Seminars and Events
Economics Seminar Series
The division runs a regular department seminar series and an informal lunch brownbag seminar series.
Coordinators: Tat-How Teh, Wenjie Wang
Brownbag coordinator: Guangzhi Ye
Anyone interested is welcome to participate to NTU Economics Seminar Series. You can join our mailing list by contacting the coordinators.
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Past Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
| Date | Presenter & Affliation | Title | Time and Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 January 2024 (Wednesday) | Donghyun Suh (University of Virginia) | Machines and Superstars: Technological Change and Top Labor Incomes | 11.00am - 12.15pm, SHHK 04-94 |
| 26 January 2024 (Friday) | Jiajia Cong (Fudan University) | The Effects of Personal Data Management on Competition and Welfare" | 11.00am-12pm, |
| 31 January 2024 (Wednesday) | Jae Joon Lee (Stanford University) | Approaches for Better Eliciting Consumers' Preferences | 11.00am - 12.15pm, |
| 31 January 2024 (Wednesday) | Simon Weidenholzer (University of Essex) | On the benefits of robo-advice in financial markets | 2pm-3pm, |
| 1 February 2024 (Thursday) | Dmitry Ryvkin (RMIT) | Choosing Your Own Luck: Strategic Risk Taking and Effort in Contests | 3pm-4pm, |
| 2 February 2024 (Friday) | Shaoran Li (Peking University) | A Dynamic Semiparametric Characteristics-based Model for Optimal Portfolio Selection | 11am-12pm, |
| 6 February 2024 (Tuesday) | Shumiao Ouyang (Oxford University) | Cashless Payment and Financial Inclusion | 11am-12pm, |
| 21 February 2024 (Wednesday) | Xijie Gao (Luohan Academy, Alibaba) | The impact of digital technology on welfare, competition, and productivity | 11.00am-12.15pm, |
| 27 February 2024 (Tuesday) | Yu Qin (National University of Singapore) | Extrapolative Beliefs and Financial Decisions: Causal Evidence from Renewable Energy Financing | 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 28 February 2024 (Wednesday) | Eugene Or (Nanyang Technological University) | The Economic Implications Of Map Distortion: Evidence From The Housing Market | 12:30pm-1:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 1 March 2024 (Friday) | Sev Hou (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) | The Dominant Role of Expectations and Broad-Based Supply Shocks in Driving Inflation | 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 7 March 2024 (Thursday) | Stefan Trautmann (University of Heidelberg) | Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions | 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 15 March 2024 (Friday) | Leon Musolff (The Wharton School) | Entry Into Two-Sided Markets Shaped By Platform-Guided Search | 10:30am-11:30am, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 18 March 2024 (Monday) | Tian Xie (SHUFE) | Boosting Store Sales Through Machine Learning-Informed Promotional Decisions | 1.30pm-2.30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 20 March 2024 (Wednesday) | Kohei Takeda (National University of Singapore) | Trade and Intergenerational Income Mobility: Theory and Evidence from U.S. | 12:15pm-1:15pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 21 March 2024 (Thursday) | Yi He (University of Amsterdam) | Detecting Spurious Factor Models | 11:00am-12:00pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 22 March 2024 (Friday) | Ruben Gaetani (University of Toronto) | Technological Waves and Local Growth | 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 27 March 2024 (Wednesday) | Sun Chang (University of Hong Kong) | Communication Costs, Direct Flights and International Trade | 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 5 |
| 28 March 2024 (Thursday) | Seong Yeon Chang (Soongsil University) | A new test on asset return predictability with structural breaks | 3pm-4pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 3 April 2024 (Wednesday) | Zhang Changwei (National University of Singapore) | Aid, Coup D'état, and Conflict: Evidence from Myanmar | 12:15pm-1:15pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 5 April 2024 (Friday) | Hongbin Li (Stanford University) | Bureaucratic Incentives and Effectiveness of the One Child Policy in China | 10.30am-11.30am, Meeting Room 4 |
| 5 April 2024 (Friday) | Antonio Cabrales (Charles III University of Madrid) | Information (partially) defeats gender stereotypes and homophily in team formation | 2.30pm-3.30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 9 April 2024 (Tuesday) | Michael McMahon (Oxford University) | Monetary policy: 98% talk and 2% action | 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 15 April 2024 (Monday) | Ming Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) | Labor Market Integration and Entrepreneurship | 2pm-3pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 16 April 2024 (Tuesday) | Alex Coutts (York University) | How Robust is Overconfidence?
