Seminar Series

Seminar Series

The SMU School of Economics Seminars are usually held on Wednesdays and Fridays, 4 - 5:30pm unless otherwise indicated.

Microeconomics Seminars are usually held on Thursdays, 4 - 5:30pm.

The seminar schedule is subjected to changes. Please click on the title for the abstract and to register.

All seminars will be held at MR5-1 unless otherwise stated.

If you would like a slot to present, please email Seminar Chair, Associate Professor Christine HO.

AY2025/2026, Term 2

DateTitleSpeaker

Feb 3 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Kenichi Nagasawa

Warwick University

Feb 9 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Yumi Koh

University of Seoul

Feb 11 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Sun Zhenting

University of Melbourne

Feb 25 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Wenlan Luo

Tsinghua University

Feb 26 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Xi Weng

Peking University

Feb 27 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Jiajia Gu

International Monetary Fund

Mar 3 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Xiaomei Sui

University of Hong Kong

Mar 4 (Wed)

9.30-11.00am

TBA

Yuichi Kitamura

Yale University

Mar 5 (Thu)

4 - 5.30pm

TBA

Yingkai Li

National University of Singapore

Mar 6 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Juan Pablo Atal

University of Pennsylvania

Mar 11 (Wed)

2-3.30pm

TBA

Giuseppe Moscarini

Yale University

Mar 11 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Fernando Parro

University of Rochester

Mar 12 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Bobby Pakzad-Hurson

Brown University

Oct 4 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

TBA

Patrik Guggenberger

The Pennsylvania State University

Oct 9 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Haichao Fan

Fudan University

Oct 11 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Johannes Kunz

Monash Business School
(Monash University)

Oct 15 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

 

Changhua Yu

Peking University

Oct 16 (Wed)

9-10.30am
(Zoom)

 

Amanda Starc

Northwestern University

Oct 16 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Andrew Patton

Duke University

Oct 17 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Aleksey Kolokolov

Alliance Manchester Business School

Oct 21 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

 

Torben Andersen

Northwestern University

Oct 23 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Michael Elsby

University of Edinburg

Oct 24 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Martin Peitz

University of Mannheim

Oct 30 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Yingjie Feng

Tsinghua University

Nov 1 (Fri)

2-3.30pm

 

Thierry Mayer

Sciences Po

Nov 1 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Yingjie Feng

Tsinghua University

Nov 6 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Yutao Wang

Singapore Management University

Nov 7 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Mariann Ollar

NYU Shanghai

Nov 8 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Jie Gong

Hong Kong University

Nov 13 (Wed)

2-3.30pm

 

Chen Heng

Hong Kong University

Nov 13 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Chao Ma

Xiamen University

Nov 14 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Haishi Li

Hong Kong University

Nov 18 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

 

Kai Zhang

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nov 19 (Tue)

4-5.30pm
(At SR3-10)

 

Chenggang Xu

Stanford University

Nov 20 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Marc Chan

University of Melbourne

Nov 21 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Huailu Li

Fudan University

Nov 22 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Didier Nibbering

Monash University

Nov 25 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

 

Uta Schoenberg

Hong Kong University

Nov 26 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

 

Ling Zhong

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Nov 27 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Yiqun Chen

University of Illinois Chicago

Nov 29 (Fri)

10.30am-12pm

 

Mostafa Beshkar

Indiana University

Nov 29 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Yunan Ji

Georgetown University

Dec 4 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Xuan Wang

Peking University

Dec 10 (Tue)

2-3.00pm

 

Dongyun Park

Asia Development Bank

Dec 12 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Viktor Todorov

Northwestern University