Archives for CORE
March 29, 2017
Brown Bag Seminar
Seminar: Guzmán Ourens
Uneven Growth in the Extensive Margin: A New Explanation for the Divergence of Agricultural Economies
Guzmán Ourens, IRES
Expanding the set of goods produced is typically a part of economic development. We document a new growth fact by showing that growth in the extensive margin is far from...
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March 24, 2017
Econometrics and Finance Seminar
Seminar: Sophie Moinas
Funding Constrainsts and Market Liquidity in the European Treasury Bond Market
Sophie MOINAS, Toulouse School of Economics
(Joint with Minh Nguyen and Giorgio Valente)
Theoretical studies show that shocks to funding constraints should affect and be affected by market liquidity. However,...
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March 23, 2017
UCLouvain Economics Seminar
Seminar: Jose I. Silva
Local labor market effects of public employment
Jose I. Silva, Univ. Girona
This paper quantifies the impact of public employment on local labor markets in the long-run. We adopt two quantitative approaches and apply them to the case of Spanish cities. In the first, we develop a 3-sector...
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March 22, 2017
Brown Bag Seminar
Seminar: Simon Schopohl
Information Transmission in Hierarchies
Simon Schopohl, CORE& Bielefeld University
We analyze a game in which players with unique information are arranged in a hierarchy. In the lowest layer each player can decide in each of several rounds either to pass the information to his successor or...
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March 21, 2017
Operations Research Seminar
Seminar: Vladimir Shikhman
Tatonnements for Cobb-Douglas economy based on the power method
Vladimir Shikhman, Technical University of Chemnitz
We consider the general economy with agents maximizing Cobb-Douglas utilities from the algorithmic perspective. It is known that finding equilibrium prices reduces to an...
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