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Monday Lunch Seminars Alessandro Barattieri (ESG UQAM)

"Average-Cost Pricing: Some Evidence and Implications" Abstract We present new survey evidence on pricing behavior for more than 14,000 European firms, and study its macroeconomic implications.  Among firms that are price setters, roughly 75% respond that their prices are set as a markup on total costs, a business practice termed "full cost pricing''.  Only 25%…

Occasional Seminars William Tompson (OECD)

"Urbanising China" Abstract China anticipates an increase in its urban population of around 300 million over the next decades, having seen its urban population more than double to around 712 million between 1990s and 2012. China’s management of this process, which is without precedent in terms of speed or scale, will have huge and lasting…

Seminars in Economics Fabien Postel-Vinay (UCL)

"Did the Job Ladder Fail After the Great Recession?" Abstract We study employment reallocation across heterogeneous employers through the lens of a dynamic job-ladder model, where moreproductive employers spend more hiring effort and are more likely to succeed in hiring because they offer more. As a consequence, anemployer's size is a relevant proxy for productivity. We exploit…

Seminars in Economics Sven Rady (University of Bonn)

"Strongly Symmetric Equilibria in Bandit Games" Abstract This paper studies strongly symmetric equilibria (SSE) in continuous-time games of strategic experimentation with Poisson bandits. SSE payoffs can be studied via two functional equations similar to the HJB equation used for Markov equilibria that they generalize. This is valuable for three reasons. First, these equations retain the…

Seminars in Economics Debopam Bhattacharya (Oxford)

"Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice" Abstract We consider empirical measurement of exact equivalent/compensating variation resulting from price-change of a discrete good, using individual-level data. Our set-up comprises utility functions which include unobserved heterogeneity of unknown dimension and are not required to be quasi-linear, parametrically specified or smooth -- thus allowing for extremely general preference-distributions.…