(SoSS) Economics

Macro Seminar - Ricardo Reis (LSE)

16:00 - 17:00 3 October 2023
Title: Monetarism and the exchange rate: lessons from CNH-CNY

Brownbag - Caitlin Brown

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2023
Title: Improving Street Food Safety through Better Infrastructure and Training

MET Seminar - Artyom Jelnov (Ariel)

17:00 - 18:00 4 October 2023
Title: Lobbying under conflicting interests (joint with Doron Klunover) Abstract: A variation of a cheap talk game is considered in which the preferences of a special interest group…

Macro Seminar - Stephen Hansen (UCL)

16:00 - 17:00 10 October 2023
Title: National Accounts in a World of Naturally Occurring Data: A Proof of Concept for Consumption

Brownbag - Maria Plakhtieva

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2023
Title: Measuring the gains of participation of compatible pairs in a Kidney Exchange Program

MET Seminar - Josue Ortega (Queen’s, Belfast)

17:00 - 18:00 11 October 2023
Title: The Limits of School Choice with consent (joint with Gabriel Ziegler) Abstract: The deferred acceptance (DA) algorithm is used all around the world to assign pupils to schools…

Macro Seminar - David Hemous (Zurich)

14:00 - 15:00 17 October 2023
Title: Trade, Innovation and Optimal Patent Protection

Brownbag - Xiaobing Wang

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2023
Title: A Class of Prosperity Measures

MET Seminar - Jorgen Kratz (York)

17:00 - 18:00 18 October 2023
Title: Weak Misrepresentations in College Admissions (joint with Makoto Shimojo) Abstract: Much of the literature on admission mechanisms for schools and universities is focused on…

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 14:00 25 October 2023
Title: African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil

MET Seminar - Estelle Cantillon (Libre, Brussels)

17:00 - 18:00 25 October 2023
Title: Respecting priorities versus respecting preferences in school choice: When is there a trade-off? (with Li Chen and Juan Pereyra) Abstract: A classic trade-off that school districts…

Brownbag - Chi-Yang Tsou

13:00 - 14:00 1 November 2023
Title: Pollution Abatement Investment under Financial Frictions and Policy Uncertainty

Macro Seminar - Iacopo Morchio (Bristol)

16:00 - 17:00 7 November 2023
Title: Policies for Early Childhood Skills Formation: Accounting for Parental Choices and Noncognitive Skills

MET Seminar - Bernhard Kasberger (Konstanz)

17:00 - 18:00 8 November 2023
Title: The combinatorial multi-round auction (with Alex Teytelboym) Abstract: The Combinatorial Multi-Round Ascending Auction (CMRA) is a new auction format that has already been used…

Macro Seminar - Axel Gottfries (Edinburgh)

16:00 - 17:00 14 November 2023
Title: Dynamic Monopsony with Large Firms and an Application to Non-Competes

Brownbag - Tatiana Komarova

13:00 - 14:00 15 November 2023
Title: Some econometrics of the Gini coefficient

MET Seminar - Antoine Loeper (Carlos III, Madrid)

17:00 - 18:00 15 November 2023
Title: Legislative priorities and the structure of government (joint with Wiola Dziuda) Abstract: Why do voters often elect governments in which several parties share power? To answer…

The Long Term Implications of Co-Creation in Higher Education NEW DATE

17:00 - 18:30 15 November 2023
It is broadly accepted that co-creation activities with students can directly contribute to the development of the student co-creators' soft skills and establish a strong staff-student…

Macro Seminar - Lukas Mayr (Essex)

16:00 - 17:00 21 November 2023
Title: Taxing Capital in the Presence of Trickle-Down Effects

MET Seminar - Jack Fanning (Brown)

17:00 - 18:00 21 November 2023
Title: Reputation and competitive selection (joint with Joyee Deb) Abstract: We demonstrate how selection in competitive markets can severely impede reputational incentives. Reputational…

Brownbag - Nahid Farnaz

13:00 - 14:00 22 November 2023
Title: Does financial development relieve or exacerbate income inequality? A quantile regression approach

Econometrics Seminar - Zhipeng Liao (UCLA)

17:00 - 18:00 23 November 2023
Title: Learning Before Testing: A Selective Nonparametric Test for Conditional Moment Restrictions. Zoom for the talk: https://zoom.us/j/92210985660 Meeting ID: 922 1098 5660 Passcode: 422545

Macro Seminar - Nick Pretnar (UC Santa Barbara)

16:00 - 17:00 28 November 2023
Title: The Causal Factors Driving the Rise in U.S. Health-Services Prices

Brownbag - Karim Chalak

13:00 - 14:00 29 November 2023
Title: Higher Order Moments for Differential Measurement Error with Application to Information Transmission and Greenwashing

MET Seminar - Alessia Russo (Padova)

17:00 - 18:00 29 November 2023
Title: PublicDebt and Growth in a Democracy with Partisan Politics (joint with SergioCappellini and Francesco Lancia) Abstract: Westudy the strategic relationship between public productive…

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