2025 NUS-WHU ECONOMICS CONFERENCE

2025.3.23

Conference Information

1. Accommodation

Address: No. 19 East Lake South Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei

The hotel is near Yangbo Gate (扬波门) of Wuhan University

2. Transportation

3. Weather 

4. Registration

5. Dining Information

Invitation letter

You can find an invitation letter at the end of the conference manual. Please feel free to use it as needed.

6. Map

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7. Program 

March 21 · Luojia Hills Hotel

15:00—20:00 Registration

20:00—21:00 Panel Discussion

March 22 Morning · Luojia Hills Hotel, Yujia Hills Hall (3rd floor, 喻家山)

09:00—09:10 Opening Speech

QUAH John K.-H.

09:10—09:45 Keynote by QUAH John K.-H.

Comparative Statics with Adjustment Costs and the le Chatelier

Principle (with DEKEL Eddie, SINANDER Ludvig)

09:45—10:20 Keynote by ZHANG Jie

Growth through Cycles with a Labor-Leisure Tradeoff

10:20—10:30 Group Photo

10:30—10:50 Tea Break

10:50—11:25 Keynote by SUN Yeneng

Monotone Perfection (with HE Wei, XU Hanping)

11:25—12:00 Keynote by CHEW Soo Hong

Goal Intelligence: From Brain Plasticity to Experiential

Consciousness to Decision Quality (with EBSTEIN Richard)

12:00—13:30 Lunch

Luojia Hills Hotel, Chutian Hall (1st floor, 楚天厅)

March 22 Afternoon · Science Building, Wuhan University

13:30 Meeting at the lobby of hotel

13:30—14:00 Shuttle Bus, Hotel à Meeting Point

14:00—16:00 Parallel Sessions 1-4

16:00—17:30 Campus Visit

17:45 Meeting Point

17:45—18:00 Shuttle Bus, Meeting Point à Hotel

18:00—20:30 Dinner

March 23 · Luojia Hills Hotel

09:00—12:00 Panel Discussion

8. Program of Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session 1 Microeconomics

理学楼 202    Chair: ZHAO Wenbo 赵文博

14:00—14:30      PEI Ting 裴挺

                           Certification Design with Outside Option

14:30—15:00      FENG Xin 冯欣

                           Monopoly pricing, Bayesian Persuasion, Costly Information Acquisition

15:00—15:30      ZHANG Xinhan 张心瀚

                           Correlation Preference    

                              with CHEW Soo Hong, CHEN Yi-Chun

15:30—16:00      ZHAO Wenbo 赵文博

                            Intertemporal Bundling

                                with LU Jingfeng

Parallel Session 2 Empirical Topics

理学楼 203          Chair: DUAN Yige 段伊戈

14:00—14:30      YUAN Ye 袁野

                            The story of fire and water: Cryptocurrency, nomad miners, and environmental consequences

                                with LU Wenyi, ZHANG Fan

14:30—15:00      DUAN Yige 段伊戈

                            Corporate Tax Cuts and Worker Earnings: Evidence from Small Businesses

                                with MOON Terry

15:00—15:30      XIE Huihua 谢慧华

                            Causal Estimates under Kink Setting: Inference from the Tax Treatment of Medical Insurance Expenses

                                with LU Yi, WANG Jianguo

Parallel Session 3 Behavioral and Experimental Economics

理学楼 206          Chair: YANG Songtao 杨松涛

14:00—14:30      SHEN Qiang 沈强

                            Behavioral Separability Revealed

                                with Fadong Chen, Bin Miao, Songfa Zhong

14:30—15:00      WU Ziye 吴子晔

                            Better and Faster Decisions with Recommendation Algorithms

                                with CHEN Yiting, ZHONG Songfa

15:00—15:30      YANG Songtao 杨松涛

                            The Effects of Education on Parenting Styles: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Parallel Session 4 Macroeconomics

理学楼 207          Chair: ZENG Ting 曾婷

14:00—14:30      ZENG Ting 曾婷

                            财产性收入、财富不平等与共同富裕

                                with CAO Qian, ZHU Shenghao

14:30—15:00      REN Jie 任傑

                            The Reversal of the Gender Education Gap with Economic Development

                                with FENG Ying, RENDALL Michelle

15:00—15:30      WANG Peng 王鹏

                            Dynamic Tax Evasion and Auditing of Past Returns