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Lunchtime Brown-bag Seminars in Fall 2026

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  • 2026-09-08 ~ 2026-12-03
  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm

The Center for Economic Policy (CEP) will host a series of lunchtime brown-bag seminars during the Fall term in Room LSK6045. The seminars are open to all faculty members and students. Each one-hour session will be presented by CEP research affiliates, postdoctoral fellows, or HKUST PhD students, providing an opportunity to share ongoing research and exchange ideas. Each seminar will conclude with a Q&A session.

The schedule of the seminars in the Fall term is as follows:

 

Date

Time

Venue

Presenter

Status

Topic

8 Sep 2026
(Tue)

12:00-13:00

LSK6045

Terry Cheung

Associate Research Fellow, 
Academic Sinica

From Slavery to Stagnation: Agricultural Technology and Structural Transformation in the U.S. South

17 Sep 2026
(Thu)

12:00-13:00

LSK6045

Songfa Zhong

Faculty

Putting Preference for Randomization to Work

6 Oct 2026
(Tue)

13:00-14:00

LSK6045

Minjie Ding

PhD student

Target Saving and Non-Monotonic MPC: Evidence from Delivery Riders and a HANK Model

3 Nov 2026
(Tue)

13:00-14:00

LSK6045

Byoungchan Lee

Faculty

Estimation and Implications of Nonhomothetic Matching Functions in the Aggregate Labor Market (tentative)

5 Nov 2026
(Thu)

13:00-14:00

LSK6045

Deyu Rao

Faculty

Passenger Travel Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity

19 Nov 2026
(Thu)

13:00-14:00

LSK6045

Paul Kitney

Faculty

Learning about Monetary Policy in Tractable HANK

1 Dec 2026
(Tue)

13:00-14:00

LSK6045

Chenchen Deng

PhD student

(TBC)

3 Dec 2026
(Thu)

13:00-14:00

LSK6045

Hongwei Zou

PhD student

The Spousal Insurance Channel of Monetary Policy: How Family Labor Structure Shapes Consumption

 

 

 

 


 

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