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State Capacity, Military Power and Repression in Authorit...9am to 10:30amJoin ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University17Apr2024MICRO/THEORY: Repeated Trading: Transparency and Market Structure; Professor Santanu Roy (Souther...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1217Apr2024TRADE: Estimating Firm-Level Production Functions with Spatial Dependence; Professor Pao-Li Chang...4pm to 5:30pmAS2 05-1015Apr2024ECONOMETRICS: Assessing Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects; Dr Tetsuya Kaji (Chicago Booth)4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1212Apr2024MICRO/THEORY: Robust interventions in Markets; Professor Andrea Galeotti (London Business School)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1210Apr2024POLITICAL ECONOMY: Shareholder Democracy and the Market for Voting Advice; Professor Odilon Câmar...9am to 10:30amJoin ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University09Apr2024MACRO: On the investment network and development; Professor Julieta Caunedo (Cornell University)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1209Apr2024MICRO/THEORY: Information Acquisition, Investment and Competition; Professor Sergei Severinov (Va...4pm to 5:30pmAS7 06-4209Apr2024JOINT ECONS - S&P: The Silent Treatment? Imperfect Correlation of Spousal Expectations and Co...3pm to 4.30pmNUS Business School; Mochtar Riady Building (Biz1), Seminar Room L6-104Apr2024APPLIED MICRO: Does Competition Between Experts Improve Information Quality: Evidence from the Se...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1203Apr2024MICRO/THEORY: Designing Open Source Licenses; Professor Kim Sau-Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1202Apr2024MACRO: Large shocks travel fast; Professor Francesco Lippi (LUISS University)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1201Apr2024ECONOMETRICS: Multivariate ordered discrete response models; Professor Tatiana Komarova (Universi...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1227Mar2024POLITICAL ECONOMY: Institutional Development, Capital Accumulation, and the Emergence of Civiliza...4pm to 5:30pmJoin ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University27Mar2024MICRO/THEORY: Updating under Imprecise Information; Dr Yi-Hsuan Lin (Institute of Economics, Acad...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1227Mar2024TRADE: Multimodal Transport Networks; Professor Woan Foong Wong (University of Oregon)4pm to 5:30pmAS2 05-1027Mar2024APPLIED MICRO: Fear To Vote: Explosions, Salience, And Elections; Dr Mounu Prem (Francisco Munoz)...4pm to 5:30pmAS4 02-0626Mar2024MACRO: Evaluating Policy Counterfactuals: A “VAR-Plus” Approach; Dr Christian Wolf (Massachusetts...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1225Mar2024JOINT ECONS-S&P: Making the invisible hand visible - Managers and the allocation of workers t...1:30pm to 3pmNUS Business School; Mochtar Riady Building (Biz1), Seminar Room L6-1 25Mar2024ECONOMETRICS; Scalable and hyper-parameter-free non-parametric covariate shift adaptation with co...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1221Mar2024MACRO: Optimal Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis; Professor Sterk Vincent (Universit...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1220Mar2024APPLIED MICRO: Rent-Seeking and the Spatial Allocation of Economic Activity: Evidence from China’...4pm to 5:30pmAS4 02-0620Mar2024MICRO/THEORY: Coarse Information Design; Professor Suen Wing Chuen (The University of Hong Kong (...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1220Mar2024TRADE: When Work is Threatened: Lifelong Education and Occupation Choice; Dr Daisuke Adachi (Aarh...4pm to 5:30pmAS2 05-1019Mar2024MACRO: On the Mechanics of Wealth Inequality at the Top: With An Application to Capital Income an...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1218Mar2024ECONOMETRICS: Counterfactual Predictive Distributions in Games; Professor Elie Tamer (Harvard Uni...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1214Mar2024APPLIED MICRO: International Power; Professor David Y. Yang (Harvard University)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1213Mar2024MICRO/THEORY: Natural Selection of Artificial Intelligence; Professor Balázs Szentes (London Scho...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1212Mar2024MACRO: The Price of War; Professor Gernot Müller (University of Tübingen)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1211Mar2024ECONOMETRICS: Estimating Matching Games with Profit and Price Data; Professor Jeremy Fox (Rice Un...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1207Mar2024APPLIED MICRO: The slant of online news; Dr Luca Braghieri (Bocconi University)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1206Mar2024POLITICAL ECONOMY: Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion; Professor Joseph Torigian (American Univ...4pm to 5:30pm(Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)06Mar2024MICRO/THEORY: Optimal Allocation Strategies in a Discrete-Time Two-Armed Bandit Problem; Professo...4pm to 5:30pm(Join ZOOM)06Mar2024TRADE: The Trade-Creating Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from Household Purchase Data; Dr Christo...4pm to 5:30pmAS02 05-1005Mar2024MACRO: Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth: Evidence from Germany...4pm to 5:30pm Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1204Mar2024ECONOMETRICS: Finite Sample Inference in Incomplete Models; Professor Marc Henry (Pennsylvania St...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS02 03-1204Mar2024APPLIED MICRO: Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth; Professor Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris Sc...4pm to 5:30pmAS07 06-4229Feb2024APPLIED MICRO: Group Identity and Belief Formation: A Decomposition of Political Polarization; Pr...