Past Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2017/2018
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Date
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Topic
|
Speaker
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| Jul 31 MON |
A Missing Generation of Firms? Aggregate Effects of the Decline in New Business Formation | Michael Siemer Federal Reserve Board |
| Aug 01 Tue |
A new approach to bank liquidity | Wang Tianxi University of Essex |
| Aug 08 Tue |
Alternative Approaches to Comparative nth-Degree Risk Aversion | William Neilson University of Tennessee |
| Aug 11 FRI |
Multilateral Deescalation in the Dollar Auction | Charles Zheng University of Western Ontario |
| Aug 15 Tue |
Dominant-strategy and Bayesian incentive compatibility in multidimensional trading environments | Alejandro Manelli Arizona State University |
| Aug 21 MON |
Inflation and Innovation in a Schumpeterian Economy with North-South Technology Transfer | Angus Chu Fudan University |
| Aug 22 Tue |
Cash Providers: Asset Dissemination over Intermediation | Gabrielle Demange Paris School of Economics |
| Aug 22 Tue |
Advertising Spending and Media Bias: Evidence from News Coverage of Car Safety Recalls Venue:Â AS2 05-10 |
Brian Knight Brown University |
| Aug 25 FRI |
 Full Information Equivalence in Large Elections Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Sourav Bhattacharya University of London |
| Aug 28 MON |
Binding Up the Nation's Wounds: An Economic Analysis of the Korean Reunification | Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee Toulouse School of Economics |
| Aug 30 WED 11.00am-12.30pm |
Inflationary Redistribution vs. Trading Opportunities: Cost of Inflation in a Monetary Model with Non-degenerate Distributions Venue: SJR, AS2 06-23 |
Timothy Kam Australian National University |
| Aug 31 Thu |
Access to Elite Education, Wage Premium, and Social Mobility: Evidence from China’s College Entrance Exam | Ruixue Jia University of California, San Diego |
| Sep 04 MON |
Market-making with Search and Information Frictions | Venky Venkateswaran New York University |
| Sep 05 Tue |
Testable Forecasts | Luciano Pomatto California Institute of Technology |
| Sep 05 Tue |
When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Men. Venue:Â AS2 05-10 |
David Dorn University of Zurich |
| Oct 06 WED |
Social Norm and Giving with Indivisibility of Money: An Experiment of Selfishness, Equality and Generosity | Yu Xiaohua Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
| Sep 07 Thu |
Ellsberg meets Keynes: Missing Links among Sources of Uncertainty | Chew Soo Hong National University of Singapore |
| Sep 11 MON |
Trade and Labor Market Dynamics: General Equilibrium Analysis of the China Trade Shock | Lorenzo Caliendo Yale University |
| Sep 12 Tue |
The formation of partnerships in social networks | Francis Bloch Paris School of Economics |
| Sep 14 Thu |
E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China | Gu Yizhen Jinan University |
| Sep 15 FRI 2-3.30pm |
Taxation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship | Maik T. Schneider University of Bath |
| Sep 18 MON |
Factor-biased Multinational Production | Chang Sun University of Hong Kong |
| Sep 19 Tue |
Coarse communication and institution design | Wu Qinggong Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Sep 21 Thu |
Farewell to Confucianism: The Modernizing Effect of Dismantling China’s Imperial Examination System | Ying Bai Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Sep 25 Tue |
Youth Unemployment and Jobless Recoveries: A Risk-based Explanation​ | Yu Xu University of Hong Kong |
| Sep 26 Tue |
Revenue-capped efficient auctions | Nozomu Muto Yokohama National University |
| Sep 27 WED |
Nonparametric Estimation of Private Value Densities in Ascending Auctions and Generalized Competing Risks Model (Joint Economics and Statistics Seminar) |
Sorawoot (Tang) Srisuma University of Surrey |
| Oct 03 Tue |
Level-k Mechanism Design | Roberto Serrano Brown University |
| Oct 04 WED |
Bootstrapping DSGE Models | Giuseppe Cavaliere University of Bologna |
| Oct 05 Thu |
History Dependence in the Housing Market | Philippe Bracke Bank of England |
| Oct 06 FRI |
Rules, Mutation and Equilibrium Selection: Evolving Towards Efficiency and Egalitarianism Venue:Â AS2 05-10 |
Hamid Sabourian University of Cambridge |
| Oct 09 MON |
Ignorance, Uncertainty, and Strategic Consumption-Portfolio Decisions | Yulei Luo University of Hong Kong |
| Oct 10 Tue |
Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance | Adam Szeidl Central European University |
| Oct 11 WED |
Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation | Yves Zenou Monash University |
| Oct 12 Thu |
