Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Piero Gottardi (EUI)
"A Theory of Repurchase Agreements, Collateral Re-use, and Repo Intermediation" Abstract This paper characterizes repurchase agreements (repos) as equilibrium contracts starting from first principles. We show that a repo allows the borrower to augment its consumption today while hedging both agents against future market price risk. As a result, safer assets will command a lower…
Seminars in Economics John A. Weymark (Vanderbilt University)
"Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Savings Without Commitment"
Seminars in Economics Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna)
"Information and Price Dispersion: Theory and Evidence" abstract We study the empirical importance of consumer information in generating price dispersion. Limited information is the key element generating price dispersion in modelsof homogeneous goods markets. We show that in these models the global relationship between information and price dispersion is an inverse-U shape. We test this mechanism using a…
Seminars in Economics Adriaan Kalwij (Utrecht University School of Economics – U.S.E.)
"The impact of financial education on financial literacy and saving behavior: Evidence from a controlled field experiment at Dutch primary schools" Abstract This paper estimates the short term impact of a 90-minutes financial education program on financial literacy at Dutch primary schools using a controlled field experiment. We find that of the improvements in pupils’…
Seminars in Economics David Ribar (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research)
"A Longitudinal Analysis of Violence and Housing Insecurity" abstract Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to abandon their accommodations and housing insecurity depriving people of the safety of a home or placing them in compromised circumstances. This study uses national, prospective, longitudinal data from the…
Seminars in Economics David Card (University of California)
"Firms and Labor Market Inequality: Evidence and Some Theory"
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…