
The UCLouvain Economics Seminars is jointly organized by CORE and IRES.
Practical details
Organizer
Gonzague Vannoorenberghe
When ? :
On Thursday, 12:45 - 14:00
Where? :
Doyen 22, Place des doyens, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Please note that the due to noise caused by the works at theather Jean Vilar, seminars from 14 March to 12 May, will be relocated in room More 52.
Programme for the academic year 2021 - 2022
SEPTEMBER 2021 |
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30 Lisa Spantig (RTWH Aachen/Essex)
Flexible Microcredit: Effects on Loan Repayment and Social Pressure (with K. Czura and A. John)
OCTOBER 2021 |
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26 TUESDAY Marc Klemp (University Of Copenhagen)
Human Dispersal from Africa and Group Formation
NOVEMBER 2021 |
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4 Ricardo Reis (LSE) ONLINE
The constraint on public debt when r < g but g < m
11 Armistice
18 Francesca Monti (UCLouvain)
Heterogeneous Beliefs in the Phillips Curve
25 Olivier Loisel (ENSAE)
A Model of Post-2008 Monetary Policy
Since the end of 2008, the Federal Reserve has b een communicating its monetary p olicy in terms of two instruments under its direct control: the interest rate on bank reserves (IOR rate), and the size of its balance sheet. We intro duce banks and bank reserves into the basic New Keynesian mo del to assess the main consequences of this p olicy change. We show that our mo del can account, in qualitative terms, for three key features of US inflation during the 2008-2015 zero-lower-bound (ZLB) episo de: no significant deflation, little inflation volatility, and no significant inflation following quantitative-easing p olicies. Crucial to this result is our assumption that demand for bank reserves got close to satiation, but did not reach full satiation. We intro duce liquid government b onds into the mo del to reconcile our non-satiation assumption with the fact that Treasury-bill rates dropp ed b elow the IOR rate during the ZLB episo de. Lo oking ahead, we explore the implications of our mo del for the normalization of monetary p olicy and its future op erational framework (floor vs. corridor system). In particular, we find that current and expected future IOR-rate hikes and balance-sheet contractions are always deflationary in our model, thus ruling out Neo-Fisherian effects
joint with Behzad Dibat
DECEMBER 2021 |
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2 Mario F. Carillo (University of Naples)
Fascistville: Mussolini’s New Towns and the Persistence of Neo-Fascism
9 Matthias Rodemeier (Bocconi University)
Buy Baits and Consumer Sophistication: Theory and Field Evidence from Large-Scale Rebate Promotions
Can firms exploit behavioral biases to increase profits? Does consumer sophistication about these biases limit the scope of exploitation? To answer these questions, I run a series of natural field experiments with over 600,000 consumers and estimate novel sufficient statistics of consumer sophistication. The empirical application is a ubiquitous and widely regulated form of price discrimination: rebates that need to be actively claimed by consumers. These promotions are suspected of boosting sales even though many consumers eventually fail to claim the rebate—a phenomenon marketers refer to as “slippage.” I show theoretically that consumers’ subjective redemption probabilities can be inferred from how demand responds to rebates as opposed to simple price reductions. I identify these elasticities in three natural field experiments with a major online retailer, in which I randomize prices, redemption requirements, and reminders. Results reveal that claimable rebates in fact increase sales substantially even though 47% of consumers do not redeem the rebate. However, consumers exhibit a remarkable degree of sophistication: the demand response to a rebate is only 76% of the demand response to an equivalent price reduction. Structural estimates imply that consumers are almost perfectly aware of their inattention but vastly underestimate the hassle of redemption by 20 EUR per consumer. Exploiting this misperception increases the profitability of rebates by up to 260%.
