Economics Research Seminars
Past Events
| Spring 2021 | ||
| Date & Venue | Speaker | Topic |
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May 13, 4:30-5:30pm |
Jie Zheng Tsinghua University |
Gender Differences, Individual Qualifications, and Leader Selection Mechanisms |
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May 24, 12:00-1:00pm |
Armenak Antinyan Zhongnan University of Economics and Law |
Take me with you! Economic Incentives, Nudging Interventions, and Reusable Shopping Bags: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial |
2021 Fall
September 30 | Prof. Yapei Zhang (ShanghaiTech University)
Countercyclical Income Risk and Portfolio Choices: Evidence from Sweden
October 14 | Prof. Sai Luo (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Passing the Torch: Role Models, Academic Test, and College Major Choice
October 28 | Prof. Ming Jiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Decision Quality Under Time Pressure: Evidence from a Large Chess Database
November 18 | Prof. Guangyu Nie (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Global DSGE Models
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2021 Spring
May 13 | Prof. Jie Zheng (Tsinghua University)
Gender Differences, Individual Qualifications, and Leader Selection Mechanisms
May 24 | Prof. Armenak Antinyan (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)
Take me with you! Economic Incentives, Nudging Interventions, and Reusable Shopping Bags: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
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2020 Fall
September 16 | Prof. Jingyi Xue (Singapore Management University)
Resource Allocation with Ambiguous Needs
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November 25 | Prof. Hui Xu (Lancaster University)
Brexit Premium in Corporate Bonds: Evidence from British "Yankee" Bonds
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
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2020 Spring
May 6 | Prof. Yan Chen (University of Michigan)
Putting Teams into the Gig Economy: A Field Experiment at a Ride-sharing Platform
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
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2019 Fall
September 11 | Prof. Antonio Guarino (University College London)
No Bubbles in the City: An Experiment with Professional Traders
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
September 12| Prof. Mich Tvede (University of East Anglia)
Endogenous Work Ethics
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
September 17| Prof. Chiu Yu Ko (National University of Singapore)
Political Reforms, Electoral Competition, and Chief-led Ritual Violence in Colonial Lesotho
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
September 23| Prof. Kim Sau Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Dinosaur Judges: Conservative Experts in a Changing Society
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
October 23| Prof. Songfa Zhong (National University of Singapore)
Putting Preference for Ra
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November 13| Prof. Xuejing Zuo (Fudan University)
Government Policy and Gender Norm: Evidence from the State-Owned Enterprise Reform in Urban China in 1990s
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
November 25| Prof. Juan Dubra (University of Montevideo)
Belief Elicitation When More than Money Matters
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
December 5| Prof. Danyan Zha (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Schooling Expansion and the Female Marriage: Evidence from Indonesia
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
December 16| Prof. Shuang Zhang (University of Colorado Boulder)
Investigating Mayors for Corruption Reduces SO2 Pollution from Coal Power Plants in China
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
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2019 Spring
January 22 | Prof. Douglas Almond (Columbia University)
Perinatal Health among 1 Million Chinese-Americans
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
February 11 | Prof. Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark)
Immigration and Knowledge Spillovers: Danish-Americans and the Development of the Dairy Industry in the United States
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
February 19 | Prof. David Yang (Harvard University)
Historical Traumas and the Roots of Political Distrust: Political Inference from the Great Chinese Famine
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
February 22 | Prof. Junjie Zhang (Duke Kunshan University)
Turning a Blind Eye? On the Political Economy of Environmental Regulation in China
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March 1 | Prof. Matthieu Crozet (Lingnan University)
Looking for the Bright Side of the China Syndrome: Rising Export Opportunities and Life Satisfaction in China
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
March 11 | Prof. Zigan Zhang (Hong Kong University)
Political Connections and Selective EPA Enforcement
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
March 20 | Prof. Mirabelle Muuls (Imperial Colleage London)
Emission Trading, Firm Behavior, and the Environment: Evidence from French Manufacturing Firms and Preliminary Results frrom a Survey of Chinese Firms
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
March 29 | Prof. Zhen Zhou (Tsinghua University)
Timely Persuasion
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
April 1 | Prof. Jules Hugot (Asian Development Bank)
Breaking Away from Icebreakers: The Effect of Melting Distances on Trade and Welfare
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
May 03 | Prof. Joachim Voth ( University of Zurich)
From Finance to Fascism: The Real Effect of Germany's 1931 Banking Crisis
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
May 24 | Prof. Shengxing Zhang ( LSE)
Intangibles, Inequality, and Stagnation
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
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2018 Fall
August 29 | Prof. Séverine Toussaert (Oxford University)
Revealing temptation through menu choice: evidence from a weight loss challenge
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
September 7 | Prof. Valerie Karplus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Did Scrubbing the Government Clean Up the Air? Polluter Responses to China's Anticorruption Campaign
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
October 17 | Prof. Xiaohuan Lan (Fudan University)
Doing Business in China: The Interplay between Parental and Governmental Influence
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
October 24 | Prof. Deepal Basak (Indian School of Business)
Diffusing Coordination Risk
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
October 26 | Prof. Yang Xie (University of California, Riverside)
Erosion of State Power and the Political Boundaries of Corruption
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
November 1 | Prof. Jiahua Che (CEIBS)
The King Can Do No Wrong
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
November 7 | Prof. Alexander Coutts (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
No-one to Blame: Biased Updating without Attribution
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
November 28 | Prof. Nathan Schiff (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Monopolistic Competition in the Restaurant Industry
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
December 5 | Prof. Shintaro Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo)
Why is Relative Age Effect So Persistent? Roles of Parents, Teachers, and Peers
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
December 7 | Prof. Peter Bossaerts (University of Melbourne)
Asset Pricing under Computational Complexity
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
December 12 | Prof. Ting Chen (Hong Kong Baptist University)
The Impact of the Three Gorges Dam: Differentiated Adaptations of Rural Households to Local Climate Change
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
December 14 | Prof. Yongxiang Wang (University of California, Los Angeles)
Target Setting and Allocative Inefficiency in Lending: Evidence from Two Chinese Banks
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
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2018 Spring
Febuary 2 | Prof. Kingking Li (City University of Hong Kong)
Neutrality by Aggregation: An Experimental Approach
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March 5 | Prof. Gerelt Tserenjigmid (Virginia Tech)
The Imbalanced Luce Model
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March 16 | Prof. Ming Hsu (University of California, Berkeley)
Understanding human sociality: From brain to behavior to society
| Speaker's website | Webpage for this talk |
March 19 | Prof. Jerome Adda (Bocconi University)
Culture and Legal Status Trade-offs in Marriage Markets
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April 20 | Prof. Takashi Kunimoto (Singapore Management University)
Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work
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May 7 | Prof. Michela Giorecelli (University of California, Los Angeles)
Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Growth
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May 11 | Prof. Changcheng Song (Singapore Management University)
Incentives, Contract Design and Pension Contribution: Evidence from Sri Lanka
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May 14 | Prof. Tracy Xiao Liu (Tsinghua University)
Incentive Design on MOOC
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May 16 | Prof. Qing Wang (Peking University)
Grandchild Care and Female Labor Supply: Evidence from a Universal Child Care Program in China
