Past Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2016/2017
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Date
|
Topic
|
Speaker
|
| Aug 2 Tue |
Growth and Global Imbalances: The Role of Learning-by-Exporting | Byoung Hoon Seok Ohio State University |
| Aug 5 FRI |
Estimating Dynamic R&D Choice: An Analysis of Costs and Long-Run Benefits | Mark Roberts Pennsylvania State University |
| Aug 5 FRI |
Information Acquisition under Persuasive Precedent versus Binding Precedent Venue:Â AS2 05-10 |
Hulya Eraslan Rice University |
| Aug 11 Thu |
Myopia and Complex Dynamic Incentives: Evidence from Medicare Part D | Gautam Gowrisankaran University of Arizona |
| Aug 11 Thu |
A Fixed-bandwidth View of the Pre-asymptotic Inference for Kernel Smoothing with Time Series Data Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Min Seong Kim Ryerson University |
| Aug 16 Tue |
Equilibrium in Discontinuous Games without Transitivity | Richard McLean Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| Aug 16 Tue |
Why Form Business Partnerships? Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Jungho Lee Singapore Management University |
| Aug 17 WED |
The effect of occupational licensing on consumer welfare: Early midwifery laws and maternal mortality Venue:Â AS2 05-10 |
Daniel Rees University of Colorado Denver |
| Aug 18 Thu |
How Destructive is Innovation? | Chang-tai Hsieh University of Chicago |
| Aug 19 FRI |
Segmentation versus Agglomeration: Competition between Platforms with Competitive Sellers Venue:Â AS2 05-09 |
Martin Peitz University of Mannheim |
| Aug 22 MON |
Earnings Inequality, Occupational Choice and Matching
(Goh Keng Swee Visiting Professor) |
Aloysius Siow University of Toronto |
| Aug 23 Tue |
Optimal Sequential Decision with Limited Attention | Yeon-Koo Che Columbia University |
| Aug 23 Tue |
Identifying ambiguity shocks in business cycle models using survey data Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Paul Ho Princeton University |
| Aug 25 Thu |
The Power of Social Pensions? | Wei Huang NBER |
| Aug 30 Tue |
A Rawlsian approach to the queueing problem | Manipushpak Mitra Indian Statistical Institute |
| Aug 30 Tue |
Trade Intermediation, Financial Frictions, and the Gains from Trade Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Jackie Chan Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Aug 31, WED 10–11:30 am |
Keeping college options open: A field experiment to help all high school seniors through the college application process Venue:Â AS2 04-13 |
Philip Oreopoulos University of Toronto |
| Sep 6 Tue |
Discriminatory Persuasion: How to Convince a Group | Yun Wang Xiamen University |
| Sep 6 Tue |
Industry dynamics with variable markups Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Chris Edmond University of Melbourne |
| Sep 8 Thu |
To build outward or upward? The spatial pattern of urban land development in China | Zhang Qinghua Peking University |
| Sep 13 Tue |
Common belief in rationality and incomplete information | Andrés Perea Maastricht University |
| Sep 13 Tue |
Optimal Tariff Discrimination: Theory and Evidence in the Generalized System of Preferences Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Alan Spearot University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Sep 15 Thu |
Dynamic Oligopoly with Financing Friction: The U.S. Airline Industry after the Deregulation | Kohei Kawaguchi Hitotsubashi University |
| Sep 20 Tue |
A Three-Party Game of Institutional Resilience versus Transition: A Model and Comparative History of China-Japan Revisited
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Jiahua Che Fudan University |
| Sep 20 Tue |
Labor-Market Uncertainty and Portfolio Choice Puzzles | Jay Hwa Hong Seoul National University |
| Sep 27 Tue |
All together Now: Integration, Decentralization and Management | Patrick Legros Université libre de Bruxelles and Northeastern University |
| Sep 27 Tue |
On the Number and Size of Banks: Efficiency and Equilibrium Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Angela Huang National University of Singapore |
| Sep 29 Thu |
Learning to Coordinate: A Study in Retail Gasoline | David Byrne University of Melbourne |
| Sep 30 FRI |
Competition in Information Disclosure
Venue:Â AS2 05-09 |
Keiichi Kawai University of New South Wales |
| Sep 30 FRI |
Public Debt and Private Firm Funding: Evidence from Chinese Cities
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Yi Huang Graduate Institute of Geneva |
| Oct 04 Tue |
Rules and Commitment in Communication | Alessandro Lizzeri New York University |
| Oct 04 Tue |
Consumption Taxes and Divisibility of Labor under Incomplete Markets