| 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 19 April 2024 (Friday) | Michael McMahon (Oxford University) | Tough Talk: The Fed and the Risk Premium | 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 23 April 2024 (Tuesday) | Fan Yi (NUS) | TBC | 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
| 26 April 2024 (Friday) | Lulu Wang (Kellogg School) | Regulating Competing Payment Networks | 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
AY2023-2024 Semester 1
Economics Seminar Series
| Date | Presenter & Affiliation | Title | Time and Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2023(Friday, Brownbag) | Yang Xu (Xiamen University) | Impacts of Transportation Efficiency on Welfare and Structural Change | 12.30pm-1.30pm, |
| 15 August 2023 (Tuesday) | Xiaoyi Han (Xiamen University) | Seeding efficient large-scale public health interventions in diverse spatial-social networks | 2pm-3pm, |
| 23 August 2023 (Wednesday, Brownbag) | Yang Xie (UC Riverside) | Hobbesian Wars and Separation of Powers | 12.30pm-1.30pm, |
| 25 August 2023 (Thursday) | Liang Ma (Renmin University of China) | The State-Business Relations and Doing Business in China | 12.15pm-1.15pm, |
| 30 August 2023 (Wednesday, Brownbag) | Wenbo Zhao (NUS) | Intertemporal Bundling | 12.30pm-1.30pm, |
| 13 September 2023 (Wednesday, Brownbag) | Xiaojie Zhang (Nanyang Technological University) | Gender and Credit in Labor Market | 12.30pm-1.30pm, |
| 27 October 2023 (Friday) | Tom Kirchmaier (London School of Economics/Copenhagen Business School) | Tom Kirchmaier (London School of Economics/Copenhagen Business School) | 11.00am-12.00pm, |
| 1 November 2023 (Wednesday, Brownbag) | Ziye Wu (NUS) | Better and Faster Decisions with Recommendation Algorithms | 12.30pm-1.30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4 |
AY2022-2023 Semester 1
Economics Seminar Series
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 04/08/2022 | Daniel Houser | George Mason University | Non-clairvoyant Dynamic Mechanism |
| 05/08/2022 | Erik Snowberg | The University of Utah and The University of British Columbia | Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed |
| 12/08/2022 | Eik Leong Swee | Melbourne University | Historical anti-fascism and right-wing voting in Italy |
| 18/08/2022 | Wei Yang Tham | Harvard University | The effect of funding delays on the research workforce: Evidence from tax records |
| 19/08/2022 | Lawrence Choo | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | On the endogeneity between stock market prices and bank runs. An experiment. |
| 19/08/2022 | Degui LI | University of York | Estimating Time-Varying Netowkrs for High-Dimensional Time Series |
| 24/08/2022 | Zhengyang Bao | Xiamen University | Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Gender Equality? Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| 02/09/2022 | Ming Yang | University College London | Dynamic Contracting with Flexible Monitoring |
| 14/09/2022 | Boon Han Koh | University of East Anglia | The signals we give: Performance feedback, gender, and competition |
| 21/09/2022 | Zhixin DAI | Remin University of China | The Experimentalist as (Tax) Administrator: Using Natural Field Experiments to Enhance Tax Compliance in China |
| 07/10/2022 | Zhen Lei | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | Small deeds reveal a man? Belief over-updating in social decision-making |
| 14/10/2022 | Jungbin HWANG | University of Connecticut | Fixed-Cluster Inference with Unbalanced Cluster Sizes |
| 19/10/2022 | Francesco Capozza | Erasmus School of Economics | Mental Health Literacy, Beliefs about Care Seeking and the Demand for Mental Health |
| 26/10/2022 | Tibor NEUGEBAUER | Université du Luxembourg | Does Wash Trading Impact Information Dissemination in Security Markets |
| 28/10/2022 | Lu Dong | Remin University of China | Trading mechanisms and price discovery: theory and evidence from the Chinese interbank FX market |
| 31/10/2022 | Chicheng MA | Hong Kong University | Classicism and Modern Growth: The Shadow of the Sages (cancelled) |
| 08/11/2022 | Yohei YAMAMOTO | Hitotsubashi University | Anthropogenic influence on extremes and risk hotspots |
| 11/11/2022 | Constantin Charles | University of Southern California | Memory Moves Markets |
| 25/11/2022 | Gedeon Lim | Hong Kong University | Local Elites, Land Rents, Selection, and Incentives for Development: Evidence from Village Chiefs in Indonesia |
| 12/12/2022 | Chris Cunningham | The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | The Good, the Bad and the Ordinary: Estimating Agent Value-Added Using Real Estate Transactions |
| 14/12/2022 | Erte Xiao | Monash University | No (Intention to) Profit; No Repugnance? Evidence from Online Experiments |
