Seminars in Economics
Seminars in Economics
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics WEBINAR: Konrad Mierendorff (UCL)
"Keeping the Listener Engaged: a Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion"
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics POSTPONED: Claire Lim (QMUL)
"The Political Economy of Medicaid: Partisanship, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures" Abstract: We explore the linkages between government ideology in U.S. states and geographic variation in Medicaid program design and operations. Medicaid eligibility criteria tend to be more generous in liberal states. Simultaneously, fee-for-service reimbursement rates for physician services have been notably lower…
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics POSTPONED: Yingni Guo (Northwestern)
"Robust Monopoly Regulation" Abstract: We study the regulation of a monopolistic firm using a non-Bayesian approach. We derive the policy that minimizes the regulator’s worst-case regret, where regret is the difference between the regulator’s complete-information payoff and his realized payoff. When the regulator’s payoff is consumers’ surplus, he imposes a price cap. When his payoff…
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics POSTPONED: Andrea Berardi (University of Venice)
"Convexity dominates risk premia in long-term forward rates"
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics Roberto Galbiati (Sciences Po)
"J’Accuse...! Antisemitism and Financial Markets in 19th Century France"
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics Lucio Sarno (Cass Business School)
“Foreign Exchange Volume”
[Academic Events] Seminars in Economics Joseph-Simon Goerlach (Università Bocconi)
Borrowing Constraints, Migrant Selection, and the Dynamics of Return and Repeat Migration