NTU Economics Seminar

Nanyang Technological University Division of Economics Seminar Series

Past Seminars (reverse chronological order)

For seminars before AY2024/25, please refer to https://www.ntu.edu.sg/sss/economics/news

Seminars in AY 2025/2026

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18 May 2026 (Mon) - Kaiji CHEN (Emory University) [Finance]
- - 3:30pm-4:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Nighttime Light and the Construction Financing Channel of Monetary Spillovers

18 May 2026 (Mon) - Kaiji CHEN (Emory University) [Finance]
- - 3:30pm-4:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Nighttime Light and the Construction Financing Channel of Monetary Spillovers

18 May 2026 (Mon) - Kaiji CHEN (Emory University) [Finance]
- - 3:30pm-4:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Nighttime Light and the Construction Financing Channel of Monetary Spillovers

11 May 2026 (Mon) - Shengqiao LIN (University of Toronto) [Political Economics]
- - 3pm-4pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - State Ownership and Corporate Compliance: Evidence from China’s Cybersecurity Law

8 May 2026 (Fri) - David Lagakos (Boston University) [Macroeconomics]
- - 10:30am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Tax Productivity and Economic Development: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis

5 May 2026 (Tue) - Yu GAO (PKU) and Ning LIU (Beihang U) [Behavioural]
- - 2-4:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Beyond Present Bias: Trade-Off Sensitivity in Intertemporal Choice

4 May 2026 (Mon) - CHEN Yujian (CWUFE) [Microeconomics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Goodness-of-fit and utility estimation

30 April 2026 (Thu) - Jiajia Gu (IMF) [Macroeconomics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Sowing Seeds of Mobility:The Gendered Impact of Land Reform

24 Apr 2026 (Fri) - Kwok-Hao Lee (NUS) [Applied Micro / Industrial Organization]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 6
  - Information provision improves matching and organisational resilience under demand shocks: Evidence from transit disruptions

23 Apr 2026 (Thu) - Seung Han Yoo (Korea University) [Micro theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 6
  - Optimal Education Design

17 Apr 2026 (Fri) - Russell Cooper (Liaoning University, EUI) [Macroeconomics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Distinguishing Demand and Technology : The Role of Inventories

16 Apr 2026 (Thu) - Sun Liyang (UCL) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Compound Selection Decisions: An Almost SURE Approach

13 Apr 2026 (Mon) - David Johnston (Monash University) [Applied Micro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Does Schooling Protect Children from Maltreatment?

10 Apr 2026 (Fri) - Sang Seok LEE (Asia School of Business) [Macroeconomics]
- - 1pm-2pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - The International Transmission of Commodity Shocks: High-Frequency Evidence from Futures Markets in the Interwar Period

9 Apr 2026 (Thu) - Yannick Timmer (Federal Reserve) [Macroeconomics]
- - 1pm-2pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Stagflationary Stock Returns

9 Apr 2026 (Thu) - Mikkel Solvsten (Aarhus University) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 5
  - Approximately Parallel Trends: Event Study Inference under Trend Violations

2 Apr 2026 (Thu) - Yuya Sasaki (Vanderbilt University) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Genuinely Robust Inference for Clustered Data

27 Mar 2026 (Fri) - Jennifer Pédussel Wu (Berlin School of Economics and Law) [Trade]
- - 3:30pm-4:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Mobile Money Use and Financial Inclusion in Uganda and Kenya

20 Mar 2026 (Fri) - Petr Sedlacek (UNSW) [Macro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - The Bang for the Buck: Aggregate Impact of Firm-Level R&D Incentives

5 Mar 2026 (Thu) - Aakash Kalyani (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) [Macro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Skill premium in times of rapid technological change

2 Mar 2026 (Mon) - Stefano Cattarini (University of Georgia) [Applied Micro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Experiencing Carbon Pricing

27 Feb 2026 (Fri) - Jason Tayawa (UNSW) [Macroeconomics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Costly Information And Beliefs: An Experiment

25 Feb 2026 (Wed) - Soumen Banerjee (SWUFE) [Applied Micro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Involution and Collusion in Rank-Based Incentive Systems

19 Feb 2026 (Thu) - Jungjae Park (Yonsei) [Macroeconomics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Global Financial Shocks and Sovereign Default

10 Feb 2026 (Tue) - Ming LU (SJTU) [Macroeconomcis]
- - 3:30-5pm, HSS Meeting Room 5
  - Horn for Mobility: Public Information and Migration-Distance Relationship Seen from a Rural Broadcasting Project in China

10 Feb 2026 (Tue) - Ji Hyung Lee (UIUC) [Econometrics]
- - 2-3pm, HSS Meeting Room 5
  - LASSO Inference for High Dimensional Predictive Regressions

