NUS IO+ Bulletin
2024 NUS IO Day
Date: August 30, 2024
The National University of Singapore will hold its inaugural Industrial Organisation Day on 30th August, 2024. This conference is jointly hosted by the Department of Economics (CHS) and the Departments of Real Estate and Strategy and Policy (BIZ).
Our guests of honour are Ginger Jin (Maryland) and Charles Hodgson (Yale). Invited speakers include Zhonglin Li (NUS DRE), Binglin Wang (NUS DRE), Yuting Zhu (NUS Marketing), Kwok-Hao Lee (NUS S&P, co-chair), and Tiffany Tsai (NUS Econ, co-chair).
Guests of Honour
Ginger Zhe Jin is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Most of her research focuses on information asymmetry among economic agents and how to provide information to overcome the information problem. The applications she has studied include retail food safety, health insurance, prescription drugs, e-commerce, regulatory inspection, scientific innovation, air quality, blood donation, vaccination, intrafamilial interaction, data regulation, and consumer protection.
She is currently a managing editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, advisory council member of the Journal of Industrial Economics, and board member of the Industrial Organization Society. Since 2012, she has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Charles Hodgson is Assistant Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. He was previously a Postdoctoral Associate at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale. Hodgson’s research interests are in industrial organization and applied microeconomics. His current research focuses on search, learning, and matching problems faced by economic agents in settings including natural resource exploration, consumer search, and organ allocation.
NUS IO+ Seminars
The National University of Singapore (NUS) regularly hosts seminar speakers in all fields of Economics, including but not limited to Empirical Industrial Organization (and IO-plus). See
- https://bschool.nus.edu.sg/strategy-policy/events/ for all seminars at the Department of Strategy and Policy;
- https://bschool.nus.edu.sg/real-estate/events/ for all seminars at the Department of Real Estate; and
- https://fass.nus.edu.sg/ecs/seminar-this-semester/ for all seminars at the Department of Economics.
Below is a partial list of IO(-plus) speakers at NUS since Academic Year 2023/2024. Future dates indicate scheduled seminars.
2025
- May 7: Renata Gaineddenova (Harvard Business School)
- Apr 16: Michael Sullivan (Western University)
- Mar 19-20: Liran Einav (Stanford University)
- Jan 15: Gaurab Aryal (Boston University)
2024
- Dec 4: Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University)
- Nov 28: Ying Fan (University of Michigan)
- Nov 7: Kenneth Gillingham (Yale School of the Environment)
- Sep 25: Kei Kawai (University of Tokyo)
- Sep 11: Seth Zimmerman (Yale School of Management)
- Aug 30: NUS IO Day
- Aug 29: Ginger Jin (University of Maryland)
- Aug 28: Charles Hodgson (Yale University)
- Aug 7: Zhijun Chen (Monash University)
- May 2: Shanjun Li (Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management)
- Apr 18: Gaston Illanes (Northwestern University)
- Apr 4: Chuqing Jin (Toulouse School of Economics)
- Mar 18: Elie Tamer (Harvard University)
- Mar 13: Leon Musolff (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
- Mar 7: Matthew Osborne (University of Toronto-Mississauga and Rotman School of Management)
- Feb 26: Aureo de Paula (University College London)
- Jan 24: Kenneth Khoo (National University of Singapore Faculty of Law)
2023
- Nov 23: Andrey Fradkin (Boston University Questrom School of Business)
- Nov 14: Samuel Goldberg (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
- Oct 19: Kevin Williams (Yale School of Management)
- Oct 12: Mo Xiao (University of Arizona)
- Aug 24: Allan Hsiao (Princeton University)
- Aug 24: Boyoung Seo (Indiana University Kelley School of Business)