical China |
| 24 Sep (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Ivan Canay Northwestern University |
On the Use of Outcome Tests for Detecting Bias in Decision Making |
| 29 Sep (Wed) |
Prof. Jae Won Lee Seoul National University |
Redistribution and the Monetary-Fiscal Policy Mix |
| 6 Oct (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Martin Weidner Oxford University |
Bounds on Average Effects in Discrete Choice Panel Data Models |
| 8 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Fuhai Hong Lingnan University |
A Deduction Mechanism for Public Goods Provision: Theory and Experiment |
| 15 Oct (Fri) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Walker Ray London School of Economics |
A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy Spillovers |
| 20 Oct (Wed) |
Prof. Chen Zhao The University of Hong Kong |
Learning from a Black Box |
| 22 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Jinzhao Du The University of Hong Kong |
How can Publishers Collaborate and Compete with News Aggregators? |
| 27 Oct (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Ali Yurukoglu Stanford University |
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| 29 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Jimmy Chan The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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| 3 Nov (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Koen Jochmans Toulouse School of Economics |
Nonparametric Estimation of Finite-Mixture Models of Dynamic Discrete Choices |
| 5 Nov (Fri) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Katja Seim Yale University |
Welfare Consequences of Nominal Excise Taxation |
| 12 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Wei He The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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| 17 Nov (Wed) 9:00-10:30am |
Prof. Jeanine Miklos-Thal University of Rochester |
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| 19 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. John Bodian Klopfer The University of Hong Kong |
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| 26 Nov (Fri) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Debopam Bhattacharya Cambridge University |
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| 1 Dec (Wed) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Vincent Sterk University College London |
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| 3 Dec (Fri) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Ralph Luetticke University College London |
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| 8 Dec (Wed) |
Prof. Ayako Kondo The University of Tokyo |
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 and Equilibrium Proportional Fee |
| 28 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Shoshana Vasserman Stanford University |
Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry |
| 30 Apr (Fri) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Martin Peitz University of Mannheim |
Ad Clutter, Time Use, and Media Diversity |
| 5 May (Wed) |
Prof. James Sallee University of California, Berkeley |
Pigou Creates Losers: On the Implausibility of Achieving Pareto Improvements from Efficiency-Enhancing Policies |
| 7 May (Fri) |
Prof. Hsin-Tien Tiffany Tsai National University of Singapore |
The Real Impact of FinTech: Evidence from Mobile Payment Technology |
| 12 May (Wed) |
Prof. Olivier Coibion The University of Texas at Austin |
The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending |
| 13 May (Thu) 4:00-5:30pm |
Prof. Pak Hung Au Hong Kong University of Science & Technology |
Attraction vs Persuasion |
| 17 May (Mon) 3:00-4:30pm |
Prof. Bingjing Li National University of Singapore |
Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock? |
| 21 May (Fri) 10:30am-12pm |
Prof. Yongxiang Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
The Chinese Collectibles Bubble |
| 26 May (Wed) |
Prof. Yizhen Gu Peking University HSBC Bsuiness School |
Delineating China’s Metropolitan Areas Using Commuting Flows |
| 28 May (Fri) |
Prof. Chang Sun The University of Hong Kong |
Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Expectation Formation over the Firm's Life Cycle |
| 4 June (Fri) |
Dr. Nan Li International Monetary Fund |
The S-curve: Understanding the Dynamics of Worldwide Financial Liberalization |
Fall 2020
| Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| 9 Sep (Wed) 8:00-9:30am |
Dr. Nils Gornemann Federal Reserve Board |
Exchange Rates and Endogenous Productivity |
| 11 Sep (Fri) 8:00-9:30am |
Prof. Mitsuru Igami Yale University |
Mapping Firms' Locations in Technology Space: A Topological Analysis of Patent Statistics |
| 18 Sep (Fri) |
Prof. Zhuoqiong Chen Harbin Institute of Technology |
Information Spillovers in Experience Goods Competition |
| 25 Sep (Fri) |
Prof. Lingfang (Ivy) Li Fudan University |
Buying Reputation as a Signal of Quality: Evidence from an Online Marketplace |
| 30 Sep (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 |
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