First Day Morning Session (Thursday, 13th December 2012)
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Professor Jesús Seade Vice-President of Lingnan UniversityOpen Remark
Professor Ping Lin President of Hong Kong Economic Association |
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Keynote Speech
Professor James Mirrlees The Chinese University of Hong Kong"Do We Need a New Economic Theory?" |
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Session 1A Education
Professor Li Han, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Can Conditional Grants Attract Better Students: Evidence from Chinese Normal Universities"
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Ms. Chun Yee Wong, The University of New South Wales "The Effect of Voucher on Demand for Kindergarten Education" |
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Mr. Daniel L. Bennett, Florida State University "Universities and Income Inequality: Testing the Bernanke-Obama Hypothesis" |
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Dr. Sam Hak Kan Tang, The University of Western Australia "Maids or Mentors? The Effects of Live-in Foreign Domestic Workers on School Children's Educational Achievement in Hong Kong" |
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Session 1B Asset Bubbles, Business Cycles and Financial CrisesDr. Tarishi Matsuoka, Tokyo Metropolitan University "Asset Bubbles in an Overlapping Generations Model with Credit Market Imperfections" |
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Dr. Takuma Kunieda, City University of Hong Kong "Asset Bubbles, Economic Growth, and a Self-Fulfilling Financial Crisis" |
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Mr. Lifang Xu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Stock Market Bubbles and Unemployment" |
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Session 1C Growth and Productivity
Professor Xiaowen Tian, Bond University "Does FDI widen regional disparities in emerging markets? Theory and evidence"
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Dr. Alice Shiu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "How Efficient is China's Fast Growth? - An Industry-level Investigation with a Newly Constructed Data Set" |
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Dr. Bosco Yu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "The secondary mortgage market in Hong Kong: current development and policy implication" |
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Dr. Guych Nuryyev, I-Shou University "Corruption and Economic Growth" |
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Session 1D Monetary Policy
Ms. Emmy Lu, University of California "International Monetary Transmission in a Small Open Economy: An Application to Hong Kong" |
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Mr. Yoshiyuki Nakazono, Waseda University "Strategic Behavior of Federal Open Market Committee Board Members: Evidence from Members' Forecasts" |
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Professor Pao-Lin Tien, Wesleyan University "The Changing Transmission Mechanism of U.S. Monetary Policy" |
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Dr. Kwo Ping Tam, Macau University of Science and Technology "A New Comparative Study on the Free-floating and Currency Board Regimes in Hong Kong" |
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Session 1E Environmental Economics
Ms. Chui Ying Lui, University of Victoria "A Global Pollution Tax Made Possible: The Case for Trade Sanctions in an International Environmental Agreement" |
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Professor Mahinda Siriwardana, University of New England "Border Adjustments under Unilateral Carbon Pricing: A Case Study of the Australian Carbon Tax" |
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Dr. Xianming Sam Meng, University of New England "The Sectoral and Distributional Effects of Australian Carbon Policy" |
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Dr. Jiamin Lu, Jinan University "Long-Term Effects of the U.S. Biofuel Policies on World Food Insecurity" |
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First Day Afternoon Session (Thursday, 13th December 2012)
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Session 2A Microeconomic Theory I
Dr. Tommy Tang, Queensland University of Technology "Assessment of Threshold Concept in Economics" |
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Ms. Yajing Chen, Waseda University "A New Random Assignment Rule and Its Axiomatization" |
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Mr. Siguang Li, Peking University "Governing Adaptation and Coordination in Organizations: The Role of Ambiguous Delegation" |
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Dr. Zhewei Wang, Shandong University "Marginal Subsidies in Tullock Contests" |
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Session 2B Financial Economics
Dr. Arafet Farroukh, LIEI University Tunis EL manar "Financial Integration, Banking Competition Changes and Stability: The Case of MENA region" |
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Dr. XiaoHua Chen, University of Bath "Equity Mutual Fund Portfolio Concentration Strategy-Overconfidence or Skills?" |
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Professor Christian C.P. Wolff, University of Luxembourg "Contingent Capital: The Case of COERCs" |
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Dr. Tomasz Korol, I-Shou University "An Expert Soft Computing System for Forecasting the Exchange Rates" |
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Session 2C Banking and Investment
Dr. Yan Dong, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics "Bank lending and SME in China: an empirical investigation" |
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Ms. Daisy Huang, City University of Hong Kong "Can Credit and Location Choice Explain the House Price Inflation in China?" |
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Dr. Ponpoje Porapakkarm, University of Macau "Quantitative Exploration of Public Health Insurance in the U.S." |
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Session 2D Immigration
Dr. Dongshu Ou, The Chinese University of Hong Kong "Immigrants and Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Hong Kong" |
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Dr. Nisar Ahmad, University of Southern Denmark "Immigrant-Native Differences in Earnings Mobility Processes: Evidence from Canadian and Danish Data" |
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Dr. Nisar Ahmad, University of Southern Denmark "State Dependence in Unemployment among Danish Immigrants" |
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First Day Evening Session (Thursday, 13th December 2012)
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Professor Yew-Kwang Ng Monash University"How Do We Analyze Extreme Global Catastrophic Risks Rationally? Climate Change and Expected Utility Maximization" |
