“Patent Financing, R&D Investment and TFP Dynamics” Speaker: Prof. Zhiyuan CHEN Assistant Professor School of Business Renmin University of China Date: 3 September, 2025 (Wednesday) Time: 11:00-12:15 Language: English Venue: E21B-G002

“Bottom-Up Institutional Change and Growth in China” Speaker: Prof. Xiaodong ZHU Chair Professor of Economics Faculty of Business and Economics University of Hong Kong Date: 27 August, 2025 (Wednesday) Time: 14:00-15:15 Language: English Venue: E21B-G016

“Academic Freedom and Creativity: An Empirical Investigation” Speaker: Prof. Di SIMA Assistant Professor Institute of Economics and Finance Nanjing Audit University, China Date: 20 August, 2025 (Wednesday) Time: 14:00-15:15 Language: English Venue: E21B-G016

“Labor Unions and Social Insurance” Speaker: Prof. Hanming FANG Professor of Economics Department of Economics University of Pennsylvania, USA Date: 25 June, 2025 (Wednesday) Time: 14:00-15:15 Language: English Venue: E21B-G002

“Reputational Cheap Talk Versus Prior Information” Speaker: Prof. Allen Io Kuan VONG Assistant Professor Department of Economics National University of Singapore Date: 11 June, 2025 (Wednesday) Time: 14:00-15:15 Language: English Venue: E21B-G002

“Network Analysis of Business Cycle Synchronisation” Speaker: Prof. Yongcheol SHIN Professor Department of Economics and Related Studies University of York, UK Date: 5 June, 2025 (Thursday) Time: 14:00-15:15 Language: English Venue: E21B-G002