Seminar Series AY2023/2024, Term 2

AY2023/2024, Term 2

Date	Title	Speaker
Feb 23 (Fri) 10-11.30am	Industrial Policies for Multi-stage Production: The Battle for Battery-driven Vehicles	Keith Head The University of British Columbia
Feb 23 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data	Aureo De Paula University College London
Feb 29 (Thur) 4-5.30pm	Gaining Steam: Incumbent Switching and Entrant Leapfrogging	Anders Humlum The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Mar 1 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Floating Population: Migration with(out) Family and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity	Joan Monras Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Mar 5 (Thur) 10-11.30am	The Costs and Benefits of Buying American	Bingjing Li University of Hong Kong
Mar 5 (Thur) 4-5.30pm	Finite Sample Inference in Incomplete Models	Marc Henry The Pennsylvania State University
Mar 6 (Wed) 10-11.30am	Selecting the Patients Who Benefit the Most: Evidence from Marginal Patients in Health Checks	Kuan-Ming Chen National Taiwan University
Mar 6 (Thur) 4-5.30pm	The Value of Learning History	Sarah Eichmeyer Bocconi University
Mar 8 (Fri) 10-11.30am	Detecting Spurious Factor Models	Yi He University of Amsterdam
Mar 8 (Thur) 4-5.30pm	The Impact of Dollar Store Expansion on Local Market Structure and Food Access	Matthew Osborne University of Toronto
Mar 13 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare	Jonathan Zhang McMaster University
Mar 15 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	Trade Liberalization, Educational Choice, and Income Distribution	Taiji Furusawa University of Tokyo
Mar 15 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Bayesian Inference on Counterfactuals in Games	Elie Tamer Harvard University
Mar 18 (Mon) 4-5.30pm	Optimal Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis	Vincent Sterk University College London
Mar 19 (Tue) 4-5.30pm	South-South Trade, Comparative Advantage and Macroeconomic Outcomes	Marla Ripoll University of Pittsburgh
Mar 20 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Technological Waves and Local Growth	Ruben Gaetani University of Toronto
Mar 22 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Scalable and Hyper-parameter-free Non-parametric Covariate Shift Adaptation with Conditional Sampling	Lionel Truquet ENSAI
Mar 28 (Thur) 4-5.30pm	Credit Horizons	Nobuhiro Kiyotaki Princeton University
Apr 2 (Tue) 4-5.30pm	Differentiated Public Goods	Kim Sau Chung Hong Kong Baptist University
Apr 3 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market	Chuqing Jin Toulouse School of Economics
Apr 4 (Thur) 4-5.30pm	Monotone Equilibrium Design for Matching Markets with Signaling	Seungjin Han McMaster University
Apr 5 (Fri) 10-11.30am	Multivariate Ordered Discrete Response Models	Tatiana Komarova University of Manchester
Apr 9 (Tue) 4-5.30pm	Applications of Deep Learning-Based Probabilistic Approach to "Combinatorial" Problems in Economics	Ji Huang Chinese University of Hong Kong
Apr 11 (Thur) 3-4.30pm	Dating and Divorce	Sergei Severinov The University of British Columbia
Apr 12 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Optimal Estimation of Heterogeneous Parameters under Unknown Heteroskedasticity	Ho Sheng Chao SMU Oversees Postgraduate Scholar
Apr 17 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Labor Market Integration and Entrepreneurship	Ming Li The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Apr 19 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	The Design of Defined Contribution Plans	Gaston Illanes Northwestern University
Apr 24 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	The Heterogeneous Impact of Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes	Benjamin Lester Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Apr 26 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	AI Adoption, Productivity and Labor Composition	Frederic Warzynski Aarhus University/Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
Apr 26 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	On the Welfare Cost of Constrained Female Labor Supply	Dongya Koh Osaka University
May 8 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings	Remi Jedwab George Washington University
May 9 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Persuasion and Matching: Optimal Productive Transport	Anton Kolotilin University of New South Wales
May 17 (Fri) 10-11.30am	Consumer Search and Price Adjustment: Evidence from the Distribution of Retail Gasoline Prices	Jungwon Yeo Pusan National University
May 21 (Tue) 10-11.30am	Haircut, Interest Rate and Collateral Quality in the Repo Market: Evidence and Theory	Sangyup Choi Yonsei University
May 31 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Consumers' Responses to Stimulus Payments with Pre-contribution Design	Kamhon Kan Academia Sinica
Jul 29 (Mon) 4-5.30pm	Short-term Mortality Impact of Public Pension Programs: Evidence from South Korea	Kanghyock Koh Korea University
Aug 2 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Trade, Labor Economics and Development Economics	Rafael Dix Carneiro Duke University
Aug 15 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	Associative Network in Decision Making	Rui Tang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Date

