Spring 2018
Thursday 8 March at 15:00
Zhen Huo, Yale University
Title: Organizational Equilibrium with Capital
Tuesday 13 March at 13:00
Oskar Nordström-Skans, Uppsala University
Title:
Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility (6208 Kb)
Thursday 15 March at 15:00
Edouard Schaal, The Centre for Research in International Economics (CREI)
Title: Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium
Tuesday 20 March at 13:00
Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University
Title: Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production
(with Johannes Boehm)
Thursday 22 March at 13:00
Elhanan Helpman, Harvard University (NB!! Time)
Title: The Productivity Slowdown and the Declining Labor Share: A Neoclassical Exploration
(with Gene M. Grossman, Ezra Oberfield and Thomas Sampson)
Tuesday 27 March at 13:00
David Weinstein, Columbia University
Title:
Accounting for Trade Patterns (663 Kb)
Thursday 29 March at 10:00
Danny Yagan, University of Berkeley (NB!! Time)
Title: Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century
(with Matthew Smith, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick)
Thursday 12 April at 15:00
Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan
Title: Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
(with Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo)
Tuesday 17 April at 13:00
Johanna Rickne, Stockholm University (SOFI)
Title: "Economic Losers and Political Winners: Sweden's Radical Right"
Thursday 19 April at 15:00
Ruixue Jia, UC San Diego
Title:
The Oriental City: Political Hierarchy and Regional Development in China, AD1000-2000 (4182 Kb)
Thursday 3 May at 15:00
Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University
Title: Making a Narco: Childhood Exposure to Illegal Labor Markets and Criminal Life Paths
Tuesday 8 May at 13:00
Morten Ravn, University College London
Title: "Sentimental Business Cycles"
Tuesday 15 May at 13:00
Ben Golub, Harvard University
Title: When Less in More: Experimental Evidence on Information Delivery During India's Demonetization
(with Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza and Arun Chandrasekhar)
Thursday 17 May at 15:00
Simon Mongey, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Title:
Market Structure and Monetary Non-Neutrality (1952 Kb)
Tuesday 22 May at 13:00
Michael Peters, Yale University
Title:
Spatial Structural Change (4477 Kb)
(with Fabian Eckert)
Tuesday 29 May at 13:00
Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth University
Title: TBA
Tursday 5 June at 13:00
Paola Giuliano, UCLA
Title: Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change
Thursday 7 June at 15:00
Jörgen Kratz, Lund University
Title: TBA
Fall 2018
Tuesday 28 August at 09:00
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University
Title: Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production Functions: Evidence from Colombia
Tuesday 4 September at 13:00
David Baqaee, London School of Economics
Title: TBA
Thursday 6 September at 15:00
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University
Title: The Job Ladder: Inflation vs. Reallocation
Tuesday 11 September at 13:00
Benjamin Schoefer, University of California Berkeley
Title: Wages and the Valur of Nonemployment
Tuesday 18 September at 13:00
Josef Sigurdsson, IIES
Title: Anatomy of Labor Supply Responses: A Tax-free Year on Iceland
Thursday 20 September at 15:00
Cecile Gaubert, University of California Berkeley
Title: Granular Comparative Advantage
Monday 24 September at 10:00
Jaakko Meriläinen, IIES
Title: Politician Quality, Ideology and Fiscal Policy
Tuesday 25 September at 13:00
Gabriel Chodrowow-Reich, Harvard University
Title: Asset Insulators (with Andra Ghent and Valentin Haddad)
Thursday 27 September at 15:00
Teodora Boneva, University of Oxford
Title: Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrolment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns
Monday 1 October at 10:00
Matti Mitrunen, IIES
Title: Government Intervention, Structural Change, and Occupational Choice: Evidence from the Finnish War Reparations
Tuesday 2 October at 13:00
Serena Cocciolo, IIES
Title: Experience of Inclusive Institutions and the Value of Prticipation: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Thursday 4 October at 15:00
Thomas Winberry, Chicago Booth School of Business
Title: Financial Heterogeneity and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy
Tuesday 9 October at 13:00
Uta Schoenberg, University College London
Title: Reallocation Effects of Minimum Wages
Thursday 11 October at 15:00
Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich
Title: Can Audits Backfire? Evidence from Public Procurement in Chile
Thursday 18 October at 15:00
Rohan Kekre, Chicago Booth School of Business
Title: Unemployment Insurance in Macroeconomic Stabilization
Tuesday 23 October at 13:00
Diego Battiston, Stockholm University
Title: The Persistent Effects of Brief Interactions: Evidence from Immigrant Ships
Thursday 25 October at 15:00
Hamish Low, University of Oxford
Title: Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net
Thursday 13 December at 15:00
Jan Eeckhout, UPF Barcelona
Title: The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications