Seminar Series
Seminar Series
The SMU School of Economics Seminars are usually held on Wednesdays and Fridays, 4 - 5:30pm unless otherwise indicated.
Microeconomics Seminars are usually held on Thursdays, 4 - 5:30pm.
The seminar schedule is subjected to changes. Please click on the title for the abstract and to register.
All seminars will be held at MR5.1 unless otherwise stated.
If you would like a slot to present, please email Seminar Chair, Associate Professor Christine HO.
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 |