Departmental Seminar

Fall Semester 2023

September 4th - Axelle FERRIÈRE (Paris School of Economics)
Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity and Skill Acquisition

September 11th - Francesco DECAROLIS (Bocconi)
Past Performance and Procurement Outcomes

September 25th - David THESMAR (Visiting, on leave from MIT Sloan)
The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France

October 2nd - Vincent STERK (University College London)
Optimal Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis

October 9th - Federica ROMEI (Oxford)
Inequality, Demand Composition, and the Transmission of Monetary Policy

*EXCEPTIONAL joint seminar with Applied Micro* November 13th - Joseph ALTONJI (Yale)
Returns to Specific Graduate Degrees: Estimates Using Texas Administrative Records

November 20th - Lindsey MACMILLAN (University College London)
Occupational Hazard: Inequalities in Labour Market Mismatch

*CANCELLED* December 4th - Dorothea KÜBLER (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

WINTER-SPRING SEMESTER 2024

February 26th - Jonathan HEATHCOTE (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
The Great Resignation and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

*CANCELLED* March 4th - Rachel GRIFFITH (University of Manchester)
The Effects of Sin Taxes and Advertising Restrictions in a Dynamic Equilibrium

March 18th - Michèle TERTILT (University of Mannheim)
The Political Economy of Laws to "Protect'' Women

April 22nd - Barbara BIASI (Yale School of Management)
How Political Institutions Shape Education Spending: Supermajority Requirements in U.S. School Capital Investments
*Joint with Applied Micro Seminar: to meet the speaker, please fill out Applied Micro Google form*

April 29th - Dave DONALDSON (MIT)
Putting Quantitative Models to the Test: An Application to Trump’s Trade War

May 13th - Camille LANDAIS (LSE)
Gender Without Children

May 28th - Francesca MOLINARI (Cornell)
Inference for an Algorithmic Fariness-Accuracy Frontier
*Joint with Econometrics Seminar: to meet the speaker, please fill out the Econometrics Seminar Google form*

June 24th - Ilyana KUZIEMKO (Princeton)
The Cold War and American Labor

September 5th - Martin B. HOLM (University of Oslo)
A Parsimonious Model of Idiosyncratic Income

September 12th - Fedor ISKHAKOV (Australian National University)
Equilibrium Trade in Automobiles

September 19th - Christine L. EXLEY (Harvard Business School)
The Gender Gap in Confidence: Expected But Not Accounted For

September 26th - Shengwu LI (Harvard University)
Investment Incentives in Truthful Approximation Mechanisms

October 3rd - Rafael DIX-CARNEIRO (Duke University)
Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations

October 10th - Sara HELLER (University of Michigan)
Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: Experimental Evidence from READI Chicago

October 17th - Kevin O'ROURKE (University Abu Dhabi)
The Empire Project: Trade policy in Interwar Canada

November 7th - Jean-Paul RENNE (University of Lausanne)
Fiscal Limits and Sovereign Credit Spreads

November 14th - Tommaso PORZIO (Columbia Business School)
Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany

November 21st - Aureo DE PAULA (University College London)
Spillovers in Social Programme Participation: Evidence from Chile

November 28th - Eric MENGUS (Visiting Faculty, on leave from HEC Paris)
Within-Firm Services and Firm Capabilities

December 5th - Javier BIANCHI (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Bank Runs, Fragility, and Credit Easing

December 12th - Johannes SPINNEWIJN (London School of Economics)
Predicting Long-term Unemployement Risk

December 19th - Adrien AUCLERT (Stanford University)
Optimal Long-Run Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents

February 20th - Steven DURLAUF (University of Chicago)
A Trajectories-Based Approach to Measuring Intergeneration

March 6th - Volker NOCKE (University of Mannheim)
Consumer Search and Choice Overload

March 13th - Andrei LEVCHENKO (University of Michigan)
Information Frictions and News Media in Global Value Chains

March 20th - Kirabo JACKSON (Northwestern University)
What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the U.S.

March 27th - Chris ROTH (University of Cologne)
Home Price Expectations and Spending: Evidence from a Field Experiment

April 3rd - Christopher FLINN (New York University)
Labor Market Returns to Personality: A Job Search Approach to Understanding Gender Gaps

*CANCELLED* April 24th - Francesco DECAROLIS (Bocconi University)

May 15th - Michael PETERS (Yale University)
Immigration, Innovation, and Spatial Economic Development - Theory and Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration

May 22nd - Salvatore NUNNARI (Bocconi University)
Coordination with Noise

June 5th - Vittorio BASSI (University of Southern California)
TBA

*CANCELLED* June 19th - Armin FALK (University of Bonn)

September 6th - Basile GRASSI (Visiting on leave from Bocconi)
Bottom-up Markup Fluctuations

September 13th - Hamish LOW (Oxford)
House Price Rises and Borrowing to Invest

September 20th - Thierry FOUCAULT (Visiting on leave from HEC Paris)
Does Alternative Data Improve Financial Forecasting? The Horizon Effect

September 27th - Jan DE LOECKER (Leuven University)
The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel

October 4th - Eliana LA FERRARA (Bocconi)
The nerds, the cool and the central. Peer education and teen pregnancy in Brazil

October 11th - Axel GOTTFRIES (University of Edinburgh)
Infrequent Wage Adjustment and Unemployment Dynamics

October 18th - Gerard VAN DEN BERG (University of Groningen)
Economic Conditions at Birth and Later-Life DNA Methylation Age Acceleration

November 8th - François GEEROLF (UCLA)
The Phillips Curve: a Relation between Real Exchange Rate Growth and Unemployment

November 15th - Mar REGUANT (Northwestern)
The Distributional Impacts of Real-Time Pricing

November 22nd - Benjamin FABER (Berkeley)
Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica

November 29th - Roland BÉNABOU (Visiting on leave from Princeton)
It Hurts to Ask

December 6th - Kyle HERKENHOFF (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and UNM)
Changing Income Risk Across the US Skill Distribution: Evidence from a Generalized Kalman Filter

December 13th - Olivier WANG (Stern Business School, New York Univerity)
Zombie Lending and Policy Traps

February 14th - Sule ALAN (European University Institute)
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention

February 15th - Costas MEGHIR (Visiting Faculty, on leave from Yale University)
Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net

February 22nd - Rodrigo PINTO (University of California at Los Angeles)
Economics of Monotonicity Conditions

March 7th - Elisa GIANNONE (Penn State)
Unpacking Moving

March 14th - Klaas MULIER (Ghent University)
Climate Regulation, Firm Emissions, and Green Takeovers

March 21st - Aislinn BOHREN (University of Pennsylvania)
Representing Heuristics as Misspecified Models

March 28th - Sevgi YUKSEL (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Discrimination Without Reason: Biases in Statistical Discrimination

April 4th - Robert MILLER (Carnegie Mellon University)
Job Search and Matching by Race and Gender

April 11th - Song MA (Yale University)
The Education-Innovation Gap

April 25th - Yael HOCHBERG (Rice University) 
The Virtuous Cycle of Innovation and Capital

May 2nd - *cancelled*

May 9th - Ilyana KUZIEMKO (Princeton University)
"Compensate the Losers?” Economy-Policy Preferences and Partisan Realignment in the US

May 23rd - Jonathan ROTH (Brown University)
Design-based Uncertainty for Quasi-Experiments

May 30th - Florian ZIMMERMANN (briq and University of Bonn)
Design-based Uncertainty for Quasi-Experiments

June 13th - Michaela PAGEL (Columbia University)
The Effects of Stock Ownership on Individual Spending and Loyalty

*exceptional scheduling* June 21st - Raquel FERNÁNDEZ (NYU)
Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment

Fall Semester

September 14th – David SRAER (Visiting on leave from UC Berkeley)
A Quantitative Analysis of Distortions in Managerial Forecasts

September 21st – Toru KITAGAWA (UCL)
Constrained Classification and Policy Learning

September 28th – Natalia FABRA (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Market Power and Price Discrimination: Learning from Changes in Renewables Regulation

October 5th – Emmanuelle AURIOL (TSE)
God insures those who pay? Formal insurance and religious offerings in Ghana
 

October 12th – Roland RATHELOT (Visiting on leave from Warwick University)
Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis

October 19th – Martin BERAJA (MIT)
Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China

*POSTPONED* November 2nd – Kurt MITMAN (Stockholm University)

November 9th – Farid TOUBAL (ENS Paris Saclay)
Corporate tax avoidance and industry concentration

November 16th – Kirill BORUSYAK (UCL)
Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications

November 23rd – Konrad BURCHARDI (IIES, Stockholm University)
Credit Constraints and Capital Allocation in Agriculture: Theory and Evidence from Uganda

November 30th – Marion GOUSSÉ (Visiting on leave from Laval University)
Marriage and Cohabitation. A General Equilibrium Model