6 Feb 2026 (Fri) - Dakyung Seong (University of Sydney) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Dynamic Difference-in-Discontinuities

4 Feb 2026 (Wed) - Kenichi Nagasawa (University of Warwick) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Treatment Effect Estimation with Noisy Conditioning Variables

3 Feb 2026 (Tue) - Benjamin Wong (Monash University) [Macro]
- - 2-3pm, HSS Meeting Room 5
  - Efficiently Recovering Impulse Responses in Dynamic Factor Models

2 Feb 2026 (Mon) - Won-Ki Seo (The University of Sydney) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Functional regression with nonstationarity and error contamination: Application to the economic impact of climate change.

23 Jan 2026 (Fri) - Minghao Li (Peking University) [Macroeconomics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Micro Shocks and Macro Fluctuations in the Information Network

21 Jan 2026 (Wed) - Chudi Zhong (UNC Chapel Hill) [Machine Learning]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Breaking the One Model Mindset for Reliable AI

16 Jan 2026 (Fri) - Chris Teh (Toulouse School of Economics) [Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Single-Crossing Value Functions

14 Jan2026 (Wed) - Mengling Li (Xiamen) [Experiment]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Too Early to Match: Early Participation and Welfare in Sequential Matching

24 Nov 2025 (Mon) - Xie Shihan (UIUC) [Macro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - LLM Survey Framework: Coverage, Reasoning, Dynamics, Identification

21 Nov 2025 (Fri) - Kong-Pin Chen (Academia Sinica) [Micro Theory/IO]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Year-End Rush and Career Tournament: Theory and Evidence from Patent Applications in China

18 Nov 2025 (Tue) - Yoon-Jae Whang (Seoul National University) [Econometrics]
- - 2pm-3pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Inference on Almost Stochastic Dominance

17 Nov 2025 (Mon) - Dr Caspar Mathias Goeke (Labvanced) [Experiment]
- - 10am-12pm, SHHK Seminar Room 9
  - Bringing the lab to subjects at home - How AI transforms large scale data collection and the way we study human behavior

14 Nov 2025 (Fri) - Lin Tian (INSEAD) [Applied Micro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Field Choice, Skill Specificity, and Labor Market Disruptions

7 Nov 2025 (Fri) - James Morley (University of Sydney) [Macro]
- - 2pm-3pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - How important is global r-star for open economies?

28 Oct 2025 (Tue) - Shi Zhentao (CUHK) [Econometrics]
- - 2pm-3pm, HSS Meeting Room 5
  - Economic Forecasts Using Many Noises

24 Oct 2025 (Fri) - Kang Mo Koo (Yonsei) [Urban Economics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 5
  - Addressing Vacancy and Affordability Challenges: An Analysis of the Impact of Vacant House Tax on Urban Housing Prices

17 Oct 2025 (Fri) - Alexander Coutts (York University) [Experiment]
- - 2pm-3.30pm, HSS Seminar Room 7
  - Running Experiments in Practice: Lessons from the Field and the Lab

17 Oct 2025 (Fri) - Li Ming (CUHKSZ) [Trade / Applied micro]
- - 10:30am-11:30am, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Decoding China’s Industrial Policies

10 Oct 2025 (Fri) - Li Fei (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) [Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms

9 Oct 2025 (Thu) - Lu Dan (Chinese University of Hong Kong) [Macro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Optimal Trade Policies and Market Power in General Equilibrium Trade Models

25 Sep 2025 (Thu) - Alexander Coutts (York University) [Experiment]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 5
  - Beliefs about Choice Reversals

11 Sep 2025 (Thu) - Eduard Talamas (IESE) [AI Economics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge Economy

9 Sep 2025 (Tue) - Yueran Ma (Chicago Booth) [Finance]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Business Concentration around the World: 1900–2020

4 Sep 2025 (Thu) - Xuezhen Tao (SUFE) [AI Workshop]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Leveraging AI-Powered IDE Tools for Social Science Research: Methods, Best Practices, and Ethical Considerations

29 Aug 2025 (Fri) - Ben Casner (US Federal Trade Commission) [Experiment / Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Complexity and search strategies

25 Aug 2025 (Mon) - Benjamin Born (FSFM) [Macro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - The impact of interest: Firms' investment sensitivity to interest rates

19 Aug 2025 (Tue) - Zhuoqiong Chen (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen) [Experiment]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 6
  - Multitasking with Generative AI: A Lab-in-the-field Experiment

15 Aug 2025 (Fri) - Yang Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) [Macro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Defensive Hiring and Creative Destruction

