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Departmental Seminar Series

Each semester the Department of Economics invites economists, researchers and scholars from around the world to participate in our seminar series.  Seminars are free of charge and open to the public.

All  seminars will be held in the Social & Behavioral Sciences Building (Room N603) on Mondays, 1PM-2:20PM at Stony Brook University.

The seminar organizerProfessor Robert Millard.

The scheduled speakers and dates are listed below.

Spring 2024

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday, 
Jan. 22
1-2:20 PM

William Jungerman

University of Minnesota

 

Wednesday,
Jan. 24
1-2:20 PM

Matias Bayas Erazo

Northwestern University

 

Monday,
Jan. 29 
1-2:20 PM

Philip Grubener

Goethe University of Frankfurt

 

Thursday, 
Feb. 1
1-2:20 PM

Fergal Hanks

Northwestern University

 

Monday
Feb. 5
1-2:20PM

Francesc Ortega

City University of New York

 

Wednesday, 
Feb. 7
1-2:20 PM

Lukas Mann

Princeton University

 

 

Friday, 
Feb. 9
1-2:20 PM

Chang Liu

University of Rochester

 

 

Monday, 
Feb. 26
1-2:20 PM

Kyle Herkenhoff

University of Minnesota

 

Wednesday, 
Mar. 6
1-2:20 PM

Arpad Abraham

University of Bristol

 

Monday, 
Mar. 25
1-2:20 PM

Tillman Borgers

University of Michigan

 

Monday, 
Apr. 1
1-2:20 PM

Arjada Bardhi

New York University

 

Monday, 
Apr. 15
1-2:20 PM

John Bailey Jones

Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond

 

Monday, 
Apr. 22
1-2:20 PM

Siddartha Sahi

Rutgers University

 

Friday, 
Apr. 26
1-2:20 PM

Limor Golan

Washington University in St. Louis

 

Monday, 
Apr. 29
1-2:20 PM

Michael Zweig

(Emertius Professor) Stony Brook University

 

Fall 2023

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday, 
Sep. 11
1-2:20 PM

Duhyeong Kim
(Cancelled)

Kent State University

Negative Nominal Interest Rates and Monetary Policy

Monday, 
Sep. 18
1-2:20 PM

Dov Samet
(Cancelled)

Tel Aviv University

 

Monday, 
Sep. 25
1-2:20 PM

Sergio Ocampo

Western University

Taxing Wealth and Capital Income
when Returns are Heterogeneous 

Monday, 
Oct. 2
1-2:20 PM

Ron Siegel

Pennsylvania State University

A Theory of Stable Market Segmentations 

Monday, 
Oct. 16
1-2:20 PM

Justin Johnson

Cornell University

Online Advertising, Data Sharing, and Consumer Control

 

Monday, 
Oct. 23
1-2:20 PM

Utku Unver

Boston College

Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools

 

Monday, 
Oct. 30
1-2:20 PM

Gizem Kosar

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Talking to a Wall or a Mirror? Within-Couple Expectations and Sharing of Information 

Monday, 
Nov. 6
1-2:20 PM

Immo Schott

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

 

Monday, 
Nov. 13
1-2:20 PM

Tim Moore

Purdue University

Importing the Opioid Crisis? Trade, Smuggling, and Fentanyl Overdoses 

Monday, 
Nov. 20
1-2:20 PM

George Levy-Gayle

Washington University in St. Louis

Divorce Law Reform, Matrimonial Regimes and Family Behaviour 

Wednesday, 
Nov. 27
1-2:20 PM

Patrik Guggenberger

Pennsylvania State University

More Results on Finite Sample Minmax Regret Rules

Monday, 
Dec. 4
1-2:20 PM

Tomasz Sadzik

University of California Los Angeles

Cuban Oranges and Rotten Cucumbers: Information Revelation and Bundling 



Spring 2023

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Wednesday, 
Feb. 1
1-2:20 PM

Danial Lashkari

Boston College

The Quality of US Imports and the Consumption Gains from Globalization

Monday, 
Feb. 6
1-2:20 PM

Rahul Deb

University of Toronto

Which Wage Distributions Are Consistent With Statisitical Discrimination? 

