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

\n\t\tSemester 2, 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
Jan 17
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Real Exchange Rates and Sectoral Productivity in the Eurozone<\/td>\nCharles Engel (MAS Term Professor In Economics and Finance)
\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 21
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		The curse of long horizons<\/td>\nGeorge Mailath (Lim Tay Boh Distinguished Visitor, NUS)
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 24
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Simple Mechanisms<\/td>\nTilman B\u00f6rgers
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb 28
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Capital Mobility in OECD Countries: A Multi-Level Factor Approach to Saving–Investment Correlations<\/a><\/td>\nYun Jung Kim
\nSogang University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 02
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Measuring the Stringency of Land-Use Regulation: The Case of China’s Building-Height Limits<\/a><\/td>\nJan K. Brueckner
\nUniversity of California, Irvine<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 06
\nMON<\/em><\/td>\n		Adaptive Inference in Semiparametric Multinomial Response Models\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nShakeeb Khan
\nBoston College<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 07
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Skewed Noise\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nDavid Dillenberger
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/a>Mar 09
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Trade Costs and Income Inequality in China<\/td>\nLu Lin
\nTsinghua University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 09
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Intuitive and Reliable Estimates of the Output Gap from a Beveridge-Nelson Filter\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nJames Morley
\nUniversity of New South Wales<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 13
\nMON<\/em><\/td>\n		Information Manipulation and Social Coordination\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nYang K. Lu
\nHong Kong University of Science and Technology<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 14
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Capital Accumulation, Private Property
\nand Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015<\/a><\/td>\n		Li Yang
\nWorld Bank and Paris School of Economics<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 14
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Nash Equilibrium in Games with Quasi-Monotone Best-Responses<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nRabah Amir
\nUniversity of Iowa<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 16
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		The Ostrich in Us: Selective Attention to Financial Accounts, Income, Spending, and Liquidity<\/td>\nMichaela Pagel
\nColumbia University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 16
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Temperature and Performance: Evidence from Online Game Behavior in China\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nMichael Fan
\nXiamen University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 20
\nMON<\/em><\/td>\n		Does Disability Insurance Income Save Lives?<\/td>\nTimothy J. Moore
\nUniversity of Melbourne<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 21
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		GEL estimation and tests of spatial autoregressive models<\/a><\/td>\nLung-Fei Lee
\nOhio State University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 21
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Loss Aversion in Sequential Auctions:
\nEndogenous Interdependence, Informational Externalities
\nand the \u201cAfternoon Effect\u201d<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Antonio Rosato
\nUniversity of Technology Sydney<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 24
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Ten Rules for Public Economic Policy<\/a><\/td>\nNg Yew Kwang
\nNanyang Technological University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 28
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Horizontal and Vertical Polarization: Task-Specific Technological Change in a Multi-Sector Economy<\/a><\/td>\nYongseok Shin
\nWashington University in St. Louis<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 28
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Multiproduct Intermediaries\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nAndrew Rhodes
\nToulouse School of Economics<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 30
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Introducing Virtue Ethics into Normative Economics for Models with Endogenous Preference<\/a><\/td>\nMasao Ogaki
\nKeio University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 31
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Information Design under Falsification<\/td>\nVasiliki Skreta
\nUniversity College London<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 03
\nMON<\/em>\n2:30-4 pm<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Growth, Trade, and Inequality\n

Venue:\u00a0AS7 06-42<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n(Joint with Global Production Networks Centre)<\/em><\/td>\n

