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Monday Lunch Seminars Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
Monday Lunch Seminars Cristian Bartolucci (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
"A Symmetric Model of Firms and Workers" Abstract In this paper we develop a model in which unemployed searchers may either encountera firm and be considered as a new employee or may generate a business idea in which case they begin their own firm. This is the first paper in which an equilibrium distribution of…
Seminars in Economics Dov Samet (Tel Aviv University)
Seminars in Economics Dov Samet (Tel Aviv University)
"Weak dominance: A mystery cracked" Download the relevant papers: http://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/weak.pdfhttp://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/npce.pdf
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ben Jones (Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Ben Jones (Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University)
"The Reverse Matthew Effect: Catastrophe and Consequence in Scientific Teams" abstract Teamwork pervades modern economies, yet teamwork can make individual roles difficult to ascertain. In the sciences, the canonical "Matthew Effect" suggests that eminent team members garner credit for great works at the expense of less eminent team members. We study this phenomenon in reverse,…
Seminars in Economics Matthias Parey (University of Essex)
Seminars in Politics and Society Alexandre Afonso (Univ. of Leiden, Netherlandes)
Seminars in Politics and Society Alexandre Afonso (Univ. of Leiden, Netherlandes)
"Institutional Change in South European Labour Market Regimes After the Crisis" abstract This paper seeks to map and compare change in labour markets regimes in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece in the aftermath of the financial crisis. While the extent of austerity policies in terms of fiscal retrenchment in these countries has been the subject of much interest, we still…
Occasional Seminars Luca Gambetti (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Occasional Seminars Luca Gambetti (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
"Noisy News in Business Cycles" Sign-up sheet