Events
Week of Events
Monday Lunch Seminars Rigas Oikonomou (UC Louvain)
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…
Seminars in Economics Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna)
Seminars in Economics Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (University of Vienna)
"Information and Price Dispersion: Theory and Evidence" abstract We study the empirical importance of consumer information in generating price dispersion. Limited information is the key element generating price dispersion in modelsof homogeneous goods markets. We show that in these models the global relationship between information and price dispersion is an inverse-U shape. We test this mechanism using a…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Thomas Kemeny (Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, UK)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Thomas Kemeny (Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, UK)
"Economic Implications of Immigrant Diversity in Cities" (at Dipartimento di Economia "S. Cognetti de Martiis")