Archive of seminars for the academic year 2018-2019 Semester 1 Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis) MacCaLM: Monday 10 September, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Computerizing Industries and Routinizing Jobs: Explaining Trends in Aggregate Productivity (joint with Sangmin Aum and Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee) Yang Xie (University of California, Riverside) MacCaLM: Wednesday 12 September, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Erosion of State Power and the Political Boundaries of Corruption Frank Schilbach (MIT) MacCaLM: Monday 17 September, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Technology Diffusion and Appropriate Use: Evidence from Western Kenya (joint with Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer and Jon Robinson) Jing Li (MIT) Date: Wednesday 19 September, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Compatibility and Investment in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market George-Marios Angeletos (MIT) MacCaLM: Tuesday 25 September, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Myopia and Anchoring (joint with Zhen Huo) Fabien Postel-Vinay (University College London) MacCaLM: Monday 1 October, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: TBA Diego Battiston (Stockholm) MacCaLM: Tuesday 2 October, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: The Persistent Effects of Brief Interactions: Evidence from Immigrant Ships Stephen Maurer (Konstantz) MacCaLM: Wednesday 3 October, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Of Mice and Merchants: Trade and Growth in the Iron Age (joint with Jan David Bakker, Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch) Will Dobbie (Princeton University) MacCaLM: Thursday 4 October, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Measuring Bias in Consumer Lending (joint with Andres Liberman, Daniel Paravisini and Vikram Pathania) Timo Boppart (IIES) MacCaLM: Monday 15 October, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Missing Growth from Creative Destruction Anna Sanktjohanser (Yale University) Date: Monday 22 October, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Optimally Stubborn Makoto Nakajima (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) MacCaLM: Monday 29 October, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Credit, Bankruptcy, and Aggregate Fluctuations (joint with Jose-Victor Rios-Rull) Akos Valentinyi (University of Manchester) MacCaLM: Wednesday 31 October, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Structural Change in Investment and Consumption: A Unified Approach (joint with Berthold Herrendorf and Richard Rogerson) Benjamin Moll (Princeton University) MacCaLM: Friday 2 November, 11.30-13.00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Saving Behavior Across the Wealth Distribution (joint with Andreas Fagereng, Martin Holm and Gisle Natvik) Gabriel Ulyssea (Oxford University) MacCaLM: Monday 5 November, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations (joint with Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Penny Goldberg and Costas Meghir) Jean Flemming (Oxford University) MacCaLM: Monday 12 November, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Costly Commuting and the Job Ladder Ian Crawford (Oxford) Date: Wednesday 14 November, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: A Meaningful Theorem? Nonparametric Analysis of Reference Dependence Marcos Vera Hernandez (UCL) MacCaLM: Monday 19 November, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Using Two-Part Contracts to Identify Complementarities Across Tasks: An application to Family Doctors (joint with Paul Rodrigues-Lesmes) Double Seminar programme - ESRC/School of Economics Procurement Day - Wed 21 November, venue 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place 10:00-11:15 - Prof. Eyal Winter (University of Lancaster and Hebrew University) - Raising Capital from Heterogeneous Investors 11:15-11:45 - Break, with coffee and biscuits/fruit 11:45-13:00 - Dr. Daniel Monte (Sao Paulo School of Economics) - Information Design with Recommender Systems Terri Kneeland (UCL) Date: Monday 26 November, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Is Bounded Rationality Driven by Limited Ability? (joint with Amanda Friedenberg and Willemien Kets) Thomas Chaney (Sciences Po Paris) Date: Wednesday 28 November, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age (joint with Gojko Barjamovic, Kerem Cosar and Ali Hortacsu) Ralph Luetticke (UCL) MacCaLM: Monday 3 December, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Transmission of Monetary Policy with Heterogeneity in Household Portfolios Aniko Biro Date: Wednesday 5 December, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Job Loss, Disability Pension and Health Expenditures Giacomo Ponzetto (CREI) MacCaLM: Monday 10 December, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Fundamental Errors in the Voting Booth (joint with Ed Glaeser) Semester 2 Michela Tincani (UCL) MacCaLM: Monday 18 February, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Promoting Access to Higher Education: Evidence from the Randomization of a National Policy (joint with F. Kosse and E. Miglino) Selman Erol (Carnegie Mellon University) MacCaLM: Wednesday 20 February, 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Network Hazard and Bailouts Jan Eeckhout (ICREA-UPF and Barcelona GSE) MacCaLM: Monday 4 March, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Quantifying Market Power (joint with Jan De Locker and Simon Mongey) Alexis Antoniadis (Georgetown University) Date: Wednesday 6 March, 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Distribution as Expenditure (joint with Robert C. Feenstra and Mingzhi Xu) Andreas Moxnes (University of Oslo) MacCaLM: Monday 11 March, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Opening the Floodgates: Immigration and Structural Change (joint with Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe) Karl Walentin (Sveriges Riksbank) Date: Wednesday 13 March, 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Skill Loss, Job Mismatch and the Slow Recovery from the Great Recession (joint with Andreas Westermark) Cecile Gaubert (Institute of European Studies) MacCaLM: Monday 18 March, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting (joint with V. Couture, J. Handbury and E. Hurst) Antonia Diaz Rodriguez (University Carlos III de Madrid) Date: Wednesday 20 March, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Wealth Effects in Housing Markets with Search Frictions David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania) Date: Monday 25 March, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Time Lotteries and Stochastic Impatience (joint with Patrick DeJarnette, Daniel Gottlieb, and Pietro Ortoleva) Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim) Date: Wednesday 27 March, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Collective Reputation (joint with Roland Strausz) Botond Koszegi (Central European University) Date: Monday 1 April, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: An Attention-Based Theory of Mental Accounting (joint with Filip Matejka) Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary University of London) Date: Wednesday 24th April, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Runoff Elections in the Laboratory Ctirad Slavik (CERGE-EI) Date: Monday 29 April, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Organization of Knowledge and Taxation (joint with Marek Kapicka) Gerard Roland (UC Berkeley) Date: Wednesday 8 May, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Scapegoating: Empirical Evidence Hanno Foerster (Mannheim) Date: Monday 13 May, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: The Impact of Post-Marital Maintenance on Dynamic Decisions and Welfare of Couples Mark Aguiar (Princeton University) MacCaLM: Monday 20 May, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Who are the hand-to-mouth?” (Joint with Mark Bils and Corina Boar) Shu Lin Wee (Carnegie Mellon University) Date: Tuesday 21 May, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: "Replacement Hiring and the Productivity-Wage Gap" Rocio Madera (Southern Methodist University) MacCaLM: Date: Friday 24 May, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: The Consumption Response to Tail Earnings Shocks Minchul Yum (Mannheim) MacCaLM: Monday 27 May, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Is Household Heterogeneity Important for Business Cycles? Gino Gancia & Alessandra Bonfiglioli (Queen Mary University of London) Date: Wednesday 29 May, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: Firms and Economic Performance: A View from Trade Simon Fuchs (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta) MacCaLM: Date: Thursday 30 May, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: The Spoils of War: Trade Shocks during WWI and Spain's Regional Development (draft version available here) Pontus Rendahl (University of Cambridge) Date: Monday 3 June, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: "Labor Income Risk, Asset Prices, and Unemployment Cyclicality". Seda Erdem (Stirling) Date: Friday 14 June, 11:30-13:00 Venue: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Paper: A latent variable approach to investigate system I/II decision-making: evidence from a food choice and eye tracking experiment This article was published on 2024-10-01