AY2020/2021, Term 2
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Mar 1 (Mon) 9-10.30am | Linear Programming Approach to Nonparametric Inference under Shape Restrictions: with an Application to Regression Kink Designs | Yuya Sasaki Vanderbilt University |
| Mar 3 (Wed) 9-10.30am | A Watershed Moment: The Clean Water Act and Infant Health | Michelle Marcus Vanderbilt University |
| Mar 4 (Thu) | Cheating with Models | Rani Spiegler Tel Aviv University and University College London |
| Mar 5 (Fri) | [Hybrid] Intergenerational Impacts of the World’s Largest Early Childhood Program | Saravana Ravindran NUS |
| Mar 9 (Tue) 9-10.30am | The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions | Tommaso Porzio Columbia University |
| Mar 11 (Thu) | Continuous versus Abrupt Reorganizations | Hongyi Li University of New South Wales |
| Mar 12 (Fri) 2-3.30pm | Factor Modeling for Volatility | Yingying Li Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Mar 19 (Fri) 9-10.30am | Bias in Local Projections | Edward Herbst Federal Reserve Board |
| Mar 25 (Thu) | Incomplete Information Robustness | Takashi Ui Hitotsubashi University |
| Mar 30 (Tue) 9-10.30am | The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures | Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania |
| Apr 1 (Thu) | Daniel Garrett Toulouse School of Economics | |
| Apr 5 (Mon) 3-4.30pm | A Class of Multivariate Time-Varying Models: Theory and Practice | Jiti Gao Monash University |
| Apr 8 (Thu) | The Winner-Take-All Dilemma | Yukio Koriyama Ecole Polytechnique |
| Apr 9 (Fri) 2-3.30pm | [Hybrid] Attention Utility Theory: “Soft” and ”Hard” Modeling and Evidence | Chew Soo Hong NUS and Southwestern University of Finance & Economics |
| Apr 9 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Near Optimal Estimation of Average Regression Functionals | Chen Qiu Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London |
| Apr 14 (Wed) | The Changing Wage Distribution and the Decline of Marriage | Eduardo Ciscato Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Apr 15 (Thu) | A Theory of Simplicity in Games and Mechanism Design | Marek Pycia University of Zurich |
| Apr 22 (Thu) | Optimal Queue Design | Olivier Tercieux Paris School of Economics |
| Apr 23 (Fri) 8-9.30am | Harold Chiang University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Apr 30 (Fri) 9-10.30am | Refining Set-Identification in VARs through Independence | Jonathan Wright Johns Hopkins University |
| May 21 (Fri) | Urban Welfare: Tourism in Barcelona | Rocio Madera Southern Methodist University |
| Jul 9 (Fri) 9-10.00am | Is Gender Destiny? Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India | Hanchen Jiang University of North Texas |
| Jul 21 (Fri) 9-10.00am | Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics: Functional Inference on Time-Variation in the Periodicity of Volatility | Torben Andersen University of North Texas |
AY2021/2022, Term 1
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Aug 23 (Mon) 1-2.30pm | Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics | Yongmiao Hong University of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Aug 25 (Wed) 9-10.30am | The Impact of Disability Income on Healthcare Utilization and Health: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program | Jonathan Zhang McMaster University |
Aug 26 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Simon Loertscher University of Melbourne | |
Sep 6 (Mon) 2.30-4pm | An Empirical Model of Quantity Discounts with Large Choice Sets | Ao Wang University of Warwick |
Sep 9 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Yuichi Yamamoto Hitotsubashi University | |
Sep 13 (Mon) 9-10.30am | Wayne Yuan Gao University of Pennsylvania | |
Sep 16 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Kim-Sau Chung Hong Kong Baptist University | |
Sep 20 (Mon) 9-10am | Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics: When Do Common Time Series Estimands Have Nonparametric Causal Meaning? | Neil Shephard Harvard University |
Sep 27 (Mon) 10-11.30am | Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics: Support Vector Decision Making | Yixiao Sun University of California, San Diego |
Sep 27 (Mon) 2-3.30pm | Frank Schorfheide University of Pennsylvania | |
Sep 30 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Patience is Power: Bargaining and Payoff Delay | Jeongbin Kim NUS Business School |
Oct 1 (Fri) 3-4.30pm | Inference on the Dimension of the Nonstationary Subspace in Functional Time Series | Morten Nielsen Queen's University/Aarhus University |
Oct 4 (Thu) 9-10.30am | Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs under Monotonicity | Soonwoo Kwon Brown University |
Oct 14 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Learning from a Black Box | Chen Zhao The University of Hong Kong |
