Spring 2017
Monday 20 February at 13:00
Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University
Title: Peace of Mind: Health Insurance Reduces Stress and Cortison Levels – Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Kenya
Thursday 9 March at 15:00
Corina Boar, University of Rochester
Title: Dynastic Precautionary Savings
Tuesday 14 March at 13:00
Venky Venkateswaran, New York University
Title: Capital Misallocation: Frictions or Distortions?
Thursday 16 March at 15:00
Jaroslav Borovicka, New York University
Title: Identifying Ambiguity Shocks in Business Cycle Models Using Survey Data
Tuesday 21 March at 13:00
Joseph Vavra, Chicago Booth School of Business
Title: Regional Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy
Thursday 23 March at 15:00
Martina Björkman, Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Preferences Versus Bargaining Power: The Effects of Targeting Mothers or Fathers to Improve Child Health
(with Seema Jayachandran)
Tuesday 28 March at 13:00
Kristoffer Nimark, Cornell University Ithaca
Title: Delegated Information Choice
(with Stefan Pitschner)
Thursday 30 March at 15:00
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University
Title: Intangibles, Inequality and Stagnation
Tuesday 4 April at 13:00
Lint Barrage, Brown University
Title: Heterogeneous Climate Risk Beliefs and Coastal Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water?
Thursday 6 April at 15:00
Aysegul Sahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Title: Demographic Origins of the Startup Deficit
(with Fatih Karahan and Ben Pugsley)
Thursday 20 April at 15:00
Simon Jäger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: How Substitutable Are Workers? Evidence from Worker Deaths
Tuesday 25 April at 13:00
Erik Hurst, Chicago Booth School of Business
Title: Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men
Thursday 27 April at 15:00
Joana Naritomi, London School of Economics
Title: Consumers as Tax Auditors
Tuesday 2 May at 13:00
Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan
Title: A Nudge to School: Triangulating the Gains
Thursday 4 May at 10:00
Burhan Kuruscu, University of Toronto
Title: Use It or Loose It: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation
(with Fatih Guvenen, Gueorgui Kambourov, Sergio Ocampo Diaz, and Daphne Chen)
Tuesday 9 May at 13:00
Dan-Olof Rooth, SOFI, Stockholm University
Title: Long-Run Effects of Free, Universal and Nutritious School Lunches: Evidence from a Swedish Reform
Thursday 11 May at 15:00
Mark Bils, University of Rochester
Title: Misallocation or Mismeasurement?
Tuesday 16 May at 13:00
Annie Liang, University of Pennsylvania
Title: The Theory is Predictive, but is it Complete? An Application to Human Perception of Randomness
(with Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan)
Thursday 18 May at 15:00
Kaveh Majlesi, Lund Universitet
Title: Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
(with David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson)
Tuesday 23 May at 13:00
Christopher Neilson, Princeton University
Title: Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Mechanisms
(with Adam Kapor and Seth Zimmerma)
Tuesday 30 May at 13:00
Gautam Rao, Harvard University
Title: Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
Tuesday 13 June at 13:00
Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University
Title: A Behavioural New Keynesian Model
Thursday 15 June at 15:00
Lise Vesterlund, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Motives for Giving Reconsidered
Paper to be discussed - Why Do People Give? Testing Pure and Impure Altruism
Friday 16 June at 10:00
Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Title: Is Inflation Default? The Role of Information in Debt Crises
(with Carlo Galli)
Fall 2017
Tuesday 29 August at 13:00
Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University
Title: Skill-Biased Technical Change and Development
Monday 4 September at 13:00
Rohini Pande, Harvard University
Title: On Her Account: Can Strengthening Women's Financial Control Boost Female Labor Supply?
Thursday 7 September at 15:00
Ben Jones, Northwestern University
Title: University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege
Tuesday 12 September at 13:00
Meredith Startz, Princeton University
Title: The Value of Face-to-Face: Search and Contracting Problems in Nigerian Trade
Thursday 14 September at 15:00
Matthew Gentzkow, Stanford University
Title: Place-Specific Drivers of Mortality: Evidence from Patient Migration
Tuesday 19 September at 10:00
Chris Tonetti, Stanford University
Title: Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation: A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier
(with Jess Benhabib and Jesse Perla)
Thursday 21 September at 15:00
Guido Imbens, Stanford University
Title: Matrix Completion Methods for Causal Panel Data Models (slides)
Tuesday 26 September at 13:00
Torsten Persson, IIES
Title: Organizational Dynamics: Culture, Design, and Performance
(with Tim Besley)
Thursday 28 September at 15:00
Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University
Title: The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change
(with A. Banerjee and V. Orozco)
Tuesday 3 October at 13:00
Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Title: Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
Thursday 5 October at 15:00
David Yanagizawa-Drott, University of Zurich
Title: Long-Range Growth: Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links
Tuesday 10 October at 13:00
Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota
Title: Worker Mobility and the Diffusion of Knowledge
(with Jeremy Lise, Guido Menzio, and Gordon Phillips)
Thursday 12 October at 15:00
Peter Hull, Microsoft Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Estimating Hospital Quality with Quasi-experimental Data
Tuesday 17 October at 13:00
Alex Rees-Jones, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Title: Why Do We Lie to Incentive-Compatible Mechanisms? Evidence from Medical Students
(with Sam Skowronek)
Thursday 19 October at 15:00
Laura Veldkamp, New York University
Title: The Tail that Wags the Economy: Beliefs and Persistent Stagnation
Tuesday 24 October at 13:00
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Title: Human Capital and Development Accounting: New Evidence from Wage Gains at Migration
(with Lutz Hendricks)
Thursday 26 October at 15:00
Gabriel Zucman, University of California Berkeley
Title: Wealth Accumulation and Wealth Taxation: Theory and Evidence from Denmark
(with Katrine Jakobsen, Kristian Jakobsen, and Henrik Kleven)
Tuesday 7 November at 13:00
Mathias Iwanowsky, IIES
Title: Property Rights, Resources and Wealth: Evidence from a large land reform in the United States
Thursday 9 November at 15:00
Florian Zimmerman, University of Zurich
Title: The Dynamics of Motivated Beliefs
Tuesday 14 November at 13:00
Moritz Lenel, Stanford University
Title: Safe Assets, Collateralized Lending and Monetary Policy
Tuesday 21 November at 13:00
Pablo Fajgelbaum, University of California Los Angeles
Title: Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting
(with Cecile Gauber)
Thursday 23 November at 15:00
Jonathan de Quidt, IIES
Title: Land Trade and Development: A Market Design Approach
(with Gharad Bryan, Tom Wilkening and Nitin Yadav)
Monday 27 November at 12:00
Sirus Dehdari, IIES
Title: Economic Distress and Support for Far-right Parties - Evidence from Sweden
Tuesday 12 December at 13:00
Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
Title: The Unequal Gains from Product Innovations
Thursday 14 December at 15:00
Wenlan Luo, Georgetown University
Title: The Consumer Credit Channel of Monetary Policy
Tuesday 19 December at 13:00
Pol Antras, Harvard University
Title: On the Geography of Global Value Chains
(with Alonso de Gortari)
Thursday 21 December at 15:00
Chenggang Xu, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Title: Political Economy of Making an Authoritarian Constitution: The Case of China
(with Di Guo, Kun Jiang and Yutong Wang)