Archives for IRES

Sydney Ludvigson (New York University) will give a presentation on How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals Abstract: We provide novel evidence on the driving forces behind the sharp increase in equity values over the post-war era. From the beginning of 1989 to...

Lingwei Wu (University of Bonn) will give a presentation on The Economic Motives For Foot-Binding Abstract: What are the origins of gender-biased social norms? As a painful custom that persisted in historical China, foot-binding targeted girls whose feet were reshaped during early...

Javier García-Cicco (Central Bank of Argentina) will give a presentation on Revisiting the Exchange Rate Pass Through: A General Equilibrium Perspective Abstract: A large literature estimates the exchange rate pass-through to prices (ERPT) using reducedform approaches, whose results...

Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich) will give a presentation on Genetics and Health Insurance: How Genes and Insurance Status Affect Smoking Decisions after Health Shocks Abstract: The determinants of healthy behaviors are complex and multifaceted, and include both biological...