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.

AY2024/2025, Term 1

Date	Title	Speaker
Aug 21 (Wed) 4-5.30pm (Hybrid/Teams)	Trade Policies Mix and Match: Theory, Evidence and the EU-Sino Electric Vehicle Disputes	Hiau Looi Kee World Bank Group
Aug 22 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	Deception under the Veil of Noise	Jawwad Noor Boston University
Aug 23 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Fertility Prediction using Micro Data	Seik Kim Korea University
Aug 26 (Mon) 4-5.30pm	ChatGPT, Stock Market Predictability and Links to the Macroeconomy	Wu Zhu Tsinghua University
Aug 28 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Pro Lieralism or Illiberalism? The Nature of Civic Mobilzation and Economic Growth	Di Sima Nanjing Audit University
Aug 29 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions	Sam Jindani National University of Singapore
Aug 30 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Graph Neural Networks For Causal Inference Under Network Confounding	Michael Leung University of California, Santa Cruz
Sep 11 (Wed) 9.30-11.00am	Negative Bubbles	Kosuke Aoki University of Tokyo
Sep 12 (Thu) 2-3.30pm	Intelligence Darwinsim: Decision Quality Shapes Natural Selection Delivering Biodiversity	Soo Hong Chew & Richard Ebstein Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Sep 12 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship	Ruixue Jia University of California, San Diego
Sep 13 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	High-Skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics	Eunhee Lee Seoul National University
Sep 18 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Robust Analysis of Short Panels	Andrew Chesher University College London
Sep 27 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Decomposition and Interpretation of Treatment Effects in Settings with Delayed Outcomes	Ivan Canay Northwestern University
Oct 4 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Some New Results on Minimax Regret Rules in Finite Samples	Patrik Guggenberger The Pennsylvania State University
Oct 9 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Dirty Trade War: The Effects of Trade War on Carbon Emission	Haichao Fan Fudan University
Oct 11 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Radiating Influence? Spillover Effects among Physicians	Johannes Kunz Monash Business School (Monash University)
Oct 15 (Tue) 4-5.30pm	Optimal Monetary Policy in Production Networks with Distortions	Changhua Yu Peking University
Oct 16 (Wed) 9-10.30am (Zoom)	Painful Negotiations: Evidence from Anesthesia Rollups	Amanda Starc Northwestern University
Oct 16 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Intraday Variation in Systematic Risks and Information Flows	Andrew Patton Duke University
Oct 17 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	An Unbounded Intensity Model for Point Processes	Aleksey Kolokolov Alliance Manchester Business School
Oct 21 (Mon) 4-5.30pm	The Granular Origins of Tail Dispersion Risk in the Cross-Section of Asset Prices	Torben Andersen Northwestern University
Oct 23 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Heterogeneity and Hysteresis	Michael Elsby University of Edinburg
Oct 24 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	Product Recommendations and Price Parity Clauses	Martin Peitz University of Mannheim
Oct 30 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Uniform Estimation and Inference for Nonparametric Partitioning-Based M-Estimators	Yingjie Feng Tsinghua University
Nov 1 (Fri) 2-3.30pm	The Fragmentation Paradox:De-risking Trade and Global Safety	Thierry Mayer Sciences Po
Nov 1 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Causal Inference in Possibly Nonlinear Factor Models	Yingjie Feng Tsinghua University
Nov 6 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Practice Job Talk - Social Institutions and Low Birth Rates	Yutao Wang Singapore Management University
Nov 7 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions	Mariann Ollar NYU Shanghai
Nov 8 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	AI and Creative Process	Jie Gong Hong Kong University
Nov 13 (Wed) 2-3.30pm	Trend, Cycle and Expectation Formation	Chen Heng Hong Kong University
Nov 13 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Impacts of Third-Party Entry to a Polarized Two-Party Political System: A Structural Analysis	Chao Ma Xiamen University
Nov 14 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	To Comply or Not to Comply: Understanding Neutral Country Supply Chain Responses to Russian Sanctions	Haishi Li Hong Kong University
Nov 18 (Mon) 4-5.30pm	BET on Independence and BELIEF in Dependence: Leveraging Atomic Linearity in Data Bits for Rethinking Generalized Linear Models	Kai Zhang The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nov 19 (Tue) 4-5.30pm (At SR3-10)	Book talk - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China's Institutions and Totalitarianism	Chenggang Xu Stanford University
Nov 20 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Estimating the Dynamic Effects of the Head Start Program with Multiple Alternatives	Marc Chan University of Melbourne
Nov 21 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	The Fragility of Social Norms: Evidence from a Youth Reformative Training Center	Huailu Li Fudan University
Nov 22 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	Inference on LATEs with Covariates	Didier Nibbering Monash University
Nov 25 (Mon) 4-5.30pm	Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Individual Careers	Uta Schoenberg Hong Kong University
Nov 26 (Tue) 4-5.30pm	Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers	Ling Zhong Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Nov 27 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Government Monitoring of Health Care Quality: Evidence from the Nursing Home Sector	Yiqun Chen University of Illinois Chicago
Nov 29 (Fri) 10.30am-12pm	International Policy Coordination to Promote Innovation and Production Capacity	Mostafa Beshkar Indiana University
Nov 29 (Fri) 4-5.30pm	The Long-Run Impacts of Regulated Price Cuts: Evidence From Medicare	Yunan Ji Georgetown University
Dec 4 (Wed) 4-5.30pm	Entry Effects of Commission Rates: Evidence from Mobile Applications in China	Xuan Wang Peking University
Dec 10 (Tue) 2-3.00pm	Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Their Implications for Employment and Labor Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from Korea	Dongyun Park Asia Development Bank
Dec 12 (Thu) 4-5.30pm	Do Equity and Options Markets Agree about Volatility?	Viktor Todorov Northwestern University

