Event Types
Location
On the Investment Network and Development
Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
Capital accumulation, productivity growth and sectoral reallocation are salient features of economic development. These features are...
The China Shock in India: Input Linkages and Output Competition in Manufacturing
Raveesha Gupta, University of Michigan
This paper studies how the impact of a trade shock depends on a country's production technology as well as its position in the global...
Multimargin Selection in Leniency Designs
Lonjezo Sithole, University of Michigan
Leniency designs use quasi-random assignment to decision makers with different treatment propensities to estimate causal effects. When...
Regulation Meets Public Infrastructure: Evidence from Environmental Water Policy in China.
Daniel Xu, Duke University
Pollution environmental infrastructure often requires collective investment and may be under-provided. We study whether environmental...
A Behavioral Theory of Statistics, joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer
Faruk Gul, Princeton University
We present a deterministic theory of the statistician based on two preferences: the estimation preference describes the statistician’s...
Substitution and Income Effects of Labor Income Taxation
Morten Haavarstein, University of Chicago
The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) parameter is a key quantity in empirical analysis of tax policy and labor supply. We examine when a...
Did R&D Misallocation Contribute to Slower Growth?
Nils Lehr, International Monetary Fund
This paper provides evidence that rising misallocation in the R&D sector con- tributed to the recent slowdown in U.S. productivity...
Joint Energy & Environmental Economics and Industrial Organization Seminar: Wednesday, October 7
Ashley Langer, University of Arizona
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Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860-1911
Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Brown University
This paper examines the economic origins and consequences of religious conflicts during the late Qing China (1860–1911), when Christian...
Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, October 13
Neil Christy, University of Michigan
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Strategically Controlling Worldviews
Cuimin Ba, Johns Hopkins University
This paper studies persuasive behavior when the sender can control both the information the receiver observes and the model through which it...
The Distribution of Federally-Insured Mortgages, 1935-1975: Evidence from Local Land Records (with Jacob Faber, Andreas Ferrara, Jonathan Rose, Thomas Storrs, Katherine Thomas, Gabrielle Toborg, Randall Walsh, and Wenfei Xu)
Omer Ali, University of Pittsburgh
This project develops a novel dataset of federally-insured mortgages from 1935 to 1975 by digitizing local land records from county...
The Devil is in the Tail: Macroeconomic Tail Risk Expectations of Firms
Manuel Menkhoff, University of Copenhagen
This paper examines novel survey evidence on firms’ beliefs about macroeconomic tail risk and their role in investment decisions. In a...
Public Finance Seminar: Monday, November 2
Youssef Benzarti, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, November 3
Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, November 10
Danial Lashkari, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Does Management Matter? Evidence from Indigent Defense in Texas
Emily Owens, University of California, Irvine
The majority of felony cases in the United States involve indigent defendants represented by publicly financed attorneys. We examine the...
Economic Theory Seminar: Friday, November 13
Stephen Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Michael Beauregard Seminar in Macroeconomics: Tuesday, November 17
David Argente, Yale University
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Joint Economic Theory and Econometrics Seminar: Tuesday, November 17
Jörg Stoye, Cornell University
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”Serving Those Who Served”: VA-Affiliations and the Direction of Research at U.S. Universities
Arkey Barnett, University of Michigan
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ISR-Zwerdling Seminar in Labor Economics: Wednesday, November 18
Jessica Pan, National University of Singapore
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Housing First or Treatment First? Evidence from the VA's Homelessness Programs
Sydney Constantini, University of California, Berkeley
Debates in homelessness policy often pit Housing First programs, in which subsidized housing is offered unconditionally and immediately,...
Micro Responses to Macro Shocks
Martin Almuzara, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
We study panel data regression models when the shocks of interest are aggregate and there are omitted macro and micro-level shocks of any...
Between Slavery and Incarceration
Christopher Muller, Harvard University
This talk aims to make sense of some puzzling patterns in the incarceration rates of Black and White Americans since slavery, particularly...
What Makes a Good Cop? Measuring Officer Quality and the Trade-Off Between Policing and Public Safety
Roman Rivera, Georgetown University
This paper measures heterogeneity in officers’ effects on reported crime and policing activities (stops, arrests, force use, and...
Economic Theory Seminar: Friday, December 4
Federico Echenique, University of California, Berkeley
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