Monday, 
Feb. 13
1-2:20 PM

Radek Paluszynski

University of Houston

 

Monday, 
Feb. 20
1-2:20 PM

Pooya Molavi

Northwestern University

 

Monday, 
Feb. 27
1-2:20 PM

Wojciech Kopczuk

Columbia University

Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway 

Monday, 
Mar. 6
1-2:20 PM

Rory McGee

Western University

 

Monday, 
Mar. 20
1-2:20 PM

George-Levy Gayle
(Cancelled)

University of Washington in St. Louis

 

Monday, 
Mar. 27
1-2:20 PM

Timothy Moore
(Cancelled)

Purdue University

 

Monday, 
Apr. 3
1-2:20 PM

Adam Osman

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

The Demand for Mobility: Evidence from an Experiment with Uber Riders 

Monday, 
Apr. 10
1-2:20 PM

Boyan Jovanovic

New York University

Patient Signaling 

Monday, 
Apr. 17
1-2:20 PM

Giovanni Prarolo

University of Bologna

Proximity to resident vs non-resident immigrants and voting behavior 

Wednesday, 
Apr. 19
1-2:20 PM

Victor Aguirregabiria

University of Toronto

Decentralized Decision-Making in Retail Chains: Evidence from Inventory Management

Monday, 
Apr. 24
1-2:20 PM

John Quah

John Hopkins University

Comparative Statics with Adjustment Costs and le Chatelier Principle

Thursday, 
Apr. 27
1-2:20 PM

Shanjun Li

Cornell University

Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting 

Monday, 
May 1
1-2:20 PM

Qingmin Liu

Columbia University

 

Fall 2022

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday, 
Aug. 22
1-2:20 PM

Malin Hu

Vanderbilt University

Default Risk Heterogeneity and Borrower Selection in the Mortgage Market

Monday, 
Aug. 29
1-2:20 PM

Mushfiq Mobarak

Yale

Seasonal Poverty, Credit, and Remittances

Monday, 
Sept. 12
1-2:20 PM

Stephen Morris

MIT

The Power of Confidence and Ignorance in Coordination Problems

Monday, 
Sept. 19
1-2:20 PM

Matthew Mitchell

University of Toronto

Pricing with Repeated Resale: Markup Dynamics and Perpetual Royalties 

Friday, 
Sept. 23
1-2:20 PM

Gautam Gowrisankaran

Columbia University

Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards

Monday, 
Sept. 26
1-2:20 PM

Joseph Mullins

University of Minnesota

 

Wednesday, 
Sept. 28
1-2:20 PM

Mark Hugget

Georgetown

Optimal income taxation: an urban economics perspective

Monday, 
Oct. 3
1-2:20 PM

Hulya Eraslan

Rice University

Bargaining in the Shadow of Uncertainty

Monday, 
Oct. 17
1-2:20 PM

Basil Williams 

New York University

Incentive Design for Talent Discovery

Monday, 
Oct. 24
1-2:20 PM

Adibah Abdulhadi

 Ohio State University

Selection in the Disability Insurance Market

Monday, 
Oct. 31
1-2:20 PM

Kyle Dempsey

Ohio State

Capital Requirements with Non-Bank Requirements

Monday, 
Nov. 7
1-2:20 PM

John Grigsby

 Princeton

 

Monday, 
Nov. 14
1-2:20 PM

Chris Huckfeldt

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

 

Monday, 
Nov. 21
1-2:20 PM

Marzena Rostek

University of Wisconsin

 

Monday, 
Nov. 28
1-2:20 PM

Kai Yang

Yale

Distributions of Posterior Quantiles and Economic Applications

Monday, 
Dec. 5
1-2:20 PM

Dan Cao

Georgetown

 

Monday, 
Dec. 12
1-2:20 PM

Yifan Gong

University of Nebraska

 

 


SPRING 2022

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday, 
March 7
1-2:20 PM

Flavio Toxvaerd

University of Cambridge

Silent Spreaders: Behavior and Equilibrium Under Asymptomatic Infection

Monday, 
March 21
1-2:20 PM

Yuichiro Kamada 

Stanford

Squid Voting Game: Rational Indecisiveness in Sequential Voting

Monday, 
April 4
1-2:20 PM

Chryssi Giannitsarou

University of Cambridge

Cross-country stock market
co-movement: a macro perspective

Monday, 
April 11
1-2:20 PM

Matthijs Wildenbeest 

Indiana University

Agency Pricing and Bargaining: Evidence from the E-Book Market

Monday, 
April 18
1-2:20 PM

 Alessandro Dovis

University of Pennsylvania

Imperfect Risk Sharing and the Business Cycle

Monday, 
April 25
1-2:20 PM

Attila Ambrus 

Duke

Cheap talk with unbounded state spaces

Wednesday
April 27
1-2:20 PM

Donna Gilleskie 

UNC

The Dynamic Effects of a Criminal Record on Health

Monday, 
May 2
1-2:20 PM

Mike Ostovsky 

Stanford

Choice Screen Auctions

 


