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Job Market Seminars Adrien d’Avernas (UCLA)
Job Market Seminars Adrien d’Avernas (UCLA)
"Disentangling Credit Spreads and Equity Volatility" download the paper abstract In this paper, I provide a structural approach to quantify the forces thatgovern the joint dynamics of corporate bond credit spreads and equityvolatility. I build a dynamic model and estimate a wide array of fundamentalshocks using a large firm-level database on credit spreads, equityprices, accounting…
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Robert Grundke (OECD)
Seminars in Economics of Innovation and Knowledge Robert Grundke (OECD)
"Having the right Mix: The Role of Skill Bundles for Comparative Advantage and Industry performance in Global Value Chains" abstract This study assesses the effects of countries’ skill endowments on comparative advantage. It tests the theoretical model of Ohnsorge and Trefler (2007) and thus departs from empirical studies assuming that workers possess only one type…
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
Occasional Seminars Allievi Defense Session
senior allievi 10.15 Mattia Landolfi Title: L1 Adaptive Control and Polinomial Trajectory Planning for Economic Applications 11.00 Paolo Baudissone Title: Multivariate Lévy processes via linear transformation: application to multi barrier reverse convertibles
Job Market Seminars Barbara Biasi (Stanford)
Job Market Seminars Barbara Biasi (Stanford)
"Unions, Salaries, and The Market for Teachers: Evidence from Wisconsin" Download the paper abstract A careful study of teachers’ labor demand and supply, while extremely relevant for policy, is challenging due to a lack of variation in pay, as teacher salaries are usually set using steps-and-lanes schedules based entirely on seniority and academic credentials. This…
Seminars in Politics and Society Wing Chan (UCL)
Seminars in Politics and Society Wing Chan (UCL)
"Dynamics of income inequality in China in a comparative perspective" abstract In this paper, we use recent, high quality and nationally representative household panel data to explore the dynamics of income inequality and mobility in China, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Consistent with previous research, we report very high level of income…
Job Market Seminars Anujit Chakraborty (University of British Columbia)
Job Market Seminars Anujit Chakraborty (University of British Columbia)
"Present Bias" Download the paper abstract Present bias is the inclination to prefer a smaller present reward to a larger later reward, but reversing this preference when both rewards are equally delayed. This paper investigates and characterizes the most general class of present-biased temporal preferences. We show that any present-biased preference has a max-min representation,…