7 Aug 2025 (Thu) - Takashi Yamagata (York University) [Econometrics]
- - 3pm-4pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Bias correction in factor-augmented regression models with weak factors

29 July 2025 (Tue) - Gu Dingwei (Fudan University) [Micro theory / IO]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - The Rise of Platform and The Fall of Traditional Economy

24 July 2025 (Thu) - Hiroaki Kaido (Boston University) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Set-valued Control Funcitons

Seminars in AY 2024/2025

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27 May 2025 (Tue) - Tom Kirchmaier (LSE) [Applied Micro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 6
  - Not incentivized yet efficient: Working from home in the public sector

23 May 2025 (Fri) - Yang Liyan (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto) [Financial]
- - 2pm-3pm, HSS Conference Room
  - Kyle Meets Friedman: Informed Trading When Anticipating Future Information

22 May 2025 (Thu) - Michal Kolesar (Princeton U) [Econometrics]
- - 2pm-3pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Evaluation of Counterfactual Policies Using Instruments

14 May 2025 (Tue) - Li Yingying (HKUST) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Learning the Stochastic Discount Factor

29 Apr 2025 (Tue) - Haiqing Xu (UT Austin) [Econometrics]
- - 2pm-3pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - On Quantile Treatment Effects, Rank Similarity, and Variation of Instrumental Variables

25 Apr 2025 (Fri) - Merrick Li (CUHK) [Econometrics]
- - 2pm-3pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Multi-Horizon Test for Market Efficiency

25 Apr 2025 (Fri) - Weerachart Kilenthong (University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce) [Health]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - A Randomized Evaluation of an On-Site Training for Kindergarten Teachers in Rural Thailand

22 Apr 2025 (Tue) - Pat Pataranutaporn (MIT) [AI]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Auditorium at B1
  - Designing Human-AI Interactions for Promoting Human Flourishing

17 Apr 2025 (Tue) - Yatang Lin (HKUST) [Applied Micro]
- - 3.30pm-4.30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Tapping into Excess Capacity: Chinese Machinery Export and African Industrialization

3 Apr 2025 (Thu) - Jianhuan Xu (Singapore Management University) [Chinese Economy]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Market for Patents and Monopoly-Biased Innovations

2 Apr 2025 (Wed) - Li Han (ESSEC Asia-Pacific) [Chinese Economy]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - The Media and Foreign Powers: Does Market Access Matter for News Reporting?

28 Mar 2025 (Fri) - Wei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) [Behavioral]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Motivated Self-Control

21 Mar 2025 (Fri) - Alexandre de Cornière (Toulouse School of Economics) [IO/Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Fulfilled By Amazon: Seller-Side Tying of Platform Services

21 Mar 2025 (Fir) - James Duffy (University of Oxford) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Seminar Room 3
  - Common Trends and Long-Run Identification in Nonlinear Structural VARs

13 Mar 2025 (Thu) - Xu CHENG (University of Western Australia) [Econometrics]
- - 3pm-4pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Optimal Estimation of Two-Way Effects under Limited Mobility

28 Feb 2025 (Fri) - Allen Vong (NUS) [Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Mediated Repeated Moral Hazard

24 Feb 2025 (Mon) - Seung Han Yoo (Korea University) [Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Seminar Room 6
  - Grand Mechanism and Population Uncertainty

21 Feb 2025 (Fri) - Ruixuan Liu (CUHK) [Econometrics]
- - 2.30Pm-3.30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Semiparametric Bayesian Difference-in-Differences

21 Feb 2025 (Fri) - Alexander Kritikos (DIW Berlin) [Behavioral / Experiment]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Management Practices Matter: Enhancing Productivity in Micro and Small Firms

7 Feb 2025 (Fri) - Barbara Annicchiarico (Roma Tre University) [Public Econ]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Climate Policies, Macroprudential Regulation, and the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles

20 Jan 2025 (Mon) - Myoung Jae Lee (Korea University) [Econometrics]
- - 2.30pm-3.30pm, HSS Meeting Room 5
  - Causal Reduced Form is the Long-Awaited True Model for Causal Analysis

17 Jan 2025 (Fri) - Giorgia Menta (LISER) [Applied micro]
- - 3pm-4pm, HSS Meeting Room 5
  - Aggregating Epigenetic Clocks to Study Human Capital Formation

15 Jan 2025 (Wed) - Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxembourg) [Behavioral / Experiment]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Reversing the Reversal? A Systematic Reassessment and Meta-Analysis of Wellbeing Research

13 Jan 2025 (Mon) - Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia) [Macro]
- - 2.30pm-3.30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Competitive Investment in Human Capital: The Case of “Good-School Premium” in Housing Prices