Fall 2021

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday, 
Aug. 30
1-2:20 PM

Alessandra Peter 

NYU

Nonlinear Pricing and Misallocation

Monday, 
Sept. 13
1-2:20 PM

Julieta Caunedo

Cornell University

Occupational exposure to capital-embodied technical change 

Monday, 
Sept. 20
1-2:20 PM

Katarína Borovičková

 NYU

Consistent Evidence of Duration Dependence of Price Changes

Monday, 
Sept. 27
1-2:20 PM

Joyee Deb

Yale

Aiming for the Goal: Contribution Dynamics of Crowdfunding

Monday, 
Oct. 4
1-2:20 PM

Enghin Atalay

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Firm Technology Upgrading Through Emerging Work

Monday, 
Oct. 18
1-2:20 PM
VIRTUAL

Alexander Wolitzky

MIT

Persuasion as Matching

Monday, 
Oct. 25
1-2:20 PM
VIRTUAL

Chenyu Yang

University of Maryland, College Park

Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Decisions: An Application to Merger Effects on Product Variety

Monday, 
Nov. 1
1-2:20 PM

Danial Lashkari  

Stanford University

Information Technology and Returns to Scale

Monday, 
Nov. 15
1-2:20 PM
VIRTUAL

Richard Rogerson

Princeton

Occupations, Life Cycle Wage Growth and Inequality

Monday, 
Nov. 22
1-2:20 PM

Rasmus Lentz

 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Labor Market Friction, Firm Heterogeneity, and
Aggregate Employment and Productivity

Monday, 
Nov. 29
1-2:20 PM
VIRTUAL

Petra Todd

University of Pennsylvania

Prospering through Prospera: CCT Impacts on Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico

Monday, 
Dec. 6
1-2:20 PM

Colleen Carey

Cornell

 Why Does Disability Insurance Enrollment Increase During Recessions? Evidence from Medicare

 


SPRING 2021

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday, 
Feb. 8
1-2:20 PM

Chris Chambers

Georgetown University

Preference Identification

Monday, 
Feb. 15
1-2:20 PM

Christina Patterson

Chicago Booth

Fiscal Policy in a Networked Economy

Monday, 
Feb. 22
1-2:20 PM

Charles Engel

University of Wisconsin

Scrambling for Dollars: International Liquidity, Banks and Exchange Rates

Monday, 
March 1
1-2:20 PM

Renee Bowen

University of California at San Diego

Learning from Shared News:
When Abundant Information Leads to Belief Polarization

Monday, 
March 8
1-2:20 PM

Balázs Szentes

London School of Economics 

Optimal Technology Design

Monday, 
March 15
1-2:20 PM

Alessandro Bonatti

MIT Sloan

The Economics of Social Data 

Monday, 
March 22
1-2:20 PM

Kurt Mitman

Stockholm University

Why Does Capital Flow from Equal to Unequal Countries? 

Monday, 
March 29
1-2:20 PM

Ivana Komunjer

Georgetown University

A Perturbation Approach to Nonlinear Filtering

Monday, 
April 5
1-2:20 PM

Oleg Itskhoki

UCLA

Consumption-led Growth

Monday, 
April 12
1-2:20 PM

Peter Arcidiacono

Duke University

Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions

Monday, 
April 19
1-2:20 PM

Maryam Farboodi

MIT Sloan

Rational Cycles and Endogenous Lending Standards

Monday, 
April 26
1-2:20 PM

Robert A. Miller

Carnegie Mellon

Was Sarbanes-Oxley Costly? Evidence from Optimal Contracting on CEO Compensation

Monday,
May 3
1-2:20 PM

Panle Jia Barwick 

Cornell University

Attribute-based Subsidies for Energy Efficient Products with Market Power


Fall 2020

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday, 
August 31
1-2:20 PM

S. Nageeb Ali

Pennsylvania State 

Voluntary Disclosure and Personalized Pricing

Monday, 
Sept. 14
1-2:20 PM

Sanjeev Goyal

 University of Cambridge

Large Scale Experiments on Networks: A new platform and applications

Monday, 
Sept. 21
1-2:20 PM

Ran Shorrer 

 Pennsylvania State 

 Simultaneous Search: Beyond Independent Successes

Monday, 
Sept. 28
1-2:20 PM

Krishna Dasartha 

 Harvard University

 Innovation and Strategic Network Formation

Monday, 
Oct. 5
1-2:20 PM

Debasis Mishra 

 Indian Statistical Institute

Selling Two Identical Objects

Monday, 
Oct. 12
1-2:20 PM

Andreas Mueller

University of Texas, Austin 

Job Search Behavior Among the Employed and Non‐Employed

Monday, 
Oct. 19
1-2:20 PM

 Andrew Shephard

University of Pennsylvania 

Household Labour Search, Spousal Insurance, and Health Care Reform

Monday, 
Oct. 26
1-2:20 PM

Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim 

Emory University 

Keeping the listener engaged: a dynamic model of Bayesian persuasion

Monday, 
Nov. 2
1-2:20 PM

 Amit Gandhi

 University of Pennsylvania 

Regularization of high dimensional models with economic priors

Monday, 
Nov. 9
1-2:20 PM

 Mary Ann Bronson

Georgetown University 

The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory

Monday, 
Nov. 16
1-2:20 PM

 Sebastián Calonico

 Columbia University

Recent Developments in Regression Discontinuity Designs 

Monday, 
Nov. 30
1-2:20 PM

Michèle Tertilt

University of Mannheim, Germany

This Time It's Different: The Role of Women's Employment in a Pandemic Recession


SPRING 2020

 

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday, 
Feb. 3
1-2:20 PM

Serguei Maliar

 University of  Santa Clara

Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Computational Economists Any Time Soon?

Monday, 
Feb. 10
1-2:20 PM

Baris Kaymak

University of Montreal

Corporate Tax Cuts and the Decline of the  Labor Share

FRIDAY, 
Feb. 14
1-2:20 PM

César Sosa Padilla 

University of Notre Dame

Reserve Accumulation, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Sovereign Risk

Monday, 
Feb. 17
1-2:20 PM

Michael Dickstein

New York University

Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces

Monday, 
Feb. 24
1-2:20 PM

 Pablo Ottonello

 University of Michigan

Global Banks and Systemic Debt Crises

Monday, 
March 2
1-2:20 PM

 Yuya Sasaki

Vanderbilt University 

Multiway Cluster Robust Double/Debiased Machine Learning

WEDNESDAY, 
March 11
1-2:20 PM

Igor Kopylov

University of California, Irvine

Revealed Delegation and Persuasion

 


FALL 2019

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday, 
Sept. 9
1-2:20 PM

Elliot Lipnowski

Columbia University

Fostering Collaboration

Tuesday, 
Sept..10
1-2:20 PM

Stephen Ryan

Olin Business School

Subsidy Targeting with Market Power

Monday, 
Sept. 16
1-2:20 PM

Satyajit Chatterjee

Philadelphia Federal Reserve

Self-fulfilling Debt Crises, Revisited

Monday, 
Sept. 23
1-2:20 PM

Juan Carlos Hatchondo

University Western Ontario

Constrained efficient borrowing with sovereign default risk

Monday, 
Sept. 30
1-2:20 PM

Maher Said

NYU Stern

Dynamic Incentives for Buy-Side Analysts

Monday, 
Oct. 7
1-2:20 PM

Pierre-André Chiappori

Columbia University

Measuring and  Comparing Assortative Matching

Monday, 
Oct. 21
1-2:20 PM

Corina Boar

NYU

Who are the Hand-to-Mouth?

Monday, 
Oct. 28
1-2:20 PM

Giulio Trigilia

University of Rochester

Voluntary disclosure, moral hazard and default risk

Monday, 
Nov. 4
1-2:20 PM

Virgiliu Midrigan

NYU

Markups and Inequality

Monday, 
Nov. 11
1-2:20 PM

Chinhui Juhn

University of Houston

It’s All About the Timing: Early Childhood Investments and the Quantity-Quality Trade-off

Monday, 
Nov. 18
1-2:20 PM

Alfonso Flores Lagunes

Syracuse University

Bounds on Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument, with an Application to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment

Monday, 
Nov. 25
1-2:20 PM

Yiqing Xing

John Hopkins University

Screening with Network Externalities

Monday, 
Dec. 2
1-2:20 PM

Jeremy Fox

Rice University

Geographic Expansion Mergers and FCC Spectrum Policy

 