Oct 21 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Pak Hung Au Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
Oct 25 (Mon) 9-10.30am | Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics - Artificial Neural Network Estimation and Inference on Functionals of Nonparametric Conditional Moment Restrictions | Xiaohong Chen Yale University |
Oct 25 (Mon) 3-4.30pm | Daniel Wilhelm University College London | |
Oct 28 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Deniz Kattwinkel University College London | |
Nov 9 (Tue) 5-7pm | Philippe Aghion: France-Singapore Science and Innovation Lecture Series 2021-2022 | Host: Nicolas Laurent Jacquet Singapore Management University |
Nov 10 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Job Talk Practice - Threshold Spatial Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects | Xiaoyu Meng SMU SOE PhD student |
Nov 12 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Mikkel Bennedsen Aarhus University | |
Nov 15 (Mon) 8.30-10am | Testing Forecast Rationality for Measures of Central Tendency | Andrew Patton Duke University |
Nov 17 (Wed) 9-10.30am | Consolidation in Drug Markets: Impact on Pricing and Access | Luca Maini University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Nov 17 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Job Talk Practice - Analysis of Large Real Estate Prices Data: A High-Order Spatiotemporal Autoregression Approach | Yifan Wu SMU SOE PhD student |
Nov 18 (Thu) 9-10.30am | Colluding Against Environmental Regulation | Jing Li Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
Nov 18 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Social Value of Public Information in Networked Economies | Kota Murayama The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Nov 25 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Collective Information Acquisition | Kfir Eliaz Tel-Aviv University |
Nov 26 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Consistent Local Spectrum (LCM) Inference for Predictive Return Regressions | Rasmus Tangsgaard Varneskov Copenhagen Business School |
Nov 29 (Mon) 9-10.30am | Physician Learning and Treatment Choices: Evidence from Brain Aneurysms | Qing Gong University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Nov 29 (Mon) 10-11.30am | Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics - How Does Economic Activity Interact with Climate? A Structural Analysis Using Functional Autoregression | Joon Y. Park Indiana University |
Dec 3 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Job Talk Practice - The Balance of Concessions in the World Trade Organization | Shenxi Song SMU SOE PhD student |
Dec 13 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | Job Talk Practice - Unified Factor Model Estimation and Inference under Short and Long Memory | Shuyao Ke SMU SOE PhD student |
AY2021/2022, Term 2
AY2022/2023, Term 1
AY2022/2023, Term 2
| Date | Title | Speaker |
Jan 11 (Wed) 10-11.30am | Laura Puzzello Monash University | |
Feb 8 (Wed) 9.30-11am (ILR) | Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics - We Modeled Long Memory with Just One Lag! | Guillaume Chevillon ESSEC |
Feb 15 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Urbanization and Feminization | Yumi Koh University of Seoul |
Feb 23 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Pick-an-object Mechanisms | Inácio Bó Southwestern University of Finance and Economics |
Feb 24 (Fri) 4-5.30pm (ILR) | Robust Estimation and Inference in Panels with Interactive Fixed Effects | Andrei Zeleneev University College London |
Feb 24 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Price Saliency and Fairness: Evidence from Regulatory Shaming | Itai Ater Tel Aviv University |
Mar 1 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | The Voice: The Shareholders’ Motives Behind Corporate Donations | Michele Fioretti Sciences Po |
Mar 2 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | From Local Utility to Neural Networks | Chen Zhao The University of Hong Kong |
Mar 3 (Fri) 10-11.30am | Keith Head University of British Columbia | |
Mar 6 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | Skills, Migration, and Urban Amenities over the Life Cycle | Jason Faberman Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
Mar 8 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Randall Wright University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
Mar 9 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Comparison Shopping: Learning Before Buying from Duopolists | Mark Whitmeyer Arizona State University |
Mar 10 (Fri) 10-11.30am | Julian Hinz Bielefeld University | |
Mar 10 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Binary Choice with Asymmetric Loss in a Data-rich Environment: Theory and an Application to Racial Justice | Andrii Babii University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Mar 14 (Tue) 4-5.30pm | Hitoshi Shigeoka University of Tokyo | |
