Research Workshops
The SMU School of Economics Research Workshops are usually held on Fridays between 12 - 1pm unless otherwise indicated.
**Workshops would be conducted at MR5-1 unless otherwise indicated.
If you would like a slot to present, please email Workshop Chair, Assistant Professor DOU Liyu.
AY2025/2026, Term 1
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Aug 22 | ||
Aug 29 | Can Unilateral Policy Decarbonize Maritime Trade? | Philipp Ludwig National University of Singapore |
Sep 5 | TBC | Robin Ng University of Mannheim |
Sep 12 | TBC | Noam Gruber IMF-Singapore Regional Training Institute |
Sep 19 | TBC | Wang Wenjie Nanyang Technology University |
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AY2024/2025, Term 1
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Sep 6 | Shift-Share Design Under Imperfect Substitution | Chen Liu National University Singapore |
Sep 13 | Shrinkflation and Consumer Demand | Aljoscha Janssen Singapore Management University |
Sep 27 | Robust Contracting under Distributional Uncertainty | Wang Kexin Singapore Management University |
Oct 4 | Estimating the Cost of Capital Market Distortions: Evidence from Chinese Overseas IPOs | Laura Wu Nanyang Technology University |
Oct 11 | The Macro Impact of the Recovery Rate | Guangzhi Ye Nanyang Technology University |
Oct 25 | Polluted Export Restrictions | Jiao Yang Singapore Management University |
Nov 1 | Mediated Repeated Moral Hazard | Allen Vong National University Singapore |
Nov 8 | Public Transit Provision and Fare Structure in U.S. Cities | Binglin Wang National University Singapore |
Nov 22 | Distributional Effects of Vehicle Ownership Restrictions | Lee Kwok Hao National University Singapore |
Dec 27 | Missing Children? The Impacts of Droughts on Women's fertility in Brazil | Yeongbin Yang Korea Energy Economics Institute |
AY2023/2024, Term 2
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Jan 26 | How International Students Affect Faculty: Evidence from the US Public Universities | Chungeun Yoon KDI School of Public Policy and Management |
Mar 22 | Trade and Intergenerational Income Mobility: Theory and Evidence from the U.S. | Kohei Takeda (NUS) |
Apr 12 | Geographic Variation of China's Centralized Volume-Based Drug Procurement | Xuan Zhang (SMU) |
May 17 | Technology and the Education Gap: A Digital Footprint Approach | Yongheng Deng |
AY2023/2024, Term 1
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Aug 18 | Ratings with Heterogeneous Preferences | Robin Ng |
| Aug 25 | Hobbesian wars and separation of powers | Yang Xie |
| Sep 8 | Gender Gap in the Impact of Online Instruction | Xiaoyue Shan |
| Sep 15 | Market for Patents, Monopoly and Misallocation | Jianhuan Xu |
Sep 29 | Ethnic Proximity and Politics | Gedeon Lim |
Nov 3 | Information Diffusion and Aggregation over Separated Markets: An Experiment | Lawrence Choo |
| Nov 24 | Lumpy R&D and the Great Twins: The Great Moderation and Great Recession | Donghai Zhang |
AY2018/2019, Term 1
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Aug 10 | Product Dynamics and Trade Liberalization: Evidence from US-Korea FTA | Haeyeon Yoon |
Sep 21 | Income inequality and conflict intensification in Mandate Palestine | Eik Swee |
Oct 5 | Random Assignment of Bundles | Peng Liu |
Oct 19 | The Effects of Cash Transfers to Health Savings Accounts on Healthcare Utilization and Health | Jessica Sun Ya |
Oct 26 | Network Effects in Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions | Jackie Chan |
Nov 2 | Gender Gap in Intrahousehold Allocation of Education | Sijia Xu |
Nov 9 | Independent versus collective expertise | Emiliano Catonini |
AY2018/2019, Term 2
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Jan 18 | Additive Robots with Conventional Machine in a Growth Model | Vu Hoang Phuong Que |
Feb 15 | Exchange Rate Policies, Monetary Autonomy and Financial Stability in Asia | Ramkishen Rajan |
Mar 22 | Home Equity and Claiming Social Security Retirement Income | Jing Li |
Mar 29 | Paradox of Terror Prevention | Nona Pepito |
AY2019/2020, Term 1
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Sep 6 | A model of endogenous bullying and the effect on test scores | Hisham Bin Yacob Patel |
Sep 13 | Proportional allocation of non-separable contribution value | Ryukihiko Funaki |
Oct 18 | Emiliano Catonini | |
Nov 1 | Balancing the scales: How the Supreme Court of India manages judicial independence | Madhav Aney |
AY2019/2020, Term 2
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Feb 21 | Heterogeneous health effects of medical marijuana legalization: Evidence from young adults in the United States | Junxing Chay |
Mar 6 | Attenuation of Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from the Universe of Chinese Manufacturing Firms | Jing Li |
Mar 13 | Natural Disasters and Domestic Violence: A study of the 2015 Nepal earthquake | Arpita Khanna |
Mar 27 | Demand-capital trading and aggregate welfare | Jianhuan Xu |
May 15 | Does transparency with pandemic case information localize precautionary activity responses? Evidence from COVID-19 in Singapore (online workshop) | Matthew Shapiro |
May 22 | Retail Pharmacies and Drug Diversion during the Opioid Epidemic (online workshop) | Xuan Zhang |
May 29 | Short-term impacts of COVID-19 on consumption and labor market outcomes: evidence from Singapore (online workshop) | Seonghoon Kim |
AY2020/2021, Term 1
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Oct 30 | Attention Allocation and Uncertainty Contagion | Zu Yao Hong |
Dec 4 | Local Weak Dominance | Emiliano Catonini |
AY2020/2021, Term 2
| Date | Title | Presenter |
Jan 15 | The Impact of Lower Healthcare Co-Payment Rates on Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from Singapore's Pioneer Generation Package (Seminar room 5.1) | Andrew Koh |
Jan 22 | Does competition between experts improve information accuracy: evidence from the security analyst market? (Virtual) | Chuqing Jin |
Jan 29 | Between Lives and Economy: Optimal COVID-19 Containment Policy in Open Economies (virtual) | Wen-Tai Hsu |
Feb 5 | Globalization and the Long-term Belief-scarring Effects of COVID-19 (virtual) | Wen-Tai Hsu |
Feb 19 | Impact of Private Long-term Care Insurance on Preventive Health Behaviors (Virtual) | Ngoh Jia Hui |
Mar 19 | Local Dominance (Virtual) | Jingyi Xue |
Apr 16 | Gender divergence in premarket skill acquisition and wage inequality (Virtual) | Sunha Myong |
Apr 30 | Subway, collaborative matching, and innovation (Virtual) | Jing Li |
May 7 | Marriage and Development: Cross-country Evidence | Feng Ying |
