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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 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 (Thurs) 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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