Seminars

Spring 2026
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Mar 4 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Lorenz Goette National University of Signapore	They see the same value—then disagree: biased decision making across LLMs
Mar 12 (T), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Chiara Aina Barcelona School of Economics	Weighting Competing Models
Mar 18 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Thomasz Brzustowski Hong Kong University	Optimal Allowance with Limited Auditing Capacity
Mar 24 (T), 3:30-4:45 pm Room S825	John Wooders NYU Abu Dhabi	Nash at Chess.com
Mar 25 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Muxin Li Fudan University	Gatekeepers and Self-Preferencing: Incentives and WelfareTrade-offs in Two-sided Markets
Apr 1 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Matthew Shi Chinese University of Hong Kong	TBA
Apr 22 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Dan Li Fudan University	TBA
Apr 29 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Nobuyuki Hanaki University of Osaka	TBA
May 13 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Jordan Norris NYU Abu Dhabi	TBA

Fall 2025
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Sept 10 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Takeshi Murooka University of Osaka	Bayesian Learning When Players Are Misspecified about Others
Oct 15 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Sam Jindani National University of Singapore	Bargaining with transfers
Oct 22 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Yunan Li City University of Hong Kong	Security-bid Auctions with Information Acquisition
Nov 12 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Simin He Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	Narratives and the communication gap
Nov 19 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Gergely Horvath Duke Kunshan	The Fragility of Reputation while Sustaining Cooperation under Manipulated Information
Nov 26 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Zhen Zhou Tsinghua University	Collective Contracting for Coordination
Dec 3 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Martin Szydlowski Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Trading against Algorithms: Price Dynamics and Risk-sharing in a Market with Q-learners

Spring 2025
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Feb 3 (M), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Yu Zhu Renmin University of China	Monetary Policy in a Digital Economy
Feb 12 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Feifan Zhang Duke Kunshan University	Setbacks, Shutdowns, and Overruns
Mar 12 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Carl Heese Hong Kong University	Vague Politics
Mar 19 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Jose Apesteguia Universitat Pompeu Fabra	The Rationalizability of Survey Responses
Mar 26 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Sergey Stepanov HSE Moscow	Advising a Decision-Maker with Unknown Preferences
Apr 9 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Sai Luo Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	Money or Monitoring: Evidence on Improving Worker Effort
Apr 10 (T), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Shachar Kariv University of California, Berkeley	Ever Since Allais and Ellsberg
Apr 16 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Evan Piermont Royal Holloway, University of London	Iterated Revelation: How to Incentivize Experts to Reveal Novel Actions
Apr 18 (F), 1:00-2:15 pm Room N856	King King Li The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong	Unfounded Opinion’s Curse
Apr 23 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Takuro Yamashita Osaka University	Set-valued Extension of Ex Post Equilibrium
Apr 30 (W), 1:00-2:15pm Room S825	Wei He Chinese University of Hong Kong	Rank-guaranteed auctions
May 15 (T), 1:00-2:15pm Room S825	Bo Hu Fudan University	A Model of Supplier Finance

Fall 2024
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Sept 4 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Yang Xie University of California, Riverside	Forever Deterred, the Highest Crimes? A Difficulty and Its Implications
Sept 5 (T), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Soohong Chew National University of Singapore	Correlation Preference
Sept 11 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Ruixin Wang Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen	A Tough Evening at School: Paternalistic Education, Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Performance
Sept 25 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Liuchun Deng National University of Singapore and Yale-NUS College	Believers versus Skeptics: Experimentation in Public Good Provision
Oct 9 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Kuk Mo Jung Sogang University	Cap and (Frictional) Trade vs. Carbon Tax
Oct 30 (W), 3:45-5:00 pm Room S825	Ning Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong	The Economic Impacts of Rape
Nov 6 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Timothy Kam Australian National University	On a Pecuniary Externality of Competitive Banking through Goods Pricing Dispersion
Nov 13 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Ziwei Wang Peking University	Rationalizable Stability in Matching with Incomplete Information
Nov 20 (W), 1:00-2:15 pm Room S825	Nathan Schiff SHUFE	Fines, Fees, and Policing for Profit: Evidence from Policy Reforms in Missouri
Dec 4 (W), 1:00-2:15pm Room S725	Godofredo Ramizo NTU Singapore	AI Capability Formation and “Data Diplomacy”: Lessons from the Energy Industry
Dec 13 (F), 1:00-2:15 pm Room N856	Xiaoming Cai Peking HSBC	Search, Risk Aversion, and Assortative Matching

Spring 2024
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Feb 20 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Delong Meng Shanghai Jiaotong University	Echo Chambers: Choosing Interlocutors and Messages
Feb 27 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Gabriel Ziegler University of Edinburgh	Binary Classifiers as Dilations
Mar 5 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Jun Zhang Nanjing Audit University	Efficient and fair trading mechanisms for market design environments
Mar 12 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Chen Zhao Hong Kong University	Rationalizing Choices in a Rich Domain
Mar 19 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Masaki Aoyagi (online guest) Osaka University ISER	Career concerns and incentive compatible task design
Mar 27 (W), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Castiel Chen Zhuang Peking University	Examining the Zero-Markup Drug Policy in China: A Structural Approach
Apr 9 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Wei Jiang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Optimal Taxation and Public Debt Management: Revisiting Lucas-Stokey and Implementing a Ramsey Plan
Apr 16 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Zhe Yuan Zhejiang University	Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Assignment in Ride-Hailing
Apr 23 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Ruixin Wang Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen	A Tough Evening at School: Paternalistic Education, Intrinsic Motivation and Academic Performance
Apr 30 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Gaosheng Ju Fudan University	Reference-Dependent Consumption Planning Behaviors: Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Consumption-Based Asset Pricing
May 14 (T), 2:15-3:30 pm Room S825	Matthias Qian ESMT Berlin	The Burden of University Equity Stakes for Spinouts: Evidence from the UK

