Departmental Seminar Series
Each semester the Department of Econmics 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 organizer: Professors Robert Millard.
The scheduled speakers and dates are listed below.
Fall 2023
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
Duhyeong Kim |
Kent State University |
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Monday, |
Dov Samet |
Tel Aviv University |
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Monday, |
Sergio Ocampo |
Western University |
Taxing Wealth and Capital Income |
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Monday, |
Ron Siegel |
Pennsylvania State University |
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Monday, |
Justin Johnson |
Cornell University |
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Monday, |
Utku Unver |
Boston College |
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Monday, |
Gizem Kosar |
Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
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Monday, |
Immo Schott |
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
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Monday, |
Tim Moore |
Purdue University |
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Monday, |
George Levy-Gayle |
Washington University in St. Louis |
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Wednesday, |
Patrik Guggenberger |
Pennsylvania State University |
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Monday, |
Tomasz Sadzik |
University of California Los Angeles |
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Spring 2023
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Wednesday, |
Danial Lashkari |
Boston College |
The Quality of US Imports and the Consumption Gains from Globalization |
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Monday, |
Rahul Deb |
University of Toronto |
Which Wage Distributions Are Consistent With Statisitical Discrimination? |
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Monday, |
Radek Paluszynski |
University of Houston |
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Monday, |
Pooya Molavi |
Northwestern University |
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Monday, |
Wojciech Kopczuk |
Columbia University |
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Monday, |
Rory McGee |
Western University |
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Monday, |
George-Levy Gayle |
University of Washington in St. Louis |
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Monday, |
Timothy Moore |
Purdue University |
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Monday, |
Adam Osman |
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
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Monday, |
TBD |
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Monday, |
Giovanni Prarolo |
University of Bologna |
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Wednesday, |
Victor Aguirregabiria |
University of Toronto |
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Monday, |
John Quah |
John Hopkins University |
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Thursday, |
Shanjun Li |
Cornell University |
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Monday, |
Qingmin Liu |
Columbia University |
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Fall 2022
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
Malin Hu |
Vanderbilt University |
Default Risk Heterogeneity and Borrower Selection in the Mortgage Market |
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Monday, |
Mushfiq Mobarak |
Yale |
Seasonal Poverty, Credit, and Remittances |
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Monday, |
Stephen Morris |
MIT |
The Power of Confidence and Ignorance in Coordination Problems |
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Monday, |
Matthew Mitchell |
University of Toronto |
Pricing with Repeated Resale: Markup Dynamics and Perpetual Royalties |
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Friday, |
Gautam Gowrisankaran |
Columbia University |
Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards |
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Monday, |
Joseph Mullins |
University of Minnesota |
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Wednesday, |
Mark Hugget |
Georgetown |
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Monday, |
Hulya Eraslan |
Rice University |
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Monday, |
Basil Williams |
New York University |
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Monday, |
Adibah Abdulhadi |
Ohio State University |
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Monday, |
Kyle Dempsey |
Ohio State |
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Monday, |
John Grigsby |
Princeton |
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Monday, |
Chris Huckfeldt |
Federal Reserve Board of Governors |
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Monday, |
Marzena Rostek |
University of Wisconsin |
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Monday, |
Kai Yang |
Yale |
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Monday, |
Dan Cao |
Georgetown |
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Monday, |
Yifan Gong |
University of Nebraska |
SPRING 2022
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
Flavio Toxvaerd |
University of Cambridge |
Silent Spreaders: Behavior and Equilibrium Under Asymptomatic Infection |
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Monday, |
Yuichiro Kamada |
Stanford |
Squid Voting Game: Rational Indecisiveness in Sequential Voting |
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Monday, |
Chryssi Giannitsarou |