Gene M. Grossman
\nPrinceton University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 03
\nMON<\/em><\/td>\n		How the Swine Flu Epidemic Spread: Understanding the Data with an Equilibrium Vigilance Model\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nJussi Keppo
\nNational University of Singapore<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 04
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		The Long and Short of Trade and Migration Reforms in China<\/td>\nXiadong Zhu
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 04
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Optimal nonlinear pricing in social networks under asymmetric network information\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nYing-Ju Chen
\nHong Kong University of Science and Technolog<\/em>y<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 10
\nMON<\/em><\/td>\n		Testing Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Based on Permutation Tests\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nEun Yi Chung
\nUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 11
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Efficient Multi-unit Auctions for Normal Goods<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nBrian Baisa
\nAmherst College<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 12
\nWED<\/em><\/td>\n		Estimation with Aggregate Shocks<\/em><\/a><\/td>\nGuido Kuersteiner
\nUniversity of Maryland<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 13
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Do women respond less to performance pay? Building evidence from multiple experiments<\/a><\/td>\nGregory Fischer
\nLondon School of Economics<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 17
\nMON<\/em><\/td>\n		Haze and Decision Making: A Natural Laboratory Experiment<\/td>\nChew Soo Hong
\nNational University of Singapore<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 18
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		The End of Men and Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market<\/a><\/td>\nHenry Siu
\nUniversity of British Columbia<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 18
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Internal Financing, Managerial Compensation and Multiple Tasks\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nSandro Brusco
\nStony Brook University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 20
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Preliminary Evidence on the Longer-Term Effects of Minimum Wages and other Anti-Poverty Policies<\/td>\nDavid Neumark
\nUniversity of California, Irvine<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 25
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Global Income Divergence, Trade, and Industrialization: The Geography of Growth Take-Offs<\/td>\nRichard Baldwin (MAS Term Professor)
\nGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 25
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Bayesian Persuasion and Pricing Strategies by Informed Seller\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nJun Zhang
\nUniversity of Technology Sydney<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 27
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Involuntary Entrepreneurship – Evidence from Thai Urban Data<\/a><\/td>\nAlexander Karaivanov
\nSimon Fraser University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 28
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Random Binary Choices that Satisfy Stochastic Betweenness<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nMatthew Ryan
\nAuckland University of Technology<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 02
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Tax uncertainty and Entrepreneurships in US<\/td>\nJianhuan Xu
\nSingapore Management Universit<\/em>y<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 09
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Information Acquisition and Robust Trading Mechanisms\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nGabriel Carroll
\nStanford University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 09
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		How Do Policymakers Update?<\/td>\nEva Vivalt
\nAustralian National University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 12
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Estimation of Large Network Formation Games<\/td>\nGeert Ridder
\nUniversity of Southern California<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 16
\nTue<\/em>\u00a02:30 – 4pm<\/strong><\/td>\n		Semiparametric Estimation of the Random Utility Model with Rank-Ordered Choice Data<\/a><\/td>\nJin Yan
\nChinese University of Hong Kong<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 16
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		From imitation to innovation: Where is all that Chinese R&D going?<\/td>\nZheng (Michael) Song
\nChinese University of Hong Kong<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 16
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Implementation of Efficient Investments in Mechanism Design<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nKentaro Tomoeda
\nUniversity of Technology Sydney<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 17
\nWED<\/em><\/td>\n		Fixed-Effect Regressions on Network Data<\/a><\/td>\nMartin Weidner
\nUniversity College London<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 18
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Investment in the Womb: Identifying Gender Discrimination through the Lens of Prenatal Ultrasounds<\/td>\nXi Chen
\nYale University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 18
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Subways and Urban Air Pollution<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nMatthew Turner
\nBrown University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 22
\nMON\u00a010.30-12pm<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Per Capita Income and the Demand for Skills<\/a><\/td>\nJames Markusen
\nUniversity of Colorado at Boulder<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 22
\nMON<\/em><\/td>\n		Fiscal Pro-cyclicality and\u00a0Over-optimism in Official Forecasts\n <\/td>\nJeffrey Frankel
\nHarpel Professor, Harvard University, MAS Term Professor in Economics and Finance, NUS<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 23
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Optimal Monetary and Macroprudential Policies: Gains
\nand Pitfalls in a Model of Financial Intermediation<\/a><\/td>\n		Michael Kiley
\nFederal Reserve Board<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 23
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Seeking Relationship Support: Strategic network formation and robust cooperation\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nDavid Miller
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 25
\nThu<\/em>\n2-3.30 pm<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		No Pain, No Gain: The Effects of Exports on Sickness, Injury, and Effort<\/a><\/td>\nChong Xiang
\nPurdue University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 30
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Modeling House Prices: \u00a0Theory and Estimation<\/td>\nYu Zhu
\nBank of Canada<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jun 06
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		R&D Dynamics and Corporate Cash<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0Silcock Journal Room<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nJake Zhao
\nPeking University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jun 15
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Are the global benefits of open borders a fallacy of composition?\u00a0 Three examples<\/td>\nGarett Jones
\nGeorge Mason University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jun 29
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Delay, Delegation, and Obfuscation: The Politics of “No-Win” Situations<\/a><\/td>\nJustin Fox
\nWashington University in St. Louis<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 04
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		The Neglected Impact of Measurement Error in Applied Microeconomics with Applications to Automobile Type Choice and Utilization<\/td>\nDavid Brownstone
\nUniversity of California, Irvine<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 04
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		Optimal Two-stage Auctions with Costly Information Acquisition<\/a>\nVenue:\u00a0AS2 05-10<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\nLixin Ye
\nOhio State University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 06
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		Directionally Differentiable Econometric Models<\/td>\nJin Seo Cho
\nYonsei University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 07
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Optimism and Pessimism with Expected Utility<\/a><\/td>\nAndrew Postlewaite
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 12
\nWED<\/em><\/td>\n		Evaluating Strategic Forecasters<\/a><\/td>\nMallesh Pai
\nRice University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 14
\nFRI<\/em><\/td>\n		Distributional Preferences and Political Behavior<\/td>\nShachar Kariv
\nUniversity of California, Berkeley<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 25
\nTue<\/em><\/td>\n		A strategic justification of the Talmud rule based on lower and upper bounds<\/td>\nYeh Chun-Hsien
\nAcademia Sinica<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 27
\nThu<\/em><\/td>\n		The Micro Origins of International Business Cycle Comovement<\/a><\/td>\nAndrei Levchenko
\nUniversity of Michigan<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jul 28
\nFRI\u00a02-3.30 pm<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n		Goods-Market Frictions and
\nInternational Trade<\/a><\/td>\n		Andrew McCallum
\nFederal Reserve Board<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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