Fall 2023
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Oct 17 (T), 1:30-2:45 pm Room S825	Jiangtao Li Singapore Management University	Undominated mechanisms (joint with Tilman Borgers and Kexin Wang)
Oct 18 (W), 1:30-2:45 pm Room S825	Kim Sau Chung Hong Kong Baptist University	Designing Open Source Licenses
Oct 25 (W), 1:30-2:45 pm Room S825	Ernest K Lai Lehigh University	Competitive Disclosure of Multiple Product Attributes
Nov 8 (W), 1:30-2:45 pm Room S825	Arthur Lewbel Boston College	Economies of Scale to Consumption in Collective Households
Nov 15 (W), 1:30-2:45 pm Room S825	Ju Heng Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	A Multi-Market Cartel
Nov 29 (W), 1:30-2:45 pm Room S825	Yunan Li City University of Hong Kong	Optimal allocation with costly verification and distributional constraint
Dec 6 (W), 1:30-2:45 pm Room S825	Shaowei Ke China Europe International Business School	Decision Making Under Multidimensional Uncertainty

Spring 2023
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Mar 1 (W), 4:45-6:00 pm Room S825	Liuchun Deng Yale-NUS; visiting NYU Shanghai	Irreversible Investment in Technology and the Dynamics of Public Good Provision
Mar 22 (W), 4:45-6:00 pm Room S825	Inacio Bo China Center for Behavioral Economics and Finance at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics	Pick-an-object Mechanisms
Apr 20 (T), 4:45-6:00 pm Room S825	Sambuddha Ghosh SUFE	Competition Tempers Reputation
Apr 25 (T), 1:15-2:30 pm Room S825	Juanjuan Meng PKU Guanghua	Does Expectations Affect Labor Supply: A Field Experiment with Shanghai Cabdrivers
Apr 26 (W), 4:45-6:00 pm Room S825	Yang Xie UC Riverside	Hobbesian Wars and Institutional Safeguards
May 8 (M), 4:45-6:00 pm Room S825	Liang Dai Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Dynamic Contracting with Flexible Monitoring
May 15 (M), 3:30-4:45 pm Room S825	Soohong Chew Southwestern University of Finance and Economics + National University of Singapore	Attention Theory
May 16 (T), 4:45-6:00 pm Room S825	Jingyi Xue Singapore Management University	Resource allocation with ambiguous needs

Fall 2022
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Oct 24 (M), 12:30-1:30 pm Room 1100	RC Xi Zhi Lim Shanghai Jiaotong	Choice and Attention Across Time
Nov 2 (W), 5:30-6:30 pm Zoom	Wifag Adnan NYU Abu Dhabi	The Economic Incidence of the Migration Surplus: Evidence from Border Regulations
Nov 7 (M), 12:30-1:30 pm Room 1100	Wenhao Wu Shanghai Tech	Reciprocity with Uncertainty About Others
Nov 16 (W), 5:30-6:30 pm Room 1100	Zongbo Huang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen	Security-bid Auctions with Information Acquisition
Nov 30 (W), 5:30-6:30 pm Zoom	Yohanes Eko Riyanto Nanyang Technological University	Cooperation and Cognition in Social Networks
Dec 7 (W), 9:00-10:00 pm Zoom	Fernanda Marquez-Padilla Colegio de México	Back to Work or Back to the Maternity Ward? The Effects of Full-Time Schools on Fertility
Dec 14 (W), 9:00-10:00 pm Zoom	Tanya Rosenblat University of Michigan	Anecdotes, Memories and Beliefs

Spring 2022
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Feb 25 (F), 9-10 am Zoom	Huseyin Yildirm Duke	Multiple Prizes in Tournaments with Career Concerns
Mar 2 (W), 4-5 pm Room 1100	Johannes Petry Warwick	Capital markets with Chinese characteristics: Exchanges, state capitalism & China’s integration into the global financial system
Mar 7 (M), 12-1 pm Room 1150	Delong Meng Shanghai Jiao Tong	The Design and Interpretation of Information
Mar 16 (W), 4:30-5:30 pm Room 1100	Axel Ockenfels Cologne	Why is the soft reserve auction so popular?
Mar 23 (W), 4:30-5:30pm Room 1050	Yu Zhang PKU Guanghua	Hedging by Giving: Wishful Thinking, Religious Donations, and Insurance Demand
Mar 28 (M), 12-1pm Room 1150	Andrzej Baranski NYUAD	An Experiment on Gender Representation in Majoritarian Bargaining
Apr 11 (M), 12-1pm Room 1150	Wooyoung Lim HKUST	Positive and Negative Selection in Bargaining: An Experiment
May 11 (W), 4:30-5:30 pm Room 1100	Marco Schwarz Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics & CESifo	The Impact of Social Media on Belief Formation

Fall 2021
Date & Venue	Speaker	Topic
Sep 30 (Th), 4:30-5:30pm Room 1100	Yapei Zhang Shanghai Tech	Countercyclical Income Risk and Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Sweden
Oct 14 (Th), 4:30-5:30pm Room 1100	Sai Luo SHUFE	Passing the Torch: Role Models, Academic Test, and College Major Choice
Oct 28 (Th), 4:30-5:30pm Room 1100	Ming Jiang Shanghai Jiao Tong	Decision Quality Under Time Pressure: Evidence from a Large Chess Database
Rescheduled Room 1100, Zoom	Wooyoung Lim HKUST	Positive and Negative Selection in Bargaining: An Experiment
Nov 18 (Th), 4:30-5:30pm Room 1100	Guangyu Nie SHUFE	Global DSGE Models

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