Seminars

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Neoh, a leading member of the Hong Kong Bar and previously a senior public servant in Hong Kong and Beijing, will speak on the importance of future Chinese economic, social and political development of the 19th Party Congress, which has just concluded in China, and what implications these developments might have for the […]

Examine the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to 1976―an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao.

Speaker: Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Keller obtained his PhD at Yale University in 1995 and is a professor with interests in international trade & investment and economic development. He is one of the leading experts on the international diffusion of technological knowledge. He also has recent work, funded by the National […]

Speaker: Alberto Salvo Alberto Salvo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include Energy & Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Microeconomics in general. His current research falls under the broad theme: “Individual Behavior, the Environment, and Socioeconomic Outcomes.” He studies how the behavior and incentives of […]

Speaker: Ricardo Hausmann Ricardo Hausmann is Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Director of the Growth Lab at Harvard’s Center for International Development. He served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank from 1994-2000, and Minister of Planning of Venezuela from 1992-1993. His […]

Speaker: Johanna Mair Johanna Mair is Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School. Her research focuses on how novel organisational and institutional arrangements generate economic and social development. Mair is also the Distinguished Fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Academic Editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review and […]

Speaker: Mathias Reynaert Mathias Reynaert is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and a research affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His fields of interest are empirical industrial organization and environmental economics. The main focus of his research is the evaluation of taxes and regulations in the European […]

Speaker bio:David Molitor is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research explores factors that shape health and health care delivery in the United States, with a focus on physician behavior, technology adoption, and environmental adaptation. Abstract: We follow Medicare cohorts over time and space to estimate Hurricane Katrina’s long-run […]

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Neoh, a leading member of the Hong Kong Bar and previously a senior public servant in Hong Kong and Beijing, will speak on the importance of future Chinese economic, social and political development of the 19th Party Congress, which has just concluded in China, and what implications these developments might have for the […]