Past Seminar Series
Semester 2, 2017/2018
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Date
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Topic
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Speaker
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| Jan 25, Thu | A Structural Model of Correlated Learning and Late-Mover Advantages: The Case of Statins | Andrew Ching University of Toronto |
| Feb 1, Thu | Pledge-and-Review Bargaining | Bard Harstad University of Oslo |
| Feb 2, Fri, AS2 05-10 |
Price Customization and Targeting in Many-to-Many Matching Markets | Alessandro Pavan Northwestern University |
| Feb 20, Tue | Detecting deviations from stationarity of functional time series
(Joint Economics & Statistics) |
Alexander Aue University of California, Davis |
| Feb 23, Fri AS2 05-10 |
Air Pollution, Health Spending and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in China | Shanjun Li Cornell University |
| Feb 27, Tue | Group formation and diversity | Ming Li Concordia University |
| Mar 1, Thu | Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207 000 Court Cases | Anthony Heyes University of Ottawa |
| Mar 5, Mon | The geography of consumption | Ferdinando Monte Georgetown University |
| Mar 6, Tue | Expectations, Networks, and Conventions | Benjamin Golub Harvard University |
| Mar 7, Wed | 1.Trend Inflation and Evolving Inflation Dynamics: A Bayesian GMM Analysis of the Generalized New Keynesian Phillips Curve | Mototsugu Shintani University of Tokyo |
| Mar 8, Thu | Parental Time and Material Investments in Rural Thailand | Weerachart Kilenthong University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce |
| Mar 12, Mon | Pricing When Customers Care about Fairness but Misinfer Markups | Pascal Michaillat Brown University |
| Mar 13, Tue | Additive Belief-Based Utility' | Collin Raymond Purdue University |
| Mar 14, Wed | Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax | Hunt Allcott New York University |
| Mar 15, Thu | Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt | Brigitte Madrian Harvard University |
| Mar 16, Fri 2-3:30 pm |
Coming apart? Lives of the rich and the poor over time | Marianne Bertrand University of Chicago |
| Mar 16, Fri AS2 05-10 |
Linear–quadratic–Gaussian (LQG) information design | Takashi Ui Hitotsubashi University |
| Mar 19, Mon | Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities in China and India |
Amartya Lahiri University of British Columbia |
| Mar 20, Tue | Kidney exchange with immunosuppressants | Youngsub Chun Seoul National University |
| Mar 22, Thu | Mechanism Design Meets Development: Selective Trials for Technology Diffusion | Erik Snowberg University of British Columbia |
| Mar 23, Fri 2-3:30 pm AS2 05-10 |
The CES distribution circle and its decoupling
Economic distributions and primitive distributions in Monopolistic Competition |
Simon Anderson University of Virginia |
| Mar 23, Fri AS2 05-10 |
Optimal Debt-Maturity Management | Saki Bigio University of California, Los Angeles |
| Mar 26, Mon | Revisiting the Costs of Self-Oriented National Monetary Rules | Martin Bodenstein Federal Reserve Board |
| Mar 27, Tue | Hard-to-Interpret Signals
Lim Tay Boh Memorial Lecture |
Larry Epstein Professor, Boston University Lim Tay Boh Distinguished Visitor, NUS |
| Mar 28, Wed | Simple and Trustworthy Cluster-Robust GMM Inference | Jungbin Hwang University of Connecticut |
| Apr 2, Mon | Valuing Information by Distinction | Ziv Hellman Bar Ilan University |
| Apr 3, Tue | Representativeness and Similarity | Chen Zhao University of Hong Kong |
| Apr 5, Thu | How Does Violence Affect Exporters? Evidence from Political Strikes in Bangladesh | Reshad Ahsan University of Melbourne |
| Apr 9, Mon | Irrigation and Agricultural Productivity | Jan Grobovšek University of Edinburgh |
| Apr 10, Tue | Ambiguous Persuasion | Jian Li McGill University |
| Apr 12, Thu | Turning a Blind Eye? On the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation in China | Junjie Zhang Duke Kunshan University |
