Why Don't the Young File for Bankruptcy?
We provide two explanations for why young people file fewer bankruptcies The first is that young people delay b

Guozhong Zhu, University of Alberta

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 337

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The Golden Revolving Door: Hedging through Hiring Government Officials
Using both the onset of the US-China trade war in 2018 and the most recent Russia-Ukraine conflict and associate

Ling Cen, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Monday, September 25, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 337

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Evolving Strategy Using Innovation Portfolios: A Field Intervention Study
Innovation portfolio management is the process of prioritizing resources spent on innovation projects The most wid

Christoph Loch & Haijian Si, PHBS & CJBS

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room335

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Is Electricity a Weak Link in Development?
This paper considers the case that electricity is a weak link in development, meaning that small productivity imp

Martin Shu, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 337

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Econometric Learning: A Select Review
In this talk, I will start with the difference between econometrics and machine learning, then motivate why and

Chunrong Ai, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 337

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Trading Under the Law of Small Numbers
We build a model of the law of small numbers (LSN)—the incorrect belief that even small samples represent the

Cameron Peng, London School of Economics and Political Science

Wednesday, Aug 30, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 339

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Acquiring Patents for Monopoly
The paper studies a possible "dark side " of patent trade in enhancing the market power of monopolists We explor

Jianhuan Xu, Singapore Management University

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room 337, ZOOM

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Is Public Debt Arm’s Length? Evidence from Corporate Bond Purchases of Life Insurance Companies
We show that borrower-lender relationship is important for corporate bond financing and this relationship may influ

Ali Ozdagli, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room339, ZOOM

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Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China
Can ideas mobilize people into collective action? We investigate this question by analyzing how exposure to Commun

Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 10:30am-12:00pm | Room337, ZOOM

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Is the Money Spent on Ad Platforms Worth It? The Role of Advertising Spillover in a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment on ByteDance
Ad platforms such as Google and Meta have dominated the digital advertising market for years However, brands hav

Yitian Liang, Tsinghua University

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 9:30am-11:00am | Room335, ZOOM

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