Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Rafael DiTella (Harvard Business School)
"Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation"
Seminars in Economics Pedro Dal Bò (Brown University)
"The Demand for Bad Policy when Voters Underappreciate Equilibrium Effects"
Seminars in Economics Axel Borsch Supan (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging)
"Human errors and pension reform" abstract The talk will discuss the microeconomic, macroeconomic and public policy implications when many households make mistakes due to myopia, procrastination and/or mispredictions. I will start with the motivation and background for this topic: aging and the general strategy of pension reforms in Europe, including more saving for old-age in…
Seminars in Economics Pablo Schenone (Arizona State University)
"Networks, Frictions, and Price Dispersion" Note: this seminar is on Monday
Seminars in Economics Maher Said (NYU Stern School of Business)*
"Evaluating Strategic Forecasters"
Seminars in Economics Gian Luca Clementi (NYU Stern School of Business)
"Equilibrium Corporate Finance and Intermediation"
Seminars in Economics Simon Board (UCLA)*
"Recruiting Talent"
Seminars in Economics Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University)
"The Perverse Politics of Polarization"
Seminars in Economics Alex Mas (Princeton University)
"Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements"
Seminars in Economics Sarah Auster (Bocconi)*
"Optimal Delegation, Unawareness, and Financial Intermediation" abstract We study the delegation problem between an investor and a financial intermediary. The intermediary has private information about the state of the world that determines the return of the investment. Moreover, he has superior awareness of the available investment opportunities and decides whether to reveal some of them…
Seminars in Economics Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi)
"The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV"
Seminars in Economics Marco Scarsini (Luiss University)
"On the asymptotic behavior of the price of anarchy" abstract This paper examines the asymptotic behavior of the price of anarchy as a function of the total traffic inflow in nonatomic congestion games with multiple origin-destination pairs.We first show that the price of anarchy may remain bounded away from 1, even in simple three-link parallel networks…
Seminars in Economics Avi Goldfarb (Toronto University)
"Exit, Tweets, and Loyalty" abstract Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty highlights the role of “voice” in disciplining firms for low quality. We develop a formal model of voice as a relational contact between firms and consumers and show that voice is more likely to emerge in concentrated markets. We test this model using data on…
Seminars in Economics Andrea Galeotti (EUI)*
"Pricing Network Eects: Competition"
Seminars in Economics Ron Siegel (Pennsylvania State University)
"Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions"
Seminars in Economics Antoine Dechezlepretre (LSE)
"Do pollution offsets offset pollution? Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in India" Abstract We examine the impact of low-cost imports on firms’ propensity to engage in material-saving (’clean’) innovation and product innovation using a dataset that combines firm-level international trade data with self-reported innovation data for around 9,000 French companies observed from 1998 to…
Seminars in Economics Davide Pettenuzzo (Brandeis University)
"Bayesian Compressed Vector Autoregressions"
Seminars in Economics Neale Mahoney (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and NBER)
"Provider Incentives and Health Care Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals"
Seminars in Economics Stefano Giglio (Chicago Booth)
"Contractionary volatility or volatile contractions?" Note: the seminar in on Monday
Seminars in Economics Gianluca Violante (New York University)
"Monetary policy according to HANK"