Date Time Speaker Venue Event Registration

26 May, 2020 (Tuesday)

16:00

Travis Ng, CUHK

Zoom

SocSci Viewpoint – COVID-19 Talk Series: To mask or not to mask?

13 Jun, 2020 (Saturday)

09:00

Various speakers

Zoom

China Star Tour 2020 (Co-hosted by ShanghaiTech University and Fudan University)

20 Jun, 2020 (Saturday)

10:00

Various speakers

Zoom

China Star Tour 2020 (Co-hosted by The University of Hong Kong and Peking University)

27 Jun, 2020 (Saturday)

09:00

Various speakers

Zoom

China Star Tour 2020 (Co-hosted by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

13 - 14 Jul, 2020
(Monday - Tuesday)

Various speakers

Zoom

CUHK Economics Summer Camp 2020

22 - 24 Aug, 2020
(Saturday - Monday)

Various speakers

Zoom

13th China Economics Summer Institute (CESI)

03 Sep, 2020 (Thursday)

09:00

Prof. Fei Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Zoom

CUHK-HKU-HKUST Joint Theory Seminar

A Model of Sequential Crisis Management

03 Sep, 2020 (Thursday)

14:00

Tuo Chen, Tsinghua University

Tencent Meeting

1st China Macroeconomic Research Group Meeting

09 Sep, 2020 (Wednesday)

11:15

Prof. Alessandro Rebucci, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Zoom

VEAMS-Virtual East Asia Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Voluntary and Mandatory Social Distancing: Evidence on COVID-19 Exposure Rates from Chinese Provinces and Selected Countries

10 Sep, 2020 (Thursday)

14:00

Jingjing Chen, Tsinghua University

Tencent Meeting

2nd China Macroeconomic Research Group Meeting

10 Sep, 2020 (Thursday)

15:00

Prof. Stephan Lauermann, University of Bonn

Zoom

CUHK-HKU-HKUST Joint Theory Seminar

Auctions with Frictions

18 Sep, 2020 (Friday)

11:00

Various speakers

Zoom

COVID-19 Webinar Series: Individual and Policy Responses to COVID-19 - Local and Global Perspectives

23 Sep, 2020 (Wednesday)

11:15

Dr. Jun Nie, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Zoom

VEAMS-Virtual East Asia Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Unemployment Insurance during a Pandemic

24 Sep, 2020 (Thursday)

14:00

Guangyu Pei, CUHK

Tencent Meeting

3rd China Macroeconomic Research Group Meeting

30 Sep, 2020 (Wednesday)

09:00

Prof. Jie Bai, Harvard Kennedy School

Zoom

Hong Kong Trade Seminar

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover and Industrial Upgrading

06 Oct, 2020 (Tuesday)

09:00

Prof. Isaiah Andrews, Harvard University

Zoom

Econometrics Seminar

Optimal Decision Rules for Weak GMM

09 Oct, 2020 (Friday)

11:15

Prof. Ludwig Straub, Harvard University & NBER

Zoom

VEAMS-Virtual East Asia Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Indebted Demand

12 Oct, 2020 (Monday)

16:00

Prof. Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Zoom

CUHK-HKU-HKUST Joint Theory Seminar

Principled Mechanism Design with Evidence

14 Oct, 2020 (Wednesday)

09:00

Prof. Davin Chor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth

Zoom

Hong Kong Trade Seminar

Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare

16 Oct, 2020 (Friday)

20:00

Mandy Hu, CUHK

Zoom

Battle of Ideologies Online: An Empirical Study of Facebook

19 Oct, 2020 (Monday)

09:30

Prof. Kyungmin Kim, Emory University

Zoom

CUHK-HKU-HKUST Joint Theory Seminar

Competition under Moment Conditions

21 Oct, 2020 (Wednesday)

09:00

Prof. Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University

Zoom

Trade Seminar

The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

22 Oct, 2020 (Thursday)

14:00

Mr. Xilu Chen, CUHK

Tencent Meeting

4th China Macroeconomic Research Group Meeting

23 Oct, 2020 (Friday)

11:15

Prof. Simon Mongey, The University of Chicago and NBER

Zoom

VEAMS-Virtual East Asia Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Firm and Worker Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market

