Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Charles Manski (Northwestern University)
"Interpreting Point Predictions: Some Logical Issues"
Seminars in Economics Ernesto Villanueva (Bank of Spain)
"Contract Staggering and Unemployment During the Great Recession: Evidence from Spain"
Seminars in Economics Lukas Schmid (Duke University, Fuqua School of Business)
"Competition, Markups and Predictable Returns"
Seminars in Economics Daniel Quint (University of Wisconsin)
"Indicative Bidding in Auctions with Costly Entry"
Seminars in Economics David McKenzie (World Bank)
"Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries"
Seminars in Economics Alessandro Barattieri (ESG-UQAM)
"Asymmetric trade liberalizations and current account dynamics"
Seminars in Economics Anna Fruttero (World Bank)
"The 2015 World Development Report: Mind, Society and Behavior"
Seminars in Economics Theodore Papageorgiou (Mc Gill University)
"Worker Sorting and Agglomeration Economies"
Seminars in Economics Myrto Kalouptsidi (Princeton University)
"Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies: TheCase of World Shipbuilding"
Seminars in Economics Ed Hopkins (University of Edimburgh)
"Inequality, Gender and Risk-Taking Behaviour" Download the paper
Seminars in Economics Ryan McDevitt (Duke University)
"The Elasticity of Demand for Alternative Financial Services: Evidence from Check-Cashing Price Changes in the South Bronx" Abstract Using proprietary data from customers’ transactions, we estimate the elasticity of demand for check-cashing services. Our identification strategy exploits two key features of the data: one bank unilaterally reduced its check-cashing fees while its nearby competitors maintained…
Seminars in Economics Gabriele Camera (University of Basel and Chapman University)
"Money is more than memory"
Seminars in Economics Alex Gershkov (Hebrew University, Surrey University)
"Optimal Voting Rules"
Seminars in Economics Alp Atakan (Koc University Turkey)
"Market Selection and the Information Content of Prices" Abstract We study a market in which 2k identical and indivisible objects are allocated to z>2k bidders in two separate markets using uniform-price auctions. Before the auctions, each bidder receives an informative but imperfect signal about the state of the world and chooses one of the two…
Seminars in Economics Eugenio Miravete (University of Texas at Austin)
"European Diesel Automobiles: A Case of Technology ImitationFostering Domestic Competitiveness" Download the paper
Seminars in Economics Alexander Wolitzky (Stanford University)
"Mechanism Design with Maxmin Agents: Theory and an Application to Bilateral Trade"
Seminars in Economics Paul Grieco (Penn State University)
"Productivity and Quality in Health Care:Evidence from the Dialysis Industry" Download the paper
Seminars in Economics Arnaud Dupuy (CEPS, INSTEAD)
"Migration in China: to Work or to Wed?" Abstract Why do people migrate? In this paper we study the trade-offs between migrating to work and migrating to wed. To this aim, we develop a marriage matching model in which men and women, are initially distributed over various locations, i.e. were born and raised in various…
Seminars in Economics Francesco Decarolis (Boston University)
"Detecting Bidders Groups in Collusive Auctions"
Seminars in Economics Andrea Prat (Columbia University)
"Transparency and Deliberation at the Fed: a Computational Linguistics Approach"