| Apr 13, Fri AS2 05-10 |
Optimal Languages | Francesc Dilme University of Bonn |
| Apr 16, Mon | Is Processing Good? | Peter Morrow University of Toronto |
| Apr 17, Tue | Selling to Consumers with Intransitive Indifference | Kim-Sau Chung Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Apr 18, Wed 2:30-4pm | Labor Market Dynamics of Developing Economies: The Role of Subsistence Consumption | Sangyup (Sam) Choi Yonsei University |
| Apr 18, Wed | The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Children | Eric Chyn University of Virginia |
| Apr 19, Thu | How success breeds success | Lionel Page Queensland University of Technology |
| Apr 20, Fri AS2 05-10 |
Behavioral Characterizations of Naivete for Time-Inconsistent Preferences | David Ahn University of California, Berkeley |
| Apr 23, Mon | Monetary and Financial Policies in Emerging Markets | Kosuke Aoki University of Tokyo |
| Apr 24, Tue | Revenue sharing on hierarchies | Biung-Ghi Ju Seoul National University |
| Apr 26, Thu | Production Networks, Trade, and Misallocation | Heiwai Tang Johns Hopkins University |
| Apr 27, Fri AS2 05-10 |
Behavioral Bargaining | Yoram Halevy University of Toronto |
| Apr 30, Mon | Macroeconomic Fluctuations with HANK & SAM: an Analytical Approach |
Morten Ravn University College London |
| Apr 30, Mon @ ? 2-3:30pm |
How Many Levels do Player's Reason? An Observational Challenge and Solution | Amanda Friedenberg Arizona State University |
| May 4, Fri @ AS2 05-10 | Algorithms for cautious reasoning in games | Geir Asheim University of Oslo |
| May 7, Mon | Skill-Biased Structural Change | Joseph Kaboski University of Notre Dame |
| May 8, Tue, 2-3:30pm | What Does It Take to Be “Melitz”? | Jiahua Che China Europe International Business School |
| May 8, Tue | On Average Establishment Size across Sectors and Countries | Pedro Bento Texas A&M University |
| May 9, Wed | Improved Inference for the Rank of a Matrix | Zheng Fang Texas A&M University |
| May 14, Mon | Optimal Index versus Simple Index for Monetary Policy | Jae Won Lee University of Virginia |
| May 15, Tue | Model Uncertainty, Ambiguity Aversion, and Market Participation | Chong Huang University of California, Irvine |
| May 16, Wed | Identification and Persistence-Robust Exact Inference in DSGE Models | Zhenjiang Lin University of Nottingham Ningbo |
| May 17, Thu | Environmental Regulation and Firm Productivity: Estimates from a Regression Discontinuity Design | Guojun He Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| May 21, Mon | Optimal Taxation with Private Insurance | Yongsung Chang University of Rochester |
| May 24, Thu | Of Cities and Slums | Alexander Monge-Naranjo Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| May 28, Mon | Search, Screening and Sorting | Ronald Wolthoff University of Toronto |
| May 31, Thu | Childbearing Postponement, its Option Value, and the Biological Clock | David de la Croix Université catholique de Louvain |
| Jul 01, Fri | Patent Protection in Developing Countries and Global Welfare: WTO Obligations versus flexibilities | Eric Bond Vanderbilt University |
| Jun 07, Thu | Dynamic Responses to Immigration | Mark Colas University of Oregon |
| Jun 12, Tue | Gold and Trade: An empirical simulation approach | Florian Ploeckl University of Adelaide |
| Jul 03, Tue | Bayesian Identification: A Theory of State-Dependent Utilities | Jay Lu University of California, Los Angeles |
| Jul 05, Thu | Understanding Quality Upgrading Dynamics: China’s Automobile Industry | Jie Bai Harvard University |
| Jul 12, Thu
3.40 - 5.10pm |
Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia and Front-Runnings
NUS Finance Cluster Interdisciplinary Speaker Series Seminar - AS7 01-02 Auditorium |
Yuliy Sannikov Stanford University |
| Jul 12, Thu
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Confidence Intervals for Projections of Partially Identified Parameters | Hiroaki Kaido Boston University |
| Jul 27, Wed | Export Growth and Aggregate Dynamics in Large Devaluations | Vivian Zhanwei Yue University of Adelaide |