27 Oct, 2020 (Tuesday)

09:00

Prof. Tim Christensen, New York University

Zoom

Econometrics Seminar

Counterfactual Sensitivity and Robustness

30 Oct, 2020 (Friday)

09:30

Prof. Vitor Farinha Luz, The University of British Columbia

Zoom

CUHK-HKU-HKUST Joint Theory Seminar

Risk Classification in Insurance Markets with Risk and Preference Heterogeneity

 

05 Nov, 2020 (Thursday)

14:00

Prof. Zhentao Shi, CUHK

Tencent Meeting

5th China Macroeconomic Research Group Meeting

05 Nov, 2020 (Thursday)

15:00

Dr. Kota Murayama, Hitotsubashi University

Zoom

CUHK-HKU-HKUST Joint Theory Seminar

Social Value of Information in Networked Economies

06 Nov, 2020 (Friday)

11:15

Dr. Daisuke Ikeda, Bank of Japan

Zoom

VEAMS-Virtual East Asia Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Bank Runs as Coordination Failures in an Infinite Horizon Economy

11 Nov, 2020 (Wednesday)

17:00

Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University

Zoom

Hong Kong Trade Seminar

Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments

12 Nov, 2020 (Thursday)

14:00

Prof. Pengfei Han, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Tencent Meeting

6th China Macroeconomic Research Group Meeting

19 Nov, 2020 (Thursday)

15:00

Prof. Tony Ke, CUHK Business School

Zoom

CUHK-HKU-HKUST Joint Theory Seminar

A Theory of Brand Positioning: Product-Portfolio View

20 Nov, 2020 (Friday)

11:15

Prof. Wen-Tai Hsu, Singapore Management University

Zoom

VEAMS-Virtual East Asia Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Between Lives and Economy: Optimal COVID-19 Containment Policy in Open Economies

24 Nov, 2020 (Tuesday)

09:00

Prof. Markus Pelger, Stanford University

Zoom

Econometrics Seminar

Large Dimensional Latent Factor Modeling with Missing Observations and Applications to Causal Inference

26 Nov, 2020 (Thursday)

14:00

Ms. Wei Chen, CUHK

Tencent Meeting

7th China Macroeconomic Research Group Meeting

26 Nov, 2020 (Thursday)

15:00

Prof. Wing Suen, The University of Hong Kong

Zoom

CUHK-HKU-HKUST Joint Theory Seminar

Signaling under Double-Crossing Preferences

02 Dec, 2020 (Wednesday)

16:30

Prof. Frank Pisch, University of St. Gallen

Zoom

Hong Kong Trade Seminar

Managing Global Production: Theory and Evidence from Just-in-Time Supply Chains

03 Dec, 2020 (Thursday)

14:00

Prof. Pengfei Han, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Tencent Meeting

8th China Macroeconomic Research Group Meeting

04 Dec, 2020 (Friday)

11:15

Prof. James Graham, RBNZ, The University of Sydney

Zoom

VEAMS-Virtual East Asia Macroeconomics Seminar Series

Industry, Age, and Unemployment Risk During a Pandemic Recession

05 - 06 Dec, 2020
(Saturday - Sunday)

Various speakers

Jinan University

The 2020 International Symposium on Contemporary Labor Economics

09 Dec, 2020 (Wednesday)

16:30

Prof. Yuan Zi, University of Oslo

Zoom

Hong Kong Trade Seminar

Trade from Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shock

14 Dec, 2020 (Monday)

16:00

Prof. Antonio Penta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Zoom

CUHK-HKU-HKUST Joint Theory Seminar

Attitudes Towards Success and Failure

16 Dec, 2020 (Wednesday)

09:00

Prof. Ken Kikkawa, The University of British Columbia

Zoom

Hong Kong Trade Seminar

Two-Sided Market Power in Firm-to-Firm Trade

17 Dec, 2020 (Thursday)

14:00

Dr. Xin Wang, CUHK

Tencent Meeting

9th China Macroeconomic Research Group Meeting

22 Dec, 2020 (Tuesday)

14:00

Dr. Merrick Li, University of Cambridge

Zoom

Job Talk

A ReMeDI for Microstructure Noise

29 Dec, 2020 (Tuesday)

09:00

Various speakers

Online

Virtual Macro Workshop