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Occasional Seminars CANCELLED: Richard Disney (IFS)

CeRP Seminar: "House Prices, Wealth Effects and Labor Supply" Sala Rossa abstract We examine the impact of housing wealth on labor supply using data on exogenous local variation in house prices merged into household panel data for Britain. Our estimates are conditioned on variations in local labor demand and income expectations as these may co-determine…

Seminars in Economics Ilse Lindenlaub (EUI)

"Sorting Multidimensional Types: Theory and Application" abstract This paper studies multidimensional matching between workers and jobs. Workers dier in manualand cognitive skills and sort into jobs that demand dierent combinations of these two skills.To study this multidimensional sorting, I develop a theoretical framework that generalizes theunidimensional notion of assortative matching. I derive the equilibrium in…

Distinguished Scientific Lectures 2014 Vilfredo Pareto Conference: “Politicians’ Selection and their Career Patterns”

at 12:00 p.m. Vilfredo Pareto Lecture Antonio MerloUniversity of Pennsylvania The Devil is in the Detail: The Industrial Organization of the Political Sector ***** at 3:00 p.m. Edoardo GrilloUnicredit & Universities Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto Lying or not Lying? Hidden Costs of Raising Voters' Expectations   https://www.facebook.com/events/876618299020863/

Eva Sierminska (CEPS/INSTEAD Luxembourg)

"Decomposing household wealth portfolios across countries: an age old question?" abstract Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this area, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions…