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

\n\t\tSemester 1, 2018\/2019\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\n
\nDate<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n\nTopic<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n\nSpeaker<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 2, Thu<\/td>\nChina’s Industrial Policy, Excess Capacity, and Fragmentation<\/td>\nPanle Jia Barwick
\nCornell University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 7, Tue<\/td>\nIs Poverty Persistent?<\/td>\nMaitreesh Ghatak
\nLondon School of Economics<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 8, Wed<\/td>\nInefficient Sorting under Output Sharing<\/a><\/td>\nLam Wing Tung
\nYale-NUS College<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 10, Fri<\/td>\nIdentification in Nonparametric Models for Dynamic Treatment Effects<\/a><\/td>\nSukjin Han
\nUniversity of Texas at Austin<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 14, Tue<\/td>\nIndustrial policies in production networks<\/td>\nErnest Liu
\nPrinceton University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 15, Wed\u00a04.30-5.45pm<\/strong><\/td>\nLowering the bar and limiting the field: The effect of strategic risk-taking on selection contests<\/a><\/td>\nDawei Fang
\nGothenburg University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 16, Thu<\/td>\nThe Jesuits and Chinese Science<\/td>\nChicheng Ma
\nUniversity of Hong Kong<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 21, Tue<\/td>\nHousehold Saving, Financial Constraints, and the Current Account in China<\/a><\/td>\nKai Zhao
\nUniversity of Connecticut<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 23, Thu<\/td>\nRunoff Elections in the Lab<\/td>\nAniol Llorente-Saguer
\nQueen Mary University of London<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 24, Fri\u00a010.30-12pm<\/strong><\/td>\nEndowments, Exclusion, and Exchange<\/a>\nVenue: AS2\/05-09<\/em><\/td>\nMaciej Kotowski
\nHarvard University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 24, Fri<\/td>\nSurvival of the fittest: the impact of the minimum wage of firm exit<\/a>\nVenue: AS2\/05-09<\/em><\/td>\nMichael Luca
\nHarvard University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 28, Tue<\/td>\nBarriers to Mobility or Sorting? Sources and Aggregate Implications of Income Gaps across Sectors and Locations in Indonesia<\/a><\/td>\nTomasz Swiecki
\nUniversity of British Columbia<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 29, Wed\n2:30-4pm<\/strong><\/td>\nIndustrial policies in production networks<\/a><\/td>\nErnest Liu
\nPrinceton University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 29, Wed<\/td>\nInformation Design in Multi-stage Games.<\/td>\nLudovic Renou
\nQueen Mary University of London<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Aug 30, Thu<\/td>\nBehavioural Consequences of Adverse Early Life Experience: The Impact of the Culture Revolution<\/td>\nXin Meng
\nAustralian National University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 3, Mon<\/td>\nSome simple Bitcoin Economics<\/td>\nHarald Uhlig
\nUniversity of Chicago<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 4, Tue<\/td>\nThe Nature of Firm Growth<\/a><\/td>\nPetr Sedlacek
\nUniversity of Oxford<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 5, Wed<\/td>\nIntegrating School Districts: Balance, Diversity and Welfare<\/td>\nIsa Hafalir
\nUniversity of Technology Sydney<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 6, Thu<\/td>\nThe effects of Primary Care Chronic Disease Management in Rural China<\/td>\nKaren Eggleston
\nStanford University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 11, Tue<\/td>\nNonlinear Household Earnings Dynamics, Self-Insurance, And Welfare<\/a><\/td>\nGiulio Fella
\nQueen Mary University of London<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 12, Wed<\/td>\nDiffusion Games<\/a><\/td>\nEvan Sadler
\nColumbia University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 18, Tue<\/td>\nAgnostic Structural Disturbances (ASDs): Detecting and Reducing Misspecification in Empirical Macroeconomic Models<\/a><\/td>\nWouter den Haan
\nLondon School of Economics<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 19, Wed<\/td>\nLying and Deception in Games<\/a><\/td>\nJoel Sobel
\nProfessor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
\nGoh Keng Swee Professor, NUS<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 20, Thu<\/td>\nWhat makes a successful entrepreneur? The effect of elite college and intergenerational transfer<\/td>\nNaijia Guo
\nChinese University of Hong Kong<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 24, Mon<\/td>\nOptimal Management of Evolving Hierarchies<\/td>\nJens Leth Hougaard
\nUniversity of Copenhagen<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 25, Tue<\/td>\nGames of Love and Hate<\/a><\/td>\nRajiv Vohra
\nBrown University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 27, Thu<\/td>\nFamily Background, After-school Tutoring, and Student Achievement: Experimental Evidence from Rural China<\/td>\nHongliang Zhang
\nHong Kong Baptist University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 2, Tue<\/td>\nMoney, Banking and Financial Markets<\/a><\/td>\nFernando Martin
\nFederal Reserve Bank of St. Louis<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 2, Tue<\/td>\n\nGrandparents, Moms, or Dads?
