Finance
Finance
Seminars in Economics John A. Weymark (Vanderbilt University)
"Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Savings Without Commitment"
Monday Lunch Seminars Rigas Oikonomou (UC Louvain)
"Long Term Government Bonds" abstract We study the impact of debt maturity on optimal fiscal policy by focusing on the case where the government issues a bond of maturity N > 1: Isolating these e ffects helps provide insight into the construction of optimal government debt portfolios. We find long bonds may not complete the…
[Academic Events] Workshop Mopact International Workshop: download presentations
Mopact International Workshop: download presentations
Monday Lunch Seminars Matteo Cacciatore (HEC Montreal)
"Market Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound" Abstract We study the impact of product and labor market reforms when an economy faces major slack and a binding constraint on monetary policy easing---such as the zero lower bound. To this end, we build a two-country two-final-goods model featuring endogenous producer entry, labor market frictions, and nominal…
Seminars in Economics Adriaan Kalwij (Utrecht University School of Economics – U.S.E.)
"The impact of financial education on financial literacy and saving behavior: Evidence from a controlled field experiment at Dutch primary schools" Abstract This paper estimates the short term impact of a 90-minutes financial education program on financial literacy at Dutch primary schools using a controlled field experiment. We find that of the improvements in pupils’…
Occasional Seminars Dalibor Stevanovic (UQAM)
"Dynamic Effects of Credit Shocks in a Data-Rich Environment"
Occasional Seminars CANCELLED: CeRP lunch seminar: Simone Tedeschi (Università Roma Tre)
"Household Risksharing Channels"
[Academic Events] Elsa Fornero to speak at the CEPS event “Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges: A new work initiative for Europe”
Elsa Fornero to speak at the CEPS event “Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges: A new work initiative for Europe”
Seminars in Economics Sydney Ludvigson (New York University)
"Uncertainty and Business Cycles: Exogenous Impulse or Endogenous Response?"
Monday Lunch Seminars Francesca Brusa (Temple University)
"Human Capital, Unemployment Risk, and Asset Prices" Abstract This paper relates the riskiness of human capital to uncertainty in the labour market and documents a role for unemployment as a determinant of human wealth. Starting from the labour market equilibrium outcome, I derive two unemployment-adjusted measures of labour income and rely on U.S. micro-level data…
Occasional Seminars Luca Gambetti (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
"Noisy News in Business Cycles" Sign-up sheet
Monday Lunch Seminars Antonella Tolomeo (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"Disentangling Overlapping Shocks in Portfolio Choices" abstract In a market where price shocks result from the sum of several mean-reverting shocks, this paper finds the optimal trading policies and their welfare for informed investors, who observe all individual shocks, and uninformed investors, who estimate them from the aggregate shock alone. All investors have constant relative…
[Academic Events] Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute
Cherry Blossom Financial Education Institute
Monday Lunch Seminars Piotr Tomasz Bialowolski (Università di Torino)
"Latent-transition approach to evolution of household debt possession patterns"
[Academic Events] MOPACT – Active Ageing Forum 3
MOPACT – Active Ageing Forum 3
Monday Lunch Seminars Cornelia Metzig (Imperial College)
"Scaling and Evolutionary Growth in a Macroeconomic Agent-Based Model" abstract I present a simple stock-flow consistent macroeconomic agent-based model for the production cycle, composed of firms, households and a financial sector. Competition of firms in the markets generates a stochastic process for firm evolution, which can be described theoretically. Results are several interrelated distributions for…
[Academic Events] Kick-off meeting of the project “Financial Literacy: a Key Tool to Improve People’s Life Cycle”
Kick-off meeting of the project “Financial Literacy: a Key Tool to Improve People’s Life Cycle”
[Academic Events] Workshop Workshop “Insurance Scheme: Justice and pragmatism”
Insurance Scheme: Justice and pragmatism
Collegio Aperto, Distinguished Scientific Lectures Onorato Castellino Lecture, Carlo Cottarelli
"In lode dell’austerita’ fiscale (… con moderazione)"