Brown Bag Seminar Series

DateTitle​Venue​
​24 Jan 2018​"“I” Don’t Like Loss: The Effect of First-Person Pronoun Use on Loss Aversion" by Prof Jubo YAN and Prof Taisen HE, NTU, Singapore​HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS 04-71)
Date​Title​Venue​
​15 Nov 2017"Is pork trade good for China’s greenhouse gas emissions?" Prof TAO Hong-Jun, Fuzhou University, China​HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS 04-71)
​8 Nov 2017"Pay Secrecy Laws, Salary Discrimination, and Innovation Productivity" Dr Jin Zhang from Nanyang Business School, NTU, Singapore​HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS 04-71)
​​​25 Oct 2017"Nonlinear Adjustment of Exchange Rate and Exchange Rate Policy in a Small Open Economyby Prof Paul YIP (with Fangli Yang), NTU, Singapore​HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS 04-71)
​​20 Sep 2017​​​​"The Spatial Misallocation of Capital and Labor in China: a Welfare Analysis Based on Urban Accounting" by Prof Shangming Yang (with Yuming Fu and Yi Lu), NUS, Singapore​HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS 04-71)
​30 Aug 2017"Goods vs. Territories: A Tale of Two Gravitiesby Prof Xiaoping CHEN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore​HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS 04-71)
​23 Aug 2017​​"Making Ristky Decision Together" by Prof Jubo YAN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore​HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS 04-71)
​8 Aug 2017"Bayesian Persuation Under Costly Lying" by Prof TAN Teck Yong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore​HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS 04-71)
​​30 Mar 2017​​"The Size Distribution of Firms and Industrial Water Pollution: A Quantitative Analysis of China" by Prof Xican XI from SHUFE ​HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS 04-94)
​​13 Feb 2017"Bureaucratism, Corruption, and Firms’' Environmental Investment and Abatement" by PhD Student ​Tat How The, National University of Singapore​HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS 04-94)
Date​Title​
​24 Nov 2016“How Do Hospitals Respond Differently To Competition?” by Mona LUAN, University of Hong Kong
4 Nov 2016"Spatial Misallocation Across Chinese Firms" by ​Xiaolu LI, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
​27 Oct 2016"Housing Upgrading In Urban Redevelopment" by Assistant Professor LI Jing, Singapore Management Univeristy
​6 Oct 2016"Gray’s Anatomy: Understanding Uncertainty" by Assistant Professor SUN Yu, Singapore Management Univeristy

