Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Economics Seminar Series

All seminars are to be held in Room 2397 (Lifts 17 & 18) unless otherwise specified. Typically, regular seminars run from 3:30 to 5:00 and brownbag seminars run from 3:30-4:30.

To visitors: For walking directions from the Sundial to the Economics Department, click HERE. For a campus map, click HERE. For a Chinese address of HKUST to show the taxi driver, click HERE if your destination is the Econ Dept or click HERE if your destination is the Unilodge.  

Upcoming…

Innovation and Production in the Global Economy

Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University

(Coauthors: Costas Arkolakis, Natalia Ramondo, Andrιs Rodrνguez-Clare)

May 25 (Fri), 3:30-5:00

Abstract: We develop a monopolistic competition model of trade and multinational production (MP). Firms receive an idiosyncratic vector of productivities for different locations from a multivariate distribution. They also face distance related trade and MP costs. Thus, individual firms face a proximity—versus—comparative advantage trade-off to serve individual locations from close-by or high productivity locations. The model gives simple structural expressions for bilateral trade and MP. We use these expressions to calibrate the model across a set of OECD countries. We quantify the implications of openness to trade and MP on the allocation of employment between production and innovation, as well as the implications for wages, profits and overall welfare.

Spring 2012

 

 

 

Jan. 17 (Tue)

3:30-5:00

Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia Business School
“Status Competition and Housing Prices: Some Evidence from China”

 

Feb. 3 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Norman Loayza, World Bank
“Privatization and Nationalization Cycles”

 

Feb. 6 (Mon)

12:00-1:00

Ge Zhou, HKUST

“Rational Bubbles and the Spirit of Capitalism”

(Internal Brownbag)

 

Feb. 8 (Wed)

3:30-4:30

Edwin Lai, HKUST

“Cumulative Innovation, Growth and Welfare-Improving Government Intervention” (Internal Brownbag)

 

Feb. 10 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

John Leahy, New York University
“Allocation with Wealth Effects” [Paper 1, Paper 2]

 

Feb. 15 (Wed)

3:30-5:00

Melody Lo, University of Hong Kong

“Why does New Hampshire Matter --- Simultaneous v.s. Sequential Primaries”

 

Feb. 17 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Duozhe Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong

“One-to-many bargaining with an endogenous protocol”

 

Feb. 22 (Wed)

3:30-5:00

Jia Pan, Fudan University

“Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Endogenous UI Eligibility”

 

Feb. 24 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Kenneth Corts, University of Toronto
“Optimal (and Finite) Penalties for False Advertising”

 

Feb. 28 (Tue)

3:30-5:00

Tong Li, Vanderbilt University

“Partial Identification in Auctions with Selective Entry”

 

Feb. 29 (wed)

3:30-4:30

Amber Li, HKUST

“Credit Constraints, Productivity, and Export Prices: Theory and Evidence from China” (Internal Brownbag)

 

Mar. 2 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Liangjun Su, Singapore Management University
“Specification Test for Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects”

 

 

Mar. 7 (Wed)

3:30-4:30

James Yetman, Bank for International Settlements
“Expanding central bank balance sheets in emerging Asia: a compendium of risks and some evidence” (Brownbag)

 

Mar. 9 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Nelson Mark, University of Notre Dame

“The size of precautionary household saving in China”

 

Mar. 13 (Tue)

3:30-5:00

Thomas Lubik, Federal Research Bank of Richmond

“The Shifting and Twisting Beveridge Curve: An Aggregate

Perspective”

 

Mar. 14 (Wed)

3:30-5:00

 

Woong Yong Park, University of Hong Kong

“Regimes, Policy Shifts, and U.S. Business Cycles”

 

Mar. 16 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Satoru Takahashi, Princeton University (visiting HKU)

“Contagion and Uninvadability in Social Networks with Bilingual Option”

 

Mar. 21 (Wed)

3:30-5:00

Stephen Chiu, University of Hong Kong

“Interim Performance Evaluation in Contract Design”

 

Mar. 23 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Jordi Mondria, UNC-Chapel Hill

“Asymmetric Attention and Stock Returns”

 

 

Mar. 28 (Wed)

3:30-4:30

Albert Park, HKUST

“Promotion Incentives and Teacher Effort in China” (Internal Brownbag)

 

Mar. 30 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Kosuke Aoki, University of Tokyo

“Bubbles, Banks and Financial Stability”

 

April 11 (Wed)

3:30-5:00

Philip McCalman, University of Melbourne

“‘Super-Sizing’ International Trade”

 

April 13 (Fri)

Davin Chor, Singapore Management University

“Organizing the Global Value Chain”

 

April 17 (Tue)

Russell Davidson, McGill University

“The Iterated Bootstrap”

 

April 18 (Wed)

3:30-5:00

Lung Law Pui Yu Theater (Room 6591, 6/F via Lifts 31-32)

Pranab Bardhan, University of California at Berkeley

IAS Distinguished Lecture: “Dilemmas of Decentralization in Developing Countries”

 

April 20 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Rody Manuelli, Washington University
“Neoclassical Miracles”

 

April 25 (Wed)

Dennis Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong

“Changes in China's Wage Structure”

(Joint seminar with Social Science Division)

 

April 27 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Mark Roberts, Pennsylvania State University
“A Structural Model of Demand, Cost, and Export Market Selection for Chinese Footwear Producers”

 

May 4 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Lifang Xu, HKUST

“Stock Market Bubbles and Unemployment”

 

May 10 (Thur)

3:30-5:00

Brad Jensen, Georgetown University
“Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts, and Offshoring”

 

May 11 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Haichun Ye, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
“Current Account Adjustment in Developing Countries: The Role of Exchange Rate Regimes”

 

May 18 (Fri)

Christophe Chamley, Boston University and Paris School of Economics

“WHEN DEMAND CREATES ITS OWN SUPPLY: SAVING SINKS”

 

May 19 (Sat)

HKUST Conference on Financial Stability

May 25 (Fri)

3:30-5:00

Stephen Yeaple, Pennsylvania State University
“Innovation and Production in the Global Economy”

Jun 12 (Tue)

3:30-5:00

Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania
“TBA”

June 28 (Thur)

3:30-5:00

Diego Comin, Harvard Business School

“TBA”

Jun 29 (Fri)-30

HKUST International Workshop on Macroeconomics

July 17 (Tue)

3:30-5:00

Gene Grossman, Princeton University

“TBA”

 

 

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