Seminar Series AY2024/2025, Term 2

AY2024/2025, Term 2

Date

 

Title

 

Speaker

 

Feb 12 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Extreme Heat and Consumption in City Centers: Evidence from Movie Box Office Performance

 

Yanmin Yang

Nanjing Audit University

 

Feb 20 (Thu)

10-11.30am

 

Semiparametric Bayesian Difference-in-Differences

 

Ruixuan Liu

Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Feb 20 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Accuracy and Selection in Prediction Markets

 

Pietro Dindo

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

 

Feb 27 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Random Double Auction: A Robust Bilateral Trading Mechanism

 

Wanchang Zhang

Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

Feb 28 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Who Benefits from Faster Public Transit?

 

Prottoy Aman Akbar

Aalto University

 

Mar 3 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

 

Mechanics of Spatial Growth

 

Charles Cai Sheng

City University of Hong Kong

 

Mar 5 (Wed)

3.30-5.00pm

 

Estimation and Inference in Dyadic Network Formation Models with Nontransferable Utilities 

 

Ming Li

National University of Singapore

 

Mar 7 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Productivity and Competition in a Declining Industry

 

Yasutora Watanabe

University of Tokyo

 

Mar 12 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Technifying Ventures

 

Jeremy Greenwood

University of Pennsylvania

 

Mar 14 (Fri)

10-11.30am

 

Demand Estimation with Text and Image Data

 

Stephan Seiler

Imperial College Business School

 

Mar 14 (Fri)

3:30-5.00pm

 

How to Weight in Moments Matching: A New Approach and Applications to Earnings Dynamics

 

Xu Cheng

University of Pennsylvania

 

Mar 17 (Mon)

4.15-5.30pm

 

College Majors and Skill Mismatch in Labour Markets

 

Satoshi Tanaka

University of Queensland

 

Mar 19 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

The Long-Run Impact of Early Industrial Development on Human Capital: Evidence from China's 156 Project

 

Han Ye

Lingnan University

 

Mar 26 (Wed)

2-3.30pm

 

A Dynamic Analysis of Parental Beliefs and Investments

 

Rachel Tan Yi

SMU Overseas PhD Scholar 

 

Mar 28 (Fri)

2-3.30pm

 

Model Averaging for Time-Varying Vector Autoregressions

 

Yuying Sun

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

 

Apr 2 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

The Anatomy of Censorship and Propaganda: Evidence from Russian Wikipedias

 

Ruben Durante

National University of Singapore

 

Apr 3 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Decision Making Under Multidimensional Risk

 

Shaowei Ke

China Europe International Business School

 

Apr 9 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

The Media and Foreign Powers: Does Market Access Matter for News Reporting?

 

Li Han

ESSEC Business School

 

Apr 10 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Stochastic Compliance and Identification of Treatment Effects 

 

Juan Pantano

University of Hong Kong

 

Apr 11 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Services and Cash: How Long-term Care Insurance Benefit Design Affects Household Behavior in China

 

Terence Cheng

Monash University

 

Apr 14 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

 

Astrology and Matrimony: Social Reinforcement of Religious Beliefs on Marriage Matching in Vietnam

 

Quoc-Anh Do

Monash University

 

Apr 16 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Understanding the Dynamics of Inequality for Growth and Development

 

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

Queen Mary University of London

 

Apr 25 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Checkpoints and Local Economic Development

 

Barthélémy Bonadio

NYU Abu Dhabi

 

Apr 30 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Targetting in Networks :A Mechanism Design Approach

 

Bhaskar Dutta

Ashoka University

 

May 2 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

On Quantile Treatment Effects, Rank Similarity, and Variation of Instrumental Variables

 

Haiqing Xu

University of Texas at Austin

 

May 7 (Wed)

1:30- 3pm

 

Estimating State Space Models: Simple Corrections for Finite Sample Bias

 

Dennis Kristensen

University College London

 

May 8 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Persuading while Learning

 

Xianwen Shi

University of Toronto

 

May 9 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

A Quasi-Bayes Approach to Nonparametric Demand Estimation with Economic Constraints

 

Adam Smith

University College London

 

May 13 (Tue)

2-3.30pm

 

Learning the Stochastic Discount Factor

 

Yingying Li

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

 

May 13 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

 

Stock Co-jump Network Models

 

Xinghua Zheng

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

 

May 14 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Godfather Politicians and Organized Violence

 

Fan Xinyu

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

 

May 20 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

 

Referral Lending and Mortgage Market Power: The Role of Realtors

 

Dayin Zhang

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

May 21 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Evaluating Counterfactual Policies Using Instruments

 

Michal Kolesar

Princeton University

 

May 22 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Flood Risks and the Chinese Local Government Debt Crisis: Climate Shocks, Borrowing Behavior, and Fiscal Stress

 

Yongheng Deng

Wisconsin School of Business

 

May 23 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Fiscal Stimulus Payments, Housing Demand, and House Price Inflation

 

Leming Lin

University of Pittsburgh

 

July 10 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Transit Subsidies, Seniors, and Welfare: Evidence from Korea

 

Kanghyock Koh

Korea University

 

July 25 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

 

Testing Exclusion and Shape Restrictions in Potential Outcomes Models

 

Hiroaki Kaido

Boston University

 

Aug 4 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

 

Listening to the Future: Economic Returns to English Proficiency in China

 

Xinzheng Shi

Peking University

 

Aug 6 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

 

Calibrated Coarsening: Designing Information for AI-Assisted Decisions

 

Ruru Hoong

Harvard University

 

Aug 14 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

 

Defensive Hiring and Creative Destruction

 

Yu Yang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University