SPRING 2019

 

DATE

SPEAKER  

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

  Monday,
Feb. 11
1-2:20 PM

Pablo
D'Erasmo

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia  

Reorganization or Liquidation: Bankruptcy Choice and Firm Dynamics

 Monday,
Feb. 18
1-2:20 PM

Andrew
Ching

Johns Hopkins University

Identification and Estimation of Forward-looking Behavior: The Case of Consumer Stockpiling

 Monday,
Feb. 25
1-2:20 PM

Shurojit
Chatterji

Singapore Management
University

Random Mechanism Design on Multidimensional Domains

Monday,
March 11
1-2:20 PM

Pascal
Lavergne

Toulouse School of Economics

Identification-Robust Nonparametric Inference in a Linear IV Model

Wednesday,
March 13
1-2:20 PM

Xin
Tang

International Monetary Fund

The Welfare Implications of Fiscal Consolidations in Low-income Countries

Monday,
March 25
1-2:20 PM

Nirav
Mehta

University of Western Ontario

Optimal Contracting with Altruistic Agents: A Structural Model of Medicare Reimbursements for Dialysis Drugs

Thursday,
March 28
1-2:20 PM

Narayana
Kocherlakota

University of Rochester

Bounds on Price Setting

Monday,
April 8
1-2:20 PM

Erin
Wolcott

Middlebury College in Vermont

Employment Inequality: Why Do the Low-Skilled Work Less Now?

Monday,
April 15
1-2:20 PM

Selman
Erol

Carnegie Mellon University

Network Hazard and Bailouts

TUESDAY,
April 16
4-6 PM
WANG CTR

Arindam Bhattacharya

Boston Consulting Group, New Delhi

Is Globalization Dead? 

Monday,
April 22
1-2:20 PM

Siying
Liu

Wake Forest University

Entry Decisions and Incumbents' Responses:
Evidence from the Outpatient Surgery Market

Monday,
April 29
1-2:20 PM

Victor
Ronda

 Aarhus University 
Denmark

The Economic Value of Breaking Bad: Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market

Monday,
May 6
1-2:20 PM

Manuel 
Garcia Santana

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

TBA

THURSDAY
May 9
4-6 PM
WANG CTR

Rakesh
Mohan

Yale University
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs

Moving India to A New Growth Trajectory: Need For A Comprehensive Big Push

FALL 2018

DATE

 SPEAKER  

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

  Wednesday, 
Sep. 5
1-2:20 PM


Giacomo
Brusco

University of Michigan  

       Policy Uncertainty and the Risk Profile of Investments

Monday,
Sep. 10
1-2:20 PM

Ryan
Michaels

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

The wages of nonemployment

Wednesday,
Sep. 12
1-2:20 PM

Benjamin
Lester

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Frictional intermediation in over-the-counter markets

Monday,
Sep. 17
1-2:20 PM

Martin
Uribe

Columbia University

Underborrowing

Monday,
Oct. 1
1-2:20 PM

David
Wiczer

Stony Brook University

Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn

Monday,
Oct. 15
1-2:20 PM

Samuele 
Centorrino

Stony Brook University

Nonparametric instrumental variable derivative estimation

Wednesday,
Oct. 17
1-2:20 PM

Grey
Gordon

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

A Quantitative Theory of Hard and Soft Sovereign Defaults

Monday,
Oct. 22
1-2:20 PM

Katja
Seim

University of Pennsylvania

Economies of Density in E-Commerce: A Study of Amazon’s Fulfillment Center Network

Monday,
Oct. 29
1-2:20 PM

Wojciech
Olszewski

Northwestern

A theory of citations

Monday,
Nov. 5
1-2:20 PM

Benjamin
Golub

 Harvard University

Coordination in Teams: Networks, Information and the Value of Resolute Optimists

Monday,
Nov. 12
1-2:20 PM

Simon
Anderson

University of Virginia

Price Discrimination in the Information Age: List Prices, Poaching, and Retention with Personalized Discounts

Monday,
Nov. 19
1-2:20 PM

Gabriel
Mihalache

Stony Brook University

 Inflation Targeting with Sovereign Default Risk

Monday,
Dec. 3
1-2:20 PM

Nicholas
Papageorge

John Hopkins University

Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality

Monday,
Dec. 10
1-2:20 PM

Tzuo Hann
Law

Boston College

Financial Frictions and Un(der)employment Insurance

 


spring 2018

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Tuesday,
Jan. 16
10-11:20 AM    


