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. One-paper sessions will have a 45-minute presentation, a 15-minute discussion and a 15-minute Q&A. For two-paper sessions, each paper will have a 25-minute presentation, a 10-minute discussion and a 10-minute Q&A. The meetings will take place weekly on Zoom.

• Jun 9, 2021
  Panel Session: Antitrust Policy and Platform Economics
  Chair: Mark Roberts
  Presenters:
  Ginger Jin (University of Maryland): Platform as A Rule Maker: Evidence from Airbnb Cancellation Policy
  Heng Ju (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): “IO in recent AML Enforcements”
  Guofu Tan (University of Southern California): “Modeling and Data Works in Antitrust Enforcement”
  

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• Jun 16, 2021
  Chair: Mo Xiao
  Yufeng Huang (University of Rochester) - Seller-Pricing Frictions and Platform Remedies
  Discussant: Zach Brown (University of Michigan)

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• Jun 23 ,2021
  Chair: Daniel Xu
  Yushi Peng (University of Zurich) - Mortgage Credit and Housing Markets
  Discussant: Shaoteng Li (Jinan University)
  
  Chao Ma (Xiamen University) - Spatial Competition with Online Platforms: Theory and Evidence
  Discussant: Qihong Liu (University of Oklahoma)

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• Jun 30, 2021
  Chair: Heng Ju
  Kohei Kawaguchi (HKUST)- Merger Analysis in the App Economy: An Empirical Model of Ad-Sponsored Media
  Discussant: Yi Xin (California Institute of Technology)

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• Jul 7, 2021
  Chair: Daniel Xu
  Yating Jiang (Hong Kong University) - Epidemics, Inventory, and Markup: Evidence from the 2003 SARS Shock in China
  Discussant: Devesh Raval (The U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
  
  Yu Zhou (Fudan University)- Anxiety or Mobility Restriction: Evidence from the Online Platform Purchases in COVID-19 Pandemic
  Discussant: Matthew Shi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

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• Jul 14, 2021
  Chair: Mo Xiao
  Lei Xu (Bank of Canada) - Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market
  Discussant: David Byrne (The University of Melbourne)

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• Jul 21, 2021
  Chair: Heng Ju
  Han Yuan (University of Arizona)- Competing for Time: A Study of Mobile Applications
  Discussant: Ao Wang (the University of Warwick)
  
  Yu Hao (The University of British Columbia)- How do firms build up mutual trust in a dynamic game: A study on collusive pricing in the Chilean pharmacy retailing industry
  Discussant: Jia Xiang (Harvard University)

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• Jul 28, 2021
  Panel Session: Economics and Economists in Asia’s Big Techs
  Chair: Mark Roberts 
  Moderator: Nan Yang (Adjunct Associate Professor, National University of Singapore)
  Presenters: (in alphabetical order) 
  Harikesh Nair (Jonathan B. Lovelace Professor of Marketing at Stanford GSB/Former Chief Business Strategy Scientist at JD.com/Incoming Chief Scientist at Google Ads)
  Sze Han Ong (Head of Economics at Grab)
  Miaoyu Yang (Economics Manager at Kuaishou)