University of Cambridge |
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Monday, |
Matthijs Wildenbeest |
Indiana University |
Agency Pricing and Bargaining: Evidence from the E-Book Market |
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Monday, |
Alessandro Dovis |
University of Pennsylvania |
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Monday, |
Attila Ambrus |
Duke |
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Wednesday, |
Donna Gilleskie |
UNC |
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Monday, |
Mike Ostovsky |
Stanford |
Fall 2021
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
Alessandra Peter |
NYU |
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Monday, |
Julieta Caunedo |
Cornell University |
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Monday, |
Katarína Borovičková |
NYU |
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Monday, |
Joyee Deb |
Yale |
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Monday, |
Enghin Atalay |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
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Monday, |
Alexander Wolitzky |
MIT |
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Monday, |
Chenyu Yang |
University of Maryland, College Park |
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Monday, |
Danial Lashkari |
Stanford University |
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Monday, |
Richard Rogerson |
Princeton |
Occupations, Life Cycle Wage Growth and Inequality |
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Monday, |
Rasmus Lentz |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Labor Market Friction, Firm Heterogeneity, and |
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Monday, |
Petra Todd |
University of Pennsylvania |
Prospering through Prospera: CCT Impacts on Educational Attainment and Achievement in Mexico |
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Monday, |
Colleen Carey |
Cornell |
Why Does Disability Insurance Enrollment Increase During Recessions? Evidence from Medicare |
SPRING 2021
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
Chris Chambers |
Georgetown University |
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Monday, |
Christina Patterson |
Chicago Booth |
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Monday, |
Charles Engel |
University of Wisconsin |
Scrambling for Dollars: International Liquidity, Banks and Exchange Rates |
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Monday, |
Renee Bowen |
University of California at San Diego |
Learning from Shared News: |
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Monday, |
Balázs Szentes |
London School of Economics |
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Monday, |
Alessandro Bonatti |
MIT Sloan |
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Monday, |
Kurt Mitman |
Stockholm University |
Why Does Capital Flow from Equal to Unequal Countries? |
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Monday, |
Ivana Komunjer |
Georgetown University |
A Perturbation Approach to Nonlinear Filtering |
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Monday, |
Oleg Itskhoki |
UCLA |
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Monday, |
Peter Arcidiacono |
Duke University |
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Monday, |
Maryam Farboodi |
MIT Sloan |
Rational Cycles and Endogenous Lending Standards |
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Monday, |
Robert A. Miller |
Carnegie Mellon |
Was Sarbanes-Oxley Costly? Evidence from Optimal Contracting on CEO Compensation |
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Monday, |
Panle Jia Barwick |
Cornell University |
Attribute-based Subsidies for Energy Efficient Products with Market Power |
Fall 2020
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
S. Nageeb Ali |
Pennsylvania State |
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Monday, |
Sanjeev Goyal |
University of Cambridge |
Large Scale Experiments on Networks: A new platform and applications |
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Monday, |
Ran Shorrer |
Pennsylvania State |
Simultaneous Search: Beyond Independent Successes |
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Monday, |
Krishna Dasartha |
Harvard University |
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Monday, |
Debasis Mishra |
Indian Statistical Institute |
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Monday, |
Andreas Mueller |
University of Texas, Austin |
Job Search Behavior Among the Employed and Non‐Employed |
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Monday, |
Andrew Shephard |
University of Pennsylvania |
Household Labour Search, Spousal Insurance, and Health Care Reform |
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Monday, |
Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim |
Emory University |
Keeping the listener engaged: a dynamic model of Bayesian persuasion |
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Monday, |
Amit Gandhi |
University of Pennsylvania |
Regularization of high dimensional models with economic priors |
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Monday, |
Mary Ann Bronson |
Georgetown University |
The Wage Growth and Within-Firm Mobility of Men and Women: New Evidence and Theory |
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Monday, |
Sebastián Calonico |
Columbia University |
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Monday, |
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 |
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Monday, |
Serguei Maliar |
University of Santa Clara |
Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Computational Economists Any Time Soon? |