The paper can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zgH-BDx-psjSHzDGVIx4kfNB2HBg1EMe/view
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FEBRUARY 2022 |
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3 Peter Egger (ETH Zurich) ONLINE
Empirical productivity distributions and international trade
10 Elie Murard (University of Alicante) CANCELLED
17 Johannes Haushofer (Stockholm University) CANCELLED
24 Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick University) ONLINE
Antidepressant use and academic achievement: Evidence from Danish administrative data
We investigate impacts of antidepressant use in childhood on academic achievement at age 16 using linked register data on individuals in Denmark. Leveraging quasi-random assignment of patients to child psychiatrists with different prescribing tendencies, we find that antidepressant treatment significantly increases test scores. Treatment effects are larger and only precisely estimated for math (rather than Danish) and for girls (rather than boys). Marginal treatment effects are positive across a large part of the distribution, and the slope of the MTE curve reveals selection on unobservables into gains. Investigating heterogeneity in treatment effects on observables, we find the reverse: treatment effects are driven by the children of less educated mothers but, taking all cases rather than the marginal cases picked out by the instrument, these families are less likely to be treated. Overall, our results indicate large detrimental impacts of mental health disorders on cognitive performance, and high returns to antidepressant treatment. They are consistent with evidence that depression and anxiety have a larger impact on math performance, and that girls are more sensitive to these conditions.
Joint with Meltem Daysal, Mircea Trandafir, Nis Vestergård Lydiksen
MARCH 2022 |
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3 Miriam Kohl (Johannes Gutenberg-University)
Unilateral Tax Policy in the Open Economy
10 Patricio Dalton (Tilburg University) CORE B-135
Developing Goals for Development: Experimental Evidence from Cassava Processors in Ghana
17 Mine Senses (Johns Hopkins University) CANCELLED
24 Seetha Menon (University of Southern Denmark) More 52
The effect of domestic violence on cardiovascular risk
31 Michel Beine (University of Luxembourg) More 52
New York, Abu Dhabi, London or Stay at Home? Using a Cross-Nested Logit Model to Identify Complex Substitution Patterns in Migration
We propose a cross-nested logit (CNL) approach to address the question of how people revise their migration decisions when facing changes in the global environment. Compared with the popular logit model, the CNL allows for more sophisticated substitution patterns between destinations. Using migration aspiration data from India, we show that the CNL approach outperforms competing approaches in terms of quality of fit and predictive power, implies stronger heterogeneity in responses to shocks, and highlights complex and intuitive substitution patterns. We document the low degree of substitutability between the home and foreign alternatives as well as within subgroups of particular countries. This approach allows to capture spillover effects of a given immigration policy on immigration pressures faced by other countries of destination.
Joint with Michel Bierlaire and Frédéric Docquier.
APRIL 2022 |
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21 Pilar Garcia-Gomez (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) More 52
Gender and performance of collaborative research: evidence from student teams
Research is increasingly a collaborative team exercise involving multiple researchers, yet little is known about how the composition of such teams affects their research output. This paper examines how the gender composition of research teams influences their performance. We take advantage of a field experiment in which first-year economics students are randomly paired together and perform research-like tasks. We find large differences in research performance, as measured by the grades they receive, by gender composition. All-male teams are significantly outperformed by both mixed and all-female research teams. These differences remain even when comprehensively controlling for the individual research aptitude of the group members. No comparable compositional effect is found for other characteristics, such as ethnicity and socio-economic status.
