September | |
Thu Sep 3 | Petra Persson (Stanford): "Competition and the Long-Term Consequences of Grade Inflation" (joint with Rebecca Diamond). |
Tue Sep 8 | Brown Bag: Theodoros Rapanos (SU): "What makes an opinion leader: expertise versus popularity". |
Thu Sep 10 | Patrick Kline (Berkeley): "Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment: A Revealed Preference Approach”. |
Tue Sep 15 | Brown Bag: Evangelia Pateli (SU): "Local and Sectoral Import Spillovers in Sweden". |
Thu Sep 17 | Eric French (UCL): "Medicaid Insurance in Old Age". |
Tue Sep 22 | Brown Bag: Kyle Meng (USCB): "Global Trade and Risk Sharing in a Spatially Correlated Climate". |
Thu Sep 24 | Xavier Giné (World Bank):"Forecasting When it Matters: Evidence from Semi-Arid India". |
Tue Sep 29 | Brown Bag: Michele Valsecchi (GU): “The Political Economy of Corruption in the Bureaucracy”. |
October | |
Thu Oct 1 | Moses Shayo (Hebrew University): "Sharing in Peace: the Effects of Financial Market Exposure on Votes and Political Attitudes". |
Tue Oct 6 | Brown Bag: Andrii Parkhomenko (UAB): "Opportunity to Move: Macroeconomic Effects of Relocation Subsidies". |
Thu Oct 8 | Björn Öckert (IFAU): "Born to Lead? The Effects of Birth Order on Non-Cognitive Skills". |
Tue Oct 13 | Brown Bag: Olivia Bertilli (Paris School of Economics): "The more the merrier? Adjusting fertility to weather shocks". |
Thu Oct 15 | Marianne Bertrand (Chicago): "Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Market Penalty for Skilled Women". |
Tue Oct 20 | Brown Bag: Dany Kessel (SU): "Debiasing the Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition". |
Thu Oct 22 | Sebastian Galiani (University of Maryland): "The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment". |
November | |
Tue Nov 3 | Brown Bag: Mounir Karadja (SU): "Emigration and Political Power: Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration". |
Wed Nov 4 | Paul Klein (SU): "Making a miracle: Ireland 1980-2005". |
Fri Nov 6 | PhD Defense: Sara Fogelberg Lövgren (SU): "Markets, Interventions and Externalities". |
Tue Nov 10 | Brown Bag: Wei Si (SU): "Diverse Expertise and Knowledge Spillover". |
Thu Nov 12 | Noam Yuchtman (Berkeley): "Identifying Ideology: Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan". |
Tue Nov 17 | Brown Bag: Yangzhou Yuan (SU): "Endogenous Markups and Sectoral Misallocation". |
Thu Nov 19 | Amy Finkelstein (MIT): "Welfare Analysis of Health Insurance". |
Tue Nov 24 | Brown Bag: David Seim (SU), no title. |
Thu Nov 26 | Andrea Ichino (EUI): "The cognitive cost of daycare 0–2 for girls". |
Fri Nov 27 | PhD Defense: Manja Gärtner (SU): "Prosocial Behavior and Redistributive Preferences". |
December | |
Tue Dec 1 | Brown Bag: Theodoros Rapanos (SU): "What makes an opinion leader: expertise versus popularity". |
Thu Dec 3 | Camilo García-Jimeno (University of Pennsylvania): "Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Senate Races and Media Coverage". |
Tue Dec 8 | Brown Bag: Marieke Bos (SU): "The Labor Market Effects of Credit Market Information". |
Thu Dec 10 | Miltos Makris (University of Southampton): "Cue-Triggered Recidivism: Experimenting with a Restless Bandit". |
Thu Dec 17 | Plamen Nenov (BI): "Buying first or selling first in housing markets". |
Seminars & brown bags, autumn 2015
Last updated:
December 16, 2015
Page editor:
Anne Jensen
Source: Department of Economics