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Monday, |
Baris Kaymak |
University of Montreal |
Corporate Tax Cuts and the Decline of the Labor Share |
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FRIDAY, |
César Sosa Padilla |
University of Notre Dame |
Reserve Accumulation, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Sovereign Risk |
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Monday, |
Michael Dickstein |
New York University |
Take-Up, Drop-Out, and Spending in ACA Marketplaces |
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Monday, |
Pablo Ottonello |
University of Michigan |
Global Banks and Systemic Debt Crises |
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Monday, |
Yuya Sasaki |
Vanderbilt University |
Multiway Cluster Robust Double/Debiased Machine Learning |
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WEDNESDAY, |
Igor Kopylov |
University of California, Irvine |
Revealed Delegation and Persuasion |
FALL 2019
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
Elliot Lipnowski |
Columbia University |
Fostering Collaboration |
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Tuesday, |
Stephen Ryan |
Olin Business School |
Subsidy Targeting with Market Power |
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Monday, |
Satyajit Chatterjee |
Philadelphia Federal Reserve |
Self-fulfilling Debt Crises, Revisited |
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Monday, |
Juan Carlos Hatchondo |
University Western Ontario |
Constrained efficient borrowing with sovereign default risk |
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Monday, |
Maher Said |
NYU Stern |
Dynamic Incentives for Buy-Side Analysts |
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Monday, |
Pierre-André Chiappori |
Columbia University |
Measuring and Comparing Assortative Matching |
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Monday, |
Corina Boar |
NYU |
Who are the Hand-to-Mouth? |
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Monday, |
Giulio Trigilia |
University of Rochester |
Voluntary disclosure, moral hazard and default risk |
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Monday, |
Virgiliu Midrigan |
NYU |
Markups and Inequality |
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Monday, |
Chinhui Juhn |
University of Houston |
It’s All About the Timing: Early Childhood Investments and the Quantity-Quality Trade-off |
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Monday, |
Alfonso Flores Lagunes |
Syracuse University |
Bounds on Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument, with an Application to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment |
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Monday, |
Yiqing Xing |
John Hopkins University |
Screening with Network Externalities |
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Monday, |
Jeremy Fox |
Rice University |
Geographic Expansion Mergers and FCC Spectrum Policy |
SPRING 2019
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
Pablo |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
Reorganization or Liquidation: Bankruptcy Choice and Firm Dynamics |
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Monday, |
Andrew |
Johns Hopkins University |
Identification and Estimation of Forward-looking Behavior: The Case of Consumer Stockpiling |
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Monday, |
Shurojit |
Singapore Management |
Random Mechanism Design on Multidimensional Domains |
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Monday, |
Pascal |
Toulouse School of Economics |
Identification-Robust Nonparametric Inference in a Linear IV Model |
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Wednesday, |
Xin |
International Monetary Fund |
The Welfare Implications of Fiscal Consolidations in Low-income Countries |
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Monday, |
Nirav |
University of Western Ontario |
Optimal Contracting with Altruistic Agents: A Structural Model of Medicare Reimbursements for Dialysis Drugs |
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Thursday, |
Narayana |
University of Rochester |
Bounds on Price Setting |
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Monday, |
Erin |
Middlebury College in Vermont |
Employment Inequality: Why Do the Low-Skilled Work Less Now? |
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Monday, |
Selman |
Carnegie Mellon University |
Network Hazard and Bailouts |
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TUESDAY, |
Arindam Bhattacharya |
Boston Consulting Group, New Delhi |
Is Globalization Dead? |
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Monday, |
Siying |
Wake Forest University |
Entry Decisions and Incumbents' Responses: Evidence from the Outpatient Surgery Market |
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Monday, |
Victor |
Aarhus University |
The Economic Value of Breaking Bad: Misbehavior, Schooling and the Labor Market |
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Monday, |
Manuel |
Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
TBA |
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THURSDAY |
Rakesh |
Yale University |
Moving India to A New Growth Trajectory: Need For A Comprehensive Big Push |
FALL 2018
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Wednesday, |
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University of Michigan |
Policy Uncertainty and the Risk Profile of Investments |
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Monday, |
Ryan |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
The wages of nonemployment |