Shaiza
Qayyum

Johns Hopkins University

Investment in Children, Private Schooling and Maternal
Labor Supply over the Life Cycle 

Monday,
Jan. 22
10-11:20 AM

Debi
Mohapatra

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Price Control and Access to Drugs: The Case of India's Malarial Market

FRIDAY,
Jan. 26
10-11:20 AM

Girija
Borker

Brown University

Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and
Educational Choices of Women

Monday,
Jan. 29
10-11:20 AM

Marianne
Bruins

Oxford University

Welfare-to-work Programmes, Child Welfare and Child Outcomes

Monday,
Feb. 5
4-5:15 PM

Pradeep
Dubey

Stony Brook University

A Game Representation and the Shapley Value

Monday,
Feb. 19
10-11:20 AM

Qian
Li

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Welfare Implications of Switching to Consumption Taxation

Monday,
Feb. 26
4-5:15 PM

Eva
Carceles-Poveda

Stony Brook University

 

Value Preserving Welfare Weights for Social Optimization Problems

Monday,
March 5
4-5:15 PM

Yongsung 
Chang

University of Rochester

Optimal Taxation with Private Insurance

Monday,
March 19
4-5:15 PM

Raffaello
Seri

 Università degli Studi dell'Insubria

A Statistical Theory of Nonparametric Estimation and Inference
in Economic Experiments

Monday,
March 26
4-5:15 PM

Mariacristina
De Nardi

Federal Reserve Bank
of Chicago

Optimal Marriage-related policies in an estimated life-cycle model of
households’ labor supply and savings for two cohorts

Monday,
April 9
4-5:15 PM

Stanley
Zin

NYU Stern

Identifying monetary policy in macro-finance models

Monday,
April 16
4-5:15 PM

Heski
Bar-Isaac

University of Toronto

Adverse Selection, Efficiency and the Structure of Information

Monday,
April 23
4-5:15 PM

Jay Pil
Choi

Michigan State University

A Leverage Theory of Tying in Two-Sided Markets

Monday,
April 30
4-5:15 PM

Victor
Aguirregabiria

University of Toronto

Solution and Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Structural Models Using Euler Equations


FALL 2017

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday,
Aug. 28
1-2:20 PM


Yiyi
Zhou

Stony Brook University

Middlemen as Information Intermediaries: Evidence from the Used Car Markets  

Monday,
Sept. 11
1-2:20 PM

Steven
Stern

Stony Brook University 

Marrying for Money: The Relationship Between Spouses' Wages over Time

Monday,
Sept. 18
1-2:20 PM

Mihai
Manea

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bottleneck Links, Essential Intermediaries, and Competing Paths of Diffusion in Networks

Monday,
Sept. 25
1-2:20 PM

Can
Tian

Washington State
University

Learning, Firm Entry and Exit, and Business Cycles

Weds.,
Sept. 27
1-2:20 PM

Amanda
Friedenberg

Arizona State University

Bargaining Under Strategic Uncertainty: The Role of Second-Order Optimism

Monday,
October 9
1-2:20 PM

Juan
Pantano

University of Chicago

Healthcare Access, Costs and Treatment Dynamics: Evidence from In Vitro Fertilization.

Monday,
October 23
1-2:20 PM

Eran
Shmaya

Northwestern University

The interval structure of optimal disclosure

Monday,
October 30
1-2:20 PM

Robert
Sauer

University of London,
Royal Holloway College

The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match

Monday,
November 6
1-2:20 PM

Haizhen
Lin

Indiana University

Multimarket Contact in Medicare Advantage

Monday,
November 13
1-2:20 PM

Omar
Rachedi

Banco de España

The Young, the Old, and the Government: Demographics and Fiscal Multipliers

Monday,
November 27
1-2:20 PM

Jing
Chen

Stony Brook University

The Query Complexity of Bayesian Auctions

Monday,
December 4
1-2:20 PM

Kevin
Donovan

University of Notre Dame

Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: The Impact of New Bridges in Rural Nicaragua

 


SPRING 2017

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday,
Feb. 20
  1-2:20 PM  

Artyom
Jelnov

Ariel University

  Cheating in Contest

Monday,
March 6
1-2:20 PM

Zhigang
Feng

University of Nebraska

Funding Employer-based Insurance: Regressive Taxation and Premium Exclusions

Weds.,
March 22
1-2:20 PM

Claire
Lim 

Cornell University

Dynamic Natural Monopoly Regulation:Time Inconsistency, Moral Hazard,and Political Environments

