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.
AY2024/2025, Term 1
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Aug 21 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Trade Policies Mix and Match: Theory, Evidence and the EU-Sino Electric Vehicle Disputes | Hiau Looi Kee World Bank Group |
Aug 22 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Deception under the Veil of Noise | Jawwad Noor Boston University |
Aug 23 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Fertility Prediction using Micro Data | Seik Kim Korea University |
Aug 26 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | ChatGPT, Stock Market Predictability and Links to the Macroeconomy | Wu Zhu Tsinghua University |
Aug 28 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Pro Lieralism or Illiberalism? The Nature of Civic Mobilzation and Economic Growth | Di Sima Nanjing Audit University |
Aug 29 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions | Sam Jindani National University of Singapore |
Aug 30 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Graph Neural Networks For Causal Inference Under Network Confounding | Michael Leung University of California, Santa Cruz |
Sep 11 (Wed) 9.30-11.00am | Negative Bubbles | Kosuke Aoki University of Tokyo |
Sep 12 (Thu) 2-3.30pm | Intelligence Darwinsim: Decision Quality Shapes Natural Selection Delivering Biodiversity | Soo Hong Chew & Richard Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics |
Sep 12 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship | Ruixue Jia University of California, San Diego |
Sep 13 (Fri) 2-3.30pm | High-Skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics | Eunhee Lee Seoul National University |
Sep 18 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Robust Analysis of Short Panels | Andrew Chesher University College London |
Sep 27 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Decomposition and Interpretation of Treatment Effects in Settings with Delayed Outcomes | Ivan Canay Northwestern University |
Oct 4 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Some New Results on Minimax Regret Rules in Finite Samples | Patrik Guggenberger The Pennsylvania State University |
Oct 9 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Dirty Trade War: The Effects of Trade War on Carbon Emission | Haichao Fan Fudan University |
Oct 11 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Radiating Influence? Spillover Effects among Physicians | Johannes Kunz Monash Business School |
Oct 15 (Tue) 4-5.30pm | Optimal Monetary Policy in Production Networks with Distortions | Changhua Yu Peking University |
Oct 16 (Wed) 9-10.30am | Painful Negotiations: Evidence from Anesthesia Rollups | Amanda Starc Northwestern University |
Oct 16 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Intraday Variation in Systematic Risks and Information Flows | Andrew Patton Duke University |
Oct 17 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | An Unbounded Intensity Model for Point Processes | Aleksey Kolokolov Alliance Manchester Business School |
Oct 21 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | The Granular Origins of Tail Dispersion Risk in the Cross-Section of Asset Prices | Torben Andersen Northwestern University |
Oct 23 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Heterogeneity and Hysteresis | Michael Elsby University of Edinburg |
Oct 24 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Product Recommendations and Price Parity Clauses | Martin Peitz University of Mannheim |
Oct 30 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Uniform Estimation and Inference for Nonparametric Partitioning-Based M-Estimators | Yingjie Feng Tsinghua University |
Nov 1 (Fri) 2-3.30pm | The Fragmentation Paradox:De-risking Trade and Global Safety | Thierry Mayer Sciences Po |
Nov 1 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Causal Inference in Possibly Nonlinear Factor Models | Yingjie Feng Tsinghua University |
Nov 6 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Practice Job Talk - Social Institutions and Low Birth Rates | Yutao Wang Singapore Management University |
Nov 7 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions | Mariann Ollar NYU Shanghai |
Nov 8 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | AI and Creative Process | Jie Gong Hong Kong University |
Nov 13 (Wed) 2-3.30pm | Trend, Cycle and Expectation Formation | Chen Heng Hong Kong University |
Nov 13 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Impacts of Third-Party Entry to a Polarized Two-Party Political System: A Structural Analysis | Chao Ma Xiamen University |
Nov 14 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | To Comply or Not to Comply: Understanding Neutral Country Supply Chain Responses to Russian Sanctions | Haishi Li Hong Kong University |
Nov 18 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | BET on Independence and BELIEF in Dependence: Leveraging Atomic Linearity in Data Bits for Rethinking Generalized Linear Models | Kai Zhang The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Nov 19 (Tue) 4-5.30pm | Book talk - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China's Institutions and Totalitarianism | Chenggang Xu Stanford University |
Nov 20 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Estimating the Dynamic Effects of the Head Start Program with Multiple Alternatives | Marc Chan University of Melbourne |
Nov 21 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | The Fragility of Social Norms: Evidence from a Youth Reformative Training Center | Huailu Li Fudan University |
Nov 22 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Inference on LATEs with Covariates | Didier Nibbering Monash University |
Nov 25 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Individual Careers | Uta Schoenberg Hong Kong University |
Nov 26 (Tue) 4-5.30pm | Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers | Ling Zhong Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business |
Nov 27 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Government Monitoring of Health Care Quality: Evidence from the Nursing Home Sector | Yiqun Chen University of Illinois Chicago |
Nov 29 (Fri) 10.30am-12pm | International Policy Coordination to Promote Innovation and Production Capacity | Mostafa Beshkar Indiana University |
Nov 29 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | The Long-Run Impacts of Regulated Price Cuts: Evidence From Medicare | Yunan Ji Georgetown University |
Dec 4 (Wed) 9.30-11am | TBC | Liu Jingnan MIT |
Dec 4 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Entry Effects of Commission Rates: Evidence from Mobile Applications in China | Xuan Wang Peking University |
Dec 10 (Tue) 2-3.30pm | Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Employment and Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from Korea | Dongyun Park Asia Development Bank |
Dec 12 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Do Equity and Options Markets Agree about Volatility? | Viktor Todorov Northwestern University |