Mar 17 (Fri) 10-11.30am | Tickets to the Global Market: First U.S. Patents and Chinese Firm Exports | Kaiji Gong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Mar 17 (Fri) 4-5.30pm (ILR) | Adam Rosen Duke University | |
Mar 17 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | School Health Programs: Education, Health, and Welfare Dependency of Young Adults | Rita Ginja University of Bergen |
Mar 24 (Fri) 10-11.30am | Hanwei Huang City University of Hong Kong | |
Mar 24 (Fri) 2-3.30pm | Preferences for Firearms and Their Implications for Regulation | Brad Shapiro University of Chicago |
Mar 27 (Mon) 2-3.30pm | No Help for the Heartland? The Employment and Electoral Effects of the Trump Tariffs in the United States | David Dorn University of Zurich |
Mar 31 (Fri) 9-10.30am (Zoom) | Bohdan Kukharskyy City University of New York | |
Apr 3 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | Inference in a Stationary/Nonstationary Autoregressive Time-Varying-Parameter Model | Ming Li National University of Singapore |
Apr 5 (Wed) 2-3.30pm | Occupations, Life Cycle Wage Growth and Inequality | Gueorgui Kambourov University of Toronto |
Apr 5 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Land Security and Mobility Frictions | Loren Brandt University of Toronto |
Apr 6 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Comparative Statics with Adjustment Costs and the Le Chatelier Principle | Ludvig Sinander University of Oxford |
Apr 12 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Bank Market Power and Central Bank Digital Currency: A Case of Imperfect Substitution | Yu Zhu Renmin University of China |
Apr 13 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Sharing Sequentially Triggered Losses: Automated Conflict Resolution through Smart Contracts | Jens Hougaard University of Copenhagen |
Apr 14 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Networks, Panels, and other Outcome Matrices | Eric Auerbach Northwestern University |
Apr 19 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Minimum Wage and Self-employed Business Owners: Evidence from South Korea | Taehyun Ahn Sogang University |
Apr 20 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Strategic Information Disclosure in Markets for Technology | Carlos Serrano HEC Paris |
Apr 26 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Rising Intangible Capital and the Disappearance of Public Firms | Hanbaek Lee University of Tokyo |
Apr 28 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Anna Bykhovskaya Duke University | |
May 5 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | A Unifying Framework for Testing Shape Restrictions | Zheng Fang Emory University |
May 24 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Yongheng Deng University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
May 29 (Mon) 10-11.30am | Inequality, Economic Growth, and Intergenerational Mobility All around the World | Roy van der Weide World Bank |
May 29 (Mon) 4-5.30pm (Zoom) | North Korea’s China Shock | William Lincoln Claremont McKenna College |
Jun 14 (Wed) 4-5.30pm | Drivers of Digital Attention: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment | Guy Aridor Northwestern University |
Jun 16 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Identifying Housing Preferences in Regulated Markets: Evidence from Waiting Lists | Jos van Ommeren VU University, Amsterdam |
Jul 24 (Mon) 4-5.30pm | Latent Group Structure in Linear Panel Data Models with Endogenous Regressors | Ryo Okui University of Tokyo |
Jul 27 (Thu) 2-3.30pm | Price Discrimination with Manipulable Observables | Teck Yong Tan University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Jul 27 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Technology Adoption, Mortality, and Population Dynamics | B. Ravikumar Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis |
Aug 1 (Tue) 10-11.30am | Love Panda, Love China: The Panda Effect on International Trade | Wei Jin Nankai University |
Aug 1 (Tue) 4-5.30pm | America's Missing Entrepreneurs | John Van Reneen London School of Economics and Political Science |
Aug 3 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Attention Capture | Andrew Koh Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Aug 4 (Fri) 2-3.30pm | Two-sided Search in International Markets | Daniel Xu Duke University |
Aug 4 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | How to Sample and When to Stop Sampling: The Generalized Wald Problem and Minimax Policies | Karun Adusumilli University of Pennsylvania |
Aug 10 (Thu) 4-5.30pm | Perceived Competition | Yan Long Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
Aug 11 (Fri) 4-5.30pm | Liberalization to Inequality: How China’s State-Owned Enterprise Reform Restructures the Urban Labor Market | Sharon Xuejing Zuo Fudan University |