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Session 3A Economics of Happiness: Methodological Issues and Some Recent Findings
Professor John Ifcher, Santa Clara University "Economic Growth and Subjective Well-Being Inequality (with Homa Zarghamee)" |
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Professor Yew-Kwang Ng, Monash University "Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues on Happiness: Lessons from Evolutionary Biology" |
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Dr. Lin Zou, Lingnan University "Altruism and Happiness: An Empirical Study with Panel Data in China" |
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Professor Lok-sang Ho, Lingnan University "Spirituality, Religions, and Happiness: Identifying the Nexus" |
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Session 3B Economic Development in ChinaMs. Emmy Lu, University of California "The Dynamics of Hong Kong Saving Rate" |
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Dr. Yu Chen, University of Macau "Trade credit, protectionism, and exporting: Evidence from China" |
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Dr. Jennifer T. Lai, City University of Hong Kong "Consumption risk sharing and self-insurance across provinces in China: 1952-2008" |
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Dr. Fung Kwan, University of Macau "Labour Reallocation, Productivity Growth and Dualism in China" |
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Session 3C The Role of Credit Constraints in International Trade: Theory and Evidence from China
Dr. Zhiyuan Li, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics "Exports and Credit Constraints under Incomplete Information: Theory and Evidence from China" |
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Mr. Haichao Fan, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology "Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices: Theory and Evidence from China" |
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Ms. Chen Zhao, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology "Credit Distribution and Export: Theory and Evidence from China" |
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Session 3D Health Economics
Dr. Lixia Dong, Tsinghua University "The Redistribution of New Cooperative Medical Scheme: A Quintile Treatment Effect Approach" |
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Dr. Jing Hua Zhang, Macau University of Science and Technology "Bend the Healthcare Cost Curve without Pain? The Health Outcome after the Medicare Reimbursement Cut in 1997" |
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Professor Meng Zhao, Waseda University "Retiring for Better Health? Evidence from Health Investment Behavior in Japan" |
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Mr. Chun Lok Kris Li, The University of Melbourne "On the dispersion of expected incidents when estimating the Standardised Incidence Ratio" |
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Session 3E Industrial Organization I
Mr. Calvin Qiu, University of Cambridge "Indirect Network Effects and the Quality Dimension: A Look at the Gaming Industry" |
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Mr. Knut Fournier, University West Paris "The New Hong Kong Competition Policy in Domestic and Global Context" |
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Mr. Ming Cheng, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics "Food Safety Minimum Quality Standards under Product Differentiation" |
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Professor Han Li, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics "Market Competition and Price Dispersion: Evidence from the Airline Market along the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway" |
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Second Day Morning Session (Friday, 14th December 2012)
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Professor Imran Rasul University College London
"Can Basic Entrepreneurship transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?"
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Session 4A Applied Microeconomics: Experimental Studies
Dr. Hongliang Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong "The Mirage of Elite Schools: Evidence from Lottery-based School Admissions in China" |
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Mr. Aganitpol Sivakul, University of Oxford "Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers, The Case of Bangladesh" |
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Professor Stan Siebert, University of Birmingham "Quality and Quantity Trade-off under different Monitoring and Payment Systems: Experimental Evidence from an Internship Scheme in China" |
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Session 4B Economics of Intellectual Properties
Professor Paul Jensen, University of Melbourne "Patent Examination Outcomes and the National Treatment Principle" |
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Dr. Jin-Hyuk Kim, University of Colorado at Boulder "Peer Reviewed Prior Art Pilot Program: Some Preliminary Results" |
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Professor Tin Cheuk Tommy Leung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong "Does Jailbreaking Raise Smartphone Profit? A Conjoint Survey Approach" |
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Session 4C International Trade and FDI
Dr. Yao Amber Li, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology "Imported Intermediate Inputs, Export Prices, and Trade Liberalization" |
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Dr. Chia-Hui Lu, City University of Hong Kong "Pollution from China's Manufacturing: the Role of FDI" |
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Dr. Yifan Zhang, Lingnan University "WTO Accession and Firm-level Productivity in Chinese Manufacturing" |
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Professor Larry Dongxiao Qiu, The University of Hong Kong "The Inverted-U Shaped Investment in Abatement Technology: Theory and Evidence" |
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Session 4D Microeconomic Theory II
Dr. Kenta Toyofuku, Nihon University "The Impact of Bank Health on Coordination among Creditors"
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Professor Qian Jiao, Sun Yat-sen University "Disclosure Policy in Contest with Stochastic Abilities" |
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Professor Zhiquan Darren Weng, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics "Does Regret Explain Why People Search too little? A Model of Sequential Search with Anticipatory Regret and Rejoicing" |
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Session 4E Economic Growth
Dr. Rajarshi Mitra, Kyushu University "Investigating the Aid-Growth Nexus – A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Asia" |
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Dr. Wenzhe Zhao, Central University of Finance and Economics "Trust in Government in China" |
