To Sell or For Sale: Strategic Entry in Pharmaceutical Markets (joint with Zoey Chopra and Garth Strohbehn)
Eric Parolin, University of Michigan, Practice Job Talk
Increasing consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry has prompted antitrust concerns and calls for enhanced scrutiny and regulation...
Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789-1862
Mary Shi, University of Michigan
In April 1792, George and Rachel Ewing packed the whole of their household belongings onto a flat boat and set out on the Ohio River. Among...
Regression Discontinuity Design with Distribution-Valued Outcomes
David van Dijcke, University of Michigan
This article introduces a regression discontinuity design for distribution-valued outcomes (R3D), extending the standard RDD framework to...
Technology of Liberation or Control?: The Asymmetric Effects of the Internet on Political Conflict
Alexander Fertig, University of Michigan
Over the past two decades, the internet and social media have expanded rapidly to all corners of the world. While these new technologies...
IO Seminar: Friday, October 10
Andres Gonzales, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Business School
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Does Urban Biodiversity Matter? Evidence from NYC’s Street Tree Changes
Chang Wang, University of Michigan
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Nonlinear Micro Income Processes with Macro Shocks, joint with Martin Almuzara, Manuel Arellano, and Richard Blundell
Stephane Bonhomme, University of Chicago
We propose a nonlinear framework to study the dynamic transmission of aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks to household income that exploits...
Joint Econometrics Seminar and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics
Stephane Bonhomme, University of Chicago
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Quality Incentives and Upgrading in Uganda’s Coffee Supply Chain (joint with Jie Bai, Ameet Morjaria, Russell Morton, and Yulu Tang)
Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Yale University
Quality upgrading to attain export premia is a key development strategy in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, in many...
Joint Macro and EEE Seminar: Tuesday, October 21
Stephie Fried, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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Frontier Knowledge in College and Student Success
Barbara Biasi, Yale University
This paper studies the teaching of frontier knowledge in higher education and its impact on students. Using text analysis on 2 million...
The nature of the Chinese firm: unincorporated joint stock companies in the Qing dynasty and Republican period
Matthew Lowenstein, Stanford University
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Economic Development Seminar: Thursday, October 23
Riccardo Turati, Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Broke, But Not Out Of Luck: Bankruptcy Regulation and Economic Activity
Sun Kyoung Lee, University of Michigan
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Genuinely Robust Inference for Clustered Data
Harold Chiang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conventional methods for cluster-robust inference are inconsistent when clusters of unignorably large size are present. We formalize this...
Economic History Seminar: Tuesday, November 11
Mel Stephens and Soyoung Han, University of Michigan
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Combining Complements: Theory and Evidence from Cancer Treatment Innovation
Rebekah Dix, Yale University
Innovations often combine several components to achieve outcomes greater than the “sum of the parts.” We argue that such combination...
Professors Miranda Brown and Linda Tesar, Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
LSA Collegiate Lecture Series
This event will take place both in person and virtually....
Oil, Inflation Expectations, and Household Characteristics: A Nonlinear Heterogeneous Agent VAR Approach
Christiane Baumeister, University of Notre Dame
In this paper, we develop a scalable micro-macro modeling framework that integrates linear multivariate time series models with nonlinear...
Labor Reallocation and Recessions: Re-Evaluating Unemployment in Interwar Britain
Meredith Paker, Grinnell College
How does labor reallocation across industries impact recessions? This paper takes up this question for interwar Britain, where the Great...
Joint Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics and Econometrics Seminar: Tuesday, December 2
Juan Rubio-Ramírez, Emory University
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Separation of Powers or Division of Labor: Efficiency and Fairness in the Resolution of Patent Interference Disputes, 1836-1940.
Naomi Lamoreaux, University of Michigan and Yale University
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