Date
Topic/Speaker​
​​​ 2 April 2015
​​"The Rice Culture Theory of Cooperative Behavior: Evidence from Incentivized Decision Making Tasks in China"
by Lu Yunfeng, National University Singapore (NUS)
11 March 2015
​​"Dictate a Dictator, Succeed a Successor"
by Asst Prof Ko Chiu Yu, National University Singapore (NUS)
12 February 2015
"Urbanization, Local Rent Seeking and City Size Distribution in China"
by Xiaolu Li (PhD student)
​22 January 2015​
"Pay to Quit and Team Incentives"
by Asst Prof Pak Hung Au, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
8 January 2015
"Choosing the Pond: On-the-Job Experience and Long-run Career Outcomes"
by Dr Gong Jie, National University of Singapore (NUS)​
Date​
​Topic/ Speaker
​10 December 2014​
"Multidimensional Social Identity and Other-Regarding Preferences"
by Ruike Zhang, ​Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
​4 December 2014
​"Sunk Cost as a Self-disciplining Device"​
by Asst Prof Fuhai Hong, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
27 November 2014​
"The Politics of Kludges"
by Asst Prof Hongyi Li, University of New South Wales​
6 November 2014​
"Slums and Human Capital: the Case of Indonesia​"
by Asst Prof Maggie Triyana, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
30 October 2014​
"Earnings, Income, and Wealth Distributions in China: Facts from the 2011 China Household Finance Survey"
by Ting Zeng, National University of Singapore (NUS)
2 October 2014
"Cross-border Marriages, Hypergamy, and Family Behavior: Theory and Evidence"
by Asst Prof YI Junjian, National University of Singapore (NUS)
25 September 2014​
"Look Forward or Think Back? An Examination of Reference Dependent Intertemporal Preferences"
by Asst Prof Zhong Songfa, National University of Singapore (NUS)​
28 March 2014​
"Exponential and Linear Bubbles in Housing Prices under Heterogeneous Expectations" ​
by Huang Zichun, Huang Weihong and Chia Wai Mun
28 February 2014
"Are Unrealistic Assumptions/Simplifications Acceptable? Some Methodological Issues in Economics" 
by Yew Kwang Ng, Albert Winsemius Chair Professor
21 February 2014
"Exposure to Risk and Risk Aversion: A Laboratory Experiment"​​
by Tai-Sen He and Fuhai Hong, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
14 February 2014
"Does Team Competition Increase Pro-Social Lending? Evidence from Online Microfinance"
by Roy CHEN, National University of Singapore (NUS)
24 January 2014
"Informed Speculation about Trading Flows: Price Variability and Trading Volume"
by LI, Qiang, Department of Real Estate, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Date​
​Topic/ Speaker
11 December 201​3
"A Tale of Two Markets: the Role of Fundamentals in Singapore Housing Prices" 
by Wai-mun Chia, Mengling Li and Yang Tang, NTU
20 November 2013​
"On Overidentifying Restrictions Tests and Their Incremental Versions" 
by Milan PLEUS, University of Amsterdam
15 November 2013
"The High Housing Price in China: the Role of Market Structure Problem and Inequality" 
by Ernie Teo G.S. and Paul Yip S.L, NTU
16 October 2013
"Optimality of Quota Contract and Agent Gaming in Dynamic Moral Hazard" 
by Pak Hung Au, NTU
9 October 2013
"Sorting with Multiple Dimensions of Asymmetric Information" 
by Xiaoping CHEN, NTU
25 September 2013
"How to Publish in Good Journals in Economis?"
by Yew Kwang Ng, NTU
18 September 2013
"Does Local Governments' Budget Deficit Push Up Housing Price in China?" 
by Qu Feng, NTU
11 September 2013
"Hong Kong: A Bridge Between Shanghai and New York Stock Markets"
by Zhenxi Chen, NTU
4 September 2013
"Who Carries the Gun: Endogenous Authority and Enforcement"
by Jipeng Zhang, NTU
21 August 2013
"Weak Identification Robust Inference in Dynamic Panel Data Models"
by Rutger Poldermans, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
17 April 2013
"The Impacts of Default Participation on Participation Rate and Contributions to Public Goods" 
by Liu Jia and Eko Riyanto, NTU
3 April 2013
"Publication Lag Across Disciplines" 
by Chia Wai Mun, NTU
Date/ Time
Topic/ Speaker
28 November 2012
"Secrecy in Tax Enforcement"
by Giovanni Ko, NTU
21 November 2012​
“Refraining from Instrumental Variables by Exchanging Orthogonality Conditions for Simultaneity Assumptions” 
by Jan Kiviet, NTU and University of Amsterdam
14 November 2012
"Wage-inflatio​​n Targeting in a Managed Floating Exchange Rate Regime: An Estimated Small-Open Economy Model"
by Taojun XIE, NTU
28 September 2012
"Would you pay for transparently useless advice? A test of boundaries of beliefs in the folly of predictions" 
by Nattavudh Powdthavee, London School of Economics and Yohanes E. Riyanto, NTU
24 September 2012
"Ramadan School Holidays as a Natural Experiment: Impacts of Seasonality on School Enrollment Rates in Bangladesh"
by Abu Shonchoy, the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE) JETRO, Japan
11 September 2012
"Allocative Efficiency, Mark-ups, and the Welfare Gains from Trade"
by Wen-Tai Hsu, Singapore Management University
22 August 2012
"Promoting Trust with Outgroups" by Daniel Houser, George Mason University
"An Anatomy of Centralized Reward and Punishment in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game"
by Liu Jia, NTU

"Traders' Beliefs and Asset Bubble in Laboratory Asset Market"
by Zhang Jipeng, NTU
4 May 2012
"Labor supply response to Police Raid: Evidence from Asian Prostitutes in Singapore"
by Huailu Li, Boston University and Kaiwen Leong, NTU
20 April 2012
"Group Size and Cooperation among Strangers" 
by Dr Huan Xie, Concordia University
30 March 2012
"Who changed their portfolios during the great financial crisis?"
by Asst Prof Jie Zhou, NTU
23 March 2012
"Exploiting Externalities: Facebook versus Users, Advertisers and Application Developers" 
by Asst Prof Ernie G.S. Teo and Hongyu Chen, NTU
16 March 2012
"Processing Delays across Disciplines"
by Professor Jack Knetsch and Asst Prof Wai-Mun Chia, NTU
Date/ Time
Topic/ Speaker
4 November 2011​
"A dynamic discrete choice model of Medicare Part D with switching costs"
by Asst Prof. Yeo Jungwon, Singapore Management University
28 October 2011
"Do​es Reliable Pirated Product Lead to More Piracy?" 
by Assoc Prof. Sougata Poddar, Hanyang University and Nanyang Technological University
21 October 2011
"The Adequacy of Household Saving in Canada"
by Asst Prof Jie Zhou, Nanyang Technological University
14 October 2011
"Reliability of econometric inference from small panel data sets (illustrated by an analysis of determinants of the decline in infant mortality in Brazil)"
by Prof Jan F. Kiviet, Nanyang Technological University and University of Amsterdam
7 October 2011
"Can Money Change Personality? Evidence from Medium-Sized Lottery Winners in the UK and Germany"
by Asst Prof Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee, Nanyang Technological University
23 September 2011
"Economic-consistency and belief-consistency"
by Prof. Ehud Lehrer, Tel Aviv
16 September 2011
"Fully Revealing Equilibria in Multidimensional Cheap Talk"
by Asst Prof Wooyoung Lim, HKUST
9 September 2011
"Delegation of Authority in the Lab"
by Assoc Prof Yohanes Eko Riyanto, Nanyang Technological University
2 September 2011
"Bubbles and Experience: An Experiment with Steady Inflow of Inexperienced Traders"
by Prof. Jipeng Zhang, Nanyang Technological University