Attraction versus Persuasion
We consider a model of oligopolistic competition in a market with search frictions, in which competing firms with

Pak Hung Au, HKUST

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm |ZOOM

Keywords: oligopolistic competition, information

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Banks, Dollar Liquidity and Exchange Rates
This paper presents a theory of exchange rate determination based on an endogenous liquidity premium The theory

Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | 9:00am - 10:30am |ZOOM, Room 337

Keywords: exchange rate, liquidity premium, dollar-reserve position

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Premium for Heightened Uncertainty: Explaining Pre-Announcement Market Returins
We show that the pattern of positive pre-announcement market drift is present not only for FOMC announcements, as

Haoxiang Zhu, MIT

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 | 9:00am - 10:30am |ZOOM

Keywords: pre-announcement drift, risks, returns

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Leveraging Overconfidence
In theory, overconfident investors with a budget constraint use leverage more, trade more, and perform worse than

Terrance Odean, Berkeley Haas

Wednesday, November 11, 2020 | 9:00am - 10:30am |ZOOM, Room 339

Keywords: individual investors, margin, stock trading

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Consumers and Autonomous Technology: An Emerging Framework
​Rapid advances in robotics and artificial intelligence are transforming the economy, enabling the development of many new products and services and triggering a new wave of automation in organizational and production processes

Stefano Puntoni, Erasmus University

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | 4:00pm-5:30pm |ZOOM

Keywords: Consumers and autonomous technology

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A Path of Research Projects on Social Robotics
The presentation will illustrate the main events and research projects organized and carried out by her laboratory

Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm |ZOOM

Keywords: educational robotics, social robots

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Creative Thinking Facilitates Perspective Taking
The authors propose that an individual’s disposition for perspective taking may be facilitated by creative th

Iris Hung, Fudan University

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 | 4:30pm - 5:30pm |ZOOM

Keywords: creative thinking, perspective

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Will Book Corners Help? Exploring the Effect of In-Class Book Corners on Students’ Academic Performance and Psychological Well-Being
Reading resources are scarce for children in rural China and other developing countries We conduct a large-scale

Rui Zhu, CKGSB

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm |ZOOM, Room 333

Keywords: rual Chinese, academic performance

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The SOE Premium and Government Support in China’s Credit Market
This paper examines how perceived government support for state-owned enterprises, SOEs, can shut out non-SOE firms

Jun Pan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm |ZOOM, Room 339

Keywords: SOE, credit, bond

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation
Does regulation inhibit innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable endogenous growt

John Van Reenen, MIT

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm |ZOOM, Room 335

Keywords: innovation intensity, regulatory threshold

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