Seminar Series AY2020/2021, Term 2
AY2020/2021, Term 2
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Mar 1 (Mon) 9-10.30am | Linear Programming Approach to Nonparametric Inference under Shape Restrictions: with an Application to Regression Kink Designs | Yuya Sasaki Vanderbilt University |
| Mar 3 (Wed) 9-10.30am | A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Infant Health | Michelle Marcus Vanderbilt University |
| Mar 4 (Thu) | Cheating with Models | Rani Spiegler Tel Aviv University and University College London |
| Mar 5 (Fri) | [Hybrid] Intergenerational Impacts of the World’s Largest Early Childhood Program | Saravana Ravindran NUS |
| Mar 9 (Tue) 9-10.30am | The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions | Tommaso Porzio Columbia University |
| Mar 11 (Thu) | Continuous versus Abrupt Reorganizations | Hongyi Li University of New South Wales |
| Mar 12 (Fri) 2-3.30pm | Factor Modeling for Volatility | Yingying Li Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Mar 19 (Fri) 9-10.30am | Bias in Local Projections | Edward Herbst Federal Reserve Board |
| Mar 25 (Thu) | Incomplete Information Robustness | Takashi Ui Hitotsubashi University |
| Mar 30 (Tue) 9-10.30am | The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures | Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania |
| Apr 1 (Thu) | Daniel Garrett Toulouse School of Economics | |
| Apr 5 (Mon) 3-4.30pm | A Class of Multivariate Time-Varying Models: Theory and Practice | Jiti Gao Monash University |
| Apr 8 (Thu) | The Winner-Take-All Dilemma | Yukio Koriyama Ecole Polytechnique |
| Apr 9 (Fri) 2-3.30pm | [Hybrid] Attention Utility Theory: “Soft” and ”Hard” Modeling and Evidence | Chew Soo Hong NUS and Southwestern University of Finance & Economics |
| Apr 9 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Near Optimal Estimation of Average Regression Functionals | Chen Qiu Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London |
| Apr 14 (Wed) | The Changing Wage Distribution and the Decline of Marriage | Eduardo Ciscato Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Apr 15 (Thu) | A Theory of Simplicity in Games and Mechanism Design | Marek Pycia University of Zurich |
| Apr 22 (Thu) | Optimal Queue Design | Olivier Tercieux Paris School of Economics |
| Apr 23 (Fri) 8-9.30am | Harold Chiang University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Apr 30 (Fri) 9-10.30am | Refining Set-Identification in VARs through Independence | Jonathan Wright Johns Hopkins University |
| May 21 (Fri) | Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona | Rocio Madera Southern Methodist University |
| Jul 9 (Fri) 9-10.00am | Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India | Hanchen Jiang University of North Texas |
| Jul 21 (Fri) 9-10.00am | Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics: Functional Inference on Time-Variation in the Periodicity of Volatility | Torben Andersen University of North Texas |