Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Gian Luca Clementi (NYU Stern School of Business)
"Equilibrium Corporate Finance and Intermediation"
Seminars in Economics Simon Board (UCLA)*
"Recruiting Talent"
Seminars in Economics Nageeb Ali (Pennsylvania State University)
"The Perverse Politics of Polarization"
Seminars in Economics Alex Mas (Princeton University)
"Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements"
Seminars in Economics Sarah Auster (Bocconi)*
"Optimal Delegation, Unawareness, and Financial Intermediation" abstract We study the delegation problem between an investor and a financial intermediary. The intermediary has private information about the state of the world that determines the return of the investment. Moreover, he has superior awareness of the available investment opportunities and decides whether to reveal some of them…
Seminars in Economics Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi)
"The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV"
Seminars in Economics Marco Scarsini (Luiss University)
"On the asymptotic behavior of the price of anarchy" abstract This paper examines the asymptotic behavior of the price of anarchy as a function of the total traffic inflow in nonatomic congestion games with multiple origin-destination pairs.We first show that the price of anarchy may remain bounded away from 1, even in simple three-link parallel networks…
Seminars in Economics Avi Goldfarb (Toronto University)
"Exit, Tweets, and Loyalty" abstract Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty highlights the role of “voice” in disciplining firms for low quality. We develop a formal model of voice as a relational contact between firms and consumers and show that voice is more likely to emerge in concentrated markets. We test this model using data on…
Seminars in Economics Andrea Galeotti (EUI)*
"Pricing Network Eects: Competition"
Seminars in Economics Ron Siegel (Pennsylvania State University)
"Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions"
Seminars in Economics Antoine Dechezlepretre (LSE)
"Do pollution offsets offset pollution? Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in India" Abstract We examine the impact of low-cost imports on firms’ propensity to engage in material-saving (’clean’) innovation and product innovation using a dataset that combines firm-level international trade data with self-reported innovation data for around 9,000 French companies observed from 1998 to…
Seminars in Economics Davide Pettenuzzo (Brandeis University)
"Bayesian Compressed Vector Autoregressions"
Seminars in Economics Neale Mahoney (Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, and NBER)
"Provider Incentives and Health Care Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals"
Seminars in Economics Stefano Giglio (Chicago Booth)
"Contractionary volatility or volatile contractions?" Note: the seminar in on Monday
Seminars in Economics Gianluca Violante (New York University)
"Monetary policy according to HANK"
Seminars in Economics Antoine Bommier (ETH Zurich)
"Household Finance and the Value of Life" Abstract We analyze life-cycle saving strategies with a recursive model that is designed to provide reasonable positive values for the value of a statistical life. With a positive value of life, risk aversion amplifies the impact of uncertain survival on the discount rate, and thus reduces savings. Our…
Seminars in Economics Erzo Luttmer (Darthmouth)
"The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security"
Seminars in Economics Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt)
"Financial Literacy Externalities" abstract This paper uses unique administrative data and a quasi-field experiment of exoge- nous allocation of refugees in Sweden to estimate effects of exposure to financially literate neighbors on household financial behavior. The paper contributes evidence of a causal impact of financial literacy on behavior and points to a social multiplier of…
Seminars in Economics Sonia Oreffice (University of Surrey)
"The Demand for Season of Birth" Abstract We study the determinants of season of birth, for white married women aged 20-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also elicit the willingness to pay for season of birth through discrete choice experiments implemented on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform. We document that the probability…
Seminars in Economics Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)
"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle"