Past Seminar Series
Semester 2, 2016/2017
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Date
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Topic
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Speaker
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| Jan 17 Tue |
Real Exchange Rates and Sectoral Productivity in the Eurozone | Charles Engel (MAS Term Professor In Economics and Finance) University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Feb 21 Tue |
The curse of long horizons | George Mailath (Lim Tay Boh Distinguished Visitor, NUS) University of Pennsylvania |
| Feb 24 FRI |
Simple Mechanisms | Tilman Börgers University of Michigan |
| Feb 28 Tue |
Capital Mobility in OECD Countries: A Multi-Level Factor Approach to Saving--Investment Correlations | Yun Jung Kim Sogang University |
| Mar 02 Thu |
Measuring the Stringency of Land-Use Regulation: The Case of China's Building-Height Limits | Jan K. Brueckner University of California, Irvine |
| Mar 06 MON |
Adaptive Inference in Semiparametric Multinomial Response Models
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Shakeeb Khan Boston College |
| Mar 07 Tue |
Skewed Noise
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
David Dillenberger University of Pennsylvania |
| Mar 09 Thu |
Trade Costs and Income Inequality in China | Lu Lin Tsinghua University |
| Mar 09 Thu |
Intuitive and Reliable Estimates of the Output Gap from a Beveridge-Nelson Filter
Venue: Silcock Journal Room |
James Morley University of New South Wales |
| Mar 13 MON |
Information Manipulation and Social Coordination
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Yang K. Lu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Mar 14 Tue |
Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015 |
Li Yang World Bank and Paris School of Economics |
| Mar 14 Tue |
Nash Equilibrium in Games with Quasi-Monotone Best-Responses
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Rabah Amir University of Iowa |
| Mar 16 Thu |
The Ostrich in Us: Selective Attention to Financial Accounts, Income, Spending, and Liquidity | Michaela Pagel Columbia University |
| Mar 16 Thu |
Temperature and Performance: Evidence from Online Game Behavior in China
Venue: Silcock Journal Room |
Michael Fan Xiamen University |
| Mar 20 MON |
Does Disability Insurance Income Save Lives? | Timothy J. Moore University of Melbourne |
| Mar 21 Tue |
GEL estimation and tests of spatial autoregressive models | Lung-Fei Lee Ohio State University |
| Mar 21 Tue |
Loss Aversion in Sequential Auctions: Endogenous Interdependence, Informational Externalities and the “Afternoon Effect” Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Antonio Rosato University of Technology Sydney |
| Mar 24 FRI |
Ten Rules for Public Economic Policy | Ng Yew Kwang Nanyang Technological University |
| Mar 28 Tue |
Horizontal and Vertical Polarization: Task-Specific Technological Change in a Multi-Sector Economy | Yongseok Shin Washington University in St. Louis |
| Mar 28 Tue |
Multiproduct Intermediaries
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Andrew Rhodes Toulouse School of Economics |
| Mar 30 Thu |
Introducing Virtue Ethics into Normative Economics for Models with Endogenous Preference | Masao Ogaki Keio University |
| Mar 31 FRI |
Information Design under Falsification | Vasiliki Skreta University College London |
| Apr 03 MON 2:30-4 pm |
Growth, Trade, and Inequality
Venue: AS7 06-42 (Joint with Global Production Networks Centre) |
Gene M. Grossman Princeton University |
| Apr 03 MON |
How the Swine Flu Epidemic Spread: Understanding the Data with an Equilibrium Vigilance Model
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Jussi Keppo National University of Singapore |
| Apr 04 Tue |
The Long and Short of Trade and Migration Reforms in China | Xiadong Zhu University of Toronto |
| Apr 04 Tue |
Optimal nonlinear pricing in social networks under asymmetric network information
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Ying-Ju Chen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Apr 10 MON |
Testing Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Based on Permutation Tests
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Eun Yi Chung University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Apr 11 Tue |
Efficient Multi-unit Auctions for Normal Goods
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Brian Baisa Amherst College |
| Apr 12 WED |
Estimation with Aggregate Shocks | Guido Kuersteiner University of Maryland |
| Apr 13 Thu |
Do women respond less to performance pay? Building evidence from multiple experiments | Gregory Fischer London School of Economics |
| Apr 17 MON |
Haze and Decision Making: A Natural Laboratory Experiment | Chew Soo Hong National University of Singapore |
| Apr 18 Tue |