\nWhy children of teen mothers do worse in life\n<\/td>\n		Kjell G. Salvanes
\nNorwegian School of Economics<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 4, Thu<\/td>\nNeither Nature nor Nurture: The Impact of Maternal Education on Child Health<\/a><\/td>\nXiaoyan Lei
\nPeking University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 5, Fri<\/td>\nPrices and Inflation when\u00a0Government Bonds are Net Wealth<\/a><\/td>\nMarcus Hagedorn
\nUniversity of Oslo<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 9, Tue<\/td>\nStochastic discounting and the transmission of money supply shocks<\/a><\/td>\nIvan Jaccard
\nEuropean Central Bank<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 10, Wed<\/td>\nBiasing Unbiased Dynamic Contests<\/a><\/td>\nStefano Barbieri
\nTulane University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 16, Tue<\/td>\nIndeterminacy and Imperfect Information<\/td>\nThomas Lubik
\nFederal Reserve Bank of Richmond<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 17, Wed<\/td>\nOrganizations and Coordination in a Diverse Population<\/td>\nLiang Dai
\nShanghai Jiao Tong University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 18, Thu<\/td>\nErosion of State Power and the Political Boundaries of Corruption<\/td>\nYang Xie
\nUniversity of California, Riverside<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 19, Fri<\/td>\nOn The Volume of Redistribution: Across Income Levels and Across Groups<\/a><\/td>\nRavi Kanbur
\nCornell University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 23, Tue<\/td>\nThe Geography of Path Dependence<\/a><\/td>\nTreb Allen
\nDartmouth College<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 24, Wed<\/td>\n\nMoney as minimal complexity\nGraphical exchange mechanisms<\/td>\nPradeep Dubey
\nStony Brook University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 25, Thu<\/td>\nHow Extensive are Air Pollution Spillovers?: An Application to China\u2019s Manufacturing Productivity<\/td>\nBrian Viard
\nCheung Kong Graduate School of Business<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 30, Tue<\/td>\nMissing growth from creative destruction<\/a><\/td>\nTimo Boppart
\nStockholm University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oct 31, Wed<\/td>\nQuality Versus Fit: Market Design and Externalities on\u00a0Multidimensional Matching Platforms.<\/a><\/td>\nSamuel Flanders
\nAsia School of Business<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 5, Mon<\/td>\nTesting the Number of Regimes in Markov Regime Switching Models<\/a><\/td>\nHiroyuki Kasahara
\nUniversity of British Columbia and Hitotsubashi University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 5, Mon<\/td>\nMisallocation, Selection, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data from China<\/a><\/td>\nDiego Restuccia
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 7, Wed<\/td>\nThe Hot Hand Fallacy Fallacy<\/a><\/td>\nJoshua Miller
\nUniversity of Alicante<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 9, Fri<\/td>\nTreating Symmetric Buyers Asymmetrically<\/a><\/td>\nShraman Banerjee
\nO.P.Jindal Global University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 13, Tue<\/td>\nOn the instability of banking and financial intermediation<\/td>\nCyril Monnet
\nUniversity of Bern<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 14, Wed<\/td>\nMechanisms with Evidence: Commitment and Robustness<\/td>\nBarton Lipman
\nBoston University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 15, Thu<\/td>\nGender Differences in Politician Persistence<\/td>\nMelanie Wasserman
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 20, Tue<\/td>\nFirm dynamics with frictional product and labor markets<\/a><\/td>\nLeo Kaas
\nGoethe University Frankfurt<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 21, Wed<\/td>\nDoes Level-k Behavior Imply Level-k Thinking?<\/a><\/td>\nYe (Wendy) Jin
\nNYU Shanghai<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 22, Thu<\/td>\nUniform Nonparametric Series Inference for Dependent Data with an Application to the Search and Matching Model<\/a><\/td>\nJia Li
\nDuke University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 23, Fri<\/td>\nInference on Functionals under First Order Degeneracy<\/a>\nVenue: AS2\/05-09<\/em><\/td>\nQihui Chen
\nChinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 23, Fri\u00a02:30-4pm<\/strong>ri<\/td>\nCapital Embodied Structural Change\nVenue: AS2\/05-09<\/em><\/td>\nJulieta Caunedo
\nCornell University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 26, Mon<\/td>\nRobust Estimation with Exponentially Tilted Hellinger Distance<\/a><\/td>\nBertille Antoine
\nSimon Fraser University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 27, Tue<\/td>\nThe Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications<\/a><\/td>\nJan Eeckhout
\nUniversitat Pompeu Fabra<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 28, Wed<\/td>\nSharing the revenues from broadcasting sport events\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\nJuan Moreno-Ternero
\nUniversidad Pablo de Olavide<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 29, Thu<\/td>\nPre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India<\/td>\nJames Fenske
\nUniversity of Warwick<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 30, Fri\u00a011am-12pm<\/strong><\/td>\nWTO Accession and China’s Environmental Aggravation<\/td>\nJintao Xu
\nPeking University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 30, Fri<\/td>\nMisinterpreting Others and the Fragility of Social Learning<\/td>\nRyota Iijima
\nYale University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 5, Wed<\/td>\nRationality and Common Belief of Rationality in Second-price Auction and English Auction<\/td>\nChih-Chun Yang
\nAcademia Sinica<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 6, Thu\u00a02:30-4pm<\/strong><\/td>\nLabor Market Polarization in a System of Cities: The Case of France<\/td>\nDonald Davis
\nColumbia University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 6, Thu<\/td>\nSelection with Skills: Evidence from Radiologists<\/td>\nDavid C.Chan
\nStanford University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 12, Wed<\/td>\nLearning from Failures: Optimal Contract for Experimentation and Production<\/td>\nFahad Khalil
\nUniversity of Washington<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 13, Thu<\/td>\n\u00a0Assessing the Hype of Machine Learning for Empiricists<\/a><\/td>\nSteven Lehrer
\nQueen\u2019s University \/ NYU Shanghai<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 19 Wed<\/td>\nBottleneck Links, Essential Intermediaries, and Competing Paths of Diffusion in Networks<\/a><\/td>\nMihai Manea
\nStony Brook University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 20, Thu<\/td>\nIntrinsic Openness and Endogenous Institutional Quality<\/td>\nYang Jiao
\nDartmouth College & Fudan University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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