Welcome Remarks

Qiushi Feng (Acting Vice Dean of Research, FASS, NUS)
Doowon Lee (Yonsei University)
Ngee Choon Chia (Economics, NUS)

General Session I-1: Climate Change

Room: Dalvey & Evans
Chair: Gregor Pfeifer (Sydney)

Title: Incentivized personal carbon scores lower the carbon intensity of urban mobility and spill over to pro-science climate attitudes
Presenter: Alberto Salvo (NUS)

Title: Energy tax policies and resource misallocations: The cases of the United States and China
Presenter: Wen-Chieh Lee (Chengchi)

Title: Why do governments make promises they cannot keep? Evidence from India’s National Clean Air Programme
Presenter: Martin Mattsson (NUS)

Title: Assessing the macroeconomic effects of climate physical risks in South Korea: A study using the extreme climate index
Presenters: Ki Young Park, Hyunjin Oh (Yonsei)

General Session I-2: Human Capital

Room: Dalvey & Evans
Chair: Doowon Lee (Yonsei University)

Title: Who gets the bonus? Affirmative action reforms in high school admissions in China
Presenter: Onur Kesten (Sydney)

Title: Inside TSMC’s expansion hindrances: The unbalanced costs of adjustments in human and physical capital
Presenter: Shinn-Shyr Wang (Chengchi)

Title: The heterogeneous effects of place-based policy on neighbourhood change: Evidence from special economic zones in Shanghai
Presenter: Jianfeng Wu (Fudan)

Title: Income receipt, economic activities, and health: Evidence from ambulance transport patterns (Zoom)
Presenter: Yoko Ibuka (Keio)

Parallel Session II – 1: Technology, Tax, and Development

Room: Dalvey
Chair: Ryuki Kobayashi (Keio)

Title: Public perception and mobile payment choices: Evidence from China
Presenter: Long Wang (Fudan)

Title: Infrastructure and business taxation
Presenter: Gregor Pfeifer (Sydney)

Title: Government venture capital and high-tech industrial clusters: Evidence from China
Presenter: Jingyuan Guo (NUS)

Title: Economic impacts of the green transition: Evidence from Korean gas stations
Presenter: Jaehyeok Lee (Yonsei)

Parallel Session II – 2: Labour and Health

Room: Evans
Chair: Jianfeng Wu (Fudan)

Title: Re-employment act and labour outcomes in Singapore
Presenter: Ngee Choon Chia (NUS)

Title: Agricultural imports, labor mobility, and welfare
Presenter: Rui Li (Fudan)

Title: Addressing labor shortages through stable stay for foreign guest workers: Evidence from South Korea's new visa system
Presenters: Yujeong Lee, Hee-Seung Yang (Yonsei)

Title: Determinants of non-enrollment in public health insurance among foreign residents in Japan: An empirical analysis based on pooled cross-sectional data
Presenter: Yuchen Lu (Keio)

Parallel Session III – 1: Applied Micro

Room: Dalvey
Chair: Ngee Choon Chia (NUS)

Title: Heat impacts college student grades even in rich Singapore
Presenter: Haoming Liu (NUS)

Title: Gender peer effects in university courses: Evidence from tutorial groups
Presenter: Yuxuan Zhang (NUS)

Title: Importing Pop Idols? Socioeconomic consequences of K-pop boom in the US
Presenters: Seoyoung Kwon, Jaerim Choi (Yonsei)

Parallel Session III – 2: Market, Macro, IO

Room: Evans
Chair: Shinn-Shyr Wang (Chengchi)

Title: Market power, efficiency, and upstream effects: Disentangling multiple merger effects on gasoline price
Presenter: Ryuki Kobayashi (Keio)

Title: Losing global markets while protecting local small businesses: Evidence from small-scale industry promotion in Korea
Presenters: Jiyoung Lee, Jaerim Choi (Yonsei)

Title: Job polarization and specialization: Focusing on South Korea’s manufacturing sector
Presenters: Hyunmin Im, Doowon Lee (Yonsei)