Monday,
April 3
1-2:20 PM

Jean-Francois
Houde

Cornell University


Using Market Mechanisms to Increase the Take-up of Improved Sanitation

Weds.,
April 5
4-5:20 PM

Elisa
Faraglia

Cambridge University

Government Debt Management:The Long and the Short of It

Monday,
April 10
1-2:20 PM 
 Ting
Liu
 Stony Brook University

Trust building in credence goods markets

Monday,
April 17
1-2:20 PM

David
Rapson

University of California- Davis

Machine Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency

Monday,
April 24
1-2:20 PM

Gary
Biglaiser

University of North Carolina

Migration Between Platforms

Monday,
May 1
1-2:20 PM

John
Rust

Georgetown University

TBA

Weds.,
May 3
1-2:20 PM

Fei
Li

University of North Carolina

Revenue Management Without Commitment: Dynamic Pricing and Periodic Fire Sales

Weds.,
May 10
1-2:20 PM

Yan
Bai 

University of Rochester

Sovereign Default Risk and Firm Heterogeneity


FALL 2016

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Monday,
Sept. 12
  1-2:20 PM    

Dirk
Krueger

University of Pennsylvania

               Macroeconomics and Household Heterogeneity          

Monday,
Sept. 19
1-2:20 PM

Gabriel
Mihalache

Stony Brook University

Sovereign Default Resolution Through Maturity Extension

Monday,
Sept. 26
1-2:30 PM

Santiago
Oliveros

University of Essex

Competing for Loyalty: The Dynamics of Rallying Support

Monday,
Oct. 3
1-2:30 PM

Jin
Li

Northwestern

Managing Careers in Organizations

Monday,
Oct. 10
1-2:30 PM

Vasiliki
Skreta

University College London

Selling with Evidence

Monday,
Oct. 17
1-2:30 PM

Roberto
Burguet

Stony Brook University

Coalitional Bargaining with Consistent Counterfactuals

Monday,
Oct. 31
1-2:30 PM

 David
Wiczer

Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis

The Disability Option: Labor Market Dynamics with Macroeconomic and Health Risks

Monday,
Nov. 7
1-2:30 PM

Dina
Guo

University of Virginia

Happy Together or Home Alone: A Structural Model of the Role of Health Insurance in Household Joint Retirement

Monday,
Nov. 21
1-2:30 PM

Henry
Schneider

Queen's University

Promoting best practices in a multitask workplace: experimental evidence on checklists

Monday,
Nov. 28
1-2:30 PM

Zachary
Stangebye

University of Notre Dame

The Pricing of Sovereign Risk Under Costly Information

Monday,
Dec. 5
1-2:30 PM

Esther
Gal-Or

University of Pittsburgh

Reward-based crowdfunding campaigns: informational value and access to venture capital


SPRING 2016 

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Thursday,
Feb. 18
4-5:15 PM

Samuele
Centorrino

Stony Brook University

Martingale Models for Dynamic Treatment Effects: Definition and Nonparametric Identification

Wednesday,
Feb. 24 
1-2:15 PM  

Stephen
Terry

Boston University

Trapped Factors and China’s Impact on Global Growth

                                                                                                                                 

Thursday,
March 10
4-5:15 PM

Lingbo
Huang

Stony Brook University
(Political Science)

Fighting Alone or For the Team? Strategic Effects in Field and Lab Team Contests

Thursday,
March 24
4-5:15 PM

Berardino
Palazzo

 

 Boston University Questrom School of Business

Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings

Thursday,
March 31
4-5:15 PM

Jonathan
Williams

 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The Tragedy of the Last Mile: Congestion Externalities in Broadband Networks

Thursday,
April 7
4-5:15 PM

Todd
Keister

Rutgers University

Liquidity regulation and the implementation of monetary policy

Tuesday,
April 12
4-5:15 PM

Meta
Brown

Federal Reserve Bank
of New York

Debt, Jobs, or Housing: What's Keeping Millennials at Home?