The End of Men and Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market | Henry Siu University of British Columbia |
| Apr 18 Tue |
Internal Financing, Managerial Compensation and Multiple Tasks
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Sandro Brusco Stony Brook University |
| Apr 20 Thu |
Preliminary Evidence on the Longer-Term Effects of Minimum Wages and other Anti-Poverty Policies | David Neumark University of California, Irvine |
| Apr 25 Tue |
Global Income Divergence, Trade, and Industrialization: The Geography of Growth Take-Offs | Richard Baldwin (MAS Term Professor) Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| Apr 25 Tue |
Bayesian Persuasion and Pricing Strategies by Informed Seller
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Jun Zhang University of Technology Sydney |
| Apr 27 Thu |
Involuntary Entrepreneurship - Evidence from Thai Urban Data | Alexander Karaivanov Simon Fraser University |
| Apr 28 FRI |
Random Binary Choices that Satisfy Stochastic Betweenness
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Matthew Ryan Auckland University of Technology |
| May 02 Tue |
Tax uncertainty and Entrepreneurships in US | Jianhuan Xu Singapore Management University |
| May 09 Tue |
Information Acquisition and Robust Trading Mechanisms
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Gabriel Carroll Stanford University |
| May 09 Tue |
How Do Policymakers Update? | Eva Vivalt Australian National University |
| May 12 FRI |
Estimation of Large Network Formation Games | Geert Ridder University of Southern California |
| May 16 Tue 2:30 - 4pm |
Semiparametric Estimation of the Random Utility Model with Rank-Ordered Choice Data | Jin Yan Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| May 16 Tue |
From imitation to innovation: Where is all that Chinese R&D going? | Zheng (Michael) Song Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| May 16 Tue |
Implementation of Efficient Investments in Mechanism Design
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Kentaro Tomoeda University of Technology Sydney |
| May 17 WED |
Fixed-Effect Regressions on Network Data | Martin Weidner University College London |
| May 18 Thu |
Investment in the Womb: Identifying Gender Discrimination through the Lens of Prenatal Ultrasounds | Xi Chen Yale University |
| May 18 Thu |
Subways and Urban Air Pollution
Venue: Silcock Journal Room |
Matthew Turner Brown University |
| May 22 MON 10.30-12pm |
Per Capita Income and the Demand for Skills | James Markusen University of Colorado at Boulder |
| May 22 MON |
Fiscal Pro-cyclicality and Over-optimism in Official Forecasts
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Jeffrey Frankel Harpel Professor, Harvard University, MAS Term Professor in Economics and Finance, NUS |
| May 23 Tue |
Optimal Monetary and Macroprudential Policies: Gains and Pitfalls in a Model of Financial Intermediation |
Michael Kiley Federal Reserve Board |
| May 23 Tue |
Seeking Relationship Support: Strategic network formation and robust cooperation
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
David Miller University of Michigan |
| May 25 Thu 2-3.30 pm |
No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Sickness, Injury, and Effort | Chong Xiang Purdue University |
| May 30 Tue |
Modeling House Prices: Theory and Estimation | Yu Zhu Bank of Canada |
| Jun 06 Tue |
R&D Dynamics and Corporate Cash
Venue: Silcock Journal Room |
Jake Zhao Peking University |
| Jun 15 Thu |
Are the global benefits of open borders a fallacy of composition? Three examples | Garett Jones George Mason University |
| Jun 29 Thu |
Delay, Delegation, and Obfuscation: The Politics of "No-Win" Situations | Justin Fox Washington University in St. Louis |
| Jul 04 Tue |
The Neglected Impact of Measurement Error in Applied Microeconomics with Applications to Automobile Type Choice and Utilization | David Brownstone University of California, Irvine |
| Jul 04 Tue |
Optimal Two-stage Auctions with Costly Information Acquisition
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Lixin Ye Ohio State University |
| Jul 06 Thu |
Directionally Differentiable Econometric Models | Jin Seo Cho Yonsei University |
| Jul 07 FRI |
Optimism and Pessimism with Expected Utility | Andrew Postlewaite University of Pennsylvania |
| Jul 12 WED |
Evaluating Strategic Forecasters | Mallesh Pai Rice University |
| Jul 14 FRI |
Distributional Preferences and Political Behavior | Shachar Kariv University of California, Berkeley |
| Jul 25 Tue |
A strategic justification of the Talmud rule based on lower and upper bounds | Yeh Chun-Hsien Academia Sinica |
| Jul 27 Thu |
The Micro Origins of International Business Cycle Comovement | Andrei Levchenko University of Michigan |
| Jul 28 FRI 2-3.30 pm |
Goods-Market Frictions and International Trade |
Andrew McCallum Federal Reserve Board |