Joint with Max Coveney, Teresa Bago d'Uva
28 Laurence J. Kranich (SUNY at Albany) More 52
Subject to Influence: Endogenous Effects on (Social) Preferences
MAY 2022 |
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5 Jean-Baptiste Michau (Polytechnique) More 52
Fiscal Policy under Secular Stagnation: An Optimal Pump-Priming Strategy
12 Olivier Sterck (Oxford University) More 52
The Freedom to Choose: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Cash Transfer Restrictions
With Jade Siu and Cory Rodgers
19 Gilat Levy (LSE) CANCELLED
Political social-learning: short-term memory and cycles of polarisation
JUNE 2022 |
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2 Felix Koenig (Carnegie Mellon)
Does Work-Time Regulation Cost Jobs? The Impact of PTO Regulation
Archives
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Archives 2020-2021
OCTOBER 2020 |
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15 Julien Martin (UQAM)
Corporate tax avoidance and industry concentration
22 Philipp Kircher (Cornell / UCLouvain)
An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Young and Old Agents: Behavior, Testing and Policies
joint with Luiz Brotherhood, Cezar Santos, and Michele Tertilt
29 Nir Jairmovich (University of Zurich)
The Safety Net as a Springboard? A General Equilibrium Based Policy Evaluation
NOVEMBER 2020 |
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5 Tessa Bold (University of Stockholm, Institute for International Economic Studies) CANCELLED
12 Amelie Schiprowski (University of Bonn)
Interview Sequences and the Formation of Subjective Assessments
19 Michèle Belot (Cornell University)
Eliciting time preferences when income and consumption change over time
joint with Philipp Kircher and Paul Muller
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DECEMBER 2020 |
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3 Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT Berlin)
Hybrid Platform Model
10 Willemien Kets (Oxford University)
A Theory of Strategic Uncertainty and Cultural Diversity
17 Evi Pappa (Universidad Carlos III)
It's Raining Money, Hallelujah: Empirical Evidence on the Effects of Helicopter Money Drops
We derive direct inference on the macroeconomic effects of helicopter money drops using the random allocation of the Spanish Christmas Lottery in different provinces, as a natural experiment. This is the only case in the world where individuals living in one region randomly receive pure monetary transfers of a considerable amount. In particular, we study the monthly regional level data on unemployment from the National Employment Agency (SEPE) and CPI prices from the Spanish Statistical Office (INE) and individual and regional data on consumer sentiment regarding the Spanish and individual economic outlook drawn from the Spanish Center of Sociological Research (CIS). We show, using local projections, that the money drops reduce unemployment and increase CPI prices at the regional level. Money drops significantly boost economic sentiment for both current and future economic conditions both at the province and at the individual level and their effects are stronger during recessions. Such policies impact mostly the sentiment of younger, less educated and poorer individuals and women.
January 2021 |
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14 Stefan Picher (ETH Zurich) !! 13:15 !!
Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization and Welfare Effects
This paper evaluates the labor market effects of sick pay mandates in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates increase coverage significantly by 13 percentage points from a baseline level of 66%. Newly covered employees take two additional sick days per year. We find little evidence that mandating sick pay crowds-out other non-mandated fringe benefits. We then develop a model of optimal sick pay provision along with a welfare analysis. For a range of plausible parameter values, mandating sick pay increases welfare.
Joint with Johanna Catherine Maclean and Nicolas R. Ziebarth
18 Tiany Wang (University of Copenhagen) !! Monday 9:30 !!
Media, Pulpit, and Populist Persuasion: Evidence from Father Coughlin
19 Marc Sangier (Aix-Marseille University) !! Tuesday 9:30 !!
Political Connections and White-collar Crime: Evidence from Insider Trading in France
This paper investigates whether political connections affect individuals’ propensity to engage in white-collar crime. We identify connections by campaign donations or direct friendships and use the 2007 French Presidential election as a marker of change in the value of political connections to the winning candidate. We compare the behavior of Directors of publicly listed companies who were connected to the future President to the behavior of other non-connected Directors, before and after the election. Consistent with the belief that connections to a powerful politician can protect someone from prosecution or punishment, we uncover indirect evidence that connected Directors are more likely to engage in suspicious insider trading after the election: Purchases by connected Directors trigger larger abnormal returns, connected Directors are less likely to comply with trading disclosure requirements in a timely fashion, and connected Directors trade closer in time to their firms’ announcements of results.
Joint with Thomas Bourveau and Renaud Coulomb
29 Francesca Monti (King's College) ) !! 13:15 !!
Nowcasting with large Bayesian vector autoregressions
Monitoring economic conditions in real time,or nowcasting, is among the key tasks routinelyperformed by economists. Nowcasting entails some key challenges, which also characterisemodern Big Data analytics, often referred to as the three “Vs”: the large number of timeseries continuously released (Volume), the complexity of the data covering various sectors ofthe economy, published in an asynchronous way and with different frequencies and precision(Variety), and the need to incorporate new information within minutes of their release (Ve-locity). In this paper, we explore alternative routes to bring Bayesian Vector Autoregressive(BVAR) models up to these challenges. We find that BVARs are able to effectively handlethe three Vs and produce, in real time, accurate probabilistic predictions of US economicactivity and, in addition, a meaningful narrative by means of scenario analysis.
