Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan)
"Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program"
Seminars in Economics Denis Nekipelov (University of Virginia)
"Inference in markets with algorithmic learning agents"
Seminars in Economics Sonia Oreffice (University of Surrey): CANCELLED
(Note: the seminar is on Tuesday)
Seminars in Economics Mark Armstrong (Oxford University)
"Multiproduct Pricing Made Simple"
Seminars in Economics Claudia Olivetti (Boston College)
"Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940: The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents"
Seminars in Economics CANCELLED: Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University)
"Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle" Abstract Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search and matching model. This paper provides an alternative and informative perspective on the wage flexibility puzzle,…
Seminars in Economics Matthew Harding (Duke University)
"Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data"
Seminars in Economics Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI)
"Comparing Real Wage Rates using McWages" abstract Thanks to the standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald’s restaurants across the globe, the hourly wage rate of Basic Crew McDonald’s workers offers consistent, easy-to-interpret, and up-to-date wage comparisons. First, the wage rate expressed in a common currency measures the costs of labor in prices of tradables…
Seminars in Economics Jean Philippe Platteau (University of Namur)
"Aid Effectiveness Revisited: The Trade-Off Between Needs and Governance" (Note: the seminar is on Thursday @ 12:45) jointly organized with Centro Studi Luca D'Agliano
Seminars in Economics Muhamet Yildiz (MIT)
"Communication with Unknown Perspectives"
Seminars in Economics Navin Kartik (Columbia University)
"Contests for Experimentation"
Seminars in Economics Manuel Mueller-Frank (IESE Business School and University of Navarra)
"Price Efficiency and Welfare"
Seminars in Economics Gyongyi Loranth (University of Vienna)
"Multinational Banks and Supranational Supervision" Abstract We study the supervision of multinational banks (MNBs), allowing both for national and supranational supervisions. National supervision leads to insuffi cient monitoring of MNBs due to a coordination problem between supervisors. Supranational supervision solves this problem and generates more monitoring. However, this increased monitoring can have unintended consequences, as it also aff ects…
Seminars in Economics Pietro Veronesi (Chicago Booth)
"Income Inequality and Asset Prices under Redistributive Taxation"
Seminars in Economics Jeff Ely (Nothwestern University)
"Dynamic Multi-Agent Persuasion" abstract I study dynamic persuasion mechanisms with multiple agents. A principal privately observes the evolution of a stochastic process and sends messages over time to strategically interacting agents. Filtering information allows the principal to control beliefs and higher order beliefs, thereby influencing the behavior of agents. In a stylized example of a…
Seminars in Economics Rachel Griffith (IFS)
"Estimating Demand Parameters with Choice Set Misspecication" abstract We describe methods to estimate demand parameters in the presence of choice set misspeci-cation due to unobserved individual choice sets. We show that a consumer's probability ofmaking a choice from her true choice set can be written as the probability she makes the samechoice from a universal…
Seminars in Economics David McAdams (Duke University)
"The Economic Theory of Antibiotics"
Seminars in Economics Andrea Weber (University of Mannheim)
"Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?" abstract Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effectof unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UIwage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity in Austrian administrative data. Asearch model incorporating duration dependence determines the UI wage effect as…
Seminars in Economics Christian Julliard (LSE)
"Information Asymmetries, Volatility, Liquidity, and the Tobin Tax”