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Research Seminars Schedule
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For this Spring semester, Wednesday seminars will be held in Conference Room 6045 (6th floor, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST) while Friday seminars will be held in Conference Room 5047 (5th 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.
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 |
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 |
Split-second Decision-Making in the Field: Response Times in Mobile Advertising |
| 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 |
Will the Market Fix the Market? A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation |
| 14 Dec (Fri) |
Prof. Gary Biglaiser Univeristy of Northern Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Migration between Platforms |
| 17 Dec (Mon) LSK6045 3:00-4:30pm |
Prof. Vincenzo Quadrini University of Southern California |
Commitment and Competition |
Last modified: 10 May 2019
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