Aarhus University-WISE 2010 Joint Workshop Program(updated)

Aarhus University-WISE 2010 Joint Workshop in Economics

Aarhus University (Denmark) and WISE, Xiamen University (China)

Xiamen, 9-10 Dec 2010

 Venue: Econ D310

9 December 2010 

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

8:45 – 9:00 Opening remarks, TBA, WISE, Xiamen University 

9:00 – 10:30 Morning Session 1  

       9:00 – 9:30    Kenneth Lykke Soerensen

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

              9:30 – 10:00   Kailing Shen

Job Stability in the United States: A Reexamination based on Time-Dependent Coefficients Duration Models

              10:00 – 10:30  Tor Eriksson

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

10:30 – 11:00 Group Photo and Coffee Break

11:00– 12:30 Morning Session 2   

11:00 – 11:30  Shihe Fu

Why do Minorities Benefit Less from Labor Market Agglomeration Economies?

11:30 – 12:00  Frederic 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  Chun-Chung Au

Urban Growth in China 1986-2006  

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (Venue: Faculty Lounge) 

2:00 –3 :30 Afternoon Session 1   

2:00 – 2:30   Rune Vammen Lesner

State Dependency on the Danish Labor Market

2:30 – 3:00   Lei Meng 

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

3:00 – 3:30   Mariola Pytlikova 

The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration  

3:30– 4:00 Coffee Break 

4:00 – 5:30 Afternoon Session 2  

4:00 – 4:30   Bo Zhou

Intergenerational Income Mobility in China

              4:30 – 5:00   Yanan He

Unbiasedness and market efficiency of crude oil futures: 

A revisit

5:00 – 5:30   Yongmiao 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    Jia Su  

Semiparametric Varying-coefficient Instrumental Variables Models

9:30 – 10:00   Jinfeng Zhang

A Simple Spatial Dependence Test Robust to Local and Distributional Misspecifications

              10:00 – 10:30  Yafeng Wang 

Generalized Maximum Entropy Estimation of Discrete Sequential Move Games of Perfect Information 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 

11:00– 12:00 Morning Session 2   

11:00 – 11:30  Yupeng Zhang

Density Forecast Evaluation Using Data-Driven Smooth Test

11:30 – 12:00  Haiqi Li

Model Selection Test for the Competing Semiparametric Conditional Moment Models

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch (Venue: Yifu Restaurant )

2:00 –  Relax and sightseeing

List of participants

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): Econometrics Theory, Financial Econometrics

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