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1228Feb2024MICRO/THEORY: Information-trigger contracts; Professor Ke Rongzhu (Zhejiang University)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1228Feb2024TRADE: Floating Population-Migration With(Out) Family and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Ac...4pm to 5:30pmAS2 05-1028Feb2024POLITICAL ECONOMY: Hidden Hostility-Donor Attention and Political Violence; Professor Dominic Roh...4pm to 5:30pm(Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)27Feb2024MACRO: The 40-Hour Work Week; Dr Eunseong Ma (Yonsei University)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1226Feb2024ECONOMETRICES: Production Function Estimation Using Subjective Expectations Data; Professor Aureo...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1222Feb2024APPLIED MICRO: The Value of Names - Civil Society, Information, and Governing Multinationals ; Pr...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1221Feb2024MICRO/THEORY: Community Enforcement with Endogenous Records; Dr Harry Di Pei (Northwestern Univer...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1220Feb2024POLITICAL ECONOMY: Identity Politics; Professor Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1215Feb2024APPLIED MICRO: Ethnofederalism and ethnic voting; Professor Richard Bluhm (University of Stuttgart)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1210Jan2024MICRO/THEORY: TBC; Andrew J Koh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1213Dec2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Ongoing conflict and Ukrainian refugees’ resilience to return; Professor Panu ...4pm to 5:30pm(Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)06Dec2023APPLIED MICRO: How Are Gender Norms Perceived?; Professor Alessandra Voena (Stanford University)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1206Dec2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Explaining Foreign Support for China’s Global Economic Leadership; Professor L...9am to 10.30am(Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)06Dec2023TRADE: The Quantitative New Trade Model: Equilibrium and Welfare Analysis; Professor Konstantin K...4pm to 5:30pm AS2 05-1028Nov2023MACRO: The Productivity Slowdown in Advanced Economies: Common Shocks or Common Trends? / Product...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1223Nov2023APPLIED MICRO: Self-Preferencing and Consumer Choice: Evidence from a Field Experiment; Dr Andrey...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1222Nov2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Bourbon Reforms and State Capacity in the Spanish Empire; Professor Luis MARTÍ...9am to 10:30am (Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)22Nov2023MICRO/THEORY: The Confidant: A Model of Nepotism; Professor Che Jiahua (China Europe Internationa...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1222Nov2023TRADE: Reciprocity and the China Shock; Professor Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University)4pm to 5:30pmAS2 #05-1021Nov2023MACRO: The Dominant Role of Expectations and Broad-Based Supply Shocks in Driving Inflation; Prof...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1215Nov2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy; Professor Abraha...9am to 10:30am(Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)14Nov2023APPLIED MICRO: Designing Monitoring Programs; Dr Samuel Goldberg (Stanford Graduate School)4pm to 5.30pmSchool of Business; Mochtar Riady Building (MRB 01) 06-0414Nov2023MACRO: Revisiting the Forecasts of Others; Professor Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1209Nov2023APPLIED MICRO: Polity Size And Local Government Performance: Evidence From India; Dr Veda Narasim...4pm to 5:30pmZoom08Nov2023MICRO/THEORY: Rank-preserving Multidimensional Mechanisms; Professor Debasis Mishra (Indian Stati...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1207Nov2023MACRO: Job Search, Job Findings and the Role of Unemployment Insurance History; Professor Similan...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1206Nov2023ECONOMETRICES: Difference in Differences with Latent Group Structures; Professor Hiroyuki Kasahar...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1206Nov2023MACRO: The Safety Net: Central Bank Balance Sheets And Financial Crises; Professor Schularick Mor...3.30pm to 5pmBusiness School; HSS 03-0202Nov2023APPLIED MICRO: Targeting impact versus deprivation; Professor Paul Niehaus (University of Califor...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1231Oct2023MACRO: Costs of Financing US Federal Debt Under a Gold Standard: 1791-1933; Dr Jonathan Payne (Pr...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1226Oct2023APPLIED MICRO: The Environmental Effects of Economic Production: Evidence from Ecological Observa...4pm to 5:30pm Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1225Oct2023MICRO/THEORY: 2 Papers: Consumption of Values and Rationality and Zero Risk; Dr Fan Wang (ESSEC B...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1224Oct2023MACRO: The Geographic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks; Dr Juan Herreño (University of Californi...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1219Oct2023APPLIED MICRO: Dynamic Price Competition: Theory and Evidence from Airline Markets; Professor Kev...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1218Oct2023MICRO/THEORY: Social Structure, state capacity and economic activity; Professor Sanjeev GOYAL (Un...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1218Oct2023TRADE: Productivity and Quality of Multi-product Firms; Dr Shengyu Li (University of New South Wa...4pm to 5:30pmAS2 #05-1012Oct2023APPLIED MICRO: Policy Deterrence-Policy Deterrence: Strategic Investment in U.S. Broadband; Profe...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1211Oct2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: TBC; Professor Ferenc Szucs (Stockholm University)9am to 10:30am (Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)10Oct2023MACRO: Equilibrium Job Turnover and the Business Cycle; Professor Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (Univers...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1205Oct2023APPLIED MICRO: The Effect of Foreign Aid on Migration and Development: Global Micro Evidence from...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1204Oct2023APPLIED MICRO: Fast or Slow: What is Revealed by Expert Decision Times?; Professor Stefano DellaV...3.30pm to 5pmBIZ01 03-0503Oct2023MACRO: The Macroeconomic Implications of Uncertainty and Learning for Entrepreneurship; Dr Lichen...