::. Hong Kong Baptist University -- Department of Economics

2008-2009 Seminar
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The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, 34 Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong
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Speaker	Topic	Date/Time/Venue
Dr. Wen-lin FU Associate Professor Department of Economics Nanjing University	The Dynamic Evolution Characteristics of Fiscal Competition and Capital Flows: Evidence from the Provinces in China	15 October 2008 Wednesday 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Room WLB 701 Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Stuies Shaw Campus
Dr. Kwok-Chiu Fung Professor Department of Economics University of California, Santa Cruz	Measuring the Vertical Specialization in Chinese Trade	10 September 2008 Wednesday 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. Room WLB 805B Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus

2007-2008 Seminar

Speaker	Topic	Date/Time/Venue
Dr. Wing-Hong CHAN Visiting Associate Professor Department of Economics and Finance City University of Hong Kong	Conditional Regime Dependent Jumps in Bear and Bull Stock Market Returns?	24 April 2008 Thursday 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 805B Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Dr. Eric C.Y. NG Assistant Professor Department of Economics Wilfrid Laurier University	Is Natural Resource Abundance Beneficial or Detrimental to Growth and Development?	28 April 2008 Monday 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Room WLB 901E Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Prof. Wing-Keung WONG Professor Department of Economics Hong Kong Baptist University	Was there Abnormal Trading in the S&P 500 Index Options Prior to the September 11 Attacks?	11 March 2008 Tuesday 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Room WLB 701 Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Andy Xi Xiang PhD Student Department of Economics School of Business Hong Kong Baptist University	PhD Research Proposal on “The Nontradable Share Reform, Firm Value and Earnings Quality in China”	26 February 2008 Tuesday 11:00 – 12:30 p.m. Room WLB 805B Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Dr. Anne-Laure Delatte Visiting Scholar Division of Social Science Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Monetary Policy and Macroecontrol in China: The Actual Impact of Window Guidance	22 February 2008 Friday 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Room WLB 702 Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Dr. Michael K. Fung Assistant Professor School of Accounting and Finance Hong Kong Polytechnic University	“Financial Development and Economic Growth: Convergence or Divergence?”	14 February 2008 Thursday 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 701 Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Prof. Kar-yiu WONG Department of Economics University of Washington Seattle, USA	“Free Trade Areas and International Rivalry”	24 January 2008 Thursday 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Room WLB 701 Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Dr. Sylvie Demurger Researcher GATE-CNRS-University of Lyon (France) and Visiting Associate Professor School of Economics and Finance University of Hong Kong	“Migrants as Second-class Workers in Urban China? A Decomposition Analysis”	4 December 2007 Tuesday 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Room WLB 504 Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Dr. Pin NG Fulbright Visiting Scholar Department of Economics Hong Kong Baptist University and Associate Professor The W.A. Frank College of Business Northern Arizona University	“An Informal Introduction to Quantile Regression”	6 November 2007 Tuesday 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Room WLB 701 Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Dr. Yanrui WU Associate Professor Department of Economics UWA Business School Faculty of Economics and Commerce The University of Western Australia	“Environmental Efficiency and Its Determinants in China”	16 October 2007 Tuesday 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Room WLB 805B Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus
Prof. Hirofumi FUKUYAMA Faculty of Commerce Fukuoka University Japan	“Indicators an Indexes of Directional Output Loss and Input Allocative Inefficiency”	13 September 2007 Thursday 11:00 – 12:30 p.m. Room WLB 805B Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies Shaw Campus

