Job Market Seminars
Job Market Seminars
Job Market Seminars Michela Giorcelli (Stanford University)
"The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfer: Evidence from the US Productivity Program” abstract This paper uses a unique historical episode to assess the long-run effects of man-agement and technology transfer on firm performance. During the 1950s, as part of the Marshall Plan, the US administration sponsored management-training trips for European managers to US…
Job Market Seminars Gabriella Santangelo (Yale University)
"Firms and Farms: The Impact of Agricultural Productivity on the Local Indian Economy"
Job Market Seminars Camilla Roncoroni (Yale University)
"Political Connections and Market Structure"
Job Market Seminars Bruno Salcedo (Penn State University)
"Pricing Algorithms and Tacit Collusion" Abstract There is an increasing tendency for firms to use pricing algorithms that speedily react to market conditions, such as the ones used by major airlines and online retailers like Amazon. I consider a dynamic model in which firms commit to pricing algorithms in the short run. Over time, their algorithms can be revealed…
Job Market Seminars Stefano Sacchetto (London Business School)
"Merger Activity in Industry Equilibrium" ABSTRACT We study a dynamic industry-equilibrium model that features mergers, entry, and exit by heterogeneous firms. We show how different sources of synergies affect merger cyclicality. Improvements in marginal productivity between merging firms generate a procyclical motive for mergers, while reductions in fixed costs of production generate a countercyclical one.…
Job Market Seminars Andres Garcia-Suaza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
"Oaxaca-Blinder type Decomposition Methods for Duration Outcomes"
Job Market Seminars Jorge Vasquez (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Crime and Vigilance"
Job Market Seminars Ruben Gaetani (Northwestern)
"The Geography of Unconventional Innovation"
Job Market Seminars Mariana Khapko (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Asset Pricing with Dynamically Inconsistent Agents"
Job Market Seminars Laura Lasio (Toulouse School of Economics and CREST, Paris)
"Delisting of Pharmaceuticals from Insurance Coverage: Effects on Consumption, Pricing and Expenditures in France"
Job Market Seminars Pedro H. C. Sant’Anna (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
"Nonparametric Tests for Conditional Treatment Effects in Duration Outcomes"
Job Market Seminars Alexandre De Cornière (University of Oxford)
"Quality Provision in the Presence of a BiasedIntermediary"
Job Market Seminars Attila Lindner (University of California Berkeley)
"Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?"
Job Market Seminars Pietro Biroli (University of Chicago)
"Genetic and Economic Interaction in the Formationof Human Capital: The Case of Obesity"
Job Market Seminars Mattia Girotti (Toulouse School of Economics)
"How Monetary Policy Changes Bank Liability Structure and Funding Cost"
Job Market Seminars Kirill Shakhnov (EUI)
"The allocation of talent: finance versus entrepreneurship"
Job Market Seminars Paul Muller (VU University Amsterdam)
"Comparing methods to evaluate the effects of job search assistance"
Job Market Seminars Matija Jancec (University of Maryland)
"The Costs of Adapting to a New Cultural Environment: Examining Immigrants' Outcomes"
Job Market Seminars Svetlana Pashchenko (University of Virginia)
"Work Incentives of Medicaid Beneficiaries and the Role of Asset Testing." Download the paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2323775
Job Market Seminars Philipp Tillman (Chicago University)
"Entry into Electoral Races and the Quality of Representation" Abstract U.S. Congressmen are very likely to be reelected and survey evidence suggests that voters are satisfied with their representatives. On the other hand, a large political science literature interprets the high incumbent reelection rate as evidence of lacking entry by strong challengers, analyzing its sources, consequences, and potential cures.…