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 2
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Feb 12 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Extreme Heat and Consumption in City Centers: Evidence from Movie Box Office Performance | Yanmin Yang Nanjing Audit University |
Feb 20 (Thu) 10-11.30am | Semiparametric Bayesian Difference-in-Differences | Ruixuan Liu Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Feb 20 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Accuracy and Selection in Prediction Markets | Pietro Dindo Ca’ Foscari University of Venice |
Feb 27 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Random Double Auction: A Robust Bilateral Trading Mechanism | Wanchang Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Feb 28 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Who Benefits from Faster Public Transit? | Prottoy Aman Akbar Aalto University |
Mar 3 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | Mechanics of Spatial Growth | Charles Cai Sheng City University of Hong Kong |
Mar 5 (Wed) 3.30-5.00pm | Estimation and Inference in Dyadic Network Formation Models with Nontransferable Utilities | Ming Li National University of Singapore |
Mar 7 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Productivity and Competition in a Declining Industry | Yasutora Watanabe University of Tokyo |
Mar 12 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Technifying Ventures | Jeremy Greenwood University of Pennsylvania |
Mar 14 (Fri) 10-11.30am | Demand Estimation with Text and Image Data | Stephan Seiler Imperial College Business School |
Mar 14 (Fri) 3:30-5.00pm | How to Weight in Moments Matching: A New Approach and Applications to Earnings Dynamics | Xu Cheng University of Pennsylvania |
Mar 17 (Mon) 4.15-5.30pm | College Majors and Skill Mismatch in Labour Markets | Satoshi Tanaka University of Queensland |
Mar 19 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | The Long-Run Impact of Early Industrial Development on Human Capital: Evidence from China's 156 Project | Han Ye Lingnan University |
Mar 26 (Wed) 2-3.30pm | A Dynamic Analysis of Parental Beliefs and Investments | Rachel Tan Yi SMU Overseas PhD Scholar |
Mar 28 (Fri) 2-3.30pm | Model Averaging for Time-Varying Vector Autoregressions | Yuying Sun University of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Apr 2 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | The Anatomy of Censorship and Propaganda: Evidence from Russian Wikipedias | Ruben Durante National University of Singapore |
Apr 3 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Decision Making Under Multidimensional Risk | Shaowei Ke China Europe International Business School |
Apr 9 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | The Media and Foreign Powers: Does Market Access Matter for News Reporting? | Li Han ESSEC Business School |
Apr 10 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | TBC | Juan Pantano University of Hong Kong |
Apr 11 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Services and cash: How long-term care insurance benefit design affects household behavior in China | Terence Cheng Monash University |
Apr 14 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | Astrology and Matrimony: Social Reinforcement of Religious Beliefs on Marriage Matching in Vietnam | Quoc-Anh Do Monash University |
Apr 16 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Understanding the dynamics of inequality for growth and development | Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Queen Mary University of London |
Apr 25 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Checkpoints and Local Economic Development | Barthélémy Bonadio NYU Abu Dhabi |
Apr 30 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Targetting in Networks :A Mechanism Design Approach | Bhaskar Dutta Ashoka University |
May 7 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | TBC | Dennis Kristensen University College London |
May 8 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | TBC | Xiaowen Shi University of Toronto |
May 9 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | TBC | Adam Smith University College London |
May 21 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | TBC | Michal Kolesar Princeton University |
May 23 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | TBC | Leming Lin University of Pittsburgh |
July 25 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | TBC | Hiroaki Kaido Boston University |