December 7th – Nikhil VELLODI (PSE)
Ratings Design and Barriers to Entry

Winter-Spring Semester

March 8th – Botond KOSZEGI (CEU)
Procrastination Markets

March 15th – Michael BEST (Columbia)
The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats

March 22nd – Antonio GUARINO (UCL)
Financial Transaction Taxes and the Informational Efficiency of Financial Markets: A Structural Estimation

March 29th – Esther DUFLO (MIT)
Encouraging Social Distancing: Evidence from Several Randomized Controlled Trials

April 12th – Jan NIMCZIK (ESMT Berlin)
Granular Search, Market Structure, and Wages

April 19th – Noam YUCHTMAN (LSE)
AI-tocracy

May 3rd – Stéphane DUPRAZ (Banque de France)
A Pitfall of Cautiousness in Monetary Policy

May 10th – Franklin ALLEN (Imperial College London)
Asset Price Booms and Macroeconomic Policy: a Risk-Shifting Approach

May 17th – Kurt MITMAN (IIES, Stockholm University)
Why Does Capital Flow from Equal to Unequal Countries?

June 7th – Kiminori MATSUYAMA (Northwestern)
Three Classes of CRS Production Functions and their Applications to Monopolistic Competition

June 14th – Abhijit BANERJEE (MIT)
Trust and Efficiency in the Market for Healthcare in Low-income Countries

Fall Semester

September 2nd - Joseph STIGLITZ (Columbia)
Characterization, Existence, and Pareto Optimality in Markets with Asymmetric Information and Endogenous and Asymmetric Disclosures: Basic Analytics of Revisiting Rothschild-Stiglitz

September 9th - Julien SAUVAGNAT (Bocconi)
Employment Effects of Alleviating Financing Frictions: Worker-Level Evidence from a Loan Guarantee Program

September 16th- Kjetil STORESLETTEN (Univeristy of Oslo)
Business cycle during structural change: Arthur Lewis' Theory from a neoclassical perspective

September 23rd - Jonathan HEATHCOTE (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey

September 30th - Scott GEHLBACH (University of Chicago)
Obfuscating Ownership

October 7th - Maria GUADALUPE (INSEAD)
The Perfect Match: Assortative Matching in Mergers and Acquisitions

October 14th - Yinghua HE (Rice University)
Leveraging Uncertainties to Infer Preferences: Robust Analysis of School Choice with Lotteries

October 21st - Gianluca VIOLANTE (Princeton)
Firm and Worker Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market

November 4th - Nora SZECH (Karslruhe Institute of Technology)
The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance

November 18th - Moshe BUCHINSKY (UCLA)

November 25th - Mark DEAN (Columbia)

December 2nd - Corinne BOAR (New York University)

December 9th - Mohammad AKBARPOUR (Stanford)

December 16th - Philippe AGHION (Paris School of Economics)

Winter-Spring Semester

January 13th - Johannes ABELER (Oxford)
Shrouded Attributes of Workplace Incentive Contracts: The Case of the Ratchet Effect

January 27th - Isabelle MEJEAN (École Polytechnique)
Search Frictions in International Good Markets

February 10th - Joël VAN DER WEELE (CREED, University of Amsterdam)
Self-Persuasion: Evidence from Field Experiments at Two International Debating Competitions

February 24th - Nicolas SCHUTZ (University of Mannheim)
An Aggregative Games Approach to Merger Analysis in Multiproduct-Firm Oligopoly

March 2nd - Chris BLATTMAN (Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago)
Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance

March 9th - Claire MONTIALOUX (UC Berkeley)
Minimum Wage and Racial Inequality

*POSTPONED* March 16th - Samad SARFERAZ (ETH Zürich)

*POSTPONED* March 23rd - Michael BEST (Columbia)

*POSTPONED* March 30th - Michael PETERS (on leave from Yale)

*POSTPONED* April 6th - Gregor JAROSCH (Princeton)

*POSTPONED* April 20th - Konrad burchardi (IIES, Stockholm University)

*POSTPONED* April 27th - Gerard VAN DEN BERG (University of Bristol)

*POSTPONED* May 4th - Franklin ALLEN (Imperial College London)

*POSTPONED* May 11th - Jessica PAN (National University of Singapore)

*POSTPONED* May 18th - Frederico FINAN (UC Berkeley)

*POSTPONED* June 8th - Kiminori MATSUYAMA (Northwestern University)

June 15th - Milo BIANCHI (TSE)
Return Predictability, Expectations, and Investment: Experimental Evidence