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Job Market Seminars Claudio Labanca (San Diego)

"Coordination of Hours within the Firm" Download the paper Abstract Teamwork has become increasingly important in many firms, yet little is known about how coordination of hours among heterogeneous coworkers affects pay, productivity and labor supply. In this paper we propose a framework where differently productive firms choose whether or not to coordinate hours in…

Seminars in Statistics Stéphane Boucheron (Université Paris-Diderot)

Concentration inequalities in the infinite urn scheme for occupancy counts and the missing mass, with applications to Good-Turing estimators and adaptive statistical text compression An infinite urn scheme is defined by a probability mass function over positive integers. A random allocation consists of a sample of N independent drawings according to this probability distribution where…

Job Market Seminars Mara Squicciarini (NWU)

"Devotion and Development: Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France" Download the paper abstract This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier for diffusion of knowledge and economic development, and through which mechanism. I focus on 19th-century Catholicism and analyze a crucial phase of modern economic growth, the…

Job Market Seminars Alexander Jakobsen (Princeton)

"Dynamic (In)Consistency and the Value of Information" Download the paper abstract This paper develops a revealed-preference model of information disclosure. One decision maker, DM1, ranks information sources (Blackwell experiments) knowing that a second decision maker, DM2, uses the information to select an act from a menu. Both decision makers are subjective expected utility maximizers but…

Job Market Seminars Davide Malacrino (Stanford)

"Entrepreneurs’ Wealth and Firm Dynamics" Download the paper abstract Owners of privately-held firms typically invest a large amount of their personal wealth into their firm. In principle, the wealth not invested in the firm may be used as a buffer to smooth shocks to the firm. Is such buffer stock behavior observed among privately-held firm…

Collegio Aperto Economic Challenges facing Europe and the World

Policy priorities of the Italian G7 presidency and German G20 presidency in 2017. A panel discussion with Claudia Buch (Deutsche Bundesbank) and Luigi Federico Signorini (Banca d'Italia).Introduction by Alessandro Barattieri (Collegio Carlo Alberto). In 2017, Italy will chair the G7 and Germany the G20. What are the main policy priorities of the two agendas? Are…

Seminars in Statistics Vinayak Rao (Purdue University)

Path and parameter inference for Markov jump processes A variety of phenomena are best described using dynamical models which operate on a discrete state-space and in continuous time. The most common example is the Markov jump processes whose applications range from systems biology, genetics, computing networks and human-computer interactions. Posterior computations typically involve approximations like…

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…