Past Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2018/2019
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Date
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Topic
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Speaker
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| Aug 2, Thu | China's Industrial Policy, Excess Capacity, and Fragmentation | Panle Jia Barwick Cornell University |
| Aug 7, Tue | Is Poverty Persistent? | Maitreesh Ghatak London School of Economics |
| Aug 8, Wed | Inefficient Sorting under Output Sharing | Lam Wing Tung Yale-NUS College |
| Aug 10, Fri | Identification in Nonparametric Models for Dynamic Treatment Effects | Sukjin Han University of Texas at Austin |
| Aug 14, Tue | Industrial policies in production networks | Ernest Liu Princeton University |
| Aug 15, Wed 4.30-5.45pm | Lowering the bar and limiting the field: The effect of strategic risk-taking on selection contests | Dawei Fang Gothenburg University |
| Aug 16, Thu | The Jesuits and Chinese Science | Chicheng Ma University of Hong Kong |
| Aug 21, Tue | Household Saving, Financial Constraints, and the Current Account in China | Kai Zhao University of Connecticut |
| Aug 23, Thu | Runoff Elections in the Lab | Aniol Llorente-Saguer Queen Mary University of London |
| Aug 24, Fri 10.30-12pm | Endowments, Exclusion, and Exchange
Venue: AS2/05-09 |
Maciej Kotowski Harvard University |
| Aug 24, Fri | Survival of the fittest: the impact of the minimum wage of firm exit
Venue: AS2/05-09 |
Michael Luca Harvard University |
| Aug 28, Tue | Barriers to Mobility or Sorting? Sources and Aggregate Implications of Income Gaps across Sectors and Locations in Indonesia | Tomasz Swiecki University of British Columbia |
| Aug 29, Wed
2:30-4pm |
Industrial policies in production networks | Ernest Liu Princeton University |
| Aug 29, Wed | Information Design in Multi-stage Games. | Ludovic Renou Queen Mary University of London |
| Aug 30, Thu | Behavioural Consequences of Adverse Early Life Experience: The Impact of the Culture Revolution | Xin Meng Australian National University |
| Sep 3, Mon | Some simple Bitcoin Economics | Harald Uhlig University of Chicago |
| Sep 4, Tue | The Nature of Firm Growth | Petr Sedlacek University of Oxford |
| Sep 5, Wed | Integrating School Districts: Balance, Diversity and Welfare | Isa Hafalir University of Technology Sydney |
| Sep 6, Thu | The effects of Primary Care Chronic Disease Management in Rural China | Karen Eggleston Stanford University |
| Sep 11, Tue | Nonlinear Household Earnings Dynamics, Self-Insurance, And Welfare | Giulio Fella Queen Mary University of London |
| Sep 12, Wed | Diffusion Games | Evan Sadler Columbia University |
| Sep 18, Tue | Agnostic Structural Disturbances (ASDs): Detecting and Reducing Misspecification in Empirical Macroeconomic Models | Wouter den Haan London School of Economics |
| Sep 19, Wed | Lying and Deception in Games | Joel Sobel Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego Goh Keng Swee Professor, NUS |
| Sep 20, Thu | What makes a successful entrepreneur? The effect of elite college and intergenerational transfer | Naijia Guo Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Sep 24, Mon | Optimal Management of Evolving Hierarchies | Jens Leth Hougaard University of Copenhagen |
| Sep 25, Tue | Games of Love and Hate | Rajiv Vohra Brown University |
| Sep 27, Thu | Family Background, After-school Tutoring, and Student Achievement: Experimental Evidence from Rural China | Hongliang Zhang Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Oct 2, Tue | Money, Banking and Financial Markets | Fernando Martin Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| Oct 2, Tue |
Grandparents, Moms, or Dads? |
Kjell G. Salvanes Norwegian School of Economics |
| Oct 4, Thu | Neither Nature nor Nurture: The Impact of Maternal Education on Child Health | Xiaoyan Lei Peking University |
| Oct 5, Fri | Prices and Inflation when Government Bonds are Net Wealth | Marcus Hagedorn University of Oslo |
| Oct 9, Tue | Stochastic discounting and the transmission of money supply shocks | Ivan Jaccard European Central Bank |
| Oct 10, Wed | Biasing Unbiased Dynamic Contests | Stefano Barbieri Tulane University |
