Seminar Series AY2019/2020, Term 1

AY2019/2020, Term 1

Date	Title	Speaker
Aug 22 (Thu)	Optimal auction design with common values: An informationally-robust approach	Songzi Du UC San Diego
Aug 28 (Wed)	The Signaling Role of Parental Leave	Linh T. Tô Boston University
Aug 29 (Thu)	Conventions under Heterogeneous Choice Rules	Jonathan Newton Kyoto University
Aug 30 (Fri)	Ownership Changes, Management and Efficiency in Rwanda’s Coffee Industry	Ameet Morjaria Northwestern University
Sep 18 (Wed)	Rising Wealth Inequality: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurship, and the Decline in Interest Rate	Ayse Imrohoroglu University of Southern California
Sep 25 (Wed)	Practice Job Talk	Allen Yiu Lim Lui SMU
Sep 27 (Fri)	Lending the Unbanked: Relational Contracting in Singapore's Unlicensed Moneylending Market	Huailu Li Fudan University
Oct 2 (Wed)	Practice Job Talk	Cuiling Zhang SMU
Oct 4 (Fri)	Timely Persuasion	Zhen Zhou Tsinghua University
Oct 9 (Wed)	Identification Robust Testing of Risk Premia in Finite Samples	Frank Kleibergen University of Amsterdam
Oct 11 (Fri)	Labor Share Decline and Intellectual Property Products Capital	Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Oct 16 (Wed)	Gender Differences in Job Search and the Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors	Jessica Pan NUS
Oct 23 (Wed)	Assortative Mating and Inequality	Jonas Vlachos Stockholm University
Oct 25 (Fri)	Detecting Identification Failure in Moment Condition Models	Jean-Jacques Forneron Boston University
Oct 30 (Wed)	The power of moral suasion: The case of electricity conservation in post-Fukushima Japan	Daiji Kawaguchi University of Tokyo
Oct 31 (Thu)	A Family of Rules to Share the Revenues from Broadcasting Sport Events	Juan Moreno-Ternero Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Nov 1 (Fri)	Practice Job Talk	Liyao Wang SMU
Nov 5 (Tue)	Practice Job Talk	Yanbo Liu SMU
Nov 6 (Wed)	Practice Job Talk	Ke Miao SMU
Nov 7 (Thu)	Matching Platforms	Masaki Aoyagi Osaka University
Nov 8 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	IO for Export(s)	Peter Neary University of Oxford
Nov 8 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	When Safety Messages Make us Less Safe: Evidence from Traffic Fatality Messages	Jonathan Hall University of Toronto
Nov 13 (Wed)	Search Complementarities, Aggregate Fluctuations, and Fiscal Policy	Francesco Zanetti Oxford University
Nov 15 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	Elites and Ideology: How Imperial China was Lost	James Kung University of Hong Kong
Nov 20 (Wed)	Practice Job Talk	Angdi Lu SMU
Nov 21 (Thu)	Rules, Mutation and Selection: Evolving Efficiency and Egalitarianism	Hamid Sabourian University of Cambridge
Nov 22 (Fri)	Counterfactual Sensitivity and Robustness	Timothy Christensen New York University
Nov 27 (Wed)	Skill and Value Creation in the Mutual Fund Industry	Olivier Scaillet University of Geneva
Nov 28 (Thu)	Trust and Betrayals: Reputational Payoffs and Behaviors without Commitment	Harry Di Pei Northwestern University
Nov 29 (Fri)	Price discrimination, switching costs and welfare: Evidence from the Dutch mortgage market	Jurre Thiel Copenhagen Business School
Dec 4 (Wed)	Panel Data Models with Potentially Misspecified Unknown Factors	Bin Peng Deakin University
Dec 6 (Fri)	Endogenous Information Acquisition and Insurance Choice	Jihye Jeon Boston University
Dec 9 (Mon)	Parental Responses to Early Childhood Education Programs: Theory and Evidence	Juan Pantano University of Arizona
Dec 10 (Tue)	Labor Market Search With Imperfect Information and Learning	Basit Zafar Arizona State University
Dec 11 (Wed)	Money Mining and Price Dynamics	Guillaume Rocheteau University of California at Irvine
Dec 16 (Mon)	Occupational Retirement and Social Security Reform: the Roles of Physical and Cognitive Health	Jiayi Wen Xiamen University
Dec 17 (Tue)	Teacher Effectiveness in Africa: Longitudinal and Causal Estimates	Jeffrey Smith University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dec 18 (Wed) 2-3.30pm	Does Delayed School Start Time Make Students Exercise Less? Evidence from South Korea	Kanghyock Koh Korea University
Dec 18 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	How well does the gravity equation describe commuting flows?	Jonathan Dingel University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Dec 23 (Mon)	Identifying Local Spillovers from Universities: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Urban China	Shimeng Liu Jinan University