Professors Miranda Brown, August E. (Gus) Evrard and Linda Tesar, Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
LSA Collegiate Lecture Series
This event will take place both in person and virtually....
Algorithmic Steering and Advertising on Platforms.
Justin Johnson, Cornell University
We analyze steering/self-preferencing by a retail platform, using both economic theory and simulations of AI algorithms. When the platform...
International Day Conference
Federico Huneeus (Duke), Enghin Atalay (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), Xiang Ding (Georgetown)
Please join us for the one-day conference hosted by Michigan International Economics on Friday, November 14 at the Lorch Hall in room 201....
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...
When Resources Meet Relationships: The Returns to Personalized Supports for Low-Income Students
Benjamin Goldman, Cornell University
Children from low-income families face persistent educational and economic disadvantages that contribute to long-run earnings gaps. This...
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...
Family Formation and Migration: The Legacy of the Opioid Epidemic
Carolina Arteaga, NBER/University of Toronto
In this paper, we examine how the opioid epidemic affected family formation and migration decisions in the United States. Leveraging...
Joint Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics and Econometrics Seminar: Tuesday, December 2
Juan Rubio-RamÃrez, 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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The Risk Protection Value of Moral Hazard
Victoria Marone, Yale University
Health insurance lowers the out-of-pocket price of healthcare, and it is well-established that this leads to higher utilization of care....