Joint with Jacopo Cimadomo, Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza and Andrej Sokol
25 Alexandros Theloudis (LISER) !! Monday 9:30 !!
Consumption Inequality across Heterogeneous Families
25 Marta Bozcon (University of Pittsburgh) !! Monday 13:15 !!
Quantifying Uncertainties in Estimates of Income and Wealth Inequality
27 Lukas Hoesch (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) !! Wednesday 09:15 !! - CANCELLED
Specification Tests Robust to Multiple Instabilities
28 Romual Méango (Munich Center for the Economics of the Aging) !! 09:15 !!
The (Option-)value of Overstaying
FEBRUARY 2021 |
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4 Bernard Cornet (Université de Paris 1)
Market frictions, hedging complements, and put-call parity
11 Luigi Butera (Copenhagen Business School)
A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science - With An Application to the Public Goods Game
18 Kate Orkin (Blavatnik School of Governance, Oxford) - EOS Development Seminar
Aspirations, Assets, and Anti-Poverty Policies
25 Dennis Novy (University of Warwick)
Transitivity in Trade
MARCH 2021 |
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4 Elie Murard (University of Alicante) !! CANCELLED!!
11 Vincent Dautel (LISER)
Investigating neighbourhood effects in welfare-to-work transitions
We analyse the existence and underlying mechanisms of neighbourhood effects in welfare-to-work transitions in the context of a dominant proportion of foreign-born individuals. The analysis is based on Luxembourg social security longitudinal data, covering 2001–2015, and provides precise information at the postcode level, corresponding mostly to streets. Our identification strategy exploits the exogenous variations provided by the very fine data granularity and follows two paths. We first examine interactions among all neighbours using an individual-level analysis, before focusing on interactions among only welfare recipients using a matched-pair analysis. This second step allows us to deal with the mediating effect of welfare recipients’ citizenship. The main findings highlight the existence of neighbourhood effects in welfare-to-work transitions, which are also affected by the characteristics of the neighbours, including their citizenship. These characteristics suggest that social norms and/or stigma, prevail over the support for welfare recipients to find a job, and over the in-group support for welfare recipients. The matched-pair analysis provides contrasting results across citizenship for individuals from large-sized citizenship groups (interactions within the own group) and individuals from medium-sized groups (interactions between groups).
Joint with Alessio Fusco
18 Mine Senses (Johns Hopkins University) !! CANCELLED!!
25 Jackie Wahba (University of Southampton) !! CANCELLED!!
APRIL 2021 |
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1 Sebastian Schmidt (ECB)
Expectations-driven liquidity traps: Implications for monetary and fiscal policy
22 Aleksei Parakhonyak (Oxford University)
Dynamic Consumer Search
29 Marisa Miraldo (Imperial College London)
Innovation Diffusion and Physician Networks: Keyhole Surgery for Cancer in the English NHS
MAY 2021 |
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6 Mathieu Couttenier (University of Lyon) - EOS Development Seminar
The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Production Network Approach
20 Han Bleichdrodt (Erasmus University Rotterdam) !! CANCELLED!!
Archives 2019-2020
Programme for the academic year 2019 - 2020
October 2019
3 Yair Antler (Tel Aviv University)
Multilevel Marketing: Pyramid-Shaped Schemes or Exploitative Scams
10 Luca Fornaro (CREI)
Monetary Union and Financial Integration
17 Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt ( Frankfurt School of Finance and Management)
Salience Effects in Portfolio Selection
This seminar will take place at More 57 instead of Doyens 22.
31 Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics)
Migration Between Platforms
November 2019
7 Mark Weder (Aarhus University)
Do We Really Know that Monetary Policy was Destabilizing in the 1970s?
