Aarhus University-WISE 2010 Joint Workshop in Economics

AarhusUniversity (Denmark) and WISE, XiamenUniversity (China)

Xiamen, 9-10 Dec 2010

Venue: Econ D310

PRELIMINARY

9 December 2010

8:30– 8:45Opening remarks by Tor Eriksson, ASB, AarhusUniversity

8:45–9:00Opening remarks by TBA, WISE, XiamenUniversity

9:00 – 10:30 Morning Session 1

9:00– 9:30 Presenter 1Kenneth Lykke Soerensen

Return to Experience Given Initial Wages: Do Low Wage Workers Catch up?

9:30– 10:00 Presenter 2 Kailing Shen

Title pending: OnJob Stability

10:00 –10:30 Presenter 3 Tor Eriksson

Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-offs and Sorting

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00–12:30Morning Session 2

11:00– 11:30 Presenter4Shife Fu

Title pending: On Knowledge Spillovers

11:30 – 12:00 Presenter5Frederic Warzynski

Learning by Exporting, Importing, or Both? Estimating Productivity with Muti-Product firms, Price Heterogeneity and the Role of International Trade

12:00–12:30 Presenter6Chun-Chung Au

Title pending:

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (Venue: YifuBuilding)

2:00–3 :30Afternoon Session 1

2:00 –2:30 Presenter7Rune Vammen Lesner

State Dependency on the Danish Labor Market

2:30 – 3:00 Presenter 8Lei Meng

Can Grain Subsidy Impede Rural-Urban Migration in Hinterland China? Evidence from FieldSurveys

3:00 – 3:30 Presenter 9 Mariola Pytlikova

The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration

3:30– 4:00 Coffee Break

4:00–5:30Afternoon Session 2

4:00–4:30 Presenter10Yunsen Li

Household Income Uncertainty and Food Consumption in Rural China

4:30 –5:00 Presenter11 Bo Zhou

Intergenerational Income Mobility in China

5:00 – 5:30 Presenter 12Yongmiao Hong

Regression Models for Cross-Sectional Interval-Valued Data

5:30 Dinner (Venue:Seafood restaurant )

10 December 2010

9:00 – 10:30 Morning Session 1

9:00 – 9:30 Presenter 13 Jia Su

Semiparametric Varying-coefficient Instrumental Variables Models

9:30 –10:00 Presenter 14 Jinfeng Zhang

A Simple Spatial Dependence Test Robust to Local and Distributional Misspecifications

10:00–10:30 Presenter 15 Yafeng Wang

Generalized Maximum Entropy Estimation of Discrete Sequential Move Gamesof Perfect Information

10:30– 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00–12:30Morning Session 2

11:00– 11:30 Presenter16Yanan He

Unbiasednessandmarketefficiencyofcrudeoilfutures:

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11:30 – 12:00 Presenter 17 Yupeng Zhang

Density Forecast Evaluation Using Data-Driven Smooth Test

12:00 – 12:30 Presenter18 Haiqi Li

Model Selection Test for the Competing Semiparametric Conditional Moment Models

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (Venue:TBA )

2:00 – Relax and sightseeing

List of participants:

Name / Email / Institution
Tor Eriksson* / / AarhusUniversity
Cedric Gorinas / / AarhusUniversity
Rune Vammen Lesner* / / AarhusUniversity
Dario Pozzoli / / AarhusUniversity
Mariola Pytlikova* / / AarhusUniversity
Kenneth Lykke Soerensen* / / AarhusUniversity
Ott Toomet / / TartuUniversity, AarhusUniversity
Frederic Warzynski* / / AarhusUniversity
Chun-Chung Au* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Ying Fang / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Shihe Fu* /
Brett Graham / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Yanan He* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Yongmiao Hong* /
/ CornellUniversity
WISE, XiamenUniversity
Haiqi Li* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Yunsen Li* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Lei Meng* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Kailing Shen* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Jia Su* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Yafeng Wang* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Jinfeng Zhang* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Yupeng Zhang* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity
Bo Zhou* / / WISE, XiamenUniversity

Note: Presenter is marked by an asterisk.

Participants’Field of Interests:

Tor Eriksson (Professor): Labor, Health, Experimental Economics

Cedric Gorinas (PhD student): Labor, Migration

Rune Vammen Lesner (PhD student): Labor, Econometrics

Dario Pozzoli (Assistant Professor): Labor, Econometrics

Mariola Pytlikova (Assistant Professor): Labor, Migration

Kenneth Lykke Soerensen (PhD student): Labor, Econometrics

Ott Toomet (Post-doc): Labor (incentive effects, program evaluation, discrimination, social networks), Search Models, Microeconometrics

Frederic Warzynski (Associate Professor): Personnel Economics, IO, Empirical Trade

Chun-Chung Au (Assistant Professor): Labor, Urban, Applied Econometrics, Development

Ying Fang(Assistant Professor): Econometrics, Applied Econometrics

Shihe Fu (Associate Professor): Urban, Real Estate, Applied Econometrics, Economic Growth

Brett Graham (Assistant Professor): IO, Political Economy, Game Theory

Yanan He(Post-doc): Empirical Finance

Yongmiao Hong (Professor): Econometrics, Time Series Analysis and Application, Financial Econometrics, Chinese, Economy and Empirical Studies of the Financial Markets

Haiqi Li(PhD student): EconometricsTheory, Financial Econometrics

Yunsen Li(PhD student): Labor

Lei Meng (Assistant Professor): Labor, Development, Economy of China

Kailing Shen (Assistant Professor): Labor, Applied Econometrics, Public Policy

Jia Su(PhD student): Econometrics Theory and Application

Yafeng Wang (PhD student): Game Theory and Microeconometrics

Jinfeng Zhang(PhD student): Econometrics Theory and Application

Yupeng Zhang (PhD student): Econometrics Theory and Application, Financial Econometrics

Bo Zhou(PhD student): Labor

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