Past Seminars

Academic Year

202324 | 202223 | 201819 | 201718 | 201617 | 201516 | 201415 | 201314

202324
DateTimeVenueSpeakerTitle
1 March 2024 4-5.30pm IEB122 Yibai Yang Innovation, Technology Transfer and the International Regulation of Patents and Trade Secrets
6 March 2024 4-5.30pm IEB123 Gergely Horvath Network formation and efficiency in linear-quadratic games: An experimental study
13 March 2024 4-5.30pm IEB123 Myoung-jae Lee Direct, Indirect and Interaction Effects Based on Mediator Principal Stratification
27 March 2024 4-5.30pm IEB122 Shuhuai Zhang Not Too Early, Not Too Late: Encouraging Engagement in Education
3 April 2024 4-5.30pm IEB122 Zhixian Yu Bargaining with Uncertain Deadline
10 April 2024 4-5.30pm IEB122 Marcus Roel How Many Others Apply for the Jobs I Am Applying for? The Effect of Perceived Labor Market Competition on Job Search
18 April 2024 4-5.30pm IEB123 Shaoyu Li Would Corporate Climate Risk Reduce the Employment? Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies
24 April 2024 4-5.30pm IEB122 Chien-Yu Huang Household Taxation and Dynamics of Income Inequality in an Innovation-led Model with Endogenous Firm Size
25 April 2024 4-5.30pm IEB122 Eik Leong Swee Historical anti-fascism and right-wing voting in Italy
8 May 2024 4-5.30pm IEB122 Zengbo Hu The Impact of Political Cycles on Chinese Local Governments’ Environmental Expenditure
29 May 2024 4-5.30pm IEB231 Zhihong Yu Trade Liberalisation, Sourcing Capability and Multi product Firms

202223
DateTimeVenueSpeakerTitle
17 April 2023 4-5.30pm IEB123 Calvin Dun Jia (Peking U HSBC) Belief Formation with Vague FOMC Communications
21 April 2023 4-5.30pm IEB122 Jan Jozwik (UNNC) Identification of returns to new technologies under distinctive econometric approaches
27 April 2023 4-5.30pm IEB231 Naijia Guo (CUHK) Altruistic or Exchange Motive? Evidence on the Effect of Children's Health Shocks on Intra-household Resource Allocation in China
4 May 2023 4-5.30pm IEB122 Tinghua YU (Birkbeck, University of London) Unmasking the enemies: A theory of denunciations
12 May 2023 4-5.30pm IEB122 Bo Wang (NanKai University) Do Double Majors Face Less Risk? An Analysis of Human Capital Diversification
15 May 2023 4-5.30pm IEB122 Han Ye (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Decision Fatigue in Physicians

201819
DateTimeVenueSpeakerTitle
7 May 2019 4-5.30pm Room 312, Portland Building Xuewen Qian/Chen Qu (University of Nottingham Ningbo China) Iterated Bounded Dominance
22 April 2019 4-5.30pm Room 216, Portland Building Shiqi (Steven) Guo, PhD Candidate in Development Economics, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Winter Is Coming: Early-life Experiences and Politicians’ Decisions
16 April 2019 4-5.30pm Room 312, Portland Building Li Gan, Texas A&M University/Director of the Survey and Research Center for China Household Finance at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China Income Inequality and an EITC Experiment in China
9 April 2019 4-5.30pm

Room 312, Portland Building

Zuzanna Studnicka, UCD School of Economics in Dublin and Beijing

Products or markets: what type of experience matters for export survival?
19 Mar 2019 4-5.30pm

Room C01, Lord Dearing Building

Nicholas Sim, Singapore University of Social Sciences

Title: ALIVE: Asymmetric Least Squares Instrumental Variable Estimation
12 Mar 2019 4-5.30pm

Room B01, Lord Dearing Building

Xinchen Dai, Department of International Economics, the Graduate Institute, Geneva

Beauty and Wages: Endogeneity, Selection or Both?
25 Jan 2019 4-5.30pm

Room 227, Teaching Building

Haiyan Song, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Does tourism support supply-side structural reform in China?
19 Dec 2018 4-5.30pm

New ICC (International Conference Centre)

Fuwei Jiang, School of Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics

Machine Learning and Stock Return Predictability
18 Dec 2018 4-5.30pm Room 227, Teaching Building Ce Shi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) The Internet, Public Good Provision and Inequality: Evidence from Radio Broadcasting in China
11 Dec 2018  4-5.30pm Room 330, Teaching Building Siyang Tian (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics) Benefits of Friendship: Social Ties and Venture Capital Investment
27 November 2018 4-5.30pm Room 219, Portland Building Ye Bai (Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University) Kenya Interbank Market: A Network Analysis
20 November 2018 4-5.30pm

Room 404, Teaching Building

Kunyu Wang (University of International Business and Economics)

Does the Party in Power Affect FDI? First Causal Evidence from 361 Narrow Margin US State Elections
13 November 2018 4-5.30pm

Room 112, Teaching Building

Xuebo Wang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)

Great Famine, Differential Fertility, and Income Inequality: Evidence from China
6 November 2018 4-5.30pm

Room 114, Portland Building

Mengling Li (Xiamen University)

Organ Donation Decisions under Different Allocation Rules: Theory and Experiment
9 October 2018  4-5.30pm Room 219, Portland Building

Ting Zeng (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)