Date

Title

Speaker

Aug 21 (Wed)

4-5.30pm
(Hybrid/Teams)

Trade Policies Mix and Match: Theory, Evidence and the EU-Sino Electric Vehicle Disputes

Hiau Looi Kee

World Bank Group

Aug 22 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Deception under the Veil of Noise

Jawwad Noor

Boston University

Aug 23 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Fertility Prediction using Micro Data

Seik Kim

Korea University

Aug 26 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

ChatGPT, Stock Market Predictability and Links to the Macroeconomy

Wu Zhu

Tsinghua University

Aug 28 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Pro Lieralism or Illiberalism? The Nature of Civic Mobilzation and Economic Growth

Di Sima

Nanjing Audit University

Aug 29 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions

Sam Jindani

National University of Singapore

Aug 30 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Graph Neural Networks For Causal Inference Under Network Confounding

Michael Leung

University of California, Santa Cruz

Sep 11 (Wed)

9.30-11.00am

Negative Bubbles

Kosuke Aoki

University of Tokyo

Sep 12 (Thu)

2-3.30pm

Intelligence Darwinsim: Decision Quality Shapes Natural Selection Delivering Biodiversity

Soo Hong Chew & Richard Ebstein

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics

Sep 12 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship

Ruixue Jia

University of California, San Diego

Sep 13 (Fri)

2-3.30pm

High-Skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics

Eunhee Lee

Seoul National University

Sep 18 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Robust Analysis of Short Panels

Andrew Chesher

University College London

Sep 27 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Decomposition and Interpretation of Treatment Effects in Settings with Delayed Outcomes

Ivan Canay

Northwestern University

Oct 4 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Some New Results on Minimax Regret Rules in Finite Samples

Patrik Guggenberger

The Pennsylvania State University

Oct 9 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Dirty Trade War: The Effects of Trade War on Carbon Emission

Haichao Fan

Fudan University

Oct 11 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Radiating Influence? Spillover Effects among Physicians

