Seminar Series AY2018/2019, Term 2

AY2018/2019, Term 2

Date	Title	Speaker
Jan 10 (Thu)	Improved Inference on the Rank of a Matrix	Qihui Chen The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jan 17 (Thu)	A Robust and Efficient Approach to Causal Inference Based on Sparse Sufficient Dimension Reduction	Shujie Ma University of California, Riverside
Feb 25 (Mon)	Employment and Health among Older People: Self-employment vs. Wage Employment	Taehyun Ahn Sogang University
Feb 28 (Thu)	Robust Opinion Aggregation and its Dynamics	Simone Cerreia Vioglio Bocconi University
Mar 1 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	Geometrically stopped Markovian random growth processes and Pareto tails	Brendan Beare University of California, San Diego
Mar 1 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Measuring what matters in Global Value Chain and Value-added Trade	Alessandro Borin Bank of Italy
Mar 6 (Wed)	Input-Output Structure and Trade Elasticity	Mark Razhev University of Melbourne
Mar 7 (Thu)	Nutrition, Health, and Human Capital Development: Evidence from South Korea, 1946-1977	Chulhee Lee Seoul National University
Mar 11 (Mon)	A Forensic Examination of China’s National Accounts	Michael Song The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mar 13 (Wed) 2-3.30pm	Structural Change and De-Industrialization	Kei-Mu Yi University of Houston
Mar 13 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Solving Dynamic Discrete Choice Models Using Smoothing and Sieve Methods	Dennis Kristensen University College London
Mar 14 (Thu)	Robust Asymptotic Inference about Conditional Tail Properties: A Panel Data Approach	Yulong Wang Syracuse University
Mar 15 (Fri)	Normal Approximation in Large Network Models	Michael Leung University of Southern California
Mar 20 (Wed)	Dynamic Compliance	Edwin Leuven University of Oslo
Mar 21 (Thu)	Quantile Factor Models Venue: Interactive Learning Space	Liang Chen Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Mar 22 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	Impact of China on Korea's Manufacturing Plants: The Role of Intermediate Goods Trade Venue: Interactive Learning Space	Minho Kim Korea Development Institute
Mar 22 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Long-run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-being Venue: Interactive Learning Space	Erik Lindqvist Stockholm School of Economics & Research Institute for Industrial Economics
Mar 28 (Thu)	Monotonicity Test for Local Average Treatment Effects under Regression Discontinuity	Yu-Chin Hsu Academia Sinica
Apr 1 (Mon)	Aggregate Asymmetry in Idiosyncratic Jump Risk	Viktor Todorov Northwestern University
Apr 3 (Wed)	Short-term Rentals and the Housing Market: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles	Jos Van Ommeren Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Apr 4 (Thu)	Information Acquisition with Subjective Waiting Costs	Norio Takeoka Hitotsubashi University
Apr 5 (Fri)	Spurious Factor Analysis	Alexey Onatskiy University of Cambridge
Apr 9 (Tue) 5-6.30pm	Regressions with Heavy Tailed Weakly Nonstationary Processes	Ioannis Kasparis University of Cyprus
Apr 10 (Wed)	The Local Economic Impacts of Prisons	Pom Janjala Chirakijja Monash University
Apr 11 (Thu)	On Stable and Efficient Mechanisms for Priority-based Allocation Problems	Qianfeng Tang Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Apr 12 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	A more powerful subvector Anderson Rubin test in linear instrumental variables regression	Patrik Guggenberger Pennsylvania State University
Apr 12 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	The Political Economy of Medicaid: Ideology, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures	Claire Lim Queen Mary University of London
Apr 17 (Wed)	Asset Quality Dynamics	Erwan Quintin University of Wisconsin-Madison
Apr 24 (Wed)	Productivity, (Mis)allocation and Trade	Kalina Manova University College London
Apr 26 (Fri)	Hypothesis Testing under Matrix Normalisation	Tassos Magdalinos University of Southampton
May 3 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	Imperfect Competition in Firm-to-Firm Trade	Ken Kikkawa University of British Columbia
May 3 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	A Structural Model of Homophily and Clustering in Social Networks	Angelo Mele Johns Hopkins University
May 8 (Wed)	The Wild Bootstrap with a Small Number of Large Clusters	Andres Santos University of California, Los Angeles
May 10 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	Skill Premium, Human Capital and Industrial Dynamics	Yong Wang Peking University
May 10 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Inequality, corruption and cooperation: Evidence from Vietnam	Saurabh Singhal Lancaster University
May 17 (Fri)	Prison Work and Recidivism	Guilio Zanella University of Adelaide
May 22 (Wed)	Likelihood Based Inference for Dynamic Panel Data Models	Seung Anh Arizona State University
May 30 (Thu) 2-3.30pm	International Trade and Job Polarization: Evidence at the Worker Level	Wolfgang Keller University of Colorado Boulder
May 31 (Fri)	Social Mobility in the Long Run: A Temporal Analysis of China from 1300 to 1900	Carol Shiue University of Colorado Boulder
Jul 5 (Fri)	Fetal Origins of Mental Health: Evidence from Natural Disasters in Taiwan	Elaine Liu University of Houston
Jul 12 (Fri)	Optimal Auxiliary Priors and Reversible Jump Proposals for a Class of Variable Dimension Models	Andriy Norets Brown University
Jul 19 (Fri)	Robust and Efficient Sequential GEL and GMM Estimation and Tests with Martingale Differences	Fei Jin Fudan University
Jul 24 (Wed)	Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Imperfect Compliance	Sukjin Han University of Texas at Austin
Aug 7 (Wed)	Loss Attitudes in the U.S. Population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE)	Erik Snowberg University of British Columbia
Aug 16 (Fri)	Identification and Estimation of Discrete Choice Demand Models when Observed and Unobserved Product Characteristics are Correlated	Boyoung Seo Indiana University