Title

Speaker

Feb 23 (Fri)

10-11.30am

Industrial Policies for Multi-stage Production: The Battle for Battery-driven Vehicles

Keith Head

The University of British Columbia

Feb 23 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data

Aureo De Paula

University College London

Feb 29 (Thur)

4-5.30pm

Gaining Steam: Incumbent Switching and Entrant Leapfrogging

Anders Humlum

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Mar 1 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Floating Population: Migration with(out) Family and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity

Joan Monras

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Mar 5 (Thur)

10-11.30am

The Costs and Benefits of Buying American

Bingjing Li

University of Hong Kong

Mar 5 (Thur)

4-5.30pm

Finite Sample Inference in Incomplete Models

Marc Henry

The Pennsylvania State University

Mar 6 (Wed)

10-11.30am

Selecting the Patients Who Benefit the Most: Evidence from Marginal Patients in Health Checks

Kuan-Ming Chen

National Taiwan University

Mar 6 (Thur)

4-5.30pm

The Value of Learning History

Sarah Eichmeyer

Bocconi University

Mar 8 (Fri)

10-11.30am

Detecting Spurious Factor Models

Yi He

University of Amsterdam

Mar 8 (Thur)

4-5.30pm

The Impact of Dollar Store Expansion on Local Market Structure and Food Access

Matthew Osborne

University of Toronto

Mar 13 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare

Jonathan Zhang

McMaster University

Mar 15 (Fri)

2-3.30pm

Trade Liberalization, Educational Choice, and Income Distribution

Taiji Furusawa

University of Tokyo

Mar 15 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Bayesian Inference on Counterfactuals in Games

Elie Tamer

Harvard University

Mar 18 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

Optimal Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis

Vincent Sterk

University College London

Mar 19 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

South-South Trade, Comparative Advantage and Macroeconomic Outcomes

Marla Ripoll

University of Pittsburgh

Mar 20 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Technological Waves and Local Growth

Ruben Gaetani

University of Toronto

Mar 22 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Scalable and Hyper-parameter-free Non-parametric Covariate Shift Adaptation with Conditional Sampling

Lionel Truquet

ENSAI

Mar 28 (Thur)

4-5.30pm

Credit Horizons

Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

Princeton University

Apr 2 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

Differentiated Public Goods

Kim Sau Chung

Hong Kong Baptist University

Apr 3 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market

Chuqing Jin

Toulouse School of Economics

Apr 4 (Thur)

4-5.30pm

Monotone Equilibrium Design for Matching Markets with Signaling

Seungjin Han

McMaster University

Apr 5 (Fri)

10-11.30am

Multivariate Ordered Discrete Response Models

Tatiana Komarova

University of Manchester

Apr 9 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

Applications of Deep Learning-Based Probabilistic Approach to "Combinatorial" Problems in Economics

Ji Huang

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Apr 11 (Thur)

3-4.30pm

Dating and Divorce

Sergei Severinov

The University of British Columbia

Apr 12 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Optimal Estimation of Heterogeneous Parameters under Unknown Heteroskedasticity

Ho Sheng Chao

SMU Oversees Postgraduate Scholar

Apr 17 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Labor Market Integration and Entrepreneurship

Ming Li

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Apr 19 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

The Design of Defined Contribution Plans

Gaston Illanes

Northwestern University

Apr 24 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

The Heterogeneous Impact of Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes

Benjamin Lester

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Apr 26 (Fri)

2-3.30pm

AI Adoption, Productivity and Labor Composition

Frederic Warzynski

Aarhus University/Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

Apr 26 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

On the Welfare Cost of Constrained Female Labor Supply

Dongya Koh

Osaka University

May 8 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings

Remi Jedwab

George Washington University

May 9 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Persuasion and Matching: Optimal Productive Transport

Anton Kolotilin

University of New South Wales

May 17 (Fri)

10-11.30am

Consumer Search and Price Adjustment: Evidence from the Distribution of Retail Gasoline Prices

Jungwon Yeo

Pusan National University

May 21 (Tue)

10-11.30am

Haircut, Interest Rate and Collateral Quality in the Repo Market: Evidence and Theory

Sangyup Choi

Yonsei University

May 31 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Consumers' Responses to Stimulus Payments with Pre-contribution Design

Kamhon Kan

Academia Sinica

Jul 29 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

Short-term Mortality Impact of Public Pension Programs: Evidence from South Korea

Kanghyock Koh

Korea University

Aug 2 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Trade, Labor Economics and Development Economics

Rafael Dix Carneiro

Duke University

Aug 15 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Associative Network in Decision Making

Rui Tang

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology