Research Workshop

Term 2 2017-18 Schedule

Date Title Presenter
12 January U.S. Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Currency Risk Premia Zeng Ming
26 January The Globalization and Economic Policy Survey Davin Chor
9 February An Analysis of the Recently-Passed U.S. Tax Cut and Jobs Act Joshua Greene
23 February Aggregate Consequences of Credit Subsidy Policies: Firm Dynamics and Misallocation Jo In-Hwan
9 March Welfare Consequences of Access to Health Insurance for low and middle-income households: Evidence from New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Rural China Sun Ya
16 March Belief-dependent Preferences and Reputation: Experimental Analysis of a Repeated Trust Game Elena Manzoni
6 April Path agreements and strategic uncertainty Emiliano Catonini

Term 1 2017-18 Schedule

Date Title Presenter
11 August The Effect of a Finite Time Horizon in the Durable Good Monopoly Problem with Atomic Consumers Gerardo Berbeglia
8 September Land Markets, Resource Allocation, and Agricultural Productivity Chaoran Chen
22 September Impact of Farm Electricity Supply Management on Farm Households in Gujarat, India Namrata Chindarkar
29 September Memory and Discounting: Theory and Evidence Te Bao
20 October Bond-Finance, Bank-Finance, and Bank Regulation Huang Ji
27 October
1200 -- 1245		 Econometric Modelling of Weighted Networks Xin Zheng
3 November
1200 -- 1245		 Discount Rates Revisit Yijie Fei
3 November
1245 -- 1330		 Specication Tests for Unobserved Heterogeneity in Spatial Panel Data Models Yuhong Xu
10 November
1200 -- 1245		 Threshold panel data models with interactive fixed effect Miao Ke
10 November
1245 -- 1330		 Grid bootstrap and Continuous Time Model Lui Yiu Lim
17 November An Extension of Grenander-Rosenblatt Theorem Liu Yanbo
24 November
1200 -- 1245		 The possibility of efficient trade in interdependence environment Zhang Cuiling
24 November
1245 -- 1330		 Time Series Momentum: Is It There? Wang Liyao
1 December
1200 -- 1245		 International Trade and Life Cycle Occupational Choice Yi Xin / Angdi Lu
1 December
1245 -- 1330		 Estimation and Inference for Spatial Dynamic Short Panel Data Models with Correlated Random Effects Li Liyao

Term 2 2016-17 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
10 February Joshua Greene Boosting Growth in the United Statesa
17 February Davin Chor Does Bank FDI Facilitate Firm FDI? Evidence from China's Outward Investment Activity
10 March LU Lin Trade Costs and Income Inequality in China
17 March Weiwen Leung Peer Effects in Elite Swimmers
31 March Chen Yanying Effects of In-utero Exposure to Maternal Fasting during Ramadan on Subjective Well-being and Health in Old Age
21 April Jungho Tax uncertainty and entrepreneurship
28 April Yi Jin Income and happiness: Evidence from Singapore's non-contributory pension
19 May Shuichi Ohori Optimal disposal fee and planned obsolescence

Term 1 2016-17 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
20 May Saw Htay Wah Trade and Geopolitics
27 May Ben Li When is Someone Poor?
22 July Byoung Hoon Seok Wage Volatility and Changing Patterns of Labor Supply
26 August Wen-Tai Income Inequality, Productivity, and International Trade
2 September Yi Jin Averting Behaviour and Dengue Outbreaks: Evidence from Residential Electricity Consumption in Singapore
9 September Kwan Ok Lee Information Shock and Housing Market Responses
16 September Jun New Distribution Theory for the Estimation of Structural Break Point in Mean
30 September Wang Sheng Lee Chess and the Development of Non-Cognitive Skills in Children: Early Results from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh
7 October Orchi Modhurima Exchange Rate and Trade Finance
14 October Juliana Gray's Anatomy: Understanding Uncertainty
21 October Jianhuan Optimal policies in a open economy
28 October Ma Lin Geography, Trade, and Internal Migration in China
4 November Yumi Waiting to be Built: A Duration Analysis of Public Works' Procedure
11 November Chen Yanying Housing Upgrading in Urban Redevelopment
18 November Tao Yubo Estimation of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process in a Random Environment and Its Application in Bubble Detection
25 November 1200 Phuong Nguyen Oil Price Shocks and External Balances: An extended empirical study
25 November 1245 Sima Di Heterogeneous effect of democracy to growth
2 December 1200 Chen Yuting Financial Constraints, Agency Problem and International Trade

Term 2 2015-16 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
22 January Li Huailu Experimenting with Incentives: Evidence from a drug selling gang in Singapore
29 January Davin Chor Obedience, Schooling, and the Economy
5 February Joel Han Parental Involvement and Neighborhood Quality: Evidence from Public Housing Closures in Chicago
19 February Craig Brown Economist Leadership and Economic Growth
4 March Giovanni Ko Jobs for justice(s): Corruption in the Supreme Court of India
11 March Elena Manzoni Do The Right Thing. Incentives for policy selection in presidential and parliamentary systems
16 March Andrew Oswald Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets
18 March Teddy Kim Trading Dynamics with Private Buyer Signals in the Market for Lemons
1 April Jungho Lee On the relationship between household wealth and entrepreneurship

Term 1 2015-16 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
14th August Olivier Bochet Coalitional Secure Implementation
21st August Manuel Mueller-Frank Price Efficiency and Welfare
28th August Chang Pao-Li Institutional Complementarity across Countries in Bilateral FDI
4th September Christine Ho Parental Returns to Investment in Children: Son Bias and Old Age Support
18th September An Sungbae Extensive margin and aggregate money demand
25th September Ken Onishi Free entry and social inefficiency in vertical relationships: The case of the Japanese MRI market
2nd October Zsuzsa Reka Huszar Mortgage lending regulatory arbitrage: A note on nontraditional lenders and mortgage licensing
16th October Ma Lin A Tale of Two Tails: Wage Inequality and City Size
23rd October Hsu Wen-Tai Competition and Gains from Trade: Assessing the Welfare Effects of China's Improved Openness During 1995-2004
30th October Li Jing Price Run-ups in Strategic Sequential Bidding for Government Land Auction Sales - Evidence from Singapore
6th November 1200 Huang Wenxin Panel Cointegration with Latent Group Structures and an application to PPP
6th November 1245 Wang Wuyi Homogeneity Pursuit in Panel Data Model
13th November 1200 Zeng Ming Understanding the time-varying volatility of stock market fluctuations -- A DSGE approach
13th November 1245 Liu Peng Characterizing the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism via Well-Behavedness and Strategy-Proofness
20th November 1200 Liu Xiaobin A Bayesian Chi^2 Testing for Hypothesis Testing for latent Variable Models
20th November 1245 Xu Sijia Impact of Electrification on Children's Nutrition Status in Rural Bangladesh
27th November 1200 Sun Ya The Welfare Effects of Access to Health Insurance in Rural China: Evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme
27th November 1245 Li You Expectation Formation Process
4th December 1200 Jin Wei Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy with Retaliation
4th December 1245 Luo Xuan FDI, Market Access and Institution

Term 2 2014-15 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
16th January Birthe Larsen Negative Attitudes, Network and Education
23rd January Vishrut Rana Bank Monitoring Dynamics and Inefficiency over the Business Cycle
6th February Mei Lin Platform Pricing with Endogenous Network Effects
27th February Xu Sijia Impact of Electrification on Children's Malnutrition Status in Bangladesh
6th March Davin Chor Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis
13th March Stefan Penczynski The Winner's Curse: Conditional Reasoning & Belief Formation
20st March Tang Qian Showrooming vs. Competing: How does Brand Selection Matter?
24th April Ma Dan A model of competition between perpetual software and software-as-a-service
15th May Lucas Herrenbrueck Smart-dating in speed-dating: how a simple search model with horizontal and vertical preferences can explain matching decisions

Term 1 2014-15 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
8 August Abu Shonchoy Impact of Seasonality-adjusted Flexible Microcredit on Repayment and Food Consumption: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
19 September Madhav S. Aney Executive Overreach by Minority Governments
26 September Laura Guiying Wu Capital Misallocation in China: Financial Frictions or Policy Distortions?
3 October Tomoki Fujii Fertility and rural electrification in Bangladesh
17 October Man Wah Cheung Pairwise Comparison Dynamics for Games with Continuous Strategy Space
31 October Ken Onishi Signaling in Online Credit Markets
7 November Bryce Hool A Discussion of the Ageing Research Programme
14 November Jaimie Lien Natural Disasters and Time Preference Indicators
21 November Arpita Chatterjee Multi-product exporters, variable markups and exchange rate fluctuations