The Effect of Grade Retention on Adult Crime: Evidence from a Test-Based Promotion Policy | Michael Lovenheim Cornell University |
| Oct 13 FRI |
Through Scarcity to Prosperity: A Theory of the Transition to Sustainable Growth | Pietro Peretto Duke University |
| Oct 16 MON |
Trade Facilitation with Endogenous Border Costs | Georg Schaur University of Tennessee |
| Oct 17 Tue |
Multiple Switching and Data Quality in the Multiple Price List | Jane Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Oct 19 Thu |
When Peers Count: Evidence from Randomized Peer Assignments in the Workplace | Sangyoon Park University of Hong Kong |
| Oct 19 Thu |
Autonomous Vehicles and City Development | Hendrik Wolff Simon Fraser University |
| Oct 23 MON |
Bank Capital in the Short and in the Long Run | Kalin Nikolov European Central Bank |
| Oct 24 Tue |
Fractional Group Identification | Wonki Jo Cho Korea University |
| Oct 25 WED |
Inference On Distribution Functions Under Measurement Error | Yoon-Jae Whang Seoul National University |
| Oct 26 Thu |
Separate Markets for Externalities: Regional versus State-by-State Regulation of a Global Pollutant | Jose Miguel Abito University of Pennsylvania |
| Oct 27 FRI |
Social Discounting and Individual Long-Run Discounting | Shaowei Ke University of Michigan |
| Oct 30 MON 2-3.30pm |
Inference for the Mean | Ulrich Müller Princeton University |
| Oct 30 MON |
Home Currency Issuance in International Bond Markets | Galina Hale Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
| Oct 31 Tue |
Word of Mouth Communication and Search | Matthew Leister Monash University |
| Nov 01 WED |
Estimation for decomposable data possibly with mixed-frequency observations | Shin Kanaya University of Aarhus |
| Nov 02 Thu |
Does Financial Support for Education Improve Economic Rationality? | Syngjoo Choi Seoul National University |
| Nov 03 FRI |
Competition between exchanges: Lessons from the Battle of the Bund | Estelle Cantillon Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Nov 06 MON |
A New Look at Uncertainty Shocks: Imperfect Information and Misallocation | Tatsuro Senga Queen Mary University of London |
| Nov 07 Tue |
Ordinal potentials in smooth games | Christian Ewerhart University of Zurich |
| Nov 08 WED |
Keeping up with peers in India: A new social interactions model of perceived needs. | Arthur Lewbel Boston College |
| Nov 09 Thu |
Patient Cost-sharing and Health Care Utilization among Children | Hitoshi Shigeoka Simon Fraser University |
| Nov 10 Fri |
Life-Cycle Dynamics and the Expansion Strategies of US Multinational Firms | Stefania Garetto Boston University |
| Nov 13 Mon |
Entrepreneurship, Human Capital, and Liquidity Constraints | Ross Levine Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance, University of California, Berkeley MAS Term Professor in Economics and Finance, NUS |
| Nov 14 Tue |
Credit market imperfections, stereotyping, and education subsidies | Prabal Roy Chowdhury Indian Statistical Institute |
| Nov 15 WED 2-3;30 pm |
Estimation and Inference with a (Nearly) Singular Jacobian | Adam McCloskey Brown University |
| Nov 15 WED |
The marginal congestion of a taxi in New York City | Alejandro Molnar Vanderbilt University |
| Nov 17 Fri |
Coarse Revealed Preference | Jiangtao Li University of New South Wales |
| Nov 20 Mon |
A Model of Safe Asset Determination | Konstantin Milbradt Northwestern University |
| Nov 21 Tue |
Designing a Platform when Preferences over Trading Partners are Unknown | Masaki Aoyagi Osaka University |
| Nov 23 Thu |
Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market | Ying Fan University of Michigan |
| Nov 24 Fri 2:30-4 pm |
Systematic Monetary Policy and the Macroeconomic Effects of Shifts in Loan-to-Value Ratios | Rüdiger Bachmann University of Notre Dame |
| Nov 27 MON |
Real Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: the Role of Interest Rates and Exchange Rates | Juanyi Xu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Nov 28 Tue |
A theory of citations | Wojciech Olszewski Northwestern University |
| Dec 01 FRI 2-3:30 pm |
A Puncher's Chance : Expected Gain and Risk Taking in a Market for Superstars Venue:Â AS2 05-10 |
Jordan Roulleau-Pasdeloup National University of Singapore |
| Dec 04 MON |
The Effects of Monetary Policy, and Other, Announcements in Dynamic General Eqiulibrium | Chao Gu University of Missouri |
| Dec 05 Tue |
Imperfect price competition in networks | Emerson Melo Indiana University Bloomington |
| Dec 08 FRI 2-3:30 pm |
Simple Contracts under Observable and Hidden Actions | Bo Chen Southern Methodist University |
| Dec 08 FRI |
Housing Finance, Boom-Bust Episodes, and the Macroeconomy | Aaron Hedlund University of Missouri |
| Dec 11 MON |
Financial Openness, Bank Capital Flows and the Effectiveness of Macroprudential Policies | Hao Jin Xiamen University |