Seminar Series AY2017/2018, Term 1

AY2017/2018, Term 1

Date	Title	Speaker
Jul 26 (Wed)	Sensitive Sectors in Free Trade Agreements	Alan Deardorff University of Michigan
Jul 28 (Fri)	The Micro Origins of International Business Cycle Comovement	Andrei Levchenko Universtiy of Michigan
Aug 7 (Mon)	Does a Government Public Transfer Program Crowd Out Intergenerational Transfers? Evidence from South Korea	Kanghyock Koh Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Aug 10 (Thu)	Multilateral Deescalation in the Dollar Auction	Charles Zheng University of Western Ontario
Aug 11 (Fri)	A New Wald Test for Hypothesis Testing Based on MCMC outputs	Yong Li Renmin University of China
Aug 23 (Wed)	The Limits of Propaganda: Evidence from Chavez's Venezuela	Brian Knight Brown University
Aug 24 (Thu) 11-12:30pm	Enhancing Dual Activities in a Social Network	Gabrielle Demange Paris School of Economics
Sep 6 (Wed)	The Sources of Capital Misallocation	Venky Vankateswaran NYU Stern
Sep 8 (Fri)	E-commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China	Yizhen Gu Jinan University
Sep 13 (Wed)	Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement	Lorenzo Caliendo Yale University
Sep 14 (Thu)	Farsighted Stability with Heterogeneous Expectations	Francis Bloch Universite Paris 1, Paris School of Economics
Sep 20 (Wed) 11-12:30pm	Coarse Communication and Institution Design	Qinggong Wu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sep 20 (Wed) 4-5:30pm	Farewell to Confucianism: The Modernizing Effect of Dismantling China’s Imperial Examination System	Ying Bai The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sep 28 (Thu)	Revenue-capped Efficient Auctions	Nozomu Muto Yokohama National University
Oct 5 (Thu)	Mechanism Design with Bounded Depth of Reasoning and Small Modeling Mistakes	Roberto Serrano Brown University
Oct 6 (Fri)	Bootstrap Inference under Random Distributional Limits	Giuseppe Cavaliere University of Bologna
Oct 11 (Wed)	The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy	Michael Lovenheim Cornell University
Oct 13 (Fri)	Trade Facilitation with Endogenous Border Costs	Georg Schaur The University of Tennessee
Oct 20 (Fri)	When Peers Count: Evidence from Randomized Peer Assignments in the Workplace	Sangyoon Park Hong Kong University
Oct 26 (Thu) (Cancelled)	Social Discounting and Individual Long-Run Discounting	Shaowei Ke University of Michigan
Nov 1 (Wed)	Inference for the Mean	Ulrich Muller Princeton University
Nov 2 (Thu)	Cooperation and Dynamic Network Formation in a Labor Union: A Game Theoretic Case Study	Michihiro Kandori University of Tokyo
Nov 8 (Wed)	Patient Cost-sharing and Health Care Utilization among Children	Hitoshi Shigeoka Simon Fraser University
Nov 10 (Fri) 2-3:30pm	Learning to Import from Neighbors Venue: Interactive Media Space, L5 SOE New Wing	Yong Tan Nanjing University of Finance and Economics
Nov 10 (Fri) 4-5:30pm	Keeping up with peers in India: A new social interactions model of perceived needs	Arthur Lewbel Boston College
Nov 17 (Fri)	Trade and Vertical Differentiation	Pierre Picard University of Luxembourg
Nov 22 (Wed)	The Long-run and Gender-equalizing Impacts of School Access: Evidence from the First Indochina War	Hai-Anh Dang World Bank
Nov 23 (Thu)	Coarse Revealed Preference	Jiangtao Li University of New South Wales
Nov 29 (Wed)	Practice Job Talk: Estimating Finite-horizon Life-cycle Models: A Quasi-Bayesian Approach	Xiaobin Liu SMU
Dec 1 (Fri)	Practice Job Talk: Nonstationary Panel Model with Latent Group Structures and Cross-sectional Dependence	Wenxin Huang SMU
Dec 4 (Mon) 11-12:30pm	China's Rising IQ (Innovation Quotient) and Growth: Firm-Level Evidence	Jing Fang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Dec 4 (Mon) 4-5:30pm	A Uniform Model Selection Test for Semi/Nonparametric Models	Zhipeng Liao UCLA
Dec 6 (Wed)	Practice Job Talk: Identifying latent group structures in nonlinear panels	Wuyi Wang SMU
Dec 7 (Thu)	Self-fulfilling Equilibrium in Social Contests: Expectation and Neighborhood Effect	Yan Long NYU Abu Dhabi
Dec 8 (Fri)	Practice Job Talk: The GATT/WTO Welfare Effects: 1950-2015	Wei Jin SMU
Dec 11 (Mon)	Estimation of Social Interactions in Endogenous and Strategically Formed Networks	Shuyang Sheng UCLA
Dec 13 (Wed)	Practice Job Talk: The Role of Macroeconomic, Policy, and Forecaster Uncertainty in Forecast Dispersion	You Li SMU