John Morgan Penn State Alumni Conference Schedule

John Morgan Penn State Alumni Conference Schedule

Day 1 | Friday May 12

11:00-12:30 Parallel sessions

Trade-Conference Room 105

Time
Author
Title
11:00-12:30
Xiaochen Xie
“The Survival and Growth of SMEs: Evidence from the Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China”
11:00-12:30
Ryo Makioka
“The Values of Export Promotion: The Case of the Canton Fair during the SARS Epidemic”
11:00-12:30
Hale Utar
“The US-China Trade War and Relocation of Global Value Chains to Mexico”

Macro and Econometrics Conference Room 106

Time
Author
Title
11:00-12:30
Rui Wang
“Endogenous Linear Regressions with Included Instrumental Variables”
11:00-12:30
Gaston Chaumont
“Sovereign Risk and Economic Activity: The role of Firm Entry and Exit”
11:00-12:30
Alex Fakos
“Pigouvian subsidies with Misallocation”

12:30-2:00 Lunch-Gardens Restaurant

2:00-3:30 Parallel sessions

IO- Conference Room 107

Time
Author
Title
2:00-3:30
Mingzhe Tang
“Platforms’ Exclusive Dealings and Antitrust Interventions in China”
2:00-3:30
Hongsong Zhang
“Tax Policy, Selling Expenses, and the Growth of Young Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Tax Incentive Policy”
2:00-3:30
Guoxuan Ma
“Information Asymmetry and Bidding Behavior in Common Value English Auction”

Metrics - Conference Room 106

Time
Author
Title
2:00-3:30
Yuanyuan Wan
“A Simple Specification Test for Models with Many Conditional Moment Inequalities”
2:00-3:30
Bulat Gafarov
“Bias correction for quantile regression estimators”
2:00-3:30
Lixiong Li
“Finite Sample Inference in Incomplete Model”

Micro Conference Room 108

Time
Author
Title
2:00-3:30
Sergei Izmailkov
“Lottery Makers”
2:00-3:30
Byung-Soo Lee
“Shortcut to Universal Belief Spaces”
2:00-3:30
Xiao Lin
“Correlation-Robust Information Aggregation”

Trade Conference Room 105

Time
Author
Title
2:00-3:30
Chung-Han Yang
“The Tower of Bebel: Localization, Translation and International Trade”
2:00-3:30
Paul Ko
“Globalization, Gender Wage Gap, and Female Labor Force Participation”
2:00-3:30
Gary Lin
“Granular Comparative Advantage: Evidence from Chinese Firms”

3:30-4:00 Coffee break

4:00-5:30 Parallel sessions

IO - Applied Micro - Conference Room 107

Time
Author
Title
4:00-5:30
Florencia Gabrielli
“Auctioning Annuities”
4:00-5:30
David Jinkins
“Welfare Program Spillovers”
4:00-5:30
Karim N’Chare
“Nonlinear Difference-in-Differences models with panel data: A Partial Identification Approach”

Micro - Conference Room 108

Time
Author
Title
4:00-5:30
Xiao Jun
“Whether to Hire A(nother) Superstar”
4:00-5:30
Tai-Wei Hu
“Voter polarization and extremism”
4:00-5:30
Isa Hafalir
” Efficient Market Design with Distributional Objectives”

Trade - Conference Room 105

Time
Author
Title
4:00-5:30
Farid Farrokhi
“Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective”
4:00-5:30
Wenzhuo Lu
“Order of entry and market performance in the global smartphone industry”
4:00-5:30
Guangliang Hu
Exporting like China: The Role of Labor Frictions and Market Demands

End of Day 1

Day 2 | Saturday May 13- Deans Hall 2

9:00-9:15 Breakfast

Time
Author
Title
9:15-9:45
Jia Xiang (zoom)
“Physician Learning and Defensive Medicine” https://psu.zoom.us/j/97089261959?pwd=ZWs1VDZRMXBzK1V4eEVBZlk1Nkp1UT09
9:45-10:15
Daniel Xu
“Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China:

10:15-10:45 Coffee break

Time
Author
Title
10:45-11:15
Felix Tintelnot
“Spatial Economics for Granular Settings”
11:15-11:45
Ahmad Lashkaripour
“Who Pays for Markups in a Global Economy? The Unequal Impacts of International Rent-Shifting”

11:45-1:15 Lunch-Gardens Restaurant

Time
Author
Title
1:15-1:45
Nail Kashaev
“Peer effects in random consideration sets’’
1:45-2:15
Desire Kedagni
“GENERALIZED DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES MODELS: ROBUST BOUNDS”
2:15-2:45
Kerem Cosar
“Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era: A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages”

2:45-3:15 Coffee break

Time
Author
Title
3:15-3:45
Yu Awaya
“Rational Exuberance and Bubbles”
3:45-4:15
R. Vijay Krishna
“Optimal Monitoring in Dynamic Financial Contracts”
4:15-4:45
Bruno Sultanum
“The Roots of Self-fulfilling Debt Crises”

4:45-5:00 Break

John Morgan Lecture

Time
Author
Title
5:00-6:00
Larry Samuelson
“Presumptuous Utilitariainism”

7pm Dinner - Deans Hall 1