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Wednesday, |
Benjamin |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
Frictional intermediation in over-the-counter markets |
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Monday, |
Martin |
Columbia University |
Underborrowing |
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Monday, |
David |
Stony Brook University |
Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn |
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Monday, |
Samuele |
Stony Brook University |
Nonparametric instrumental variable derivative estimation |
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Wednesday, |
Grey |
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
A Quantitative Theory of Hard and Soft Sovereign Defaults |
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Monday, |
Katja |
University of Pennsylvania |
Economies of Density in E-Commerce: A Study of Amazon’s Fulfillment Center Network |
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Monday, |
Wojciech |
Northwestern |
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Monday, |
Benjamin |
Harvard University |
Coordination in Teams: Networks, Information and the Value of Resolute Optimists |
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Monday, |
Simon |
University of Virginia |
Price Discrimination in the Information Age: List Prices, Poaching, and Retention with Personalized Discounts |
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Monday, |
Gabriel |
Stony Brook University |
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Monday, |
Nicholas |
John Hopkins University |
Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality |
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Monday, |
Tzuo Hann |
Boston College |
Financial Frictions and Un(der)employment Insurance |
spring 2018
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Tuesday, |
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Johns Hopkins University |
Investment in Children, Private Schooling and Maternal |
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Monday, |
Debi |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
Price Control and Access to Drugs: The Case of India's Malarial Market |
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FRIDAY, |
Girija |
Brown University |
Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and |
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Monday, |
Marianne |
Oxford University |
Welfare-to-work Programmes, Child Welfare and Child Outcomes |
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Monday, |
Pradeep |
Stony Brook University |
A Game Representation and the Shapley Value |
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Monday, |
Qian |
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
Welfare Implications of Switching to Consumption Taxation |
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Monday, |
Eva |
Stony Brook University |
Value Preserving Welfare Weights for Social Optimization Problems |
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Monday, |
Yongsung |
University of Rochester |
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Monday, |
Raffaello |
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria |
A Statistical Theory of Nonparametric Estimation and Inference |
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Monday, |
Mariacristina |
Federal Reserve Bank |
Optimal Marriage-related policies in an estimated life-cycle model of |
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Monday, |
Stanley |
NYU Stern |
Identifying monetary policy in macro-finance models |
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Monday, |
Heski |
University of Toronto |
Adverse Selection, Efficiency and the Structure of Information |
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Monday, |
Jay Pil |
Michigan State University |
A Leverage Theory of Tying in Two-Sided Markets |
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Monday, |
Victor |
University of Toronto |
Solution and Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Structural Models Using Euler Equations |
FALL 2017
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
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Stony Brook University |
Middlemen as Information Intermediaries: Evidence from the Used Car Markets |
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Monday, |
Steven |
Stony Brook University |
Marrying for Money: The Relationship Between Spouses' Wages over Time |
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Monday, |
Mihai |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Bottleneck Links, Essential Intermediaries, and Competing Paths of Diffusion in Networks |
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Monday, |
Can |
Washington State |
Learning, Firm Entry and Exit, and Business Cycles |
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Weds., |
Amanda |
Arizona State University |
Bargaining Under Strategic Uncertainty: The Role of Second-Order Optimism |
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Monday, |
Juan |
University of Chicago |
Healthcare Access, Costs and Treatment Dynamics: Evidence from In Vitro Fertilization. |
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Monday, |
Eran |
Northwestern University |
The interval structure of optimal disclosure |
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Monday, |
Robert |
University of London, |
The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match |
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Monday, |
Haizhen |
Indiana University |
Multimarket Contact in Medicare Advantage |
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Monday, |
Omar |
Banco de España |