| 29/12/2022 | Kenwin Maung | University of Rochester | Large Network Autoregressions with Unknown Adjacency Matrix |
| 18/01/2023 | Luther Yap | Princeton University | General Conditions for Valid Interference in Multi-Way Clustering |
| 25/01/2023 | Liyu Dou | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen | Quantifying Delay Propagation in Airline Networks |
| 26/01/2023 | Robin L. Lumsdaine | American University | Central Bank Mandates and Monetary Policy Stances: through the Lens of Federal Reserve Speeches |
| 27/01/2023 | Ananish Chaudhuri | University of Auckland | Cooperative and conformist behavioural preferences predict the dual dimensions of political ideology |
| 10/02/2023 | Zhi LI | Xiamen University | Emissions Trading with Consignment Auctions: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment |
| 15/02/2023 | Yukihiko Funaki | Waseda University | Experimental analysis of IPO pricing mechanism |
| 24/02/2023 | Inácio Bó | Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | Pick-an-object Mechanisms |
AY2021-2022 Semester 2
Brownbag Seminar Series
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/02/2022 | Cong Peng | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard University | Roads to development? Examining the Zambian context using AI-Sat |
| 23/03/2022 | Yuan Yuemei | Ph.D., Zhejiang University | Unlucky to have brothers: Sibling sex composition and girls' noncognitive skills |
| 30/03/2022 | Constantin Charles | Ph.D., Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California | Memory and Trading |
Economics Seminar Series
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/01/2022 | Daniel Xu Yi | Professor, Duke University | Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China |
| 21/01/2022 | Eric Zou | Assistant Professor, University of Oregon | (Re)scheduling Pollution Exposure: The Case of Surgery Schedules |
| 27/01/2022 | Eiji Kurozumi | Professor, Hitotsubashi University | On the asymptotic behavior of bubble date estimators |
| 28/01/2022 | Lawrence Choo | Associate Professor, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics | Information diffusion and aggregation over separated markets. An experiment |
| 08/02/2022 | Maoliang Ye | Associate Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology | Individual Misreporting in a Pandemic and Interventions: A Lab-Field Investigation |
| 18/02/2022 | Takashi Yamagata | Professor, University of York | Discovering the Network Granger Causality in Large Vector Autoregressive Models |
| 03/03/2022 | Yuan Liao | Associate Professor, Rutgers University | Inference for Low Rank Estimation |
| 08/03/2022 | Lata Gangadharan | Professor, Monash University | Gender Biases in Performance Evaluation: The Role of Beliefs versus Outcomes |
| 15/03/2022 | Daniela Puzzello | Professor, Indiana University | Is Money Essential? An Experimental Approach |
| 8/04/2021 | Yi Junjian | Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | TBA |
AY2021-2022 Semester 1
CU-TU-NTU Workshop
| Date | Agenda | Meeting Link |
|---|---|---|
| 15 November, 2021 | 8th Trilateral Workshop in Economics | >Registration Here |
NTU-CEC Workshop
| Date | Agenda | Meeting Link |
|---|---|---|
| 13 to 14 November, 2021 | NTU-CEC Program | https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/axLBRnzZSIK5 |
Economics Seminar Series
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/10/2021 | Ryo OKUI | Seoul National University | Latent group structure in linear panel data models with endogenous regressors |
| 9/28/2021 | Kengo KATO | Cornell University | Smooth p-Wasserstein distance: structure, empirical approximation, and applications |
| 10/4/2021 | Xinyu ZHANG | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Model averaging by a jackknife criterion for estimating heterogeneous causal effects |
| 10/15/2021 | Elena Asparouhova | University of Utah | TBA |
| 10/22/2021 | Dacheng Xiu | University of Chicago | TBA |
| 10/27/2021 | Tanner Regan | London Business School | TBA |
| 10/29/2021 | Yang Chuyi | Xiamen University | Driven to Distraction by Powerball, and the Resurrection of the Monday effect |
| 11/12/2021 | Trautmann Stefan | Tilburg University | Noblesse Oblige: Holding High-Status Individuals to Higher Standards |
AY2020-2021 Semester 2
Brownbag Seminar Series
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13-Jan-21 | Jin Chuqing | PhD, Boston University | Does Competition Improve Information Accuracy: Evidence From the Security Analyst Market |
| 20-Jan-21 | Swati Sharma | PhD, NTU (IGS-Sustainable Earth ICRM) | Empathic concern and emotions associated with energy-saving preferences in Singapore |