 Earnings, Income, and Wealth Distributions in China
201718
DateTimeVenueSpeakerTitle
22 May 2018 4-5.30pm Room 209, Trent Building Makoto Watanabe (VU University Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute) Endogenous Repo Cycles
10 May 2018 4-5.30pm Room 209, Trent Building Jiao Shi, Peking University HSBC Business School Monetary Policy in an International Macro Model with Vertical FDI
25 April 2018 4-5.30pm Room 209, Trent Building Chen Ling (Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics) Poverty Alleviation in the Presence of Local Government Corruption: Subsidy or Investment?
29 March 2018 4-5.30pm Room 209, Trent Building Zheng Wang Blame the Foreigners? Trading Partner Demand Shocks and Sulfur Dioxide Emission in China
201617
DateTimeVenue SpeakerTitle 
17 May 2017 4.30-6pm Room 209, Trent Building Yongchao Zhang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) /
17 May 2017 4.30-6pm Room 209, Trent Building Chaoyan Wang (University of Nottingham Ningbo China) Volume Effect on Return and Volatility Spillover in Dually Listed Securities
15 May 2017 4.30-6pm Room 209, Trent Building Ishita Chatterjee (University of Western Australia) Countervailing Incentives and Wage-Employment Contracts
12 April 2017 4.30-6pm Room 115, Portland Building Paulo Regis (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) Product Space and the Development of Nations: A Model of Product Diversification
22 Feburary 2017 4.30-6pm Room 120, Teaching Building Gianni De Fraja (University of Nottingham UK) Unemployment Shocks Affect Young Workers for the Rest of Their Lives
21 December 2016 4.30-5.45pm Room 109, Teaching Building Yiquan Gu (University of Liverpool) Curbing Obfuscation: Empower Consumers or Regulate Firms?
7 December 2016 3.30-4.45pm Room 331, Teaching Building Ian Li (University of Western Australia)  Vertical, Horizontal and Skills Mismatch in the Australian Graduate Labour Market
30 November 2016 4.30-5.45pm Room 114, Portland Building Wenrui Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Trust, Innovate, Grow
23 November 2016 4.30-5.45pm Room 115, Portland Building Peter Anderson (University of Nottingham Ningbo China) “Big Fat, Workmen” – Explaining the Wage-Height Premium in the Turn of the Century British Railway Industry
16 November 2016 4.30-5.45pm Room 115, Portland Building Virginie Trachsel (University of Geneva) Beyond Productivity: Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade
11 October 2016 3.30-4.45pm Room 201, Portland Building Zhewei Wang (Shandong University)  Mutli-dimensional all-pay contests
28 September 2016 3-4.15pm Room 404, Teaching Building Xiaolan Zhou (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) Why are Imported Automobiles So Expensive in China? A Structural Approach
201516
DateVenueSpeakerTitle
30 December 2015 Room 116, Portland Building Dr Jan Klingelhoefer Macroprudential Policy, Central Banks and Financial Stability: Evidence from China (Joint with Rongrong Sun)
27 November 2015 Room 113, Portland Building Dr Ge Zhou Inflation, Liquidity and Long-run Growth
23 November 2015 Room 307, Portland Building Ms Lefan Liu The Migration Decision of Adult Children, Inter-generational Support and the Well-being of Older Parents (joint with Sarah Bridges and David Whynes)
22 October 2015 Room 115, Portland Building Ms Zhaohui Niu Dynamic relationship between tariff and non-tariff measures: substitutability or complementarity?
7 October 2015 Room 116, Portland Building Dr Marie-Claire Robitaille-Blanchet Conspicuous Daughters: Dowries, Marriage Expenditures and Son Preference in India
201415
DateVenueSpeakerTitle
20 May 2015 Room 307, Portland Building Dr Marek Hudik Strategic Games with Purposive Strategies
8 April 2015 Room 201, Portland Building Mr Huang Lingbo Strategic Momentum in Field and Lab Team Contests
18 March 2015 Room 201, Portland Building Dr Jan Klingelhoefer The Swing Voters Blessing
1 January 2015 Room 201, Portland Building Miss Shubin Yang Globalization and Regional Productivity Convergence: A Firm-level Analysis from India
17 December 2014 Room 307, Portland Building Professor Paolo Epifani Trade Imbalances, Trade Policy and Welfare
10 December 2014 Room 201, Portland Building Dr Marie-Claire Robitaille-Blanchet The Gravity of Minerals and the Tyranny of Distance
3 December 2014 Room 201, Portland Building Dr Minghai Zhou Link between Functional and Personal Income Distribution: Research Development, Mode Comparison and Theoretical Construction
26 November 2014 Room 117, Portland Building Dr Jose R Sanchez-Fung Monetary policy and income inequality in China
13 November 2014 Room 116, Portland Building Dr Chien-Yu Huang Public R&D, Private R&D and Economic Growth: A Schumpetarian Approach
29 October 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building

Dr Yibai Yang

 Domestic R&D, Foreign Direct Investment, and Welfare
201314
DateVenueSpeakerTitle
3 June 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building Mr Qilei Fang and Dr Chee Kian Leong Impact of Population Growth and One-child Policy on Economic Growth of China, 1962-2012 
19 May 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building Dr Chang LIU Environmental Kuznets Curve - an Observation from Chinese City Level Data
14 May 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building Miss Zhaohui NIU Quantifying Non-tariff Measures over Time
8 May 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building Dr Jan Klingelhöfer International Cooperation, Parties and Ideology
28 April 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building Mr Feicheng WANG  Globalisation and Inter-industry Wage Inequality in China
21 April 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building Dr Yibai YANG  On the Optimality of Blocking Patents
14 April 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building Dr Rongrong SUN Monetary Policy Shifts, What Follows?
31 March 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building Dr Minghai ZHOU Does Democratic Election of Chairman of the Union Matter for Workers: Evidence from Chinese Employer-employee Data
24 March 2014 Room 112, Teaching Building Mr Timothy Destefano The Causal Relationship between Information Technology and Firm Performance in the UK