Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Fernando Vega-Redondo (EUI)
"Social networks and the process of globalization" Abstract We propose a stylised dynamic model to understand the role of social networks in the phenomenon we call "globalization." This term refers to the process by which even agents who are geographically far apart come to interact, thus overcoming what would otherwise be a fast saturation of…
Seminars in Economics Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University)
"Simple Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics" Abstract This paper develops a tractable model for the computational and empirical analysis of infinite-horizon oligopoly dynamics. It features aggregate demand uncertainty, sunk entry costs, stochastic idiosyncratic technological progress, and irreversible exit. We develop an algorithm for computing a symmetric Markov-perfect equilibrium quickly by finding the fixed points to a finite…
Seminars in Economics Elie Tamer (Northwestern University)
"Sensitivity analysis in a likelihood model"
Seminars in Economics Mariagiovanna Baccara (Washington University, St. Louis)
"Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race"
Seminars in Economics Andy Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania)
"Mental Processes and Decision Making"
Seminars in Economics Stefano Della Vigna (Berkeley)
"Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving" and "The Role of Theory in Field Experiments"
Seminars in Economics Ran Spiegler (University College London)
"Price Competition under Limited Comparability"
Seminars in Economics Ivan Canay (Northwestern)
"Distortions of Asymptotic Confidence Size in Locally Misspecified Moment Inequality Models"
Seminars in Economics Juuso Valimaki (Aalto University)
"Delay and Information Aggregation in Stopping Games with Private Information"
Seminars in Economics Jon Guryan (Northwestern)
"Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: the Roles of Access and Health Soon after Birth"
Seminars in Economics Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins)
"Estimating Marginal Treatment Effects of Transfer Programs on Labor Supply"
Seminars in Economics Rosa Matzkin (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Estimation of Nonparametric Models with Simultaneity"
Seminars in Economics Glenn Harrison (Georgia State)
"Intertemporal Utility and Correlation Aversion"
Seminars in Economics Fabian Waldinger (Warwick)
"How Much Did German-jewish Émigrés Benefit U.S. Invention?"
Seminars in Economics Erzo Luttmer (Dartmouth College)
"Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence From a Field Experiment"
Seminars in Economics Eugenio Proto (Warwick)
"The hump-shaped relation between income and Life Satisfaction"
Seminars in Economics Jacob Goeree (Zurich)
"Spectrum Auction Design"
Seminars in Economics Arnaud Costinot (MIT)
"An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains"
Seminars in Economics Phillip Leslie (Stanford University GSB)
"The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale"