Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Bernard Dumas (INSEAD)
"The Stock Market in an Inflation-Targeting Economy"
Seminars in Economics Michele Pellizzari (University of Geneva)
"Wage compression within the firm" abstract We study the distributional effect of a wage indexation mechanism - the textit{Scala Mobile} (SM) - that heavily compressed the distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. By imposing nominal adjustments to all workers in the economy, the SM increased real wages at the bottom of the…
Seminars in Economics Sevi Mora (Edimburgh University)
"The Inheritance of Advantage"
Seminars in Economics Maia Guell (Edimburgh University)
"Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes"
Seminars in Economics Michelle Sovinsky (Zurich University): CANCELLED
"Marijuana on Main Street? Estimating Demand in Markets with Limited Access"
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