14 Julia Cagé (Sciences-Po)
Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Combat Leadership on Collaboration in War-Time France
(joint with Anna Dagorret, Pauline Grosjean and Saumitra Jha)
21 Filomena Garcia (Indiana University)
Nationalistic bias in collusion competition
28 Juan Carluccio (Banque de France)
Dissecting the impact of imports from low-wage countries on French consumer prices
We provide a quantitative assessment of the impact of imports from low-wage countries (LWCs) on CPI inflation in France during 1994-2014, using detailed micro data on imports and exports. The share of imports from low-wage countries in consumption increased from about 2% to 7%, and resulted in a negative impact on CPI inflation of about 0.17 pp per year on average. This effect decomposes in three channels. 1) The substitution channel, capturing the replacement of domestic production by goods from LWCs, accounts for almost -0.05 pp. 2) The rise in the proportion of LWC goods in total imports weighed down on imported inflation. This channel reduced French CPI inflation by 0.06 pp per year. 3) Instrumental variable estimation of the competition channel at the product level shows that the increase in the market share of LWCs in French expenditures led to a negative effect of 0.06 pp on CPI inflation.
(joint with Erwan Gautier (Banque de France) and Sophie Guilloux-Nefussi (Banque de France))
December 2019
5 Jochen Mankart (Bundesbank)
House Price Expectations and Housing Choice
12 Anastasios Karantounias (Fed Atlanta)
Greed versus Fear : Optimal Time-Consistent Taxation with Default
February 2020
6 Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)
Add Clutter, Time Use, and Media Diversity
13 Alex Armand (Nova School of Business and Economics)
Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
20 Gabriella Conti (University College London)
Long-Term Health Effects of Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
27 Austin Wright (University of Chicago)
Rebel Capacity and Combat Tactics
March 2020
5 Anandi Mani (Oxford University)
Congnitive Droughts
12 Day Manoli (University of Texas Austin) !! CANCELLED !!
Long-term Effects of Job Search Assistance: Experimental Evidence Using Administrative Tax Data
This paper uses administrative tax data to examine the long-term effects of an experimental job-search assistance program operating in Nevada in 2009. The program required randomly-selected unemployed workers who had just started collecting unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to undergo an eligibility review and receive personalized job-counseling services. The program led to substantial short-term reductions in UI receipt, and to persistent, long-term increases in employment and earnings. The program also affected participants’ family outcomes, including total income, tax filing, tax liability, and home ownership. These findings show that job-search assistance programs may produce substantial long-term effects for participants and their families.
(with M. Michaelides and A. Patel)