2006-2007 Seminar

Speaker	Topic	Date/Time/Venue
Prof. Tai-Hsin Huang Department of Money and Banking National Chengchi University Taiwan	“An Application of the Meta-frontier Cost Function to the Study of Bank Efficiencies and Technology Gaps in 16 European Countries”	27 August 2007 Monday 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Room WLB805B
Prof. Young Hoon LEE Professor of Economics Hansung University South Korea	“Where does Japan Belong with respect to Temporal Variations in Productivity: East Asia or Group of Six?”	8 June 2007 Friday 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Prof. Siu Kee WONG Department of International Economics and Trade Nankai University Tianjin China	“Uniqueness and Comparative Statics of Nash Equilibrium in a Tariff Retaliation Model”	4 May 2007 Friday 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Room WLB 632
Dr. Yun Kwong KWOK Lecturer in Economics School of Accounting, Economics and Finance Deakin University Australia	“Factor Intensity Measurement and the Leontief Paradox”	21 March 2007 Wednesday 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Dr. Wing Keung WONG Associate Professor Department of Economics National University of Singapore	“Prospect and Markowitz Stochastic Dominance”	13 March 2007 Tuesday 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Mr. Wai Lun LO Research Postgraduate Student Department of Economics Hong Kong Baptist	“Modeling the Flying-geese Theory: A Mechanism of East Asian Integration”	27 February 2007 Tuesday 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Dr. Wai Man TSE Department of Economics School of Business Hong Kong Baptist University and Department of Finance Chu Hai College of Higher Education	“A Note on the Closed-Form Formula for American Options”	30 January 2007 Tuesday 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 632
Prof. Yue MA Professor Department of Economics Lingnan Univeristy	“Market Performance and Technical Efficiency of Domestic and Foreign-invested Service Industries in China”	5 December 2006 Tuesday 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 309
Dr. Wai Man TSE Department of Economics School of Business Hong Kong Baptist University and Department of Finance Chu Hai College of Higher Education	“Fixed-Strike European Arithmetic Asian Options”	24 October 2006 Tuesday 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 805B

2004-2005 Seminar

Speaker	Topic	Date/Time/Venue
Dr. Zhixiong Zeng Deaprtment of Economics The Chinese University of Hong Kong	“Volatile and Persistent Exchange Rates: How Important are Distribution Costs?”	27 April 2005 Wednesday 4 :00 - 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Prof. Kai-yuen Tsui The Chinese University of Hong Kong	“Forces Shaping China's Interprovincial Inequality”	15 February 2005 Tuesday 4:00 - 5:00 Room WLB805B
Dr. Luo Qi Weilun Visiting Professor Tsinghua University Beijing	“Foreign Direct Investment and Linkage Effects”	25 January 2005 Tuesday 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 805B
侯若石教授清華大學偉倫特聘教授	“企業體制改革的技術動力”	25 January 2005 Tuesday 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Prof.Valentin Zelenyuk Institut de Statistique Universite Catholique de Louvain	"Technological Change, Technological Catch-up, and Capital Deepening: Relative Contributions to Growth and Convergence During 90’s"	12 January 2005 Wednesday 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Prof. Suthathip Yaisawarng Department of Economics Union College	"Effects of Thai Universal Health Care Coverage on Cost Efficiency of Publicly Owned Hospitals"	30 November 2004 Tuesday 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Dr. Kim-Sau Chung Department of Economics Northwestern University	"A Crash Course on the Recent Literature of Robust Mechanism Design"	30 November 2004 Tuesday 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Prof. Eric S. Chou The Chinese University of Hong Kong	"The Boundaries of the Firms as Information Barriers"	23 November 2004 Tuesday 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 805B
Dr. Sonia M.L. Wong The University of Hong Kong	"Chief Executive Officer Turnovers and the Performance of China's Listed Enterprises"	17 November 2004 Wednesday 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Room WLB 701
Dr. Sam Hak Kan Tang Department of Economics The Chinese University of Hong Kong	"A Time-Series Analysis of Institutional Change and Economic Growth"	27 October 2004 Wednesday 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Room WLB 702

2003-2004 Seminar

Speaker	Topic	Date/Time/Venue
Dr. Sung-ko Li Assistant Professor Department of Economics Hong Kong Baptist University	"Economic Bad and Technical Efficiency of the Manufacturing Sector in China"	4 May 2004 Tuesday 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Room WLB 701
Dr. Ewin L. -C. Lai Department of Economics and Finance City University of Hong Kong	"The Most-Favored Nation Rule in Club Enlargement Negotiation"	2 March 2004 Tuesday 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Room WLB 701
Dr. Sam Hak Kan Tang Department of Economics The Chinese University of Hong Kong	"Institutions, Technical Change and Macroeconomic Volatility, Crises and Growth: A Robust Causation"	12 February 2004 Thursday 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Room WLB 701
Dr. Charles Ka Yui Leung Department of Economics The Chinese University of Hong Kong	"Intrinsic Cycles of Land Price: a simple model"	18 November 2003 Tuesday 4 :00 - 5:00 p.m. Room WLB701
Prof. Alex Michalos University of Northern British Columbia Canada	"Connecting Business Ethics to the Quality of Life "	13 November 2003 Thursday 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Room WLB701
Prof. Jie Yang Department of Economics The University of Ottawa Canada	"Rational Marriage and Divorce: A Theoretical Model with Empirical Evidence"	14 October 2003 Tuesday 4 :00 - 5:00 p.m. Room WLB901E
Prof. Gianluigi Pelloni Associate Professor Department of Economics The University of Pisa	"Macroeconomic effects of employment reallocation shocks: a review and an appraisal from an applied perspective"	26 September 2003 Friday 2 :15 - 3:45 p.m. Room WLB701
Dr. Ka-Fu Wong Assistant Professor School of Economics and Finance The University of Hong Kong	"Do Dragons have better fate?"	28 January 2003 Tuesday 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Room WLB701

