Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Sydney Ludvigson (New York University)
"Uncertainty and Business Cycles: Exogenous Impulse or Endogenous Response?"
Seminars in Economics Raquel Bernal (Universidad de los andes)
"The Effects of the Transition from Home-based Community Nurseries to Childcare Centers on Children in Colombia" abstract Colombia’s national early childhood strategy launched in 2011 aimed at improving the quality of childcare services offered to socio-economically vulnerable children, and included transferring children from small non-parental family daycare units into large childcare centers in urban areas.…
Seminars in Economics Matthias Parey (University of Essex)
"The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants"
Seminars in Economics Dov Samet (Tel Aviv University)
"Weak dominance: A mystery cracked" Download the relevant papers: http://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/weak.pdfhttp://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/npce.pdf
Seminars in Economics Paolo Guasoni (Dublin City University)
"Healthcare and Consumption with Aging" Abstract Health-care benefits individuals by slowing the natural growth of mortality, indirectly increasing utility through consumption over a longer lifetime. This paper solves the problem of household dynamic healthcare, consumption, and saving when natural mortality grows exponentially to reflect the Gompertz' law, while both utility and health-care are isoelastic. The…
Seminars in Economics Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan)
"Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program"
Seminars in Economics Denis Nekipelov (University of Virginia)
"Inference in markets with algorithmic learning agents"
Seminars in Economics Sonia Oreffice (University of Surrey): CANCELLED
(Note: the seminar is on Tuesday)
Seminars in Economics Mark Armstrong (Oxford University)
"Multiproduct Pricing Made Simple"
Seminars in Economics Claudia Olivetti (Boston College)
"Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents"
Seminars in Economics CANCELLED: Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)
"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle" Abstract Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search and matching model. This paper provides an alternative and informative perspective on the wage flexibility puzzle,…
Seminars in Economics Matthew Harding (Duke University)
"Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data"
Seminars in Economics Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI)
"Comparing Real Wage Rates using McWages" abstract Thanks to the standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald’s restaurants across the globe, the hourly wage rate of Basic Crew McDonald’s workers offers consistent, easy-to-interpret, and up-to-date wage comparisons. First, the wage rate expressed in a common currency measures the costs of labor in prices of tradables…
Seminars in Economics Jean Philippe Platteau (University of Namur)
"Aid Effectiveness Revisited: The Trade-Off Between Needs and Governance" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday @ 12:45) jointly organized with Centro Studi Luca D'Agliano
Seminars in Economics Muhamet Yildiz (MIT)
"Communication with Unknown Perspectives"
Seminars in Economics Navin Kartik (Columbia University)
"Contests for Experimentation"
Seminars in Economics Manuel Mueller-Frank (IESE Business School and University of Navarra)
"Price Efficiency and Welfare"
Seminars in Economics Gyongyi Loranth (University of Vienna)
"Multinational Banks and Supranational Supervision" Abstract We study the supervision of multinational banks (MNBs), allowing both for national and supranational supervisions. National supervision leads to insuffi cient monitoring of MNBs due to a coordination problem between supervisors. Supranational supervision solves this problem and generates more monitoring. However, this increased monitoring can have unintended consequences, as it also aff ects…
Seminars in Economics Pietro Veronesi (Chicago Booth)
"Income Inequality and Asset Prices under Redistributive Taxation"