| Oct 16, Tue | Indeterminacy and Imperfect Information | Thomas Lubik Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
| Oct 17, Wed | Organizations and Coordination in a Diverse Population | Liang Dai Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Oct 18, Thu | Erosion of State Power and the Political Boundaries of Corruption | Yang Xie University of California, Riverside |
| Oct 19, Fri | On The Volume of Redistribution: Across Income Levels and Across Groups | Ravi Kanbur Cornell University |
| Oct 23, Tue | The Geography of Path Dependence | Treb Allen Dartmouth College |
| Oct 24, Wed |
Money as minimal complexity Graphical exchange mechanisms |
Pradeep Dubey Stony Brook University |
| Oct 25, Thu | How Extensive are Air Pollution Spillovers?: An Application to China’s Manufacturing Productivity | Brian Viard Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business |
| Oct 30, Tue | Missing growth from creative destruction | Timo Boppart Stockholm University |
| Oct 31, Wed | Quality Versus Fit: Market Design and Externalities on Multidimensional Matching Platforms. | Samuel Flanders Asia School of Business |
| Nov 5, Mon | Testing the Number of Regimes in Markov Regime Switching Models | Hiroyuki Kasahara University of British Columbia and Hitotsubashi University |
| Nov 5, Mon | Misallocation, Selection, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data from China | Diego Restuccia University of Toronto |
| Nov 7, Wed | The Hot Hand Fallacy Fallacy | Joshua Miller University of Alicante |
| Nov 9, Fri | Treating Symmetric Buyers Asymmetrically | Shraman Banerjee O.P.Jindal Global University |
| Nov 13, Tue | On the instability of banking and financial intermediation | Cyril Monnet University of Bern |
| Nov 14, Wed | Mechanisms with Evidence: Commitment and Robustness | Barton Lipman Boston University |
| Nov 15, Thu | Gender Differences in Politician Persistence | Melanie Wasserman University of California, Los Angeles |
| Nov 20, Tue | Firm dynamics with frictional product and labor markets | Leo Kaas Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Nov 21, Wed | Does Level-k Behavior Imply Level-k Thinking? | Ye (Wendy) Jin NYU Shanghai |
| Nov 22, Thu | Uniform Nonparametric Series Inference for Dependent Data with an Application to the Search and Matching Model | Jia Li Duke University |
| Nov 23, Fri | Inference on Functionals under First Order Degeneracy
Venue: AS2/05-09 |
Qihui Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| Nov 23, Fri 2:30-4pmri | Capital Embodied Structural Change
Venue: AS2/05-09 |
Julieta Caunedo Cornell University |
| Nov 26, Mon | Robust Estimation with Exponentially Tilted Hellinger Distance | Bertille Antoine Simon Fraser University |
| Nov 27, Tue | The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications | Jan Eeckhout Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| Nov 28, Wed | Sharing the revenues from broadcasting sport events | Juan Moreno-Ternero Universidad Pablo de Olavide |
| Nov 29, Thu | Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India | James Fenske University of Warwick |
| Nov 30, Fri 11am-12pm | WTO Accession and China's Environmental Aggravation | Jintao Xu Peking University |
| Nov 30, Fri | Misinterpreting Others and the Fragility of Social Learning | Ryota Iijima Yale University |
| Dec 5, Wed | Rationality and Common Belief of Rationality in Second-price Auction and English Auction | Chih-Chun Yang Academia Sinica |
| Dec 6, Thu 2:30-4pm | Labor Market Polarization in a System of Cities: The Case of France | Donald Davis Columbia University |
| Dec 6, Thu | Selection with Skills: Evidence from Radiologists | David C.Chan Stanford University |
| Dec 12, Wed | Learning from Failures: Optimal Contract for Experimentation and Production | Fahad Khalil University of Washington |
| Dec 13, Thu |  Assessing the Hype of Machine Learning for Empiricists | Steven Lehrer Queen’s University / NYU Shanghai |
| Dec 19 Wed | Bottleneck Links, Essential Intermediaries, and Competing Paths of Diffusion in Networks | Mihai Manea Stony Brook University |
| Dec 20, Thu | Intrinsic Openness and Endogenous Institutional Quality | Yang Jiao Dartmouth College & Fudan University |