Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Christian Julliard (LSE)
"Information Asymmetries, Volatility, Liquidity, and the Tobin Tax”
Seminars in Economics Jordi Gali (CREI and UPF)
"Insider-Outsider Labor Markets, Hysteresis and Monetary Policy" Abstract I develop a version of the New Keynesian model with insideroutsider labor markets and hysteresis that can account for the high persistence of of European unemployment. I study the implications of that environment for the design of monetary policy. A simple interest rule that includes the unemployment…
Seminars in Economics Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick)
"Information Revelation and Pandering in Elections" Abstract Does electoral competition induce office motivated candidates to commit to policies that reflect their information? Or do candidates hide their information, and pander to the electorate's beliefs? We find that efficient information aggregation is precluded, but candidates' platforms may be informative: Equilibrium policy can at best be based…
Seminars in Economics Sandro Shelegia (University of Vienna)
"Consumer Search with Observational Learning"
Seminars in Economics Sylvain Chassang (Princeton University)
"Minimum prices and collusion in procurement auctions: theory and evidence"
Seminars in Economics Matt Wiswall (Arizona State University)
"Estimation of Children's Skill Formation when Children's. Skills are Unobserved" abstract We develop a new estimator for the process of skill formation where individuals' skills are unobserved (latent) and measured in data with error. Our model of skill formation has a dynamic factor structure where the latent skills of individuals evolve endogenously over the life-cycle…
Seminars in Economics Hector Chade (ASU)
"Risky Matching"
Seminars in Economics Andrea Ichino (EUI)
"When the baby cries at night. Inelastic buyers in non-competitive markets"
Seminars in Economics Yuliy Sannikov (Princeton University)
"Dynamic Trading: Price Inertia, Front-Running and Relationship Banking" Abstract We build a linear-quadratic model to analyze trading in a market with pri-vate information and heterogeneous agents. Agents receive private endowment shocks and trade continuously. Agents dier in their need for trade as well assize, i.e. the ability to stay away from their ideal positions. In…
Seminars in Economics Leeat Yariv (Caltech)
"Optimal Dynamic Matching"
Seminars in Economics Rahul Deb (Toronto University)
"Optimal Adaptive Testing"
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"