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Seminars in Economics Ryan McDevitt (Duke University)

"The Elasticity of Demand for Alternative Financial Services: Evidence from Check-Cashing Price Changes in the South Bronx" Abstract Using proprietary data from customers’ transactions, we estimate the elasticity of demand for check-cashing services.  Our identification strategy exploits two key features of the data: one bank unilaterally reduced its check-cashing fees while its nearby competitors maintained…

CarloAlberto Outreach (past events) CINTIA SECOND CONFERENCE on aging, pensions, retirement and long term care

“Towards a greater financial inclusion: Gender perspectives on savings, borrowing and insurance” The conference will start on Monday, November 24 at 6 pm, with a plenary lecture held by Axel Börsch-Supan (Munich Center for the Economics of Aging), and will continue on November 25 with paper presentations. The conference will end with the Sixth Onorato Castellino Lecture.

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 Antonio Guarino (UCL)

"Transaction Tax and the Information Efficiency of Financial Markets: A Structural Estimation" abstract We study the effect of a transaction tax on the trading activity of a security. In our model there are informed traders, who receive private information on the value of a security, and noise traders who trade for liquidity reasons. Through a…