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Professor Ronald A. Edwards, Tamkang University "On the onset of the Industrial Revolution and its Two Types: Song China and England" |
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Second Day Afternoon Session (Friday, 14th December 2012)
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Keynote Speech
Professor Chenggang Xu The University of Hong Kong"Political and Economic Institutions of China and Constitutionalism" |
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Session 5A Finance and Industrial Economics
Dr. Shaojun Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Evidence of Trading on Inside Information in China" |
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Dr. Mike Fung, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Cumulative Prospect Theory and Risk Taking by Managers" |
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Dr. Tianle Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Group Coupons: Interpersonal Bundling on the Internet" |
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Dr. Sudeep Ghosh, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Product Differentiation and Price Competition with Price Restraints: Theory and Experimental Evidence on Pricing in Spatial Models" |
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Session 5B Pubic Economics
Professor Tao Li, University of Macau "Span of Control in an Authoritarian Government" |
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Dr. Li Liu, University of Oxford "The Elasticity of Corporate Taxable Income: New Evidence from UK Tax Records" |
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Dr. Tuan-Hwee Sng, National University of Singapore "Taxation and Public Goods Provision in China and Japan before 1850" |
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Session 5C Chinese Economy
Mr. Long Zhao, Hong Kong Baptist University "The Structural Efficiency of China Economy since the Reform Policy" |
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Dr. Jilei Huang, Shandong University "Sources of China’s Post-reform Business Cycles: An SVAR analysis from the IS-LM perspective" |
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Ms. Xuechao Qian, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics "Human Capital Investment, Endowment and Social Mobility in China: 1989-2009" |
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Session 5D Trade and FDI
Ms. Yumiko Taba, Waseda University "State Trading Enterprises in Trade Liberalization" |
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Dr. Tae-Jeong Kim, The Bank of Korea "Fixed Capital Investment in Korea: Its Features and Impact on the Korean Economy" |
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Mr. Zhiwei Xu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology "Two-Way Capital Flows and Global Imbalances A Neoclassical Approach" |
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Mr. Thanapol Srithanpong, Keio University "Productivity and Wage Spillovers from FDI in Thailand: Evidence from Plant-level Analysis" |
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Session 5E Stock Market
Dr. Chiu Yu Ko, National University of Singapore "Hide and Seek: Uniformed Traders and Short Sale Constraints" |
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Ms. Jinyue Dong, City University of Hong Kong "Understanding Stock and Housing Return in an Integrated Framework: An Empirical Investigation of Consumption and Housing based Asset Pricing Models" |
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Professor Jae-Kwang Hwang, Virginia State University "Dynamic Correlation Analysis of Financial Contagion: Evidence from Latin America Stock Markets" |
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Dr. Hsiang-Chih Hwang, Lingnan University of Hong Kong "How Did the Hong Kong IPOS Market Become Popular Lately?" |
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Second Day Evening Session (Friday, 14th December 2012)
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Session 6A Trade, R&D and Productivity
Dr. Lei Yang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Contractual R&D and Intellectual Property Protection" |
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Professor Keith Maskus, University of Colorado Boulder "Patent Reforms and Export Specialization" |
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Professor Xinpeng Xu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University "Trade, Local Outsourcing and Productivity" |
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Session 6B Applied Efficiency Analysis
Professor Rolf Fare, Oregon State University "Two Applications of Shephard's Distance Functions" |
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Professor Finn R Førsund, University of Oslo "Structural Change in Thermal Electricity Generation at the Province Level in China 1998-2006" |
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Professor Shawna Grosskopf, Oregon State University "Centralized or Decentralized Control of School Resources: a Network Model" |
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Dr. Sung Ko Li, Hong Kong Baptist University "Market Reform versus Management Reform: A Case Study in the Sector of Electrical Equipment" |
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Session 6C Regional Economics
Dr. Muhammad Kaleem, Kohat University of Science and Technology "Small Cities; Big Avenues—Analysis of Economic Potential for Public Enterprises in Southern Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkwa (Pakistan)" |
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Dr. A.Amarender Reddy, International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics "Structure of Employment in Rural India" |
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Ms. Amber Naz, University of Southern Denmark "Regional Labor Price Convergence" |
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Session 6D Econometric Theory
Ms. Lin Zhou, University of Tsukuba "Economics of Scale in Household Food Consumption: a Resolution to Measurement Error of Household Size due to Food Away From Home" |
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Dr. Chu-an Liu, National University of Singapore "A Plug-In Averaging Estimator for Regressions with Heteroskedastic Errors" |
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Session 6E Development
Mr. Eijaz Ahmed Khan, Curtin University "Sustainable Growth of Informal Social Micro-enterprises (ISMEs): A Multidimensional Model" |
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Mr. Md. Nuruzzaman, Curtin University "The Competitiveness and Supply Chain Management of Ready-Made Garment (RMG) Industry in Developing Nations" |
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Dr. Meenakshi Sharma, Birla Institute of Technology "The Imperatives of Pricing Strategy of Indian Real Estate" |