The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
SEMINAR SERIES
In Fall semester, Wednesday seminars will be held in Conference Room 5047 (5th floor, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST) while Friday seminars will be held in Conference Room 6045 (6th floor, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, HKUST) during 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Notes to visitors:
Department of Economics is located on the 6th floor of the Lee Shau Kee Business Building in the Lee Shau Kee Campus at the southern end of HKUST. To obtain a Chinese address of HKUST to show the taxi driver, click HERE or download a location map HERE.
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Fall 2017
Date | Speaker | Paper |
1 Sep (Fri) |
Prof. Shengxing Zhang London School of Economics |
Intangibles, Inequality and Stagnation |
6 Sep (Wed) |
Prof. Wen Quan University of Washington |
A Noncooperative Foundation of the Nash Rationing Solution |
15 Sep (Fri) |
Prof. Denis Tkachenko National University of Singapore |
Using Arbitrary Precision Arithmetic to Sharpen Identification Analysis for DSGE Models |
18 Sep (Mon) LSK6045 3:30-5:00pm |
Prof. David Dorn University of Zurich |
The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms |
20 Sep (Wed) |
Prof. Rachel Heath University of Washington |
Migrants, Information, and Working Conditions in Bangladeshi Garment Factories |
27 Sep (Wed) |
Prof. Imran Rasul University College London |
Delivery Agents, Social Ties and Group Identity: Theory and Evidence from a Two-Layered Field Experiment
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29 Sep (Fri) |
Prof. Xiaogang Che Durham University |
Deposits Requirements in Auctions |
4 Oct (Wed) |
Prof. Xi Weng Peking University |
A Theory of Organizational Dynamics: Internal Politics and Efficiency |
6 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Andreas Moxnes University of Oslo |
The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach |
13 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Adam Szeidl Central European University |
Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance |
20 Oct (Fri) |
Prof. Jaimie Lien The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Prediction and Learning about Credit Card Spending |
1 Nov (Wed) |
Prof. Heski Bar-Isaac University of Toronto |
Adverse Selection, Efficiency and the Structure of Information with Application to the Labour Market |
3 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Yiyi Zhou Stony Brook University |
Middlemen as Information Intermediaries: Evidence from the Used Car Markets |
6 Nov (Mon) LSK6045 3:30-5:00pm |
Prof. Ulrich Mueller Princeton University |
Inference for the Mean |
8 Nov (Wed) |
Prof. Jeffrey Ely Northwestern University |
Moving the Goalposts |
15 Nov (Wed) |
Prof. Shakeeb Khan Boston College |
Identification and Inference for Dynamic Discrete Choice Panel Data Models |
17 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal University of Luxembourg |
Identifying the Benefits from Home Ownership: A Swedish Experiment |
22 Nov (Wed) |
Prof. Peter Newberry Pennsylvania State University |
Economies of Density in E-Commerce: A Study of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network |
24 Nov (Fri) |
Prof. Yangbo Song The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
Finite Repeated Games with Learning of Actions |
1 Dec
(Fri) LSK1003 10:30am-12:00pm |
Prof. Zhipeng Liao University of California, Los Angeles |
A Uniform Model Selection Test for Semi/Nonparametric Models |
4 Dec (Mon) LSK6045 3:30-5:00pm |
Prof. Felix Tintelnot University of Chicago |
Trade and Domestic Production Networks |
13 Dec (Wed) |
Prof. Shuyang Sheng University of California, Los Angeles |
Estimation of Large Network Formation Games |
Last modified: 8 December 2017
Summer 2017
Date | Speaker | Paper Title |
4 Aug (Fri) |
Prof. Arthur Schram University of Amsterdam |
Media Bias and Elections: Theory and Experiment |
Spring 2017
Date | Speaker | Paper Title |
22 Feb (Wed) |
Prof. Yang Lu HKUST |
