School of Economics

Seminar Series AY2022/2023, Term 1

AY2022/2023, Term 1

DateTitleSpeaker

Aug 18 (Thu)

4-5.30pm (Zoom)

Path-dependent Preferences and Polarized Public Response to Pandemics

Audrey Hu

City University of Hong Kong

Sep 1 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Dynamic Contracting with Flexible Monitoring

Ming Yang

University College London

Sep 7 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Impacts of LTV Policy on the Mortgage Market via Housing Speculation

Kaiji Chen

Emory University

Sep 8 (Thu)

10-11.30am (Zoom)

The Core in Housing Markets with Indifferent Preferences

Jun Zhang

Nanjing Audit University

Sep 15 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Generalizing Obvious Dominance using the Sure-thing Principle

Chew Soo Hong

NUS & Southwestern University of Finance & Economics

Sep 16 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Poverty at Higher Frequency

Joshua Merfeld

KDI School of Public Policy and Management

Sep 28 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Development via Administrative Redistricting: Evidence from Brazil

Ricardo Dahis

PUC-Rio

Sep 29 (Thu)

4-5.30pm (Zoom)

Information Disclosure and Favoritism in Contests

Zenan Wu

Peking University

Oct 6 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the Case of Identical but Unknown Distributions

Antonio Penta

Barcelona School of Economics

Oct 7 (Fri)

9-10.30am (Zoom)

The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department

Yiqun Chen

University of Illinois at Chicago

Oct 12 (Wed)

9-10.30am (Zoom)

Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment

John Horton

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Oct 13 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Short-term Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence from South Korea’s Public Pension Programs

Kanghyock Koh

Korea University

Oct 19 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

The Midlife Crisis

Nattavudh Powdthavee

Nanyang Technological University

Oct 21 (Fri)

10-11.30am (Zoom)

Do Sanctions Affect Growth?

Ohyun Kwon

Drexel University

Oct 26 (Wed)

9-10.30am (Zoom)

Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation: Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents

Jeffrey Clemens

University of California, San Diego

Oct 27 (Thu)

2-3.30pm 

Self-weighted LS Estimation for Nonlinear Cointegrating Regression

Qiying Wang

The University of Sydney

Oct 28 (Fri)

10-11.30am (ILS)

The Stable Transformation Path

Joseph Kaboski

University of Notre Dame

Oct 28 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Contracting with Enemies?: Vertical FDI with Outsourcing Contracts

Jee-Hyeong Park

Seoul National University

Nov 2 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

STRC - The Challenge of Long-term Care

Kathleen McGarry

University of California, Los Angeles

Nov 3 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Learning by Consuming: Optimal Pricing with Endogenous Information Provision

Wei He

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Nov 4 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Moral Hazard and Special Interests in Congress

Haishan Yuan

University of Queensland

Nov 9 (Wed)

9.30-11am (Zoom)

Innovation Networks and R&D Allocation

Ernest Liu

Princeton University

Nov 11 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

The Benefits of Prenatal Care: Evidence from the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan

Hsien-Ming Lien

National Chengchi University

Nov 16 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Migration Costs, Sorting, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap

Naijia Guo

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Nov 17 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Directed Search on a Platform: Meet Fewer to Match More?

Makoto Watanabe

Kyoto University

Nov 18 (Fri)

1-2.30pm (ILS)

Optimal Measure Preserving Derivatives Revisited

Brendan K. Beare

University of Sydney

Nov 18 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

STRC - Occupational Reallocations within and across Firms: Implications for the Labor-Market Polarization

Toshihiko Mukoyama

Georgetown University

Nov 23 (Wed)

12.30-2pm

Local Elites, Land Rents, and Incentives for Development: Evidence from Village Chiefs in Indonesia

Gedeon Lim

University of Hong Kong

Nov 23 - 24 (Wed - Thu)

2.30-5.30pm (Zoom)

Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics - Asymptotic Equivalence for Inference on the Volatility from Noisy Observations

Markus Reiss

Humbodt University

Nov 25 (Fri)

1-2.30pm

Spectral Centroid Targeting with the HP Filter  

Ye Lu

University of Sydney

Nov 25 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Harmonization...What Else? The Role for International Regulatory Agreements

Giovanni Maggi

Yale University

Dec 2 (Fri)

10-11.30am

Preference Restrictions for Simple and Strategy-proof Rules: Local and Weakly Single-peaked Domains 

Jordi Massó

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Dec 2 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Asymptotic Representations for Sequential Decisions, Adaptive Experiments, and Batched Bandits

Keisuke Hirano

The Pennsylvania State University

Dec 7 (Wed)

2-3.30pm

Practice Job Talk - Efficient Nonparametric Estimation of Generalized Panel Data Transformation Models with Fixed Effects

Ying Xia

SOE PhD student

Dec 14 (Wed)

10-11.30am (Zoom)

“Golden Ages”: A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States

Hanming Fang

University of Pennsylvania