Personal Connections and Hiring Decisions in the Public Sector (with Eleonora Patacchini)
Tatiana Mocanu, University
Relying on comprehensive employment records of applicants in the universe of public jobs in Brazil from 1986 until 2017, an institutional...
Demographic Preferences and Income Segregation
Jessie Handbury, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
We investigate whether demographic preferences explain income segregation in shared spaces. To distinguish preferences over demographic...
How Good is International Risk Sharing? Stepping outside the Shadow of the Welfare Theorems (joint with Mark Aguiar and Dmitry Mukhin)
Oleg Itskhoki, University of California, Los Angeles
We revisit whether global output is (Pareto) efficiently distributed across countries over time. The efficient allocation of goods across...
An Empirical Model of Consideration through Search (joint with Jose Luis Moraga-González and Zsolt Sándor)
Matthijs Wildenbeest, University of Arizona
We propose a tractable method for the estimation of a consideration set model in which consideration sets are endogenously determined...
Agriculture, Trade, and the Spatial Efficiency of Global Water Use - co-authored with Tamma Carleton and Levi Crews
Ishan Nath, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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International Economics Seminar: Thursday, November 21
Ferdinando Monte, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business
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Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Healthcare Markets
Benjamin Vatter, MIT Sloan School of Management
We measure the impacts of vertical integration between insurers and hospitals. In the Chilean market, where half of private hospital...