Term 2 2013-14 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
21st February John Donaldson Illuminating exceptions to the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction through a case study: One example and two queries
7th March Davin Chor Cumulative Innovation, Growth, and Welfare-Improving Patent Policy
28th March Xue Jingyi Fair Division With Random Demands
11th April Tomoki Fujii Vulnerability to poverty and climate change: An empirical investigation in Indonesia
25th April Seonghoon Kim The Effect of Operative Labor Supply Margin on Unemployment Fluctuations
2nd May Yi Lu Exchange Rate and Export Structure.
16th May Kwan Ok Lee Neighborhood Racial Transitions, Household Residential Mobility, and Segregation Trends in the U.S

Term 1 2013-14 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
14th June Brishti Guha Reinterpreting King Solomon's Problem: Malice and Mechanism Design
21st June Daniel Müller Estimating Preferences for Fairness: a New Empirical Strategy within a Unified Theoretical Framework
28th June Brishti Guha Games of Moral Hazard and Market Concentration: Audit Oligopolies and Natural Monopolies in Experience Goods Markets
6th August Sanjay Banerji Informational Collusion and Governance
23rd August Ivan Fernandez-Val Conditional Quantile Processes based on Series or Many Regressors
13th September Daniel Henderson Gradient Based Smoothing Parameter Selection for Nonparametric Regression Estimation
20th September Piero Gottardi Dynamic Competitive Economies with Complete Markets and Collateral Constraints
27th September Fabian Winkler Stock Market Learning and Credit Frictions
4th October Toshihiro Ichida (30 mins) Imitation vs. Innovation Costs: Patent Policies under Common Patent Length
4th October Taiyo Yoshimi (30 mins) Job Experience and Workers' Bargaining Power: Welfare Implications
11th October Gea M. Lee Consumer Search, Number of Firms and Price Competition
18th October Jing Li The Impact of Agglomeration Economies on Hospital Input Prices
1st November Wen-Tai Hsu Spatial Patterns and Size Distributions of Cities
8th November Zeng Huaxia A note on domains admitting well-behaved and (group)-strategy-proof social choice functions
22nd November Juliana Yu Sun Technological Determinants of Financing Constraints in Recessions
29th November Fuhai Hong An economic investigation on linguistic differences: Theory and experiment
11th December Nicola Pavoni Ramsey Asset Taxation with Asymmetric Information

Term 2 2012-13 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
1st February Anirban Mukherjee The Impact of Macro Socio-Economic Drivers and Fiscal Policy on Expenditure Allocation and Attribute Preferences
6th February Quoc-Anh Do Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption Evidence from US States
15th February Masayuki Kudamatsu Interdependent Roles of Connections and Performance in the Promotion of Chinese Communist Party Officials
22nd February Athakrit Thepmongkol Lending Rate Dynamics and Bubbles in a Small Open Economy
1st March Nobuhiko Fuwa Sectoral Growth Linkages and the Role of Infrastructure Development: Revisiting the sources of nonfarm development in the rural Philippines
8th March Bao Tan and Vishrut Rana Fiscal Policy and Public Goods
22nd March Kartini Shastry Water Quality and Breastfeeding: Evidence of Health Behavior Change in Bangladesh
27th March Leung Weiwen What makes a Nobel Prize? The determinants of national scientific output and quality
5th April Elena Manzoni Wage comparison and risk attitudes: an experimental study
12th April Liu Shouwei Intraday Value at Risk: Asymmetric Autoregressive Conditional Duration Approach

Term 1 2012-13 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
24th August Rashmi Barua The Effect of Peer-Based Financial Education on Financial Decision Making: Experimental Evidence for Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore
31st August Vishrut Dhirendra Rana Financial Factors and Fiscal Policy
7th September Kirpal Singh The Future of the University: Some Personal Reflections
14th September Sadat Reza Sunk Cost Fallacy and Driving the World's Costliest Cars
21st September Tobias Rettig From Subaltern to Free Worker: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty among Indochina's Subaltern Imperial Labor Camp Diaspora in Metropolitan France, 1939--1944
28th September Ijlal Naqvi Policy Options for the Pakistani Electrical Power Sector: Insights from Complexity Theory for a Fragmented State
5th October Madhav S. Aney Incomplete Information Contests and Rent Dissipation
2ndNovember Joshua Greene A Closer Look at the U.S. Public Debt Problem
9th November Zeng Tao Robust Deviance Information Criterion For latent Variable Models
16th November Tomoki Fujii Impact of international remittances on schooling in the Philippines: does the relationship to the household head matter?
30th November Yoshihisa Godo The Puzzle of the 'Agriculture Boom' in Japan (slides)

Term 2 2011-12 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
13th January Michael McMahon First Impressions Matter: Signalling as a Source of Policy Dynamics
20th January Yingjie Dong Diurnal Adjustments of High-Frequency Financial Data and Their Effects on Intraday Volatility Estimation
27th January Davin Chor Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows
3rd February Ye Chen Optimal Jackknife for Discrete Time and Continuous Time Unit Root Models
10th February Denis Leung Prevalence Estimation with Missing Data
17th February Yi Zhang Educational Streaming: Too Early to Disclose Information?
24th February Christine Ho Optimal Policy with Informal Child Care: An Efficiency Case for Sliding Scale Child Care Subsidies
16th March Madhav S. Aney Inefficiency in the Shadow of Type Dependent Outside Options
23rd March Tomoki Fuji Dynamic Poverty Decomposition Analysis: Application to the Philippines
30th March Brishti Guha Pirates and Fishermen: Is Less Patrolling Always Bad?
13th April Elena Manzoni Last minute policies and the incumbency advantage

Term 1 2011-12 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
19th August Arunava Sen Strategic Voting, Randomisation, and Choice of Solution Concept
26th August Yu Jun Dating the Timeline of Financial Bubbles During the Subprime Crisis
9th September Huaxia Zeng Random Social Choice Functions and Random Dictatorship
16th September Ken Yamada Changing unchanged inequality: higher education, aging, and the changing Japanese employment system
23rd September Do Quoc-Anh One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Panel Data Evidence from Hometown Infrastructure in an Autocracy
30th September Massimiliano Landi Single Peakedness and Giffen Demand
14th October Anthony Tay Time-Varying Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry
28th October Sungbae An Bayesian DSGE in a heterogeneous agent economy
4th November Gea M Lee Job Market Signaling with Endogenous Human Capital Investment
11th November Tomoki Fujii Country Image and International Trade (joint with Chang Pao-li)
18th November Massimiliano Landi Some preliminary ideas on party polarization, voter turnout and campaign spending
25th November Brishti Guha Microfinance Competition: Motivated Microlenders, Double Dipping and Default

Term 2 2010-11 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
7th January Nicolas L Jacquet Money, Liquidity, Asset Prices, and Completeness of Markets
14th January Yi Zhang Sequential Investment, Hold-up, and Strategic Delay
21st January Christine Ho Welfare-to-Work Reform and Intergenerational Resource Allocation: A Look at Elderly Women's Response to the 1996 PRWORA
28th January Aurobindo Ghosh Rank Chasing: Do fractiles of returns affect mutual fund flow?
11th February Gea M Lee Optimal International Agreement and Treatment of Domestic Subsidy
18th February Bao Tan Economy with energy production
4th March Pao-Li Chang Risk, Learning and the Technology Content of FDI: A Dynamic Model
11th March Rashmi Barua No Pass No Drive: Negative Incentives and Education (Joint with Marian Vidal-Fernandez)
18th March Jungwon Yeo Switching Costs and Market Dynamics in Medicare Part D
1st April Brishti Guha Pirates and Traders: Some Economics of Pirate-Infested Seas
8th April Sungbae An A Nonlinear Estimation of Economies with Recursive Preferences
15th April Hian Teck Hoon Innovation and Employment

Term 1 2010-11 Schedule

Date Presenter Title
30th July Brishti Guha Patrilocal Exogamy as a Monitoring Mechanism: How Inheritance and Residence Patterns Coevolve
6th August Davin Chor Organizing the Global Value Chain
20th August Gea M Lee Number of Firms and Price Competition
27th August Massimiliano Landi Conformism and Turnout
3rd September Rashmi Barua Kindergarten Entry Age and Academic Performance (Joint with Kevin Lang)
17th September Madhav S Aney Contractual Institutions and Natural Resources
24th September Tomoki Fujii Quasi Option Value Under Strategic Interaction
15th October Shurojit Chatterji On Domains that Admit Well Behaved Strategy Proof Social Choice Functions
22nd October Madhav S Aney Custodes Invicem Custodiunt: Commitment through Competition by Specialists in Violence
29th October Fali Huang Trade and Divergence in Education Systems
4th Novermber Zhang Yi Group Reputation - A Model of Corruption
12th November Do Quoc-Anh Politicians and Directors in Social Networks: RDD Evidence from Close Elections