Information Manipulation and Social Coordination |
23 Feb (Thu) 3:30 - 5:00 pm LSK6045 |
Prof. Renaud Coulomb University of Melbourne |
Rare Events and Risk Perceptions: Evidence from the Fukushima Accident |
1 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Michael Carter UC Davis |
Designing Insurance Contracts when Clients "Greatly Value"
Certainty: Results from Field Experiments in Burkina Faso |
2 Mar (Thu) 3:30 - 5:00 pm LSK6045 |
Prof. Xiaoxia Shi University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Estimating Semi-parametric Panel Multinomial Choice Models using Cyclic Monotonicity |
8 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Pak Hung Au Nanyang Technological University |
Reputation Turnaround, Negotiated Block Trade and Endogenous Cost of Corporate Control |
10 Mar (Fri) 3:00 - 4:30 pm LSK5047 |
Prof. Marc Sangnier Aix-Marseille University (France) |
What motivates French pork: Political career concerns or private connections? |
17 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Zhiqi Chen Carleton University |
Colluding on Surcharges |
20 Mar (Mon) 3:30 - 5:00 pm LSK6045 |
Prof. Kalina Manova Oxford University |
Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US |
22 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Wei He Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Dynamic Games with Almost Perfect Information |
29 Mar (Wed) |
Prof. Matthew Shi Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Catching (Exclusive) Eyeballs:
Multi-Homing and Platform Competition in the Magazine Industry |
31 Mar (Fri) |
Prof. Wing Suen Hong Kong University |
Learning while Experimenting |
19 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Zhi Wang George Mason University |
Characterizing Global Value Chains |
21 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Shyamal Chowdhury The University of Sydney |
Effects of Emigration on Rural Labour Markets |
26 Apr (Wed) |
Prof. Matthieu Crozet Paris School of Economics/ Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Trade Finance Dependence and the Trade Impact of Bank Crises |
27 Apr (Thu) 3:30 - 5:00 pm LSK6045 |
Prof. Ming He University of Technology Sydney |
Identification and Estimation of Pure Common Value
Auction Models with an Application to the U.S. OCS Wildcat Auctions |
28 Apr (Fri) |
Prof. Qiang Fu National University of Singapore |
The Paradox of Mediocracy |
2 May (Tue) 3:30 - 5:00 pm LSK6045 |
Prof. Patrick Francois University of British Columbia |
Reservations and the Politics of Fear |
4 May (Thu) 3:30 - 5:00 pm LSK6045 |
Dr. Yi Wen Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
Optimal Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound |
5 May (Fri) |
Prof. Alistaire Wilson University of Pittsburgh |
Diagnosing Coordination Failures in Information Relationships |
Joint Seminar: IEMS & SOSC 11 May (Thu) 4:00 - 5:30 pm AB3301 (L#17-18) |
Prof. Xiaobo Zhang Peking University |
Moving "Umbrella": Identify Firm Political Connections through Bureaucratic Transfers in China |
12 May (Fri) 9:30 - 11:00 am LSK1003 |
Prof. Luis Cabral New York University |
Mixed Bundling in Retail DVD Sales: Facts and Theories |
17 May (Wed) |
Prof. Sergio Montero University of Rochester |
Going It Alone? An Empirical Study of Coalition Formation in Elections |
18 May (Thu) 3:30 - 5:00 pm LSK6045 |
Prof. Naoki Aizawa University of Minnesota |
Local Market Equilibrium and Designs of the Public Health Insurance System |
24 May (Wed) |
Prof. Wooyoung Lim HKUST |
Herd Immunity and a Vaccination Game |
26 May (Fri) |
Prof. Kei-Mu Yi University of Houston |
Multinational Production, International Trade, and Structural Change |
29 May (Mon) 3:30 - 5:00 pm LSK6045 |
Prof. Fernando Parro Johns Hopkins University |
Trade and Migration: A Quantitative Assessment |
14 Jun (Wed) |
Prof. Ilwoo Hwang University of Miami |
Uncertainty-driven Cooperation |
29 June (Thu) 3:30 - 5:00 pm LSK6045 |
Prof. James Tybout Pennsylvania State University |
Two-sided Search in International Markets |
Last modified: 11 July 2017