19 Mine Senses (John's Hopkins) !! CANCELLED !!
26 Marc Klemp (Univerity of Copenhagen) !! CANCELLED !!
April 2020
2 Dylan Glover (INSEAD) !! CANCELLED !!
23 Andrea Guariso (Trinity College) !! CANCELLED !!
30 Daniel Yi Xu (Duke University) !! CANCELLED !!
May 2020
7 Oriol Carbonell Nicolau (Rutgers University) !! CANCELLED !!
14 Elena Esposito (DEEP-HEC) !! CANCELLED !!
June 2020
4 Michèle Belot / Philip Kircher (EUI)
11 Marie-Louise Leroux (UQAM)
Archives 2018 -2019
Employment Effects of Payroll Tax SubsidiesThursday October 4, 2018
Valerie Lechene (University College London)
A structural analysis of the decline of home cooked food
Thursday October 11, 2018
Régis Renault (Cergy-Pontoise)
Search Direction: Position Externalities and Position Bias
Thursday October 18, 2018
Gianmarco Ottaviano (LSE/Bologna)
Appropriability of Intellectual Assets and the Organization of Global Supply Chains
Thursday November 8, 2018
Mike Elsby (Uiversity of Edinburgh)
Male joblessness in the United States
Thursday November 15, 2018
Antonio Rosato (Cambridge University)
Projection of Private Values in Auctions
Thurday November 22
Nuno Coimbra (PSE)
Financial Cycles with Heterogeneous Intermediaries
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Maarten Bosker (University of Rotterdam)
Shock propagation in global supply chains. Evidence from the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Michal Kobielarz (KULeuven)
Unstable Monetary Unions – The Role of Expectations and Past Experience
Thurday, December 13, 2018
Seminar on immigration with L. Minale, H. Rapopport and M. Burzynski
2019
Thursday February 7, 2019
Sascha Becker (Warwick)
Effects of Catholic Censorship during the Counter-Reformation
Thursday Febraury14, 2019
Matteo Cervellati (Bologna)
Sovereign Polities and Pre-Industrial Development: Theory and Evidence for Europe 1000-1850
Thurday February 21, 2019
Botond Kőszegi (Central European University)
An Attention-Based Theory of Mental Accounting
Thursday February28, 2019
Sandy Tubeuf (UCLouvain, IRSS)
(In)-equality of opportunity in the allocation of R&D resources for rare diseases
Thursday March 7, 2019
Matthias Doepke (Northwestern)
Employment Protection, Investment in Job-Specific Skills, and Inequality Trends in the United States and Europe
Tuesday March 12, 2019
John Roemer (Yale University)
How we cooperate: A theory of Kantian optimization
Thurdsay March14, 2019
Regina Riphahn Erlangen (Nürnberg)
Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Thursday March 21, 2019
Gianluca Orefice (CEPII)
Immigration and Worker-Firm matching
Thurday March 28, 2019
Ferdinand Vieider (Ghent University)
Environmental Factors Shape Risk Preferences
Thursday April 4, 2019
James Fenske (Warwick)
Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India
Thursday April 11, 2019
Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School)
Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing
Thursday May 2, 2019
Alessandro Sommacal (University of Verona)
Flat tax reforms in Italy through the lens of an heterogenous agents OLG model
Thursday May 9, 2019
Day Manoli (University of Texas) !! CANCELLED !!
Thursday May16, 2019
Pietro Biroli (University of Zurich)
Genetics and Health Insurance: How Genes and Insurance Status Affect Smoking Decisions after Health Shocks
Thursday May 23, 2019
Sydney Ludvigson (New York University)
How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals
Archives 2017-2018
Archives 2017-2018
Thursday September 21, 2017
Peter Dolton (University of Sussex)
The Optimal Length of the Working Day : Evidence from Hawthorne Experiments
Thursday September 28, 2017
Olivier Charlot (University of Cergy)
Taxation of Temporary Jobs: Good Intentions with Bad Outcomes
Thursday October 5, 2017
Catherine Guikinger (Namur University)
Buy as you Need Nutrition and Food Storage Imperfections
Thursday October 19, 2017 - CANCELLED
Katja Kaufmann (University of Mannheim)
Gender Peer effects, non-Cognitive Skills and Marriage Outcomes: Evidence from single-sex schools in the UK
Thursday October 25, 2017
Luis Cabral (New York University)
Standing on the Shoulders of Dwarfs: Dominant Firms and Innovation Incentives
Thursday November 2, 2017
Felix Kübler (University of Zurich)
Self-justified Equilibria in Dynamic Economies with Heterogenous Agent
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Bilal Zia (World Bank)
Learning Business Practices from Peers: Experimental Evidence from Small-Scale Retailers in Jakarta
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Paul Heidhues (University of Dusseldorf)
Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Cheti Nicoletti (University of York)
Do Parental Investment React to Changes in Child's Skills and Health
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Alain Venditti (Aix Marseille, School of Economics)
On Sunspot Fluctuations in Infinite-Horizon Models: A General Analysis
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Heiner Schumacher (KU Leuven)
Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Ariell Reshef (PSE)
Techies, Trade and Skill-Biased Productivity: Firm Level Evidence from France
Thursday, February 1, 2018
V. Filipe Martins da Rocha (Université Dauphine)
Self-enforcing Debt Limits and Costly Default in General Equilibrium
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Heiko Karle (University of Frankfurt)
Competition and Information Quality in the Market for News
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Sebastian Krautheim (University of Passau)
The International Organization of Production in the Regulatory Vacuum
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Harris Dellas (University of Bern)
