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AY2021/2022, Term 1

DateTitleSpeaker

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

Efficiency Wage Theory Revisited

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

Misspecified Bayesian Learning By Strategic Players: First-Order Misspecification And Higher-Order Misspecification

Yuichi Yamamoto

Hitotsubashi University

Sep 13 (Mon)

9-10.30am

Two-Stage Maximum Score Estimator

Wayne Yuan Gao

University of Pennsylvania

Sep 16 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Designing Open Source Licenses

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

Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations

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

Attraction Versus Persuasion

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

Inference for Ranks with Applications to Mobility across Neighbourhoods and Academic Achievement across Countries

Daniel Wilhelm

University College London

Oct 28 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Mechanism Design without Transfers for Fully Biased Agents

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

Inference and Forecasting for Continuous-Time Integer-Valued Trawl Processes and Their Use in Financial Economics

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

DateTitleSpeaker

Jan 24 (Mon)

9-10.30am

Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics - When Uncertainty and Volatility Are Disconnected: Implications for Asset Pricing and Portfolio Performance

Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Princeton University

Feb 21 (Mon)

9-10.30am

Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics - Spatial Correlation Robust Inference

Ulrich Mueller

Princeton University

Mar 3 (Thu)

8.30-10am

Bias Correction and Robust Inference in Semiparametric Models

Xiye Yang

Rutgers University

Mar 3 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Winners and Losers in Priority Services

Alex Gershkov

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Mar 7 (Mon)

9-10.30am

Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics - On the Aggregation of Probability Assessments: Regularized Mixtures of Predictive Densities for Eurozone Inflation and Real Interest Rates

Francis X. Diebold

University of Pennsylvania

Mar 10 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Dynamic Screening with Verifiable Bankruptcy

Daniel Krähmer

University of Bonn

Mar 14 (Mon)

8.30-10am

Attention Overload

Xinwei Ma

University of California San Diego

Mar 23 (Wed)

4-5.30pm (MR5.1)

International Educational Migration: A New Program and an Evaluation Plan

Johannes Haushofer

Stockholm University

Mar 24 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Auctions with Frictions

Stephan Lauermann

University of Bonn

Mar 31 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Bayesian Persuasion Followed by Receiver's Mechanism Design

Shuguang Zhu

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Apr 14 (Thu)

9-10.30am

Inference on Winners

Adam McCloskey

University of Colorado Boulder

Apr 14 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Power, Coalition Formation and the Stability of Hierarchies

Mert Kimya

The University of Sydney

May 9 (Mon)

9-10.30am

Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics - Specification Testing of DSGE Models Allowing for Indeterminacy and Weak Identification

Qu Zhongjun

Boston University

May 17 (Tue)

9-10.30am (MR5.1)

Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization

Frederic Warzynski

Aarhus University

May 18 (Wed)

4-5.30pm (MR5.1)

Media Capture by Banks

Ruben Durante

Pompeu Fabra University

May 20 (Fri)

4-5.30pm (MR5.1)

Poverty in India Has Declined over the Last Decade But Not As Much As Previously Thought

Roy van der Weide

The World Bank

Jul 13 (Wed)

4-5.30pm (MR5.1)

STRC - On China’s Internet Health Marketplace

Terence Cheng

Harvard University

Jul 14 (Thu)

10-11.30am (MR5.1)

STRC - The Distribution of Gains from Multinational Production

Mostafa Beshkar

Indiana University

Jul 27 (Wed)

2-3.30pm (MR5.1)

Fast Inference for Quantile Regressions with Millions of Observations

Yuan Liao

Rutgers University

Jul 27 (Wed)

4-5.30pm (MR5.1 or Zoom)

Fair Congestion

Hervé Moulin

University of Glasgow

Aug 4 (Thu)

1-2.30pm (ILS)

Standard Errors for Two-Way Clustering with Serially Correlated Time Effects

Harold Chiang

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aug 12 (Fri)

4-5.30pm (ILS)

Illuminating The Effects of The Us-china Tariff War on China's Economy

Davin Chor

Dartmouth College

AY2022/2023, Term 1

DateTitleSpeaker

Aug 18 (Thu)

4-5.30pm (Zoom)

Path-dependent Preferences and Polarized Public Response to Pandemics

Audrey Hu

City University of Hong Kong

Sep 1 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Dynamic Contracting with Flexible Monitoring

Ming Yang

University College London

Sep 7 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Impacts of LTV Policy on the Mortgage Market via Housing Speculation

Kaiji Chen

Emory University

Sep 8 (Thu)

10-11.30am (Zoom)

The Core in Housing Markets with Indifferent Preferences

Jun Zhang

Nanjing Audit University

Sep 15 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Generalizing Obvious Dominance using the Sure-thing Principle

Chew Soo Hong

NUS & Southwestern University of Finance & Economics

Sep 16 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Poverty at Higher Frequency