The Young, the Old, and the Government: Demographics and Fiscal Multipliers |
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Monday, |
Jing |
Stony Brook University |
The Query Complexity of Bayesian Auctions |
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Monday, |
Kevin |
University of Notre Dame |
Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: The Impact of New Bridges in Rural Nicaragua |
SPRING 2017
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
Artyom |
Ariel University |
Cheating in Contest |
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Monday, |
Zhigang |
University of Nebraska |
Funding Employer-based Insurance: Regressive Taxation and Premium Exclusions |
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Weds., |
Claire |
Cornell University |
Dynamic Natural Monopoly Regulation:Time Inconsistency, Moral Hazard,and Political Environments |
| Monday, April 3 1-2:20 PM |
Jean-Francois |
Cornell University |
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| Weds., April 5 4-5:20 PM |
Elisa |
Cambridge University |
Government Debt Management:The Long and the Short of It |
| Monday, April 10 1-2:20 PM |
Ting Liu |
Stony Brook University |
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| Monday, April 17 1-2:20 PM |
David |
University of California- Davis |
Machine Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency |
| Monday, April 24 1-2:20 PM |
Gary |
University of North Carolina |
Migration Between Platforms |
| Monday, May 1 1-2:20 PM |
John |
Georgetown University |
TBA |
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Weds., |
Fei |
University of North Carolina |
Revenue Management Without Commitment: Dynamic Pricing and Periodic Fire Sales |
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Weds., |
Yan |
University of Rochester |
Sovereign Default Risk and Firm Heterogeneity |
FALL 2016
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Monday, |
Dirk |
University of Pennsylvania |
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Monday, |
Gabriel |
Stony Brook University |
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Monday, |
Santiago |
University of Essex |
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Monday, |
Jin |
Northwestern |
Managing Careers in Organizations |
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Monday, |
Vasiliki |
University College London |
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Monday, |
Roberto |
Stony Brook University |
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Monday, |
David |
Federal Reserve Bank |
The Disability Option: Labor Market Dynamics with Macroeconomic and Health Risks |
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Monday, |
Dina |
University of Virginia |
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Monday, |
Henry |
Queen's University |
Promoting best practices in a multitask workplace: experimental evidence on checklists |
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Monday, |
Zachary |
University of Notre Dame |
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Monday, |
Esther |
University of Pittsburgh |
Reward-based crowdfunding campaigns: informational value and access to venture capital |
SPRING 2016
FALL 2015
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Wednesday, |
Mike |
Princeton |
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Wednesday, |
Asher |
Northwestern |
A Common Value Auction with Bidder Solicitation |
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Wednesday, |
Chris |
Carnegie Mellon |
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Tuesday, |
Victor |
University of Pennsylvania |
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Wednesday, |
Felicia |
Federal Reserve |
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Wednesday, |
Alessandro |
NYU |
Frictions in a Competitive, Regulated Market: Evidence from Taxis |
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Wednesday, |
Klaus |
Southern Methodist University |
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Wednesday, |
Arijit |
Michigan State University |
On The Optimality of Diverse Expert Panels in Persuasion Games |
|
Wednesday, |
Mo |
University of Arizona |
When to Exit? Limited Rationality in Firm Decisions |
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Friday, |
Per |
Stockholm University, IIES |
Labor Supply in the Past, Present, and Future: A Balanced-Growth Perspective |
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Wednesday, |
Matthew |
Harvard Business School |
Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation |
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Wednesday, |
Flavio Toxvaerd |
University of Cambridge |
SPRING 2015
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
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Wednesday, February 11 |
Pierre |
Columbia University |
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Wednesday, February 25 |
Jeffrey |
McMaster |
Direct Nonparametric Conditional Quantile Estimation |
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Friday, |
Sorawoot |
Surrey |
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Wednesday, |
Amil |
Minnesota |
Identification and estimation of discrete choice demand models when observed and unobserved product characteristics are correlated |
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Wednesday, |
Huanxing |
Ohio State |
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Wednesday, |
Pau |
McMaster |
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Wednesday, |
Pasquale |
London School of Economics |
Simultaneous First-Price Auctions with Preferences over Combinations: Identification,
Estimation and Application |