10 Dec 2024 (Tue) - Doh-Shin Jeon (TSE) [IO/Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Mechanism Design and Innovation Incentive for an Ad-Funded Platform

22 Nov 2024 (Fri) - Xinyu Hua (HKUST) [IO/Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Product Safety in the Age of AI: Autonomy, R&D, and AI Liability

15 Nov 2024 (Tue) - Sorawoot Srisuma (NUS) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Identification and Estimation of Seller's Risk Aversion in Ascending Auctions

14 Nov 2024 (Thu) - Kai Zhang (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - BET and BELIEF

12 Nov 2024 (Tue) - Katsumi Shimotsu (University of Tokyo) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Identification of the Discount Factor in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

8 Nov 2024 (Fri) - Mathieu Pedemonte (Cleveland FED) [Macro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - The Expectations of Others

6 Nov 2024 (Wed) - Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics) [IO/Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Personalization and Privacy Choice

4 Nov 2024 (Mon, Brownbag) - Chen Zhimin (Nanyang Technological University) [Climate Finance/Asset Pricing]
- - 12:30pm-1:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Real Effects of Carbon Financialization

1 Nov 2024 (Fri) - Chao Ma (Xiamen University) [Household Finance]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Bayesian Learning with Forgetting: An Empirical Analysis of Automobile Insurance Policyholders

30 October 2024 (Wed, Brownbag) - Satoshi Tobe (Kwansei Gakuin University) [Macro/International Finance]
- - 12:30pm-1:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Credit Supply and Housing Prices: Evidence from Banking Deregulation in China

25 October 2024 (Fri) - Martin Peitz (Mannheim University) [IO/Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Product Recommendations and Price Parity Clauses

23 October 2024 (Wed, Brownbag) - Chang Yuqi (National University of Singapore) [Household Finance]
- - 12:30pm-1:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - The Impact of Liquidity Shocks on Commission-Based Financial Advisors

18 October 2024 (Fri) - Alexsey Kolokolv (Manchester University) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - BUMVU Estimaors

16 October 2024 (Wed, Brownbag) - Cai Mengyuan (Nanyang Technological University) [Chinese Economy]
- - 12:30pm-1:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - The Real Effect of Endogenous Digital Technology Adoption

11 October 2024 (Fri) - Gong Jie (University of Hong Kong) [Applied Micro]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - AI and Creative Process

3 October 2024 (Thu) - Patrik Guggenberger (Penn State) [Econometrics]
- - 4pm-5pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Minimax regret treatment rules with finite samples when a quantile is the object of interest

27 September 2024 (Fri) - Li Bo (Peking University) [Political Economy/Finance]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence From the Sino-Soviet Alliance

25 September 2024 (Wed, Brownbag) - Zhang Xiaojie (Nanyang Technological University) [Behavioral / Experiment]
- - 12:30pm-1:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Being ‘Fair’: Using Eye-Tracking to Uncover Invisible Bias Against Asian Males in Labor Market

18 September 2024 (Wed, Brownbag) - Ma Hongxia (National University of Singapore) [Micro Theory]
- - 12:30pm-1:30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - How Network Effects Shape Firm Entry Strategies

17 September 2024 (Tue) - Andrew Chesher (University College London) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Robust Analysis of Short Panels

6 September 2024 (Fri) - Daeho Cho (Hanyang University) [Macro/Trade]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Optimal Trend Inflation in an Open Economy

30 August 2024 (Fri) - Jianrong Tian (Peking University) [Micro Theory]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - (Strong) Implementability with Transfer

28 August 2024 (Tue) - Zhu Wu (Tsinghua University) [Macro/Finance]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - 1. ChatGPT, Stock Market Predictablity, and Links to the Macroeconomy
  - 2. Textual Factors: A Scable, Interpretable, and Data Driven Approach to Unstructured Data

23 August 2024 (Fri) - Yiting Chen (Lingnan University) [Experiments]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Food Choices under Choice Architectures

16 August 2024 (Fri) - Kyu Ho Kang (Korea University) [Econometrics]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - When Falling Stars hit the Zero Lower Bound: Implications for Dynamic Term Premiums

12 August 2024 (Monday) - Chew Soo Hong and Richard Ebstein (SWUFE) [Behavioural]
- - 11am-12pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Intelligence Darwinism: Decision Quality Shapes Natural Selection and Delivers Biodiversity

08 August 2024 (Thursday) - Zhijun Chen (Monash University) [Micro theory / IO]
- - 3.30pm-4.30pm, HSS Meeting Room 4
  - Paying Consumers for Their Data: An Economic Analysis of Data Collection and Digital Privacy

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