Day 1 : December 12 (Mon)

 

Microeconomics Session

 

Presentation 1   14:00 - 15:15 

Title: Asymmetric All-Pay Auctions

Speaker:  Sergio O. Parreiras, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (with Fei Li)

 

Presentation 2   15:15 - 16:30

Title: Optimal Contest Design with Incomplete Information: The Role of Negative Prizes

Speaker: Jingfeng Lu, National University of Singapore (with Bin Liu, Ruqu Wang, Jun Zhang)

 

Coffee Break      16:30 - 16:45

 

Presentation 3   16:45 - 18:00

Title: Learning Rival's Information in Interdependent Value Auctions

Speaker: Youngwoo Koh, Hanyang University (with Jinwoo Kim)

 

 

Day 2 : December 19 (Mon)

 

Macroeconomics Session

 

Presentation 1   09:00 - 10:15 

Title: The Optimal Inflation Target under an Inflation-Output Trade-off

Speaker: Yunjong Eo, University of Sydney (with Denny Lie)

 

Presentation 2  10:15 - 11:30

Title: International Financial Integration and Crisis Contagion

Speaker: Changhua Yu, Peking University (with Michael B. Devereux)

 

Coffee Break      11:30 - 11:45

 

Presentation 3  11:45 - 13:00

Title: Time-Varying Information Rigidities and Fluctuations in Professional Forecasters’ Disagreement

Speaker: Joonyoung Hur, Bank of Korea

 

 

Applied Microeconomics Session

Presentation 1   14:00 - 15:15 

Title: Gender Difference in Human Capital Accumulation and Utilization: An International Perspective 

Speaker: Daiji Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo (with Takahiro Toriyabe)

 

Coffee Break      15:15 - 15:25

Presentation 2   15:25 - 16:40

Title: Selection, Gender and the Impact of Schooling Type in Dhaka 

Speaker: John Ham, National University of Singapore (with Saima Khan)

Coffee Break      16:40 - 16:50

 

Presentation 3   16:50 - 18:05 

Title: Do Single-Sex School Advantages Exist? 

Speaker: Jungmin Lee, Seoul National University (with Yoonsoo Park)

 

 

Day 3 : December 20 (Tue)

 

Econometrics Session

 

Presentation 1   14:00 - 14:50
Title: Nonparametric specification testing via the trinity of tests
Speaker: Abhimanyu Gupta, University of Essex

Coffee Break      14:50 - 15:00

Presentation 2   15:00 - 15:50
Title: Characteristic based Factor models
Speaker: Yuan Liao, Rutgers University

Coffee Break      15:50 - 16:00

 

Presentation 3   16:00 - 16:50

Title: Optimal Inference with Complete Subsets of Instruments
Speaker: Youngki Shin, University of Technology Sydney