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1202Oct2023ECONOMETRICS: Non-parametric Estimation and Uniform Inference of Treatment Effects; Professor Chu...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1228Sep2023APPLIED MICRO: Decentralizing the Development-Conservation Trade-off: Evidence from Forestland Di...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1227Sep2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Understanding the Backlash Against Globalization; Professor Jeffry Frieden (Ha...9am to 10:30am (Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)19Sep2023MACRO: Financial Market Structure and Risk Concentration; Professor Briana Chang (Wisconsin Schoo...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1218Sep2023ECONOMETRICS: Uniform Inference for Nonlinear Endogenous Treatment Effects with High-Dimensional ...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1213Sep2023MICRO/THEORY: Collusive Behaviour, Efficiency and Cheap Talk Negotiation in Repeated Games; Profe...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1207Sep2023APPLIED MICRO: The Economic Value of Norm Conformity and Menu Opt-Out Costs; Dr Kwabena Baah Donk...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-12 06Sep2023MICRO/THEORY: Task allocation in networks; Professor Francis Bloch (Université Paris 1)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1205Sep2023MACRO: The Macroeconomic Cost of College Dropouts; Dr Oliko Vardishvili (University of California...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1231Aug2023APPLIED MICRO: Religion, Education, and the State; Professor Samuel Bazzi (University of Californ...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1229Aug2023MACRO: Overreaction and Macroeconomic Fluctuation of the External Balance; Dr Donghoon Yoo (Insti...4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1224Aug2023APPLIED MICRO: Sea Level Rise and Urban Adaptation in Jakarta; Dr Allan Hsiao (Princeton University)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-12 23Aug2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Market vs. Planning - Emission Abatement under Incomplete Information and with...4pm to 5.30pm(Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)22Aug2023MACRO: Pricing Inequality; Simon Mongey (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1217Aug2023APPLIED MICRO: A Discrimination Report Card; Professor Patrick Kline (UC Berkeley)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1216Aug2023MICRO/THEORY: Political Accountability Under Moral Hazard; Dr João Ramos (University of Southern ...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1214Aug2023ECONOMETRICS: Testing the Effects of an Unobservable Factor: Do Marriage Prospects Affect College...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1214Aug2023TRADE: How did Chinese exporters manage the trade war?; Professor Sheng Liugang (The Chinese Univ...2.15pm to 3.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1207Aug2023ECONOMETRICS: Optimal tests following sequential experiments; Dr Karun Adusumilli (University of ...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1207Aug2023MICRO/THEORY: Bounded Rationality is Rare; Professor Alfio Giarlotta (University of Catania)4pm to 5.30pmAS02 05-0931Jul2023ECONOMETRICS: Estimating Very Large Demand Systems; Dr Joshua Lanier (Southwestern University of ...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1221Jun2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Why the Political World is Flat: An Endogenous "Left" and "Right" in Multidime...9am to 10:30am (Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)31May2023MICRO/THEORY: Rational Exuberance and Asset Bubbles; Professor Vijay KRISHNA (Pennsylvania State ...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1223May2023MACRO: Flexible Capital User Costs and Investment Dynamics with Non-Convex Adjustment Costs; Dr E...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1215May2023ECONOMETRICS: Nonparametric Identification of First-Price Auction with Unobserved Competition: A ...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1211May2023APPLIED MICRO: Social Media and Government Responsiveness: Evidence from Vaccine Procurement in C...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1210May2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: The Rise and Fall of Imperial China; Professor Yuhua WANG (Harvard University)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)10May2023ECONOMETRICS: Insider and Outsider Careers in Executive Management; Professor Robert A. MILLER (C...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1204May2023TRADE: Understanding migration responses to local shocks; Dr Kirill BORUSYAK (University College ...4pm to 5.30pmAS02 05-1003May2023MICRO/THEORY: Multidimensional Choices under Uncertainty; Professor Shaowei KE (University of Mic...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1202May2023APPLIED MICRO: In-kind Transfers as Insurance; Professor Sandip SUKHTANKAR (University of Virginia)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1228Apr2023MACRO: Rising Intangible Capital and the Disappearance of Public Firms; Dr Hanbaek LEE (Universit...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1227Apr2023APPLIED MICRO: State Capacity and Unequal Public Good Provision: Evidence from District Splitting...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1226Apr2023TRADE: Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies; Professor Gor...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1225Apr2023MACRO: Spatial Integration and Agricultural Productivity: Quantifying the Impact of New Roads; Pr...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-12 24Apr2023ECONOMETRICS: The Local to Unity Dynamic Tobit Model; Dr Anna BYKHOVSKAYA (Duke University)4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1221Apr2023TRADE: WeChat with BERT: AI's Impact on International Trade in Digital Services; Professor Daniel...2pm to 3.30pmAS02 05-1020Apr2023APPLIED MICRO: Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development; Dr Gaurav...