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\n\t\tPast Seminar Series\n\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\tSemester 1, 2016\/2017\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\nDate<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n\nTopic<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n\nSpeaker<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 2
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Growth and Global Imbalances: The Role of Learning-by-Exporting<\/a><\/td>\nByoung Hoon Seok
\nOhio State University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 5
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Estimating Dynamic R&D Choice: An Analysis of Costs and Long-Run Benefits<\/a><\/td>\nMark Roberts
\nPennsylvania State University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 5
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Information Acquisition under Persuasive Precedent versus Binding Precedent
\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Hulya Eraslan
\nRice University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 11
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Myopia and Complex Dynamic Incentives: Evidence from Medicare Part D<\/a><\/td>\nGautam Gowrisankaran
\nUniversity of Arizona<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 11
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		A Fixed-bandwidth View of the Pre-asymptotic Inference for Kernel Smoothing with Time Series Data<\/a>
\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Min Seong Kim
\nRyerson University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 16
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Equilibrium in Discontinuous Games without Transitivity<\/a><\/td>\nRichard McLean
\nRutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 16
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Why Form Business Partnerships?<\/a>
\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Jungho Lee
\nSingapore Management University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 17
\nWED<\/em><\/td>\n		The effect of occupational licensing on consumer welfare: Early midwifery laws and maternal mortality<\/a>
\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Daniel Rees
\nUniversity of Colorado Denver<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 18
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		How Destructive is Innovation?<\/a><\/td>\nChang-tai Hsieh
\nUniversity of Chicago<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 19
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Segmentation versus Agglomeration: Competition between Platforms with Competitive Sellers
\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-09<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Martin Peitz
\nUniversity of Mannheim<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 22
\nMON<\/em><\/td>\n		Earnings Inequality, Occupational Choice and Matching\n(Goh Keng Swee Visiting Professor)<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\nAloysius Siow
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 23
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Optimal Sequential Decision with Limited Attention<\/td>\nYeon-Koo Che
\nColumbia University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 23
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Identifying ambiguity shocks in business cycle models using survey data<\/a>
\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Paul Ho
\nPrinceton University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 25
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		The Power of Social Pensions?<\/td>\nWei Huang
\nNBER<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 30
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		A Rawlsian approach to the queueing problem<\/td>\nManipushpak Mitra
\nIndian Statistical Institute<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 30
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Trade Intermediation, Financial Frictions, and the Gains from Trade<\/a>
\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Jackie Chan
\nChinese University of Hong Kong<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 31,\u00a0WED
\n10\u201311:30 am<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Keeping college options open: A field experiment to help all high school seniors through the college application process<\/a>
\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 04-13<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Philip Oreopoulos
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 6
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Discriminatory Persuasion: How to Convince a Group<\/td>\nYun Wang
\nXiamen University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 6
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Industry dynamics with variable markups
\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Chris Edmond
\nUniversity of Melbourne<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 8
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		To build outward or upward? The spatial pattern of urban land development in China<\/td>\nZhang Qinghua
\nPeking University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 13
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Common belief in rationality and incomplete information<\/td>\nAndr\u00e9s Perea
\nMaastricht University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 13
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Optimal Tariff Discrimination: Theory and Evidence in the Generalized System of Preferences
\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Alan Spearot
\nUniversity of California, Santa Cruz<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 15
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Dynamic Oligopoly with Financing Friction: The U.S. Airline Industry after the Deregulation<\/td>\nKohei Kawaguchi
\nHitotsubashi University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 20
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		A Three-Party Game of Institutional Resilience versus Transition: A Model and Comparative History of China-Japan Revisited\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nJiahua Che
\nFudan University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 20
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Labor-Market Uncertainty and Portfolio Choice Puzzles<\/a><\/td>\nJay Hwa Hong
\nSeoul National University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 27
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		All together Now: Integration, Decentralization and Management<\/td>\nPatrick Legros
\nUniversit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles and Northeastern University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 27
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		On the Number and Size of Banks: Efficiency and Equilibrium<\/a>
\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Angela Huang
\nNational University of Singapore<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 29
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Learning to Coordinate: A Study in Retail Gasoline<\/td>\nDavid Byrne
\nUniversity of Melbourne<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 30
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Competition in Information Disclosure\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-09<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nKeiichi Kawai
\nUniversity of New South Wales<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 30
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Public Debt and Private Firm Funding: Evidence from Chinese Cities<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nYi Huang
\nGraduate Institute of Geneva<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 04
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Rules and Commitment in Communication<\/td>\nAlessandro Lizzeri
\nNew York University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 04
