(The information below is subject to change. Please check back closer to the event date for more details.)
Winter 2016
| February 2016 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Feb. 19 3:30, L429 |
Nirav Mehta (University of Western Ontario) "Social interactions, mechanisms, and equilibrium: Evidence from a model of study time and academic achievement" |
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| Friday, Feb. 26 3:30, L429 |
John Quah (Johns Hopkins University and National University of Singapore) "A revealed preference theory of monotone choice and strategic complementarity" (joint with Natalia Lazzati and Koji Shirai) CIREQ Montreal Economic Theory Seminar |
J. Li |
| March 2016 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Mar. 11 3:30, L429 |
Michael Dickstein (NYU Stern) | L. Lasio |
| Friday, Mar. 18 3:30, L429 |
Thomas Lemieux (Vancouver School of Economics) "The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution" |
T. Papageorgiou/F. Lange |
| April 2016 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Apr. 1 3:30, L429 |
Aniko Öry (Yale SOM) “Hiring Trainees: Bargaining with Learning and Competition” |
J. Li |
| Friday, Apr. 8 3:30, L429 |
John Jones (SUNY, Albany) “The Effects of Collecting Income Taxes on Social Security Benefits” (joint with Yue Li, University at Albany) |
D. Barczyk |
| Friday, Apr. 15 3:30, L429 |
Jan Grobovsek (University of Edinburgh) “Communal Land and Agricultural Productivity” (joint with Charles Gottlieb) |
M. Poschke |
| Friday, Apr. 15 3:30, BRONF 045 |
Jeffrey Wooldridge (Michigan State University) "Finite Population Causal Standard Errors" Montreal Econometrics Seminar |
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| Friday, Apr. 29 3:30, L429 |
Nicolas Roys (Wisconsin) | M. Poschke |
| May 2016 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, May 6 3:30, L429 |
Yingying Dong (UC Irvine) "Testing for Rank Invariance or Similarity in Program Evaluation" |
S. Chaudhuri |
| Friday, May 20 1:30, L738 |
Lorenzo Casaburi (Stanford University) “Firm and Market Response to Saving Constraints: Evidence from the Kenyan Dairy Industry” |
F. Amodio |
| Friday, May 27 3:30, L429 |
Cees Withagen (VU University) | H. Benchekroun |
Fall 2015
| September 2015 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Sep. 4 3:30, L429 |
David Frazier (Monash University) "Approximate Bayesian Computation: Theory and Practice" |
S. Chaudhuri |
| Friday, Sep. 11 3:30, L429 |
Roberto Samaniego (George Washington University) "Entrepreneurship, Education and Credit: A General Equilibrium Model" |
M. Poschke |
| Friday, Sep. 18 3:30, L429 |
Amanda Friedenberg (Arizona State University) “How many levels do players reason? Observational challenges and a solution” (joint with Adam Brandenburger and Alex Danieli) |
R. Dutta |
| Friday, Sep. 25 3:30, L429 |
Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) "Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data from China" |
F. Alvarez-Cuadrado |
| October 2015 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Oct. 9 3:30, L429 |
Matthew Rabin (Harvard University) "Attentionally Stable Errors and Light-Bulb Moments" (joint with Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch and Josh Schwartzstein) Montreal Economic Theory Seminar |
J. Li |
| Friday, Oct. 16 3:30, L429 |
Rasmus Lentz (University of Wisconsin-Mdison) “Training and Search On the Job” (joint with Nicolas Roys) |
T. Papageorgiou |
| Friday, Oct. 16 3:30, BRONF 310 |
Kirill Evdokimov (Princeton) “Inference in Instrumental Variable Regression Analysis with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects” (joint with Michal Kolesar) Montreal Econometric Seminar |
M. Carrasco (UdeM) & V. Zinde-Walsh |
| Friday, Oct. 23 3:30, L429 |
Luigi Bocola (Northwestern University) "Indeterminacy in Sovereign Debt Markets: A Quantitative Analysis" |
F. Ruge-Murcia |
| Friday, Oct. 30 3:30, L429 |
Jonathan Hill (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) "A Smoothed P-Value Test When There is a Nuisance Parameter under the Alternative" |
S. Chaudhuri |
| November 2015 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Nov. 6 3:30, L429 |
Victoria Prowse (Cornell) “Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings” |
F. Lange |
| Friday, Nov. 6 3:30, BRONF 310 |
Tae-Hwy Lee (University of California at Riverside) “Comparing Nested Predictive Regression Models with Persistent Predictors” Montreal Econometric Seminar |
M. Carrasco (UdeM) & V. Zinde-Walsh |
| Friday, Nov. 13 10:00, L429 |
Taylor Jaworski (Queen’s University) "National Policies for Regional Development: Evidence from the Appalachian Development Highway System" |
F. Lange |
| Friday, Nov. 20 3:30, L429 |
Jonas Hjort (Columbia Business School) "Public Sector Workers, Organizations, and Policies: Disentangling the Drivers of Government Effectiveness” |
F. Amodio |
| Friday, Nov. 27 3:30, L429 |
Colin Stewart (University of Toronto) "Rational Inattention Dynamics: Inertia and Delay in Decision-Making" (joint with Jakub Steiner and Filip Matejka) |
R. Dutta |
| December 2015 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Dec. 4 3:30, L429 |
Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario) “Understanding Earnings Dynamics: Identifying and Estimating the Changing Roles of Unobserved Ability, Permanent and Transitory Shocks” |
F. Lange |
| Friday, Dec. 11 3:30, L429 |
Russell Weinstein (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) "Employer Screening Costs, Recruiting Strategies, and Labor Market Outcomes: An Equilibrium Analysis of On-Campus Recruiting" |
F. Lange |