Thursday,
April 14
4-5:15 PM

Eyal
Winter

 Hebrew University
of Jerusalem

Rule Rationality

Wednesday,
April 20
4-5:15 PM

Arunava
Sen

Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi

Randomization in Mechanism Design for Voting Domains

Thursday,
April 21
4-5:15 PM

Yongmin
Chen

University of Colorado
at Boulder


Optimal Damages for Patent Infringement under Sequential Innovation

Wednesday,
April 27
4-5:15 PM

Laurent

Mathevet

New York University

TBA

Thursday,
April 28
1-2:15 PM

Timothy
Christensen

New York University

TBA

Wednesday,
May 4
1-2:15 PM

Fatih
Guvenen

Yale University

TBA

Thursday,
May 5
4-5:15 PM

Hanming
Fang

University of Pennsylvania

TBA


FALL 2015 

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Wednesday,
Sept. 2 
1-2:20 PM  

Mike
Golosov

Princeton 

Agency Business Cycles
                                                                                                                                 

Wednesday,
Sept. 9
4-5:15 PM

Asher
Wolinsky

Northwestern 

A Common Value Auction with Bidder Solicitation

Wednesday, 
Sept. 16
1-2:20 PM

Chris
Sleet

 Carnegie Mellon

Taxing Top Incomes

Tuesday,
Sept. 22
4-5:15 PM

Victor
Rios-Rull

 University of Pennsylvania

Financial Frictions, Asset Prices, and the Great Recession

Wednesday,
Sept. 30
1-2:20 PM

Felicia
Ionescu

Federal Reserve 

Stock Market Investment: The Role of Human Capital

Wednesday,
October 7
4-5:15 PM

Alessandro
Lizzeri

NYU 

Frictions in a Competitive, Regulated Market: Evidence from Taxis

Wednesday,
October 14
4-5:15 PM

Klaus
Desmet

 Southern Methodist University


The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding

Wednesday,
October 21
4-5:15 PM

Arijit
Mukherjee

 Michigan State University

On The Optimality of Diverse Expert Panels in Persuasion Games

Wednesday,
Nov. 4
1-2:20 PM

Mo
Xiao

 University of Arizona

 When to Exit?  Limited Rationality in Firm Decisions

Friday, 
Nov. 6  
1-2:20 PM

Per
Krusell

Stockholm University, IIES

Labor Supply in the Past, Present, and Future: A Balanced-Growth Perspective

Wednesday, 
Nov. 11
1-2:20 PM

Matthew
Weinzierl

Harvard Business School

Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation

Wednesday,
Dec. 2
4-5:15 PM

Flavio Toxvaerd

University of Cambridge 

On the Management of Population Immunity

 


SPRING 2015 

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

Wednesday, February 11

Pierre
Yared

Columbia University

Optimal Time-Consistent Government Debt Maturity

Wednesday, February 25

Jeffrey
Racine

McMaster

Direct Nonparametric Conditional Quantile Estimation

Friday,
March 6

Sorawoot
Srisuma

Surrey

Identifying dynamic games with switching costs

Wednesday,
March 11

Amil
Petrin

Minnesota

Identification and estimation of discrete choice demand models when observed and unobserved product characteristics are correlated

Wednesday,
March 25

Huanxing
Yang

Ohio State

Competitive Cheap Talk

Wednesday,
April 8

Pau
Pujolas

McMaster

Nonlinear gravity

Wednesday,
April 15

Pasquale
Schiraldi

London School of Economics

Simultaneous First-Price Auctions with Preferences over Combinations: Identification, Estimation and Application


FALL 2014

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Topic

Tuesday September 9 Ayse Imrohoroglu University of Southern California Proposition 13: An Equilibrium Analysis
Thursday September 11 Francesco Decarolis Boston University Medicare Part D: Are Insurers Gaming the Low Income Subsidy Design?
Thursday September 25 Daniel Xu Duke University A Structural Model of Demand, Cost, and Export Market Selection for Chinese Footwear Producers
Thursday October 9 Antoine Martin New York Fed Gates, Fees, and Preemptive Runs
Thursday October 16 Berthold Herrendorf Arizona State University On the Allocation of Time- A Quantitative Analysis of the US and France
Thursday October 23 Edouard Schaal New York University Coordinating Business Cycles
Thursday November 6 Hulya Eraslan Rice University Dynamic Agenda Setting
Tuesday November 18 Yue Li NBER The Effects of Retirement Insurance Benefit Rule Changes on Disability Insurance and Labor Supplies
Thursday November 20 Albert Marcet Institut d'Analisi Economica Stock Price Booms and Expected Capital Gains
Thursday December 4 Juan Rubio Duke University "Inference Based on SVARs Identified with Sign and Zero Restrictions: Theory and Applications"