Transition to Green Technology along the Supply Chain
David Hémous, University of Zürich
We analyze a model of green technological transition along a supply chain. The model generates a unique equilibrium for given initial...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, February 10
Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan
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A Theory of Endogenous Degrowth and Environmental Sustainability (with Philippe Aghion, Timo Boppart, Michael Peters, and Matthew Schwartzman)
Fabrizio Zilibotti, Yale University
We develop and quantify a novel growth theory in which economic activity endogenously shifts from material production to quality...
Who Gets What in Education: Can School Matching Improve Student Achievement? (with Parag Pathak and Atila Abdulkadiroglu)
Christopher Walters, University of Chicago
We examine two approaches to improving urban school systems: changing who gets to go to existing schools (reallocation) and restructuring...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, March 10
Kristina Manysheva, Columbia Business School
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Joint ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics and Ross School of Business: Wednesday, March 11
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, March 17
Chang-Tai Hsieh, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics, Wednesday, March 18
Marcus Casey, University of Illinois Chicago
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Who and How? Adverse Selection and Flexible Moral Hazard (by Henrique Castro-Pires, Deniz Kattwinkel, and Jan Knoepfle)
Henrique Castro-Pires, Harvard Business School
We characterize incentive compatible mechanisms in environments with hidden types and flexible hidden actions. Our approach introduces...
Sticky Discount Rates
Kilian Huber, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
In standard models, expected inflation on its own does not affect the real investment decisions of firms, unless the real cost of capital or...
Freemium Model for Information Provision
Igal Milchtaich, Bar-Ilan University
The paper explores a theoretical freemium model for the sale of information, drawing on mathematical tools used in the study of repeated...
ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday, March 25
Amanda Kowalski, University of Michigan
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Economic Development Seminar: Thursday, March 26
Teevrat Garg, University of California, San Diego
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Joint Theory and Econometrics: Tuesday, March 31
Isaiah Andrews, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday, April 1
Emilio Borghesan, University of Michigan
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, April 21
Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, April 7
Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto
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Auctions as Experiments (with Ryota Iijima, Yuhta Ishii, and Nicholas Wu)
Mira Frick, Princeton University
We study a seller who does not know the distribution of buyers’ values, but can learn from observing their bids in an auction. Which...
The impact of TV's rollout on baseball in the US and soccer in England
Alexander Klein, University of Sussex
After WW2 the dominant professional sports in the US (baseball) and England (soccer) faced a common shock - the rapid penetration of TV...
Joint ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics and CJARS Seminar: Wednesday, April 8
Evan Rose, University of Chicago
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, April 14
Lucía Casal, Columbia Business School
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Joint ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics and CJARS Seminar: Wednesday, April 15
Emily Leslie, Brigham Young University
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Energy & Environmental Economics: Thursday, April 16
Meredith Fowlie, University of California at Berkeley
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Joint Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Tuesday, April 21
Ellora Derenoncourt, Princeton University
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