Seminars

Speaker: Ruixue Jia, University of California, San Diego Date and Time: 11:40am, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 Location: 494 Uris Hall Please stay tuned for further updates on event details.

Speaker: Wolfgang Keller Wolfgang Keller, PhD, Yale University, 1995, 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 Science Foundation, on comparative development in China and Europe. He has […]

Speaker: Loren Brandt Loren Brandt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto specializing in the Chinese economy. He has been at the University of Toronto since 1987. He is also a research fellow at the IZA (The Institute for the Study of Labor) in Bonn, Germany. He has published widely on the […]

Xi Chen Assistant Professor of Public Health (Health Policy) and in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University Affiliated Faculty, Department of Economics, Yale University PhD in Applied Economics, Cornell University (2012) Abstract: While there has been large economics literature evaluating the health cost of air pollution, less is known about its impact […]

Meng ZHAO CEO, UnionPayAdvisors, Shanghai Before launching UnionPayAdvisors, Mr. Zhao worked on credit risk modeling in the U.S. financial industry for many years. He has a BS from Tsinghua University and an MS in operation research from Duke University. UnionPayAdvisors: China UnionPay(中国银联) is the only domestic bank card organization in China. Established in 2002, it is […]

Weiwei Chen Weiwei Chen is the Director and Senior Engineer of Network Optimization and Management Division in China Unicom’s Research Institute and heads up the Big Data Research Initiative in the institute. He has been working in the research institute since graduating from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1992. China Unicom: China Unicom (中国联通) is one […]

Professor Yongheng Deng Provost’s Chair, Professor of Real Estate and Finance, National University of Singapore (NUS) Real estate is an important driver of the Chinese economy, which itself is vital for global growth. However, data limitations make it challenging to evaluate competing claims about the state of Chinese housing markets. This paper brings new data […]

Professor Ivan Png Dr. Png is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Business and Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the economics of innovation. He is the author of Managerial Economics, which has been published in multiple editions. Dr Png was a nominated MP (10th Parliament of […]