Past Seminar Series
Semester 2, 2014/2015
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Date
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Topic
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Speaker
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| Jan 14 WED, 2 pm |
Intermediatioin in Networks | Mihai Manea Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Jan 14 WED |
Resource Allocation in a Network | Ruben Juarez University of Hawaii |
| Feb 6 FRI, 10.30 am |
Would you pay for transparently useless advice? A test of boundaries of beliefs in the folly of predictions Venue: AS1-0304 |
Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee University of Melbourne and London School of Economics & Political Science |
| Feb 26 Thu |
Spillovers of Prosocial Motivation: Evidence from an Intervention Study on Blood Donors | Lorenz Goette University of Lausanne |
| Mar 3 Tue |
A Reformulation of  the Axiomatic Foundations of Relative Utilitarianism | Tilman Borgers University of Michigan |
| Mar 5 Thu |
Estimating the Local Productivity Spillovers from Science |
Bruce A. Weinberg Ohio State University |
| Mar 5 Thu, 3 pm |
Dynamic Indeterminacy and Welfare in Credit Economies Venue: SJR |
Guillaume Rocheteau University of California, Irvine |
| Mar 06 FRI |
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Matching Games with an Application to Venture Capital Investments Venue: SJR |
Jeremy Fox University of Michigan |
| Mar 10 Tue |
Does Competition Promote Disclosure? | Wing Chuen Suen University of Hong Kong |
| Mar 12 Thu, 12 pm |
Cash-constrained Households and Product Size Venue: SJR |
Tiago Pires University of North Carolina |
| Mar 12 Thu |
Sectoral Price Facts in a Sticky-Price Model Venue: SJR |
Jae Won Lee Seoul National University |
| Mar 12 Thu |
A population-level study of the effects of early intervention for autism spectrum disorders | David N. Figlio Northwestern University |
| Mar 13 FRI |
Product Variety, Across Market Demand Heterogeneity, and the Value of Online Retail | Kevin R. Williams Yale University |
| Mar 17 Tue |
Stochastic stability in social choice problems with a q-majority rule | Ryoji Sawa University of Aizu |
| Mar 18 WED, 12.30 pm |
Performance, Career Dynamics, and Span of Control Venue: BIZ |
Michael Waldman Cornell University |
| Mar 19 Thu |
How Much Energy Do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence from California | Arik Levinson Georgetown University |
| Mar 19 Thu |
Optimal Monetary Policy and Capital Account Restrictions in a Small Open Economy Venue: SJR |
Mark M. Spiegel Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
| Mar 26 Thu |
Patrilocality and Missing Women | Avi Ebenstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Mar 26 Thu |
Time-consistent institutional design Venue: SJR |
Martin Ellison University of Oxford |
| Mar 27 FRI, 10:30 am |
Value for self, others and psychopathology Venue: AS7 01-17 (Seminar Room B) |
Ray Dolan University College London |
| Mar 31 Tue |
Systemic Risk and Network Formation | Rakesh Vohra University of Pennsylvania |
| Mar 31 Tue |
Closed-Form Identification of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models with Proxies for Unobserved State Variables Venue: SJR |
Yingyao Hu John Hopkins University |
| Apr 1 WED |
Wealth and Volatility Venue: SJR |
Jonathan Heathcote Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
| Apr 2 Thu |
Extended Schooling and Internalized Training: Return on Skill Elements and Changes in Organization in an Internal Labor Market | Masaki Nakabayashi Universiity of Tokyo |
| Apr 2 Thu |
Dynamic Selection: An Idea Flows Theory of Entry, Trade and Growth Venue: SJR |
Thomas Sampson London School of Economics |
| Apr 9 Thu |
The Rise of China's Shadow Banking System | Zheng Michael Song University of Chicago |
| Apr 21 Tue |
Robust Implementation in Weakly Rationalizable Strategies | Christoph Mueller University of Queensland |
| Apr 21 Tue |
Multivariate Local Polynomial Estimators: Boundary Properties and Uniform Asymptotic Linear Representation Venue: SJR |
Yanqin Fan University of Washington |
| Apr 23 Thu |
International Prices and Endogenous Quality | John Romalis University of Sydney |
| Apr 24 FRI |
Extending the Scope of Cube Root Asymptotics | Taisuke Otsu London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Apr 28 Tue |
Equilibrium and Maximin Perfection in a Dynamic Fair Division Auction | John Wooders University of Technology Sydney |
| May 5 Tue |
A new characterization of perfect public equilibrium payoffs in repeated games with imperfect public monitoring in continuous time | Mathias Staudigl Bielefeld University |
| May 12 Tue |
Resale in Second-Price Auctions with Costly Participation | Okan Yılankaya Koc University |
| May 12 Tue |
Emission Policy, Competitive Imitation, and the Diffusion of European Diesel Automobiles Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Eugenio J. Miravete University of Texas at Austin |
| May 13 WED, 2 pm |
To what extent are income inequalities due to circumstances beyond the control of persons? | John E. Roemer Yale University |
| May 14 Thu, 1 pm |
The Role of Macroeconomic Policy in Explaining China’s Current Account Surplus | Nalini Prasad University of New South Wales |
| May 19 Thu |
Residual Deterrence | Daniel F. Garret Toulouse School of Economics |
| May 21 Tue |
The Rise of the Machines: Automation, Horizontal Innovation and Income Inequality | David Hemous INSEAD |
| May 22 FRI |
On the Estimation of Quantity-Quality Tradeoff with Imperfect Fertility Control | Juan Pantano Washington University in St. Louis |
| May 26 Tue, 12.30 pm |
The Empirical Content of Synchronization Games Venue: BIZÂ (Joint with Dept of Strategy and Policy) |
Jaap Abbring Tilburg University |
| May 28 Thu, 12.30 pm |
Panel Autoregressive Inference Using Averaging Estimators | John C Chao University of Maryland, College Park |
| May 28 Thu |
Liquidity Constraints of the Middle Class | Jeffrey R. Campbell Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
| May 29 FRI |
Dynamic Agenda Setting | Ying Chen Johns Hopkins University |
| Jun 2 Tue |
Single Market Nonparametric Identification Of Multi-Attribute Hedonic Equilibrium Models | Marc Henry Pennsylvania State University |
| Jun 4 Thu |
Conditioning Variables in Program Evaluation Methods | Hidehiko Ichimura University of Tokyo |
| Jun 8 MON, 3:30 pm |
Unemployment and Business Cycles | Lawrence J. Christiano Northwestern University |
| Jun 9 Tue |
Paper 1:Â Blackwell's Informativeness Ranking with Uncertainty Averse Preferences Paper 2:Â Preferences for Partial Information and Ambiguity |
Jian Li McGill University |
| Jun 16 Tue |
Dynamic Mechanism without Money | Yingni Guo Northwestern University |
| Jun 30 Tue |
Consumer Search with Price Sorting | Jun Yu Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| Jul 6 MON |
The Fragile-Y Effect: Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes | David Autor Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Jul 7 Tue |
Implementation, Ex-Post Verifiability, and Detection | Hitoshi Matsushima University of Tokyo |