The SUFE-IESR China Virtual Industrial Organization Seminar (China-VIOS) provides an online research community to help disseminate IO research in China. This IO seminar series is co-hosted by SUFE College of Business and Jinan University Institute for Economic and Social Research.

All the seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 9am to 10:15am Beijing Time. The regular seminar consists of a 45-minute presentation, a 15-minute discussion and a 15-minute Q&A. For rising-star sessions, two papers will be presented, each with a 30-minute presentation and a 15-minute discussion. The meetings will take place weekly on Zoom .

Please click on "sign in" on the top-right corner to register for this seminar series. We will send out the zoom meeting ID and password on every Tuesday night before each seminar meeting.

• Jun10,2020
  Luo,Yao(Toronto) - Labor Demand, Imperfect Competition, and Rent-Sharing: The Case of the Construction Industry
  Discussant: Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato (Duke University)
• Jun17,2020
  Rubens, Michael(KU Leuven) - Market structure, oligopsony power and productivity
  Discussant: Hongsong Zhang (Hong Kong University)
• Jun24,2020
  Xiang, Jia(Penn State University) - Physicians as Persuaders: Evidence from Hospitals in China
  Wang, Ao(CREST) - A BLP Demand Model of Product-Level Market Shares with Complementarity
• Jul1,2020
  Huang, Sunny(HKUST) - Building Reputation on Online Platforms
  Discussant: Ginger Jin (Maryland)
• Jul8,2020
  Xin, Yi(Caltech) - Time-Varying Risk Aversion: Evidence from Near-Miss Accidents
  Discussant: Yiyi Zhou (Stony Brook)
• Jul15,2020
  Tao Xuezhen(SUFE) - Auction as a Learning Mechanism: Estimating the Impact of iPhone 5 Introduction on Secondhand iPhone 4S Transactions on eBay
  Discussant: Ying Fan (Michigan)
• Jul22,2020
  Chen, Yanyou(Duke University) - Efficiency Gain from Mergers: Evidence from the U.S. Railroad Network
  Li, Shaoteng(Queen's) - Dynamic Competition in Negotiated Price Markets
• Jul29,2020
  Han, Xintong(Concordia University) -An Empirical Study from a Question-and-Answer Platform
  Discussant: Yufeng Huang (Rochester)

Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order):
Shuaizhang Feng, Jinan IESR
Heng Ju, SUFE College of Business
Mark Roberts, Pennsylvania State University
Mo Xiao, University of Arizona
Daniel Xu, Duke University