Joshua Merfeld

KDI School of Public Policy and Management

Sep 28 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Development via Administrative Redistricting: Evidence from Brazil

Ricardo Dahis

PUC-Rio

Sep 29 (Thu)

4-5.30pm (Zoom)

Information Disclosure and Favoritism in Contests

Zenan Wu

Peking University

Oct 6 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

A Network Solution to Robust Implementation: the Case of Identical but Unknown Distributions

Antonio Penta

Barcelona School of Economics

Oct 7 (Fri)

9-10.30am (Zoom)

The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department

Yiqun Chen

University of Illinois at Chicago

Oct 12 (Wed)

9-10.30am (Zoom)

Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment

John Horton

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Oct 13 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Short-term Impact of Income on Mortality: Evidence from South Korea’s Public Pension Programs

Kanghyock Koh

Korea University

Oct 19 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

The Midlife Crisis

Nattavudh Powdthavee

Nanyang Technological University

Oct 21 (Fri)

10-11.30am (Zoom)

Do Sanctions Affect Growth?

Ohyun Kwon

Drexel University

Oct 26 (Wed)

9-10.30am (Zoom)

Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation: Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents

Jeffrey Clemens

University of California, San Diego

Oct 27 (Thu)

2-3.30pm 

Self-weighted LS Estimation for Nonlinear Cointegrating Regression

Qiying Wang

The University of Sydney

Oct 28 (Fri)

10-11.30am (ILS)

The Stable Transformation Path

Joseph Kaboski

University of Notre Dame

Oct 28 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Contracting with Enemies?: Vertical FDI with Outsourcing Contracts

Jee-Hyeong Park

Seoul National University

Nov 2 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

STRC - The Challenge of Long-term Care

Kathleen McGarry

University of California, Los Angeles

Nov 3 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Learning by Consuming: Optimal Pricing with Endogenous Information Provision

Wei He

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Nov 4 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Moral Hazard and Special Interests in Congress

Haishan Yuan

University of Queensland

Nov 9 (Wed)

9.30-11am (Zoom)

Innovation Networks and R&D Allocation

Ernest Liu

Princeton University

Nov 11 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

The Benefits of Prenatal Care: Evidence from the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan

Hsien-Ming Lien

National Chengchi University

Nov 16 (Wed)

4-5.30pm

Migration Costs, Sorting, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap

Naijia Guo

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Nov 17 (Thu)

4-5.30pm

Directed Search on a Platform: Meet Fewer to Match More?

Makoto Watanabe

Kyoto University

Nov 18 (Fri)

1-2.30pm (ILS)

Optimal Measure Preserving Derivatives Revisited

Brendan K. Beare

University of Sydney

Nov 18 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

STRC - Occupational Reallocations within and across Firms: Implications for the Labor-Market Polarization

Toshihiko Mukoyama

Georgetown University

Nov 23 (Wed)

12.30-2pm

Local Elites, Land Rents, and Incentives for Development: Evidence from Village Chiefs in Indonesia

Gedeon Lim

University of Hong Kong

Nov 23 - 24 (Wed - Thu)

2.30-5.30pm (Zoom)

Lee Kong Chian Seminar in Econometrics - Asymptotic Equivalence for Inference on the Volatility from Noisy Observations

Markus Reiss

Humbodt University

Nov 25 (Fri)

1-2.30pm

Spectral Centroid Targeting with the HP Filter  

Ye Lu

University of Sydney

Nov 25 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Harmonization...What Else? The Role for International Regulatory Agreements

Giovanni Maggi

Yale University

Dec 2 (Fri)

10-11.30am

Preference Restrictions for Simple and Strategy-proof Rules: Local and Weakly Single-peaked Domains 

Jordi Massó

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Dec 2 (Fri)

4-5.30pm

Asymptotic Representations for Sequential Decisions, Adaptive Experiments, and Batched Bandits

Keisuke Hirano

The Pennsylvania State University

Dec 7 (Wed)

2-3.30pm

Practice Job Talk - Efficient Nonparametric Estimation of Generalized Panel Data Transformation Models with Fixed Effects

Ying Xia

SOE PhD student

Dec 14 (Wed)

10-11.30am (Zoom)

“Golden Ages”: A Tale of the Labor Markets in China and the United States

Hanming Fang

University of Pennsylvania

AY2022/2023, Term 2

DateTitleSpeaker

Jan 11 (Wed)

10-11.30am

FDI and Investment Screening Policy

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

The Laffer Curve for Rules of Origin

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

Frictional Capital Reallocation

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

Spatial Frictions in the Market for Talent

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

“Invisible Killer”: Seasonal Allergy and Accidents

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)

Finite Sample Inference for the Maximum Score Estimand

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

Rethinking Revealed Comparative Advantage with Micro Data

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)

Opening the Black Box of Quantitative Trade Models

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

Dynamic Tobit Model

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

Flood Risk, Insurance, and Business Relocation

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

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