Johannes Kunz

Monash Business School
(Monash University)

Oct 15 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

Optimal Monetary Policy in Production Networks with Distortions

Changhua Yu

Peking University

Oct 16 (Wed)

9-10.30am
(Zoom)

Painful Negotiations: Evidence from Anesthesia Rollups

Amanda Starc

Northwestern University

Oct 16 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Intraday Variation in Systematic Risks and Information Flows

Andrew Patton

Duke University

Oct 17 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

An Unbounded Intensity Model for Point Processes

Aleksey Kolokolov

Alliance Manchester Business School

Oct 21 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

The Granular Origins of Tail Dispersion Risk in the Cross-Section of Asset Prices

Torben Andersen

Northwestern University

Oct 23 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Heterogeneity and Hysteresis

Michael Elsby

University of Edinburg

Oct 24 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Product Recommendations and Price Parity Clauses

Martin Peitz

University of Mannheim

Oct 30 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Uniform Estimation and Inference for Nonparametric Partitioning-Based M-Estimators

Yingjie Feng

Tsinghua University

Nov 1 (Fri)

2-3.30pm

The Fragmentation Paradox:De-risking Trade and Global Safety

Thierry Mayer

Sciences Po

Nov 1 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Causal Inference in Possibly Nonlinear Factor Models

Yingjie Feng

Tsinghua University

Nov 6 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Practice Job Talk - Social Institutions and Low Birth Rates

Yutao Wang

Singapore Management University

Nov 7 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Incentive Compatibility and Belief Restrictions

Mariann Ollar

NYU Shanghai

Nov 8 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

AI and Creative Process

Jie Gong

Hong Kong University

Nov 13 (Wed)

2-3.30pm

Trend, Cycle and Expectation Formation

Chen Heng

Hong Kong University

Nov 13 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Impacts of Third-Party Entry to a Polarized Two-Party Political System: A Structural Analysis

Chao Ma

Xiamen University

Nov 14 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

To Comply or Not to Comply: Understanding Neutral Country Supply Chain Responses to Russian Sanctions

Haishi Li

Hong Kong University

Nov 18 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

BET on Independence and BELIEF in Dependence: Leveraging Atomic Linearity in Data Bits for Rethinking Generalized Linear Models

Kai Zhang

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nov 19 (Tue)

4-5.30pm
(At SR3-10)

Book talk - Institutional Genes: The Origins of China's Institutions and Totalitarianism

Chenggang Xu

Stanford University

Nov 20 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Estimating the Dynamic Effects of the Head Start Program with Multiple Alternatives

Marc Chan

University of Melbourne

Nov 21 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

The Fragility of Social Norms: Evidence from a Youth Reformative Training Center

Huailu Li

Fudan University

Nov 22 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Inference on LATEs with Covariates

Didier Nibbering

Monash University

Nov 25 (Mon)

4-5.30pm

Knowledge Spillovers, Competition, and Individual Careers

Uta Schoenberg

Hong Kong University

Nov 26 (Tue)

4-5.30pm

Decomposing Trends in the Gender Gap for Highly Educated Workers

Ling Zhong

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Nov 27 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Government Monitoring of Health Care Quality: Evidence from the Nursing Home Sector

Yiqun Chen

University of Illinois Chicago

Nov 29 (Fri)

10.30am-12pm

International Policy Coordination to Promote Innovation and Production Capacity

Mostafa Beshkar

Indiana University

Nov 29 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

The Long-Run Impacts of Regulated Price Cuts: Evidence From Medicare

Yunan Ji

Georgetown University

Dec 4 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Entry Effects of Commission Rates: Evidence from Mobile Applications in China

Xuan Wang

Peking University

Dec 10 (Tue)

2-3.00pm

Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Their Implications for Employment and Labor Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence from Korea

Dongyun Park

Asia Development Bank

Dec 12 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Do Equity and Options Markets Agree about Volatility?

Viktor Todorov

Northwestern University