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

DateTitleSpeaker

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

Robust Auctions for Selling Multiple Goods

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

Allocative (In)Efficiency and Cartel 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 Seller

Imperial College Business School

Mar 14 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

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 26 (Wed)

2-3.30pm

TBC

Rachel Tan Yi

SMU Overseas Postgraduate Scholar 

Mar 26 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Start What You Finish! Ex Ante Risk and Schooling Investments in the Presence of Dynamic Complementarities

Andrew Foster

Brown University

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

TBC

Ruben Durante

National University of Singapore

Apr 3 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

TBC

Shaowei Ke

China Europe International Business School

Apr 10 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

TBC

Juan Pantano

University of Hong Kong

Apr 11 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

TBC

Terence Cheng

Monash University

Apr 25 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

TBC

Barthélémy Bonadio

NYU Abu Dhabi

Apr 30 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

TBC

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 21 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

TBC

Michal Kolesar

Princeton University

May 23 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

TBC

Leming Lin

University of Pittsburgh