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 |