"Rhetoricians
at the Window" Jan Steen, 1662-66
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Department of Economics
Seminar
The Department of Economics hosts a weekly seminar on Friday
Afternoons in Room 2397 (Lift 17 & 18) at 2:00pm.
Special Talks on Chinese Economy
The dates and participants are
Spring Semester 2005
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February 2, Xinyu Hua, Northwestern University
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February 4, Gregory Chow, Princeton University
""Money, Price Level and Output in the Chinese Macro-economy,"
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February 14, Winnie Choi, Stanford University
"Real Exchange Rates, International Trade and Macroeconomic Fundamentals"
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February 16, Anthony Chung, Stanford University
"Sustainable Policy Outcomes with Coordinated Reforms"
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February 18, Atsushi Kajii, Kyoto University
"Cominimum Additive Operators"
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February 21, Visaria Sujata, Columbia University
"Legal Reform and Loan Repayment: The Microeconomic Impact of
Debt Recovery Tribunals in India"
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February 23, Zhigang Li, UC San Diego
"Measuring the Social Return to Infrastructure Investments: A Natural
Experiment in China"
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February 28, Ryo Okui, University of Pennsylvania
"The Optimal Choice of Moments in Dynamic Panel Data Models"
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March 4, Eric Danan, HKUST
"Revealed preference and indifferent selection"
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April 1, Sudeep Ghosh, City University of Hong Kong (Joint
with Center for Experimental Business Research)
"Cognition, Knowledge and Optimal Learning in Variable Frame Games:
An Experimental Investigation"
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April 8, Yifan Hu, Hong Kong University
"Ramsey Fiscal and Monetary Policy under Sticky Prices and Liquid Bonds"
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April 15, Yin-Wong Cheung, University of California, Santa
Cruz
"Nominal Exchange Rate Flexibility and Exchange Rate Adjustment: Evidence
from Dual Exchange Rates in Developing Economies"
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April22, Ching Chyi Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong
(Joint with Center for Experimental Business Research)
"To reveal or Not To Reveal? Strategic Disclosure of Private Information
in Negotiation"
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May 4, Henry Tam, York University
"Skill Biased Technological Change, Fertility Choice, and Gender Inequality"
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May 5, Guoquing Tian, Texas A & M University
" Implementation in Non-Convex Production Technologies Unknown
to the Designer."
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May 6, Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia
"Globalization, Returns to Capital Accumulation, and the World Distribution
of Output."
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May 10, Justin Lin, HKUST [Cancelled]
"Viability, Transition, and Reflection of Neoclassical Economics"
"Vaporware"
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May 19, Susan Zhu, Michigan State University
"U.S. Exports and Multinational Production"
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May 20, Atsushi Kajii, Kyoto University
"Trade with Heterogeneous Multiple Priors"
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May 23, James Harrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of New
York
"Airplanes and Comparative Advantage"
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May 30, Dennis Yang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute &
State University
"Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Run Growth"
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June 1, Enrique Mendoza, University of Maryland
"Sudden Stops in a Business Cycle Model with Credit Constraints: A Fisherian
Deflation of Tobin's Q"
" Interpreting And Testing The Scaling Property In Models Where Inefficiency
Depends On Firm Characteristics"
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June 15. Peter Schmidt, Michigan State University
" Likelihood-Based Estimation In A Panel Setting"
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June 20, Felix Vardy, IMF
"The Value of Commitment in Contests and Tournaments when Observation
is Costly"
Fall Semester 2004
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September 10 Michael Devereux, UBC
“A
Simple Model of Optimal Monetary Policy with Financial Constraints”
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September 13 Isaac Erlich, SUNY-Buffalo
"RATIONALIZING
DIVERSITIES IN AGE-SPECIFIC LIFE EXPECTANCIES AND VALUES OF LIFE SAVING:
A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS"
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October 1 NATIONAL DAY
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October 4, Angus Maddison, University of Groningen and OECD
"Measuring
and Interpreting the World Economy""
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October 8
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October 15 Eric Danan, HKUST
"Are
Preferences Incomplete? An Experimental Study Using Flexible Choice"
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October 22 Holiday
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October 29 Kevin Huang, Federal Reserve Bank Philadelphia
"Inflation Targeting: What Inflation to Target?"
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November 5 Li Gan, University of Texas
"Efficiency
of Thick and Thin Markets"
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November 12 Inho Lee, Seoul National University
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November 16 Twinight Double Header
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2-3:30 Hai Zhou Huang, IMF
"Monetary
policy for developing countries: the role of corruption."
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4-5:30 Rann Smorodinsky, Technion Israael
Institute of Technology (Joint with Center for Experimental Business
Research)
"The
Efficiency of Competitive Mechanism under Private Information"
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November 19 Jay Pil Choi, Michigan State University
"Antitrust
Analysis of Mergers with Bundling in Complementary Markets: Implications
for Pricing, Innovation, and Compatibility Choice"
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November 26 Tanjim Hossain, HKUST
"Bargaining
with Learning"
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December 9, Leonard Cheng and Zihui Ma, HKUST
"A
Model of Currency Boards"
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December 13 Guo-fu Tan, University of Southern California
"Collusion
in Auction Markets"
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December 17, Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University
"Diagnostics of Multivariate Continuous-Time Models with Application to
Affine Term Structure Model"
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December 20, Paul McNelis, Georgetown University
"Learning
and the Monetary Policy Strategy of the European Central Bank"
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March 11, Zhang Jun Fudan University
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June 15, Peter Schmidt, Michigan State University
This concludes the 2003-2004 Seminar series. Thanks to
all participants.
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January 30 Gary Hansen, UCLA
"Why
have business cycle fluctuations become less volatile."
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February 5 Michael Wolf, Barcelona
"Stepwise
Multiple Testing as Formalized Data Snooping"
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February 6, Guillén, Pablo, U Autonoma de Barcelona
TBA
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February 9, Matsumoto, Akito, U of Wisconsin-Madison
TBA
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February 16, Yu, Jialin, Princeton U
"Closed-Form Likelihood Estimation of Jump-Diffusions with an Application
to the Realignment Risk of the Chinese Yuan"
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February 18, Kim, Hwagyun, U of Chicago
"Money
Demand Shocks and Interest Rate Rules"
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February 20, Gregor Smith, Queens University
"Transfer
problem dynamics: Macroeconomics of the Franco-Prussian war indemnity"
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March 6, Inés Macho-Stadler Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona (UAB)
"Licensing
of University Innovations: The Role of a Technology Transfer Office"
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March 8 Michele Boldrin, University of Minnesota
"Intellectual Property and the Size of the Market"
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March 11, David Levine, University of California, Los Angeles
"Steady State Learning and the Code of Hammurabi"
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March 12 Ph D Candidates Special Seminar
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March 19 James Markuson,
Universtiy of Colorado
"
A Multi-country Approach to Multi-stage Production"
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March 23, Kevin Tsui, University of Chicago
"Causes
and Consequences of Democracy: the Barriers to Entry Approach,"
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March 26, John Morgan, University of California at Berkeley
"Brand
Awareness and Price Competition in Online Markets"
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March 26 Yang Ruilong, People's University of China (in Chinese)
"An
Institutional Analysis of China's Marketization Process"
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April 9 Spring Break
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April 15 Professor Hongling Wang, Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences (in Chinese)
"Credit
Investigation in China or Credit Evaluation System in China."
"Multiple units and public good provision"
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April 26 Tanjim Hoosain, Princeton University
"Learning
by Bidding"
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April 28 Masahisa Fujita, IDE-JETRO
"Knowledge
Creation as a Square Dance on the Hilbert Cube"
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May 3 Finn Kydland, Carnegie-Mellon
"The
Welfare Cost of Inflation in the Presence of Inside Money"
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May 7 David Andolfatto Simon Fraser
"Monetary
Implications of the Hayashi-Prescott Hypothesis for Japan"
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May 13 Mark Bils, University of Rochester
"Measuring
Growth from Better and Better Goods"
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May 14 Mark Bils, University of Rochester
"Some
Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Prices"
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May 21 Lee Branstetter, Columbia University
"Do
Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Induce More Technology Transfer?
Evidence from U.S. Multinationals?"
"Endogenous
mergers in industries with asymmetric firms and demand shocks"
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June 1 Tao Zha, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
"Are
there Regime Switches in U.S. Monetary Policy?"
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June 11, Timothy Kam University of Western Australia
"Two-Sided
Learning and Optimal Open Economy Monetary Policy"
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June 15, Robert Lucas, University of Chicago
"General
Equilibrium Analysis of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade"
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June 21, Donald Andrews, Yale University
"Optimal
Invariant Similar Tests for Instrumental Variables Regression"
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July 2, Yi Wen, Cornell University
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July 5, Badi Baltagi, Texas A& M
Fall Semester 2003
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September 5 Yin-wong Cheung, University of California
at Santa Cruz
"Dissecting the PPP Puzzle: The unconventional roles of nominal exchange
rate and price adjustment."
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September 17 Murray Kemp,
University of New South Wales and City University of Hong Kong
"Rethinking
Comparative Advantage"
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September 26 Edwin Lai, City University of Hong Kong
"An Empirical Study on International Patent Protection"
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October 3 Chew Soo Hong, Hong Kong University
of Science & Technology
"Small
Worlds: Attitude towards Sources of Uncertainty"
Cross-listed with Marketing, ISMT24 October 2003 3:30-5 pm in room 4379
(lifts 17-18)
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October 29, Jacques Cremer, Toulouse University
"Optimal
Selling Mechanisms with Costly Information Acquisition"
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October 31 Martin Osborne, University
of Toronto
"Party
formation in collective decision-making"
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November 5 Jeong Yoo Kim, GRIPS (National Graduate
Institute for Public Studies)
"A
Theory of Consumer Referral: The Network as an Alternative to the Market"
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November 7 Ron Edwards, Academica Sinica
"The
Structure of Authority, Property Rights and Economic Stagnation: The Case
of China,"
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November 14 Peter Rupert, University of Western
Ontario
"What Accounts for the Decline in Crime"
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November 17 Bernard Yeung, New York University
"Corporate
Stability and Economic Growth,"
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November 21 Katsuto Tanaka, Hitotsubashi University
"Various
applications of the wavelet method to the analysis of nonstationary time
series"
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November 27 Atsushi Kajii, Kyoto University
"Incomplete Information Games with Common Multiple Priors"
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November 28 In Koo Cho, University of Illinois
"Monotonicity
and Rationalizability in Large Uniform Price Auctions"
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December 5 James Yetman, University of Hong Kong
"Monetary
Policy and Exchange Rate Pass-through: Theory and Empirics"
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December 12 Ma Zhihui, HKUST
"
Model of Bank Runs: Imperfect Competition and Feedback Effect"
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December 15 Eric Chau "Chinese University of Hong Kong
"The boundaries of the firms as information barriers."