| 27-Jan-21 | Jin Chuqing | PhD, Boston University | Welfare on Cloud: Estimating Inertia in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service Market |
| 10-Feb-21 | Ulrich J. Eberle | Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University | Heat and Hate: Climate Security and Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Africa |
| 24-Feb-21 | Yuan Mengying | PhD, NTU | Asset pricing under capital control: Evidences from A-H price premium |
| 7-Apr-21 | Shiyu Bo | Associate Professor, Jinan University | Military Investment and the Rise of Industrial Clusters: Evidence from China’s First Industrial Policy, 1861-1933 |
EGC Seminar
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Mar-21 | Ridwan D. Rusli; Chang Yong Ho | Professor, Technische Hochschule Köln; A/P Singapore University of Social Sciences | Transboundary Haze Games: Local Capture and Common Agency |
2021 Nanyang Econometrics Workshop
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28-Mar-21 | SU Liangjun | Professor, Tsinghua University | High-Dimensional VARs with Common Factors (joint with Miao Ke and Peter C.B. Phillips) |
| Hiroshi YAMADA | Professor,Hiroshima University | Spatial Autocorrelation and Spectral Graph Theory | |
| Merrick LI | Research Fellow, University of Cambridge | A ReMeDI for Microstructure Noise (joint with Oliver Linton) | |
| OKUI Ryo | Assoc Prof, Seoul National University | Confidence Set for Group Membership (joint with Andreas Dzemski) | |
| SRISUMA Sorawoot (Tang) | Assoc Prof, National University of Singapore and University of Surrey | Identification and Estimation of a Search Model: a Procurement Auction Approach (joint with Mateusz Myśliwski, Fabio Sanches and Daniel Silva Jr) | |
| ZHANG Yichong | Asst Prof, Singapore Management University | Regression-Adjusted Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects under Covariate-Adaptive Randomizations (joint with Jiang Liang, Peter C.B. Phillips and Tao Yubo) |
Economics Seminar Series
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-Mar-21 | Bhattacharya, Joydeep | Lowa State University | Why Pensions? Whither Pensions? |
| 6-Apr-21 | Chew Soo Hong | Professor, NUS | Attention Utility Theory: “Soft” and “Hard” Modeling and Evidence |
| 9-Apr-21 | Utz Weitzel | Professor,Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | The Banker’s Oath And Financial Advice |
| 16-Apr-21 | Meng Juanjuan | Professor, Peking U | Imperfect Foresight and Intertemporal Choice |
| 30-Apr-21 | Kim Jinill | Professor, Korea University | World Economyafter Covid-19 and the U.S. Monetary Policy |
AY 2020-2021 Semester 1
Brownbag Seminar Series
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Aug-20 | Keyang Li | The Impact of Fertility Relaxation on Female Labor Market Outcomes |
| 2-Sep-20 | Kilian Heilmann | The Urban Crime and Heat Gradient in High and Low Poverty Areas |
| 23-Sep-20 | Taojun Xie | Parallel Currencies in a New Keynesian Framework |
| 7-Oct-20 | David Ong | The Gender Difference in Mixed strategy Nash Equilibrium Play in Pairwise All-pay Auctions |
| 14-Oct-20 | Yogita Shamdasani | Labor Rationing |
| 28-Oct-20 | Kailing Shen | What Happens When Employers Can No Longer Discriminate in Job Ads? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board |
| 4-Nov-20 | ZHANG Shuoxun (Helene) | Bank Competition under Deregulation: Evidence from Wealth Management Products |
| 11-Nov-20 | Tang Cheng Keat & Jos Van Ommeren (VU Amsterdam) | Accident Externality of Driving: Evidence from the London Congestion Charge |
| 18-Nov-20 | Justin Leung | Superstar Firms and Rising Retail Concentration |
EGC Seminar
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Nov-20 | Emeritus Professor Lim Chong Yah | NWC: Important Challenges, An Insider's View |
CU-NTU-TU Trilateral Workshop in Economics
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9-Nov-20 | Panit Wattanakoon | Banking Competition and the Amplification Mechanism |
| Athiphat Muthitacharoen and Trongwut Buron | How do taxpayers respond to tax subsidy for long-term savings? Evidence from Thailand's tax return data | |
| Dinithi Jayasekara | Trusting Cultural Similarities during Innovation: An empirical and experimental approch | |
| Xaoping Chen | Export Liberalization and Water Pollution: Firm-Level, Evidence from China | |
| Doungda Mahakitsiri and Wisarut Suwanprasert | Understanding the Bimodality of the Export Intensity Distribution in a Developing Country | |
| Tiraphap Fakthong | Can Trade Union be Trusted in More Diverse Workplaces | |
| Joanna Poyago-Theotoky, Dai Binh Tran and Wasileios Zikos | Locus of Control, Health and Healthcare Utilization | |
| James Ang | Rice, Culture and Democracy | |
| Tatre Jantarakolica, Korbkul Jantarakolica, Jutamas Wongkantarakorn | Point of Sale and Decision to Use e-Payment Channel |