Past Seminars

202425
Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Title
9 October 2024	1-2pm	IEB123	Ms Xiaochu Hu (UNNC) Mr Juncheng Zhang (UNNC)	Star Inventors: Illuminating the Path of AI Innovation Across Firms Too scared to search? A model of ego utility on search
16 October 2024	4-5.30pm	IAMET 312	Mr Xingyu Li (Peking University)	Prediction Intervals of Panel Data Approach for Programme Evaluation
23 October 2024	4-5.30pm	IEB122	Dr Wei Lin (Jinan University)	Family Leave Policies and Gender Inequality in Executive Positions: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
30 October 2024	1-2pm	IEB124	Mr Yuan Meng (UNNC)	Monetary Policies, Cross-border Bank Flows, and Systemic Risk Spillover
6 November 2024	4-5.30pm	IEB122	Dr Xiaoliang Yang (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law)	Optimizing the Personal Income Tax with Age as a Tag—Insights from the Golden Age
13 November 2024	1-2pm	IEB122	Dr Peter Anderson (UNNC)	U.S. Obesity, Unemployment Uncertainty, and the Welfare State
20 November 2024	1-2pm	IEB122	Ms Jiangshan Ji (UNNC)	The Impact of Local Tobacco Control Regulations on Smoking Prevalence and Intensity in China
27 November 2024	1-2pm	IEB122	Ms Qianyi Huang (UNNC)	Quantitative Trade Model with Dynamic Welfare Implications of Protectionist Trade
4 December 2024	4-5.30pm	IEB122	Dr Yongchuan Qiao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)	The Revelation Principle on Information Networks
5 December 2024	4-5.30pm	IEB131	Ms Kexin Wang (Singapore Managment University)	Robust Contracting under Distributional Uncertainty
19 December 2024	4-5.30pm	IEB231	Dr He Nie (Wuhan University)	Is Consumption Tax Policy Effective at the ZLB? The Asymmetric Role of the Real Cost Channel
13 January 2025	4-5.30pm	IEB123	Dr Tom Lane (Newcastle University)	The Resilience of Group Cohesion to Economic Inequality
19 February 2025	4-4.40pm	IEB123	Anru Qian (UNNC)	Heterogeneous firms, Financial development and Clean innovation
19 February 2025	4.40-5.20pm	IEB123	Zuwei Xie (UNNC)	Tourists’ preferences for green hotel: A discrete choice experiment with nudge manipulation
26 February 2025	1-1.30pm	IEB122	Yuqi Duan (UNNC)	Tariffs, Trade Shocks, and Firm Dynamics: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.-China Trade Conflict
26 February 2025	1.30-2pm	IEB122	Yuanqing Sun (UNNC)	Prospect Theory Investors and Stock Market Dynamics Prediction
5 March 2025	1-1.40pm	IEB122	Hongming Zhang (UNNC)	Does Traditional Bank Benefit from Fintech Acquisitions? Evidence from an Event Study Approach
5 March 2025	1.40-2.20pm	IEB122	Lue Yi (UNNC)	Family tourism expenditure and subjective Well-being (SWB) in China: based on CFPS data
7 March 2025	4-5.30pm	IEB122	Professor Yuhong Yang (Tsinghua University)	Forecast Combination: A Puzzle, Two Directions, and Multi-Level Adaptations
19 March 2025	4-5.30pm	IEB122	Dr Yeow Hwee Chua (Nanyang Technological University)	Do Investors Care about Carbon Offsets?
11 April 2025	4-5.30pm	IAMET 312	Dr Zibin Huang (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)	Defensive Innovation: Technological Rivalry and College Major Choice
23 April 2025	4-5.30pm	IEB132	Dr Jindi Zheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)	Delegated Bribery
30 April 2025	4-5.30pm	NICC	Dr Meichen Chen (East China University Of Science And Technology)	Optimal Bundling in Media Streaming Markets
7 May 2025	4-5.30pm	Library-1F MF02	Professor Christine Wong (National University of Singapore)	From Growth Engine to Fiscal Drag: Rethinking China's Local Government Finance
28 May 2025	4-5.30pm	IEB231	Dr Timothy Jackson (University of Liverpool)	Disintermediating Fast and Slow: CBDC and Banks
5 June 2025	4-5.30pm	IEB132	Dr Haikun Zhan (University of Auckland)	Central Administration and the Rise of Local Institutions: Evidence from Imperial China
19 June 2025	4-5.30pm	IEB122	Dr Zhihong Yu (University of Nottingham)	Moving Online under De Minimis? Import Tariffs and International Retail E-Commerce

202324
Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Title
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
Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Title
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
Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Title
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
Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Title
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
Date	Time	Venue	Speaker	Title
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
Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
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
Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
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
Date	Venue	Speaker	Title
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