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1219Apr2023MICRO/THEORY: The Public Option and Optimal Redistribution; Zi Yang KANG (Stanford University)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room, 03-1218Apr2023MACRO: Credible Forward Guidance; Professor Taisuke NAKATA (University of Tokyo)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1213Apr2023APPLIED MICRO: From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler; Professor Sascha O. BECKER (Monash Un...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1212Apr2023MICRO/THEORY: Epistemic foundation of the backward induction paradox; Professor Geir B. ASHEIM (U...9am to 10:30am Zoom12Apr2023APPLIED MICRO: Hobbesian Wars and Separation of Powers; Dr Weijia LI (Monash University)4pm to 5.30pmJoint Webinar with HKBU, NTU Taiwan, and CEIBS Shanghai11Apr2023MACRO: Bank Market Power and Central Bank Digital Currency: A Case of Imperfect Substitution; Dr ...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-12 10Apr2023ECONOMETRICS: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Networks, Panels, and other Outcome Matrices; D...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1205Apr2023MICRO/THEORY: Comparative statics with adjustment costs and the le Chatelier principle; Dr. Ludvi...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1205Apr2023APPLIED MICRO: The Heterogeneous Effects of Rural Electrification: Evidence from Zambia; Dr Torst...4pm to 5.30pmAS1 02-0304Apr2023TRADE: Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China; Professor Loren BRANDT (Universit...2pm to 3.30pmAS02 05-1004Apr2023MACRO: On the Emergence of an International Currency; Professor Cathy ZHANG (Purdue University)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1229Mar2023MICRO/THEORY: Efficient Mechanisms under Unawareness; Professor Burkhard SCHIPPER (University of ...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-12 27Mar2023ECONOMETRICS: Robust Inference On Infinite And Growing Dimensional Time Series Regression; Dr Abh...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1224Mar2023MACRO: On (Un)Congested Roads: A Quantitative Analysis of Infrastructure Investment Efficiency us...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1224Mar2023MICRO/THEORY: Source Recursive Utility with Lab and Field Evidence relating to Home Bias; Profess...4pm to 5.30pmAS02 05-1023Mar2023APPLIED MICRO: Estimating the Value of Offsite Data to Advertisers on Meta; Professor Brad SHAPIR...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1222Mar2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Outsourcing Repression; Professor Lynette ONG (University of Toronto)9am to 10.30am(Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)21Mar2023MACRO: Dynamic Identification Using System Projections on Instrumental Variables; Karel MERTENS (...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1221Mar2023TRADE: Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports; Dr Ferdinand RAUC...2pm to 3.30pmAS02 05-1020Mar2023ECONOMETRICS: Finite Sample Inference for the Maximum Score Estimand ; Professor Adam M. ROSEN (D...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1216Mar2023APPLIED MICRO: CEO Gender and Firm-to-Firm Transactions; Professor Hitoshi SHIGEOKA (Simon Fraser...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1215Mar2023MICRO/THEORY: Disclosure of conflicts of interest: Good news or bad news?; Professor Ming LI (Con...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1214Mar2023MACRO: University Research and the Market for Higher Education; Dr Titan ALON (University of Cali...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1213Mar2023ECONOMETRICS: Binary Choice with Asymmetric Loss in a Data-Rich Environment: Theory and an Applic...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1209Mar2023ECONOMETRICS: Dynamic Autoregressive Liquidity (DArLiQ); Professor Oliver LINTON (University of C...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1208Mar2023MICRO/THEORY: The Market for Lemons under Regularity; Professor Angel HERNANDO-VECIANA (Universit...4pm to 5.30pmAS02 05-1008Mar2023APPLIED MICRO: Doing More with Less: Predicting Primary Care Provider Effectiveness; Professor Ja...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1208Mar2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Veto Players and Policy Development; Professor Kenneth SHOTTS (Stanford Univer...9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)07Mar2023MACRO: Evaluating Policy Institutions - 150 Years of US Monetary Policy; Regis Barnichon (Federal...10am to 11.30amVirtual07Mar2023TRADE: The Transition from Water to Steam Power; Dr Anders Humlum (University of Chicago Booth)2pm to 3.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1206Mar2023ECONOMETRICS: Equilibrium Trade in Automobiles; Professor Fedor ISKHAKOV (Australian National Uni...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1203Mar2023ECONOMETRICS: Weak Identification of Long Memory with implications for Inference; Professor Yu Ju...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1203Mar2023MACRO: Endogenous Liquidity and Capital Reallocation; Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in Banking...2pm to 3.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room, AS02 03-1202Mar2023APPLIED MICRO: Road Maintenance and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Indonesia’s Highway...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1201Mar2023MICRO/THEORY: From Local Utility to Neural Networks; Professor Chen ZHAO (University of Hong Kong)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1227Feb2023ECONOMETRICS: Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Panel Quantile Models with Sample Se...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1223Feb2023APPLIED MICRO: Technology and Tax Capacity: Evidence from Local Governments in Ghana; Professor A...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1222Feb2023MICRO/THEORY: Pick-an-Object Mechanisms; Inácio Bó (Southwestern University of Finance and Econom...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1222Feb2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Values as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization; Professor Mattias POLBORN (...9am to 10:30am Via Zoom20Feb2023ECONOMETRICS: Robust Estimation and Inference in Panels with Interactive Fixed Effects; Dr Andrei...