Seminars in Academic Year 2022/2023 Semester 2 CategoryAcademic Year 2020/2021 Semester 1Academic Year 2020/2021 Semester 2Academic Year 2021/2022 Semester 1Academic Year 2021/2022 Semester 2Academic Year 2022/2023 Semester 1Academic Year 2022/2023 Semester 2Academic Year 2023/2024 Semester 1Academic Year 2023/2024 Semester 2Academic Year 2024/2025 Semester 1Academic Year 2024/2025 Semester 2Applied Micro SeminarsEconometrics SeminarsJoint Econs - Business School SeminarsJoint Econs - DREJoint Econs - S&P SeminarsMacro SeminarsMicro/Theory SeminarsPast SeminarsPolitical Economy SeminarsSeminar SeriesTrade SeminarsVisible 31Jul2023ECONOMETRICS: 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)21Mar2023TRADE: Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports; Dr Ferdinand RAUC...2pm to 3.30pmAS02 05-1021Mar2023MACRO: Dynamic Identification Using System Projections on Instrumental Variables; Karel MERTENS (...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1220Mar2023ECONOMETRICS: 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 03-1222Feb2023POLITICAL ECONOMY: Values as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization; Professor Mattias POLBORN (...9am to 10:30am Via Zoom22Feb2023MICRO/THEORY: Pick-an-Object Mechanisms; Inácio Bó (Southwestern University of Finance and Econom...4pm to 5.30pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-1220Feb2023ECONOMETRICS: Robust Estimation and Inference in Panels with Interactive Fixed Effects; Dr Andrei...4pm to 5pmLim Tay Boh Seminar Room; AS2 03-12