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Consumption Taxes and Divisibility of Labor under Incomplete Markets<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nShuhei Takahashi
\nKyoto University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 06
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Aspirations and the Perpetuation of Social Inequalities: Evidence from French teenagers<\/td>\nNina Guyon
\nNational University of Singapore<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 06
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		The Factor-Lasso and K-Step Bootstrap Approach for Inference in High-Dimensional Economic Applications\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nChristian Hansen
\nUniversity of Chicago<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 11
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Breakthroughs, Deadlines, and Self-Reported Progress: Contracting for Multistage Projects<\/a><\/td>\nCurtis Taylor
\nDuke University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 13
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Who Bequeaths, Who Rules: How the Right to Bequeath Affects Intrahousehold Bargaining<\/a><\/td>\nShi Xinzheng
\nTsinghua University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 18
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		The Effects of Competition in Multi-sided Markets<\/td>\nZhou Junjie
\nNational University of Singapore<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 18
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Capital Account Openess and Unemployment\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nDu Qingyuan
\nMonash University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 20
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Entrepreneurship and the School of Hard Knocks: Evidence from China’s Great Famine<\/a><\/td>\nYi Junjian
\nNational University of Singapore<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 25
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Random\u00a0Attention\u00a0Model<\/td>\nYusufcan Masatlioglu
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 25
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		A theory of non-performing loans and debt restructuring\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nTomoyuki Nakajima
\nKyoto University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 26
\nWED<\/em><\/td>\n		Learning with Data (Quasi-)differencing<\/td>\nPei Kuang
\nUniversity of Birmingham<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 27
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice<\/td>\nKoichiro Ito
\nUniversity of Chicago<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 01
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Optimal Transport Networks<\/td>\nEdouard Schaal
\nNew York University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 03
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Endogenous Neo-Confucianism: The Path of Development in Historical China\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nBai Ying
\nChinese University of Hong Kong<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 04
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Childhood Circumstances and Young Adulthood Outcomes: The Effects of Mothers\u2019 Financial Problems<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-09<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nConchita D’Ambrosio
\nUniversit\u00e9 du Luxembourg<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 08
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Sequential Auctions with Generalized Interdependent Values<\/td>\nAudrey Hu
\nUniversity of Amsterdam<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 08
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Low Real Interest Rates and the Zero Lower Bound<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nSteve Williamson
\nFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 15
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		\nIncentive-Compatibility in Financial Contracting with Limited Liability\n<\/td>\nXiaojian Zhao
\nHong University of Science and Technology<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 15
\nTue<\/em>\n2-3.30pm<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		A Composite likelihood approach for dynamic structural models<\/a><\/td>\nFabio Canova
\nEuropean University Institute and BI Norwegian Business School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 15
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Taxing Capital Income to Consolidate \u2013 An Incomplete Markets Perspective\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nChristian Bayer
\nUniversity of Bonn<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 17
\nThu<\/em>\n2-3.30pm<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Fine-grained Social Science through Big Data – an overview and a case study on self-presentation.<\/td>\nTuan Q. Phan
\nNational University of Singapore<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 17
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Testing Generalized Regression Monotonicity<\/a><\/td>\nYu-Chin Hsu
\nAcademia Sinica<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 22
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Default, debt maturity, and investment dynamics<\/td>\nNicolas Crouzet
\nNorthwestern University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 22
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		How do hospitals respond differently to competition?\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nMona Luan
\nUniversity of Hong Kong<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 24
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Harnessing Observability to Promote Large-scale Cooperation<\/td>\nErez Yoeli
\nHarvard University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 25
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Bank Panics without Sequential Service<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Andolfatto
\nFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 01
\nThu\u00a010-11.30am<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Estimation and Inference of Dynamic Structural Factor Models with Over-identifying Restrictions\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nXu Han
\nCity University of Hong Kong<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 01
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Figlio
\nNorthwestern University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 01
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Testing rational expectations using data combination\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nXavier D’Haultfoeuille
\nCREST-ENSAE<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 06
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Organizational Design and Career Concerns<\/td>\nDaisuke Hirata
\nHitotsubashi University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 06
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Efficiency in Search and Matching Models: A Generalized Hosios Condition<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nSephorah Mangin
\nMonash University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 08
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Large Time-Varying Parameter VARs: A Non-Parametric Approach<\/a><\/td>\nMassimiliano Marcellino
\nBocconi University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 13
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Money and Capital in a Persistent Liquidity Trap<\/a><\/td>\nPhilippe Bacchetta
\nUniversity of Lausanne<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 16
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Barriers to Reallocation and Economic Growth: the Effects of Firing Costs<\/a><\/td>\nToshihiko Mukoyama
\nUniversity of Virginia<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 27
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions<\/td>\nRon Siegel
\nThe Pennsylvania State University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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