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1210Feb2023NUS Career Fest 2023: Seed Your Future Now10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (SGT)University Sports Centre Indoor Sports Hall, MPSH 1, 2, 5 and 604Jan2023MICRO/THEORY: TBC; Professor Mihai MANEA (Stony Brook University)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1221Dec2022MICRO/THEORY: Platforms under joint ownership; Professor Martin PEITZ (Mannheim University)4pm to 5.30pmMochtar Riady Building; BIZ1 02-0406Dec2022TRADE: Trade From Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks; Professor...2pm to 3.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1230Nov2022MICRO/THEORY: Insider Imitation; Dr. Erik MADSEN (New York University)4 to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1230Nov2022POLITICAL ECONOMY: How Credible is the Credibility Revolution?; Professor Kevin LANG (Boston Univ...9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)28Nov2022ECONOMETRICS: Asymptotic Representations for Sequential Decisions, Adaptive Experiments, and Batc...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1223Nov2022POLITICAL ECONOMY: Meritocracy and Its Discontent - Long-run Effects of Repeated School Admission...9am to 10.30am(Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University)22Nov2022TRADE: Mechanics of Spatial Growth; Professor Fernando PARRO (The Pennsylvania State University)2pm to 3.30pmAS2 05-1022Nov2022MACRO: A Modern Perspective on the Classical Approach to the Lender of Last Resort; Professor Fab...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1221Nov2022ECONOMETRICS: Modified Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests of stochastic dominance; Professor Brendan K. ...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1218Nov2022MACRO: A Monetary Policy Asset Pricing Model; Professor Ricardo CABALLERO (Massachusetts Institut...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1217Nov2022APPLIED MICRO: Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Student...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1216Nov2022MICRO/THEORY: Strategic Investment under Uncertainty with First- and Second-mover Advantages; Pro...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1216Nov2022Public Lecture: Inflation and Markets Post-COVID — An Upside Down World (MAS Term Professor)6:00 PMBlock AS7 Seminar Room B (01-16/17/18), NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 15Nov2022MACRO: Migration Costs, Sorting, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap; Dr Naijia GUO (The Chines...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1211Nov2022ECONOMETRICS: Weak Identification of Long Memory with Implications for Inference; Professor YU Ju...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1210Nov2022APPLIED MICRO: Religious Divisions and Production Technology: Experimental Evidence from India; D...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1209Nov2022POLITICAL ECONOMY: Optimal assignment of bureaucrats: Evidence from randomly assigned tax collect...9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)08Nov2022TRADE: Remote Work and City Structure; Professor Charly PORCHER (Georgetown University)4pm to 5.30pmAS2 05-10 08Nov2022MACRO: Bias and Sensitivity under Ambiguity; Dr Zhen HUO (Yale University)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1203Nov2022APPLIED MICRO: Climate Policy, Financial Frictions, and Transition Risk; Professor Garth HEUTEL (...8.30 to 10amVia Zoom02Nov2022POLITICAL ECONOMY: Expressive Politics - A Model of Electoral Competition with Animus and Cogniti...9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)01Nov2022MACRO: Attention Cycles; Dr Karthik SASTRY (Harvard University)8.30am to 10amvia Zoom28Oct2022ECONOMETRICS: Wild Bootstrap Inference for Instrumental Variable Regressions with Weak and Few Cl...4pm to 5pmAS2 05-1026Oct2022POLITICAL ECONOMY: Measuring Upward Mobility; Professor Garance GENICOT (Georgetown University)9am to 10:30am (Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University) 25Oct2022Contracting with Enemies?: Vertical FDI with Outsourcing Contracts; Professor Jee-Hyeong PARK (Se...4 to 5.30pmAS2 05-0925Oct2022How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda;...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1220Oct2022The Benefits and Costs of Guest Worker Programs: Experimental Evidence from The India-UAE Migrati...8.30 to 10amvia Zoom19Oct2022What should economic agents learn in misspecified environments?; Professor Jonathan NEWTON (Kyoto...Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1218Oct2022Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions in a Model with Low Interest Rates; Professor Jianjun MIA...via Zoom14Oct2022DSTA Campus Interview (FASS)10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (SGT)The Shaw Foundation Building Block AS7, Seminar Room B, Level 1 5 Arts Link, Singapore13Oct2022Social Media and Mental Health; Dr Ro'ee LEVY (Tel Aviv University)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1212Oct2022Perfect Subjective Correlated Equilibrium; Professor Chih-Chun YANG (Institute of Economics, Acad...4:00 to 5.30 PMZoom11Oct2022The False Illusion of Wage Cyclicality; Dr Ana FIGUEIREDO (Erasmus School of Economics)4:00 to 5.30 PMLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1205Oct2022Policy Misperceptions, Information, and the Demand for Redistributive Tax Reform: Experimental Ev...9am to 10:30am (Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, National Taiwan University) 04Oct2022Fabian WINKLER (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve)Cancelled29Sep2022Development via Administrative Redistricting: Evidence from Brazil; Dr Ricardo DAHIS (Pontifical ...