Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Wojciech Olszewski (Northwestern)
"Large Contests"
Seminars in Economics Andrea Mattozzi (EUI)
"The Right Type of Legislator" abstract Research suggests that U.S. legislators represent their richer constituents. We show theoretically that this is due to the institutional structure in the US, in which legislators are expected to provide particularistic benefits to their constituents. We develop a citizen-candidate model of redistribution between both rich and poor citizens, and…
Seminars in Economics Efe Ok (NYU)
"Revealed (P)Reference Theory"
Seminars in Economics Gani Aldashev (University of Namur)
"Endogenous Enforcement Institutions" (at dipartimento di scienze economico-sociali e matematico-statistiche)
Seminars in Economics Alfredo Di Tillio (Univ Bocconi)
"Strategic Sample Selection"
Seminars in Economics Eric Danan (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
"Individual and social indecisiveness under risk"
Seminars in Economics Fulvio Ortu (Univ Bocconi)
"Implications of Returns Predictability for Asset Pricing Modelling"
Seminars in Economics Dan Black (Univ Chicago)
"Duke Grads, Monkeys, and Jobs and Wall Street: The Use and Misuse of Latent Variables" abstract We consider common Item Response Theory (IRT) measures of latent variables and consider their use as independent variables in regression analysis. We show that because of the inherent measurement error in the construction of IRT scores that OLS estimates…
Seminars in Economics Alberto Manconi (Tilburg University)
"Do Short Sellers Care About Corporate Hedging?" abstract We study the relationship between corporate hedging and short selling, using a novel data set on short sales of US equities over the period 2002-2009, and hand-collected data on corporate hedging. We document that hedging is associated with lower uncertainty, i.e., lower analyst forecast dispersion and greater breadth of ownership. This should…
Seminars in Economics Ulrich Doraszelski (Wharton)
"Measuring the Bias of Technological Change" Abstract When technological change occurs, it can increase the productivity of capital, labor,and the other factors of production in equal terms or it can be biased towards a specificfactor. Whether technological change favors some factors of production over othersis an empirical question that is central to economics. The literatures…
Seminars in Economics Marti Subrahmanyam (NYU Stern)
"The Microstructure of the European Sovereign Bond Market: A Study of the Euro-zone Crisis"
Seminars in Economics Nicolas Vieille (HEC)
"Truthful Equilibria in Dynamic Bayesian Games"
Seminars in Economics Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Decentralized Exchange" abstract This paper develops an equilibrium model of decentralized trading which accommodatesany coexisting exchanges, including networks and more general, common market structuresrepresented by hypergraphs. The model allows for any number of strategic traders and multipledivisible assets. We characterize equilibrium and welfare, and develop comparative statics withrespect to preferences, assets and market structures. Asset…
Seminars in Economics Marek Weretka (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Pricing Large Financial Products"
Seminars in Economics Michael Brennan (UCLA)
"Financing Asset Growth"
Seminars in Economics Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)
"Identifying Equilibrium Models of Labor Market Sorting"
Seminars in Economics Bill Zame (UCLA)
"Experiments on the Lucas Asset Pricing Model"
Seminars in Economics Philipp Kircher (LSE)
"Assortative Matching with Large Firms: Span of Control over More versus Better Workers"
Seminars in Economics Vincenzo Galasso (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
"Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: Evidence from a Survey Experiment"
Seminars in Economics Martin Cripps (UCL)
"Queues and Strategic Experimentation"