Past Seminar Series
Semester 1, 2013/2014
Date
|
Topic
|
Speaker
|
Aug 1 Thu |
Globalization and organization of the firm | Susan Chun Zhu Michigan State University |
Aug 6 Tue |
Offshoring, Low-skilled Immigration and Labor Market Polarization | Andrei Zlate Federal Reserve Board |
Aug 12 MON |
Smooth, Ex-Post Implementation with Multi-Dimensional Information | Sergio Parreiras University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Aug 14 WED |
Rational Expectations and the Instability of Monetary Equilibria | Volker Böhm Universität Bielefeld |
Aug 15 Thu |
Light and shadows: using differences between siblings to estimate the effect of race/skin color on education and labor market outcomes | Andrew M. Francis Emory University |
Aug 19 MON |
Financial Market Globalization and Endogenous Ranking Reversals | George Vachadze City University of New York |
Aug 20 Tue |
Serial Dictatorship with Infinitely Many Agents | Akira Yokotani University of Queensland |
Aug 22 Thu |
Conditional Quatile Processes based on Series or Many Regressors | Iván Fernández-Val Boston University |
Aug 23 FRI -3pm |
Procurement Auctions with General Price-Quality Evaluation | Makoto Hanazono Nagoya University |
Aug 26 MON |
Sign me up! A model and field experiment on volunteering | Daniel Houser George Mason University |
Aug 27 Tue |
A Semiparametric Generalized Ridge Estimator and Link with Model Averaging | Aman Ullah University of California, Riverside |
Aug 29 Thu |
The Unobserved Returns from Entrepreneurship | Sarada Duke University |
Sep 3 Tue |
Global Gainsfrom Reduction of Trade Costs | Edwin L.-C. Lai Hong Kong University of Science &Technology |
Sep 5 Thu |
Reciprocity at the Workplace: Do Fair Wages Lead to Higher Effort, Productivity, and Profitability. | Paul Chen Australian National University |
Sep 10 Tue - 2pm |
Bureaucracy in Quest for Feasibility | Hervé Crès Sciences Po Paris |
Sep 12 Thu |
US Bond Markets and Credit Spreads during the Great Depression | Lyndon Moore University of Melbourne |
Sep 17 Tue |
Economics of Leadership and Hierarchy | Junjie Zhou Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
Sep 19 Thu |
The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies | Lorenzo Caliendo Yale University |
Sep 26 Thu |
Interaction-based Foundation of Aggregate Investment Fluctuations | Makoto Nirei Hitotsubashi University |
Oct 1 Tue |
Railroad expansion and entrepreneurship: evidence from Meiji Japan | John Tang Australian National University |
Oct 3 Thu |
Bank's regulation, asset portfolio choce of banks, and macroeconomic dynamics | Kosuke Aoki University of Tokyo |
Oct 04 FRI - 3pm |
Subjective Independence and Concave Expected Utility | Ehud Lehrer Tel-Aviv University |
Oct 07 MON |
Ex-post Efficient Allocations with Random Participation | Murali Agastya University of Sydney |
Oct 8 Tue |
Do central banks' forecasts take into account public opinion and views? | Ricardo Nunes Federal Reserve Board |
Oct 11 FRI - 3pm |
Every Breath You Take | Every Dollar You'll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970 |
Reed Walker University of California, Berkeley |
Oct 17 Thu |
The impact of worker bargaining power on the organization of global firms | Juan Carluccio Banque de France |
Oct 22 Tue |
Strategy-proofness and Efficiency with Nonquasi-linear Preferences: A Characterization of Minimum Price Walrasian Rule | Shigehiro Serizawa Osaka University |
Oct 24 Thu |
Patience and Time Consistency in Collective Decisions | Enrico Diecidue INSEAD |
Oct 28 MON |
Chronicle of Unanticipated and Anticipated Increases in Military Spending | Evi Pappa European University Institute |
Oct 29 Tue |
Choosing the variables to estimate singular DSGE models | Fabio Canova European University Institute |
Oct 31 Thu -2pm |
The Lasso for High-Dimensional Regression with a Possible Change-Point | Myung Hwan Seo London School of Economics and Political Science |
Oct 31 Thu |
Growth, Business Cycles and Revolutions | Toan Phan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Nov 5 Tue |
Optimal Taxation in a Life-Cycle Economy with Endogenous Human Capital Formation | Marek Kapička University of California, Santa Barbara |
Nov 12 Tue |
Finance and the Preservation of Wealth | Nicola Gennaioli Università Bocconi |
Nov14 Thu |
The Long-Term Effects of Christian Activities in China | Se Yan Peking University |
Nov 21 Thu |
Strong forward induction | Bingyong Zheng Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
Nov 22 FRI |
The Optimal Currency Area In A Liquidity Trap | David Cook Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Nov 25 MON -12.30 | Knowledge is (Less) Power: Experimental Evidence from Residential Energy Use
Joint BSP & Economics Seminar |
David Rapson University of California, Davis |
Nov 26 Tue |
Optimality of quota contract and agent gaming in dynamic moral hazard | Pak Hung Au Nanyang Technological University |
Nov 28 Thu |
Three representations of preferences with decreasing absolute uncertainty aversion | Jingyi Xue Singapore Management University |
Dec 2 MON |
A Multi-level Factor Mode; : Asymptotic theory and an application | Dukpa Kim Korea University |
Dec 3 Tue - 10am |
Diversity and Employment Prospects: Do Neighbors Matter? | Camille Hémet Sciences-Po and Aix-Marseille School of Economics |
Dec 3 Tue |
Eliciting Private Information with Noise: The Case of Randomized Response | Wooyoung Lim Hong Kong University of Science &Technology |
Dec 5 Thu |
Using mixtures in econometric models: A brief review and some new results | Yuichi Kitamura Yale University |
Dec 6 FRI |
Contraception and the Fertility Transition | Shankha Chakraborty University of Oregon |
Dec 10 Tue - 2pm |
Debt Deleveraging and The Exchange Rate | Pierpaolo Benigno LUISS Guido Carli |
Dec 10 Tue |
See-saws, Swings, and Roundabouts in Media Economics | Martin Peitz University of Mannheim |
Dec 17 Tue |
Innovation by Entrants and Incumbents | Dan Cao Georgetown University |