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1228Sep2022The Origins of Elected Strongmen; Professor Joseph WRIGHT (The Pennsylvania State University)9am to 10:30am (Join ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)27Sep2022Rolled-over Credit Cycles; Dr Donghai ZHANG (University of Bonn)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1226Sep2022A General Test for Functional Inequalities; Professor LI Jia (Singapore Management University)4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1221Sep2022Competitive Fair Redistricting; Professor Mattias POLBORN (Vanderbilt University)9am to 10:30am Via Zoom21Sep2022Voter Attention and Electoral Accountability; Professor Alexander HIRSCH (California Institute of...9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)20Sep2022Micro Jumps, Macro Humps: Monetary Policy and Business Cycles in an Estimated HANK Model; Dr Adri...9am to 10.30amVia Zoom19Sep2022Generalizing Obvious Dominance using the Sure-thing Principle; Professor CHEW Soo Hong (National ...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1215Sep2022Poverty at Higher Frequency; Dr Joshua D. MERFELD (KDI School of Public Policy and Management)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1208Sep2022Selective Memory around Big Life Decisions; Dr Maximilian W. Müller (briq - Institute on Behavior...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1201Sep2022Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India; Dr S An...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1231Aug2022Dynamic Contracting with Flexible; Professor Ming YANG (University College London)4 to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1230Aug2022Big Push in Distorted Economies; Professor Francisco BUERA (Washington University in St. Louis.)4 to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1225Aug2022Female Empowerment and the Intrinsic Demand for Agency: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria; Dr M....4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1218Aug2022The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India; Professor ...4pm to 5.30pmAS7-01-16/17/18 16Aug2022Job Applications and Labor Market Flows; Dr Shu Lin WEE (Bank of Canada)4pm to 5.30pmAS7-06-4211Aug2022Policy Evaluation and Production Networks: Is Carbon Pricing Reshaping the U.S. Electricity Indus...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room AS2 03-12 04Aug2022Valuing the time of the self-employed; Professor Erik SNOWBERG (University of British Columbia / ...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-12 03Aug2022Political Economy Workshop jointly held with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University1pm to 5pm(Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 02Aug2022Is Software Eating the World? ; Professor Yongseok SHIN (Washington University in St. Louis)4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1228Jul2022Applied Economics Workshop - Towns and Rural Land Inequality in India; Prashant BHARADWAJ (Univer...8.30 - 10.15amRegister for the session here . 22Jul2022Applications of Technology-related Solutions in Shipping; Professor Photis M. PANAYIDES (Cyprus U...5.30pm to 6.30pmRegister for the session here .13Jul2022Liberty, Security, and Accountability: The Rise and Fall of Illiberal Democracies; Professor Gabr...9am - 10.30am(Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)07Jul2022Applied Economics Workshop - Echo Chambers: Does Online Network Structure Matter; David YANAGIZAW...3.00pm to 4.45pmRegister for the session here . 06Jul2022The Stupidity of War; Professor John MUELLER (Ohio State University)9am - 10.30am(Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)29Jun2022Razor-Thin Elections ; Professor Cesar MARTINELLI (George Mason University)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)08Jun2022A Theory of Moral Authority: Moral Choices Under Moral Network Externality with Avner Greif [Theo...9am - 10.30am(Joint ZOOM with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)01Jun2022Voter Polarization and Extremism; Professor Tai-Wei HU (University of Bristol)4pm to 5:30pm(Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)01Jun2022Firm Growth through New Establishments; Professor Toshihiko MUKOYAMA (Georgetown University)10.30am to 12pmAS7 01-0225May2022Investing in influence: Investors, portfolio firms, and political giving; Professor Raymond FISMA...9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)18May2022The Unintrusive Nature of Digital Surveillance and Its Social Consequences; Xu XU (Princeton Univ...9am to 10:30am(Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 17May2022The Effects of Monetary Policy: Theory with Measured Expectations; Mirko Wiederholt (Ludwig Maxi...4pm to 5:30pmvia Zoom 10May2022Predicting Long-Term Unemployment Risk; Andreas Mueller (The University of Texas at Austin)8:30 am to 10:00 amvia Zoom 05May2022Computational Analysis of 140 Years of U.S. Political Speeches Reveals More Positive but Increasi...8.30 to 10amvia Zoom 04May2022National Identity and Modern Economic Performance; Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 03May2022Untying the Knot: How Child Support and Alimony Affect Couples’ Dynamic Decisions and Welfare; Ha...8:30 am to 10:00 amvia Zoom 28Apr2022TBC; Marianne Page (University of California, Davis)postponedvia Zoom 27Apr2022TBC; Peter BUISSERET (Harvard University)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 26Apr2022TBC; Cathy Zhang (Purdue University)postponedvia Zoom 21Apr2022TBC; Prashant Bharadwaj (UCSD)To be advisedvia Zoom20Apr2022Heterogeneously perceived incentives in dynamic environments: rationalization, robustness and uni...4 to 5.30pmvia Zoom19Apr2022Monetary and Fiscal Policies in Times of Large Dept: Unity is Strength; Francesco Bianchi (Duke/J...8.30 to 10amvia Zoom14Apr2022Non-Additivity of Subjective Beliefs over Different Time Intervals; Uwe Sunde (LMU Munich) joint ...4pm to 5:30pmvia Zoom14Apr2022TBC; Adam McCloskey (University of Colorado at Boulder)9am to 10:30am via zoom (joint with SMU)13Apr2022Shaoda WANG (University of Chicago)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 12Apr2022TBC; Eric Leeper (University of Virginia)To be advisedvia Zoom 07Apr2022Firm Export Dynamics in Interdependent Markets; joint with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Juan Manuel Castr...9 to 10.30amvia Zoom06Apr2022TBC; Yeling Tan (University of Oregon)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 06Apr2022Certifying Firms; Allen Vong (University of Macau)4 to 5.30pmvia Zoom 05Apr2022The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments; Pablo Ottonello (University of Michigan)9 to 10.30amvia Zoom31Mar2022Suresh Naidu (Columbia University)8.30 to 10amvia Zoom 30Mar2022A Theory of Fiscal Responsibility and Irresponsibility; Pierre Yared (Columbia University)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 29Mar2022Does it Matter to Assume that U.S. Monetary Authorities Follow a Taylor Rule?; Franck Portier (UC...4 to 5.30pm (Joint ZOOM) 25Mar2022Trade Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 years of US-China Trade; Dr. Shafaat Yar Khan11am to noon23Mar2022Edwin LAI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)4pm to 5:30pm(Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 23Mar2022Innovation, Learning, and Mergers; Jihong Lee (SNU)4 to 5.30pmvia Zoom 17Mar2022Poverty Traps, Structural Transformation, and Rural Land Concentration in India; Prashant Bharadw...9am to 10:30am via Zoom16Mar2022Screening for Consensus: Delegation with Collective Principals; Vincent Anesi (Université du Luxe...4pm to 5:30pm(Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 15Mar2022Misallocation Effects of Labor Market Frictions; Ronald Wolthoff (University of Toronto)4pm to 5:30pmLim Tay Boon Seminar Room (AS2-03-12). The capacity is up to 17 pax Register here 14Mar2022Attention Overload; Xinwei Ma (UC San Diego)8:30am to 10amvia Zoom (joint with SMU)10Mar2022Applied Economic Workshop; Uta Schönberg (University College London)via Online09Mar2022Endogenous Institutional Stability; Ashutosh Dinesh Thakur (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Polic)4pm to 5:30pmvia Zoom 08Mar2022How do Workers Learn? Theory and Evidence on the Roots of Lifecycle Human Capital Accumulation; D...9:30 am to 11 amvia Zoom03Mar2022Branch Location Strategies and Financial Service Access in Thai Banking; Marc Rysman (Boston Univ...9am to 10:30am via Zoom 03Mar2022Bias Correction and Robust Inference in Semiparametric; Xiye Yang (Rutgers University)8:30 am to 10 am via Zoom (joint with SMU)02Mar2022The Dictator's Handbook 2/e; Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (New York University)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 02Mar2022Credible Persuasion; Xiao Lin (Penn State University)9am to 10:30am via Zoom 24Feb2022Migration, Specialization, and Trade: Evidence from Brazil's March to the West; Sebastian Sotelo ...9am to 10:30am via ZOOM23Feb2022Inspiring Regime Change; Mehdi Shadmehr (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University) 15Dec2021‘Stuck in the Middle’ of Enforcement: (Sub-)Optimal Deterrence of Workplace Sabotage & The At...3pm to 4:30pmvia Zoom14Dec2021Startup Types, Structural Policy and Macroeconomic Performance in Europe; Vincent Sterk (Universi...5pm to 6:30pm via Zoom07Dec2021Optimal monetary policy in the presence of human capital depreciation during unemployment; Lien L...5pm to 6:30pmvia ZOOM03Dec2021Consumer Choice and the Cost of Inflation; Sephorah Mangin (ANU)10am to 11:30amvia ZOOM30Nov2021Why Didn’t the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment i...10am to 11:30amvia ZOOM26Nov2021Consistent Local Spectrum (LCM) Inference for Predictive Return Regressions; Rasmus Tangsgaard Va...4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM25Nov2021Applied Economics Workshop; Brian Jacob (University of Michigan)via ZOOM23Nov2021This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in a Pandemic Recession; Michèle Tertilt...4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM18Nov2021The Digital Challenge to Public Libraries; Imke Reimers (Northeastern University)9am to 10:30am via ZOOM17Nov2021Formal Insurance and Altruism Networks; Yann Bramoullé (Aix-Marseille University)4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM16Nov2021Stabilization with Fiscal Policy; Narayana kocherlakota (University of Rochester)9am to 10:30am via ZOOM15Nov2021Testing Forecast Rationality for Measures of Central Tendency; Andew Patton (Duke University)8:30am to 10amvia ZOOM12Nov2021Inference and forecasting for continuous-time integer-valued trawl processes and their use in fin...4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM12Nov2021Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks; Hanwei Huang (City Un...1:30pm to 3pmvia ZOOM11Nov2021Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture; Kyle Emeric...8:30am to 10:00amvia ZOOM10Nov2021Information spillover in markets with heterogeneous traders; Heng Liu (University of Michigan)9am to 10:30am via ZOOM10Nov2021A Model of Censorship, Propaganda, and Repression; Scott GEHLBACH (University of Chicago)9am to 10:30am Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University09Nov2021Efficient Redistribution with Consumption Taxes; Patrick Macnamara (University of Manchester)4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM03Nov2021Long-Term Competition for Product Awareness with Learning from Friends; Yang Huanxing (The Ohio S...9am to 10:30am via ZOOM02Nov2021Interest Rates, Moneyness, and the Fisher Equation; Lucas Herrenbrueck (Simon Fraser)10am to 11:30amvia ZOOM02Nov2021An Empirical Exposé of Graeber’s Useless Jobs Hypothesis4:00 PM (SGT)Online29Oct2021Uncertainty in Global Sourcing; Mario Larch (The University of Bayreuth)3pm to 4:30pmvia ZOOM (Joint webinar with LKY School, Yale NUS College)28Oct2021Do Cash Transfers Promoting Early Childhood Development Have Unintended Consequences on Fertility...4pm to 5:30pm via ZOOM26Oct2021Central Bank Digital Currency: A Corporate Finance Perspective; Mei Dong (University of Melbourne)4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM25Oct2021Inference for Ranks with Applications to Mobility across Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement a...3pm to 4:30pmvia ZOOM22Oct2021Revisiting the Gender Revolution: Time on Paid Work, Domestic Work, and Total Work in East Asian ...4:00 PM (SGT)Online21Oct2021(Mis)allocation of Managerial Training Within the Firm; Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of Michigan)9am to 10:30amvia ZOOM20Oct2021Market-Minded Informational Intermediary: Unintended Welfare Loss and Market Stagnation; Yang Kai...9am to 10:30am via ZOOM19Oct2021The Global Financial Resource Curse; Luca Fornaro (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional)4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM14Oct2021Mental Models and Learning: The Case of Base-Rate Neglect; Sevgi Yuksel (UC Santa