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Shuhei Takahashi Kyoto University |
| Oct 06 Thu |
Aspirations and the Perpetuation of Social Inequalities: Evidence from French teenagers | Nina Guyon National University of Singapore |
| Oct 06 Thu |
The Factor-Lasso and K-Step Bootstrap Approach for Inference in High-Dimensional Economic Applications
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Christian Hansen University of Chicago |
| Oct 11 Tue |
Breakthroughs, Deadlines, and Self-Reported Progress: Contracting for Multistage Projects | Curtis Taylor Duke University |
| Oct 13 Thu |
Who Bequeaths, Who Rules: How the Right to Bequeath Affects Intrahousehold Bargaining | Shi Xinzheng Tsinghua University |
| Oct 18 Tue |
The Effects of Competition in Multi-sided Markets | Zhou Junjie National University of Singapore |
| Oct 18 Tue |
Capital Account Openess and Unemployment
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Du Qingyuan Monash University |
| Oct 20 Thu |
Entrepreneurship and the School of Hard Knocks: Evidence from China's Great Famine | Yi Junjian National University of Singapore |
| Oct 25 Tue |
Random Attention Model | Yusufcan Masatlioglu University of Michigan |
| Oct 25 Tue |
A theory of non-performing loans and debt restructuring
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Tomoyuki Nakajima Kyoto University |
| Oct 26 WED |
Learning with Data (Quasi-)differencing | Pei Kuang University of Birmingham |
| Oct 27 Thu |
Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice | Koichiro Ito University of Chicago |
| Nov 01 Tue |
Optimal Transport Networks | Edouard Schaal New York University |
| Nov 03 Thu |
Endogenous Neo-Confucianism: The Path of Development in Historical China | Bai Ying Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Nov 04 FRI |
Childhood Circumstances and Young Adulthood Outcomes: The Effects of Mothers’ Financial Problems
Venue:Â AS2 05-09 |
Conchita D'Ambrosio Université du Luxembourg |
| Nov 08 Tue |
Sequential Auctions with Generalized Interdependent Values | Audrey Hu University of Amsterdam |
| Nov 08 Tue |
Low Real Interest Rates and the Zero Lower Bound
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Steve Williamson Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| Nov 15 Tue |
Incentive-Compatibility in Financial Contracting with Limited Liability |
Xiaojian Zhao Hong University of Science and Technology |
| Nov 15 Tue 2-3.30pm |
A Composite likelihood approach for dynamic structural models | Fabio Canova European University Institute and BI Norwegian Business School |
| Nov 15 Tue |
Taxing Capital Income to Consolidate – An Incomplete Markets Perspective
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Christian Bayer University of Bonn |
| Nov 17 Thu 2-3.30pm |
Fine-grained Social Science through Big Data - an overview and a case study on self-presentation. | Tuan Q. Phan National University of Singapore |
| Nov 17 Thu |
Testing Generalized Regression Monotonicity | Yu-Chin Hsu Academia Sinica |
| Nov 22 Tue |
Default, debt maturity, and investment dynamics | Nicolas Crouzet Northwestern University |
| Nov 22 Tue |
How do hospitals respond differently to competition?
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Mona Luan University of Hong Kong |
| Nov 24 Thu |
Harnessing Observability to Promote Large-scale Cooperation | Erez Yoeli Harvard University |
| Nov 25 FRI |
Bank Panics without Sequential Service | David Andolfatto Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| Dec 01 Thu 10-11.30am |
Estimation and Inference of Dynamic Structural Factor Models with Over-identifying Restrictions
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Xu Han City University of Hong Kong |
| Dec 01 Thu |
Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance | David Figlio Northwestern University |
| Dec 01 Thu |
Testing rational expectations using data combination
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille CREST-ENSAE |
| Dec 06 Tue |
Organizational Design and Career Concerns | Daisuke Hirata Hitotsubashi University |
| Dec 06 Tue |
Efficiency in Search and Matching Models: A Generalized Hosios Condition
Venue:Â Silcock Journal Room |
Sephorah Mangin Monash University |
| Dec 08 Thu |
Large Time-Varying Parameter VARs: A Non-Parametric Approach | Massimiliano Marcellino Bocconi University |
| Dec 13 Tue |
Money and Capital in a Persistent Liquidity Trap | Philippe Bacchetta University of Lausanne |
| Dec 16 FRI |
Barriers to Reallocation and Economic Growth: the Effects of Firing Costs | Toshihiko Mukoyama University of Virginia |
| Dec 27 Tue |
Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions | Ron Siegel The Pennsylvania State University |