2001/2002 Seminar

Speaker	Topic	Date/Time/Venue
Prof. George E. Battese Associate Professor of Econometrics Centre for Efficiency & Productivity Analysis School of Economics The University of New England	"Technical Efficiencies of Rice Farmers Under Different Irrigation Systems and Cropping Seasons in West Java"	17 July 2002 Wednesday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB701
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Horst Steinmann University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Germany	"Corporate Ethnics in Germany - Theory and Practice"	18 June 2002 Tuesday 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. WLB701
Dr. Wing-Keung Wong Department of Economics National University of Singapore Singapore	"On Two-Moment Decision Models and Expected Utility Maximization"	4 June 2002 Tuseday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB701
Prof. Yew-Kwang Ng Department of Economics Monash University Australia	Paper 1: "Why Do Governments Encourage Improvements in Infrastructure? Indirect Network Externality of Transaction Efficiency" Paper 2: "Eternal Coase and External Costs: A case for Bilaterial Taxation and Amenity Rights"	17 May 2002 Friday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB701
Prof. Yew-Kwang Ng Department of Economics Monash University Australia	"From preference to happiness: Towards a more complete welfare economics."	16 May 2002 Thursday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB701
Dr. Matthew Yiu Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research	"Unobservable-Component Estimates of Output Gaps in Five Asian Economies"	14 May 2002 Tuesday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB701
Dr. Dic Lo Lecturer Department of Economics School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London UK	"Towards a Re-interpretation of the Economics of Feasible Socialism"	7 May 2002 Tuesday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB701
Dr. Hongbin Li Assistant Professor Department of Economics The Chinese University of Hong Kong	"Bank Discrimination in Transition Economies: Ideology, Information or Incentives?"	9 April 2002 Tuesday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB701
Dr. Stefan Gerlach Director Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research	"Hong Kong's Currency Board: Modelling the discretion on the strong side" <Paper is available for download>	12 March 2002 Tuesday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB701
Dr. Sau-leung Yip Associate Professor Nanyang Technological University Singapore	"The Impacts of Hong Kong's Currency Board Reforms on the Interbank Market" <Paper is available for download>	26 February 2002 Tuesday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB701
Mr. Po-yin Liu MPhil student Hong Kong Baptist University	"Productivity Growth and Technical Efficiency in Chinese Electronics Industry"	5 February 2002 Tuesday 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. WLB623
Prof. Laurence Ball Professor of Economics John Hopkins Univeristy Visiting Scholar HKIMR	"The Fed and the New Economy"	22 January 2002 Tuesday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB901E
Prof. Yongmiao Hong Department of Economics Cornell University USA	"Nonparametric Specification Testing for Continuous-Time Model with Application to Spot Interest Rates"	19 December 2001 Wednesday 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. WLB901D
Dr. Sarah Y. Tong Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy The University of Hong Kong	"Networking, Market Transition and Barriers to Entry: Export by Vietnam Private Firms"	20 November 2001 Tuesday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB901D
郭熙保教授經濟發展研究中心主任武漢大學	從發展經濟學觀點看中國收入分配不等問題	6 November 2001 Tuesday 2:15 - 3:45 p.m. WLB901D
Dr. Y. Stephen Chiu Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics Chinese University of Hong Kong	"A Model of Commitment Strengthening in a Fixed Exchange Rate Regime"	26 October 2001 Friday 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. WLB901D
Dr. SHU, Chang Research Department Hong Kong Monetary Authority	"Real Appreciation and Capital Flows: A Panel Study"	9 October 2001 Tuesday 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. WLB901E
Prof. Yiu-Kuen Tse Professor of Economics School of Business Singapore Management University	"Physical Delivery versus Cash Settlement: An Empirical Study on the Feeder Cattle Contract"	23 August 2001 Thursday 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. WLB901D

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