Past Seminar Series
Semester 2, 2015/2016
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Date
|
Topic
|
Speaker
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| Jan 08 FRI |
An Investment Insurance yields the Desired Wealth Distribution | Klaus Wälde Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Jan 08 FRI |
Searching for the Reference Point Venue:Â AS2/05-09 |
Han Bleichrodt Erasmus University |
| Jan 12, Tue 2.30 - 4pm |
Scoring auctions with non-quasilinear scoring rules | Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| Jan 14 Thu |
The Literary Inquisition:The Persecution of Intellectuals and Human Capital Accumulation in China | Mark Koyama George Mason University |
| Feb 16 Tue |
Doves for the Rich, Hawks for the Poor? Distributional Consequences of Monetary Policy | Keith Kuester University of Bonn |
| Feb 23 Tue |
Building the Leviathan – Voluntary centralisation of punishment power sustains cooperation | Zsombor Meder Singapore University of Technology and Design |
| Mar 01 Tue |
Liquidity Traps, Capital Flows | Sushant Acharya Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Mar 01 Tue |
Buyer-Optimal Demand and Monopoly Pricing Venue:Â AS2/05-10 |
Balazs Szentes London School of Economics |
| Mar 03 Thu |
Free entry and social inefficiency in vertical relationships: The Case of the MRI Market | Ken Onishi Singapore Management University |
| Mar 03 Thu |
Uniform Asymptotic Risk of Averaging GMM Estimator Robust to MisspeciÂ…cation Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Xu Cheng University of Pennsylvania |
| Mar 08 Tue |
Complex Disclosure | Daniel Martrin Nothwestern University |
| Mar 08 Tue |
Rational Inattention in Hiring Decisions Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Shu Lin Wee Carnegie Mellon University |
| Mar 10 Thu |
The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions | Bernd Fitzenberger Humboldt-University Berlin and ZEW Manheim |
| Mar 11 FRI |
Preference manipulation leads to the uniform rule | William Thomson University of Rochester |
| Mar 14 MON |
Understanding the Sources of Macroeconomic Uncertainty Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Barbara Rossi ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Mar 15 Tue |
Search-based Endogenous Asset Liquidity and the Macroeconomy | Wei Cui University College London |
| Mar 17 Thu |
Together We Will: Experimental Evidence on Female Voting Behavior in Pakistan | Ghazala Mansuri World Bank |
| Mar 17 Thu |
Shopping and Pricing on Online Marketplaces Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim University of Iowa |
| Mar 18 FRI |
Financial contagion in networks: An experiment | Edoardo Gallo University of Cambridge |
| Mar 22 Tue |
Growth and Trade with Frictions:Â A Structural Estimation Framework | Yoto V. Yotov Drexel University |
| Mar 22 Tue |
A Theory of Marriage with Mutually Consented Divorces Venue:Â AS2/05-10 |
Ning Sun Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| Mar 23 WED |
The Economics of Investor Protection: ISDS versus National Treatment | Frank Stähler University of Tübingen |
| Mar 24 Thu |
Forecasting Conditional Probabilities of Binary Outcomes under Misspecification | Graham Elliott University of California, San Diego |
| Mar 29 Tue |
Search with Private Information: Sorting, Price Formation and Convergence to Perfect Competition | Yujing Xu University of Hong Kong |
| Apr 01 FRI |
Estimating Context Independent Treatment Effects in Education Experiments | Steven Lehrer NYU Shanghai |
| Apr 05 Tue |
Inequality, Costly Redistribution and Welfare in an Open Economy | Pol Antras Harvard University |
| Apr 05, Tue 2 - 3.30pm |
Fertility choice, intergenerational transmission, and the distribution of capital | Bassel Tarbush University of Oxford |
| Apr 07 Thu |
The Role of Time Preferences and Exponential-Growth Bias in Retirement Savings | Matthew R. Levy London School of Economics |
| Apr 11 MON |
A market to read minds Venue:Â AS1/03-04 |
Aurélien Baillon Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| Apr 12 Tue |
Turnover Liquidity and the Transmission of Monetary Policy | Shengxing Zhang London School of Economics |
| Apr 14 Thu |
Quantile Regression Kink Designs | Yuya Sasaki Johns Hopkins University |
| Apr 15 FRI |
A Theory of Organizational Dynamics: Internal Politics and Efficiency | Xi Weng Peking University |
| Apr 19, Tue 2 - 3.30pm |
Rich Pickings? Risk, Return, and Skill in the Portfolios of the Wealthy | Laurent E. Calvet HEC Paris |
| Apr 19 Tue |
Social Conflict and the Evolution of Unequal Conventions | Sung-Ha Hwang Sogang University |
| Apr 19 Tue |
Data-driven GMM test for parameter instability Venue:Â AS2/05-10 |
Stepana Lazarova Queen Mary University of London |
| Apr 21 Thu |
Misplaced Effort: Impact of a Pay-for-Performance Scheme in the Health Sector | Elise Huillery Sciences Po |
| Apr 21 Thu |
Quantile regression methods for first-price auction: A signal approach Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Emmanuel Guerre Queen Mary University of London |
| Apr 26 Tue |
Childcare Availability and the Well-Being of Extended Family | Shintaro Yamaguchi McMaster University |
| Apr 28 Thu |
Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China | Liugang Sheng Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| May 03 Tue |
Monotonic Cheap Talk | Shih En Lu Simon Fraser University |
| May 05 Thu |
Weak Stochastic Increasingness, Rank Exchangeability, and Partial Identification of The Distribution of Treatment Effects | Lars Lefgren Brigham Young University |
| May 10 Tue |
A Tractable Monetary Model under General Preferences | Russel Wong Bank of Canada |
| May 18 WED |
Oracle Estimation of a Change Point in High Dimensional Quantile Regression | Youngki Shin University of Technology Sydney |
| May 20 FRI |
Sectoral Heterogeneity and the Gains from Trade | Kei-Mu Yi University of Houston |
| May 24 Tue |
The Consequences of the French Revolution in the Short and  Longue Durée | Stelios Michalopoulos Brown University |
| May 31 Tue |
Learning the Krepsian State: Exploration through Consumption | Norio Takeoka Hitotsubashi University |
| Jun 02 Thu |
Student Loan Nudges: Experimental Evidence on Borrowing and Educational Attainment | Lesley Turner University of Maryland |
| Jun 03 FRI |
Competitive Bundling | Jidong Zhou Yale University |
| Jun 09 Thu |
A Theory of Intergenerational Mobility | Jorg Spenkuch Northwestern University |
| Jun 14 Tue |
Behavior in All-Pay Auctions with Ties | Daniel Kovenock Chapman University |
| Jun 24 FRI |
Skill Complementarities and Returns to Higher Education: Evidence from College Enrollment Expansion in China Venue:Â AS2/05-09 |
Meng Lingsheng Tsinghua University |
| Jul 04 MON |
The Effect of Participation in Protestant Christian Program on Religious Attitudes and Practice and Psychosocial and Economic Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines | Dean Karlan Yale University |
| Jul 05 Tue |
Decentralised Random Competitive Dynamic Market Processes | Zaifu Yang University of York |
| Jul 12, Tue 1:30 - 3 pm |
Robust Inference in a Factor Model Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Gregory Cox Yale University |
| Jul 21 Thu |
Trade Discrepancies, Trade Frauds and Non-Tariff Measures | Hiau Looi Kee World Bank |
| Jul 26 Tue |
Gresham’s Law of Model Averaging | In-Koo Cho University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Hitotsubashi University |
| Jul 26 Tue |
Backfiring with Backhaul Problems: Trade and Industrial Policies with Endogenous Transport Costs Venue:Â AS2/05-10 |
Jota Ishikawa Hitotsubashi University |