Barbara)9am to 10:30am via ZOOM13Oct2021Repeated Resource Allocation; John Yiran Zhu (University of Kansas)9am to 10:30am via ZOOM12Oct2021Solving Heterogeneous Agent Models with the Master Equation; Adrien Bilal (Harvard University)9:30am to 11amvia ZOOM07Oct2021Weather, Climate Change and Death in India; Robin Burgess (LSE)4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM05Oct2021What Can Time-Series Regressions Tell Us About Policy Counterfactuals?" ; Alisdair McKay (Federal...9am to 10:30am via ZOOM04Oct2021Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs under Monotonicity; Soonwoo Kwon (Brown University)9am to 10:30am via ZOOM01Oct2021Inference on the dimension of the nonstationary subspace in functional time series; Morten Nielse...3pm to 4:30pmvia ZOOM30Sep2021Applied Economic Workshop; Ben Olken (MIT)29Sep2021Small Campaign Contributions; Julia CAGÉ (Sciences Po Paris)4pm to 5:30pm via Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University29Sep2021Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies; Igor Letina (University ...4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM28Sep2021Search, Screening and Sorting; Pieter Gautier (VU University amsterdam)4pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM27Sep2021Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations; Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania)2pm to 3:30pmvia ZOOM24Sep2021Tracing the International Transmission of a Crisis Through Multinational Firms; Marcus Biermann (...3pm to 4pm via ZOOM (Joint webinar with LKY, Yale NUS)23Sep2021The nerds, the cool and the central. Peer education and teen pregnancy in Brazil ; Eliana La Fer...4pm to 5:30pm via ZOOM22Sep2021Learning with Limited Memory: Bayesianism vs Heuristics; Tai-Wei Hu (University of Bristol)4:30pm to 6pmvia ZOOM21Sep2021The Aging Hypothesis; Gauti Eggertsson (Brown University)9am to 10:30am via ZOOM16Sep2021Policy Diffusion and Polarization Across US States; Stefano DellaVigna (UC-Berkeley)9am to 10:30am via ZOOM15Sep2021Optimal Political Career Dynamics; Avidit Acharya (Stanford University)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)14Sep2021The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market; David Wiczer (Stony Brook University)10am to 11:30amvia ZOOM13Sep2021Two-Stage Maximum Score Estimators; Wayne Gao (University of Pennsylvania)9am to 10:30am via ZOOM10Sep2021The Impacts of AI, Robots, and Globalization on the Labor Market: Analysis of a Quantitative Gene...1:30pm to 3pmvia ZOOM 09Sep2021The Seeds Of Ideology: Historical Immigration And Political Preferences In The United States; Pao...9am to 10:30am via ZOOM 08Sep2021The Value of Data; Simone Galperti (University of California San Diego)10am to 11:30amvia ZOOM07Sep2021Efficiency gains from wealth taxation: A theoretical analysis; Ocampo Sergio (Western Ontario)9:30am to 11amvia ZOOM06Sep2021An Empirical Model of Quantity Discounts with Large Choice Sets; Ao Wang (University of Warwick)2:30pm to 4pmvia ZOOM02Sep2021Applied micro: Applied Economic Workshop; Jesse Rothstein (UC-Berkeley)via ZOOM01Sep2021Re-framing China: The Counter-Narrative Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter; Jennifer PA...9am to 10:30am via Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University26Aug2021The Role Of Information In The Rosen-Roback Framework; Ran Song (Yale-NUS)4pm to 5:30pmLTBSR (AS2-03-12) - up to 17pax only25Aug2021Choosing Political Advisers; Francesco SQUINTANI (University of Warwick)4pm to 5:30pm via ZOOM Joint seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University19Aug2021Task Requirements, Time Requirements, and the Gender Gap in Jobs and Pay; Chinhui Juhn (Universit...08:30am to 10amVia ZOOM31Jul2021NUS Admissions and Faculties Sharing 20219:30 am - 4:40 pmOnline (Zoom in Multiple Sessions)21Jul20213G Internet And Confidence In Government; Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po)4pm to 5:30pm (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)14Jul2021Why We Fight; Christopher Blattman (University of Chicago)9am to 10:30am(Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)01Jul2021Applied Economic Workshop; Nathaniel Hendren (Harvard)via ZOOM30Jun2021The Democracy Effect: a weights-based identification strategy; Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University)9am to 10:30am(Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)23Jun2021Belief Updating: Inference versus Forecast Revision; Liang Yucheng (Carnegie Mellon University)4pm to 5:30pm via ZOOM23Jun2021The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China; Gerard Padro i Miquel (Yale University)9am to 10:30am (Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)16Jun2021Competitive Advertising and Pricing; 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David Jacks (Yale-NUS College)4pm to 5:30pm LTBSR (AS2-03-12); up to 20persons capacity 28Apr2021∆-Substitute Preferences and Equilibria with Indivisibilities; Rakesh Vohra (University of Penn...9am to 10:30am via ZOOM 27Apr2021World Productivity: 1996 - 2014; John Fernald (INSEAD/FRBSF )9am to 10.30am via Zoom 26Apr2021Hukou Reform, Urban Fiscal Policy, and Migration in China; Jipeng Zhang (Southwestern University ...9:30am to 11am via ZOOM23Apr2021Inference for high-dimensional exchangeable arrays; Harold Chiang (University of Wisconsin at Mad...8am to 9:30am via Zoom (Joint with SMU)22Apr2021Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? 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Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University)9:00am to 10:30am(Joint ZOOM Seminar with HKBU, CEIBS, and National Taiwan University)17Nov2020Intermediation in Over-the-Counter Markets with Price Transparency; Miroslav Gabrovski (Hawaii a...1:00pm to 2:30pmvia ZOOM12Nov2020The Making of Social Democracy The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 School Re...4:00pm to 5:30pmvia ZOOM10Nov2020Normalizing the Central Bank’s Balance Sheet: Implications for Inflation and Debt Dynamics; Pedro...1:00pm to 2:30pmvia ZOOM09Nov2020Optimality of Matched-Pair Designs in Randomized Controlled Trials; Yuehao Bai (University of Mic...9:00am to 10:30amvia ZOOM05Nov2020Where Does Wealth Come From? 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