Fiscal Policy with an Informal Sector
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Simon Cornée (University of Rennes)
A Theory of Social Finance
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Grégory Jolivet (University of Bristol)
A Structural Analysis of Health and Labour Market Trajectories
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Ingela Alger (Toulouse School of Economics)
Uninvadable social behaviors and preferences in group- structured populations
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Stefano Gnocchi (Bank of Canada)
Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Meets the Zero Lower Bound
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Manolis Galenianos (Royal Holloway)
Referral Networks and Inequality
Thursday April 19, 2018
Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné (HEC Montréal)
Measuring Innovation and Innovativeness: A data mining approach
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Simone Bertoli (FERDI)
Migration and co-residence choices: evidence from Mexico
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Hippolyte d'Albis (PSE)
Immigration and Fiscal Balance: Evidence from Western European Countries
Thursday May 17, 2018
Stefania Albanesi (University of Pittsburgh)
Changing Business Cycles: The Role of Women's Employment
Friday June 15, 2018
Melanie Meng Xue (Northwestern University)
High-Value Work and the Rise of the Women: The Cotton Revolution and Gender Equality in China
Archives 2016-2017
Archives 2016-2017
Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 12.45
Pedro Teles (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa)
More on the Taxation of Capital
Thursday, September 29, 2016
Valérie Smeets (Aarhus University)
Multi-product firms, import competition and the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Albert Marcet (CSIC), ICREA, UAB, MOVE, Barcelona GSE & CEPR)
Stock Price Booms and Expected Capital Gains?
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Nuno Palma (European University Institute and University of Groningen)
The existence and persistence of liquidity effects: evidence from a large-scale historical natural experiment
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Sandra McNally (University of Surrey)
Entry Through the Narrow Door: The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Karen Macours (PSE, Paris)
Schooling, Learning, and Earnings: Long-term Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Nicaragua
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Shankha Chakraborty (University of Oregon)
Age-Specific Effects of Mortality Shocks and Economic Development
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Fabian Herweg (University of Bayreuth)
Optimal Cost Overruns: Procurement Auctions with Renegotiationv
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Paolo Giordani (LUISS "Guido Carli" University)
Market Frictions in Entrepreneurial Innovation:Theory and Evidence
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Fabrice Collard (University of Bern)
Public Debt as Private Liquidity: Optimal Policy
Thursday, December 8, 2016 - Cancelled
John Earle (Central European University)
Does Higher Productivity Dispersion Imply Greater Misallocation? A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Andreas Moxnes (University of Oslo, CEPR & NBER)
Better, Faster, Stronger : Global Innovation and Trade Liberalization
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Piero Gottardi (European University Institute)
A Theory of Repurchase Agreements, Collateral Re-use, and Repo Intermediation
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Pierre Cahuc (Ecole Polytechnique et directeur du laboratoire de macroéconomie du CREST (INSEE))
Short-time Work and Employment in the Great Recession in France
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Kalina Manova (Oxford University)
Managing trade: evidence from China and the US
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Antonio Cabrales (University College London)
What You Know... Can't Hurt You? A Field Experiment on Relative Performance Feedback in Higher Education
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Takeshi Murooka (University of Munich)
The Timing of Choice-Enhancing Policies
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Pedro Vicente (Nova Lisbon)
Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Céline Poilly (Aix-Marseille University)
Do Misperceptions about Demand Matter ? Theory and Evidence
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Jose I. Silva (Girona University)
Local labor market effects of public employment
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Arnaud Costinot (MIT)
The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Jérôme Pouyet (PSE)
Vertical Mergers in Platform Markets
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Alessandro Tarozzi (U. Pompeu Fabra)
Evaluation of Alternative Strategies to Increase Demand for and Responses to Information on Arsenic-contaminated Tubewell Water in Bangladesh
Thursday, May 4, 2017
David Neumark (University of California Irvine)
Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment
Thursday, May, 11, 2017
Gerard Llobet (CEMFI Madrid)
The Inverse Cournot Effect in Royalty Negotiations with Complementary Patents
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Juan J. Dolaldo (European University Institute)
From Dual to Unified Employment Protection : Transition and Steady State
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Murat Iyigun (University of Colorado - Boulder)
Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles