Seminars 2018-2019

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

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