Seminars
Spring 2020 Seminars
All seminars will be held at Room 110 in Hudson, unless otherwise noted.
Mon, March 16, 3:30 PM
Macroeconomics Seminar
Credit Condition, Inflation, and Unemployment
Liang Wang (University of Hawaii Manoa)
Fri, February 28, 3:30 PM
Econometrics Seminar
Identification of Incomplete Preferences
Arie Beresteanu (University of Pittsburgh)
Fri, January 31, 3:30 PM
Econometrics Seminar
The Dark Side of the Moon: Searching for the Other Half of Seasonality
Gary Cornwall (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Past Seminars
Fall 2019 Seminars
Wed, November 20, 3:30 PM
Macroeconomics Seminar
The Micro Anatomy of Large Scale Consumption Adjustments
Diego Perez (New York University)
Fri, November 15, 3:30 PM
Macroeconomics Seminar
Noisy Search For Multiple Products
Garth Baughman (The Federal Reserve Board)
Mon, November 4, 3:30 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Freedom and Voting Power
Itai Sher (UMass Amherst)
Fri, November 1, 3:30 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Data-Driven Optimal Auction Theory
Tim Roughgarden (Columbia University)
Mon, October 21, 3:30 PM
Macroeconomics Seminar
Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective
Mark Hugget (Georgetown University)
Fri, October 18, 3:30 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
The Impact of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Safety Net Program Participation: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion
L. Shore-Sheppard (Williams College)
Thu, October 17, 4:15 PM
Econometrics Seminar
China's Product Quality-Upgrading in U.S. Market : a Micro-Level Analysis based on Exporter Dynamics
Wufei Wang
Fri, October 4, 3:30 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Understanding the Decline in Private Sector Unionization: A Skill-based Approach
Michael Lovenheim (Cornell University)
Thu, October 3, 4:15 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Compatibility and Investment in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market
Jing Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mon, September 30, 3:30 PM
Econometrics Seminar
Bias Correction and Robust Inference in Semiparametric Models
Xiye Yang (Rutgers University)
Wed, September 25, 3:30 PM
Econometrics Seminar
Panel Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Heteroskedastic Frontiers
Jun Cai (Syracuse University)
Fri, September 13, 3:30 PM
Econometrics Seminar
Air Passenger Demand Forecasting using Deep Learning Methods
Nahid Jafari (State University of New York - Farmingdale)
Wed, September 11, 3:30 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities : Complexity and Choice Bracketing
Erzo F.P. Luttmer (Dartmouth College)
Mon, August 26, 3:30 PM
Econometrics Seminar
Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Capital Flows - The Role or Credit Market imperfection
Sugata Marjit (Reserve Bank of India)
Mon, July 22, 3:30 PM
Macroeconomics Seminar
Bargaining With Renegotiation In Models With On-The-Job Search
Axel Gottfries (University of Edinburgh)
Spring 2019 Seminars
Tue, April 30, 4:15 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Bingxiao Wu (Rutgers University)
Fri, April 19, 3:30 PM
Macroeconomics Seminar
Endogenous Skills and Labor Income Inequality
Guanyi Yang (St. Lawrence University)
Mon, April 15, 3:30 PM
Econometrics Seminar
Simple Semiparametric Estimation of Ordered Response Model
Ruixuan Liu (Emory University)
Thu, April 11, 4:15 PM
Econometrics Seminar
Difference-in-Differences with Multiple Time Periods
Pedro Sant'Anna (Vanderbilt University)
Fri, April 5, 3:30 PM
Macroeconomics Seminar
Misallocation Effects of Labor Market Frictions
Stanislave Rabinovich (University of North Carolina)
Thu, April 4, 4:15 PM
Econometrics Seminar
Asymmetric Information, Reputation, and Welfare in Online Credit Markets
Yi Xin (Johns Hopkins University)
Mon, April 1, 3:30 PM
Macroeconomics Seminar
Juan Carlos Cordoba (Iowa State University)
Tue, March 26, 4:15 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study
Laura Gee (TUFTS University)
Fri, March 8, 3:30PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Investment versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy
Todd Gerarden (Cornell University)
Mon, March 4, 3:30 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Relinquishing Riches: Auctions vs Informal Negotiations in Texas Oil and Gas Leasing
Richard Sweeney (Boston College)
Fri, March 1, 3:30PM
Macroeconomics Seminar
Inflation Targeting with Sovereign Default Risk
Gabriel Mihalache (Stony Brook University)
Fri, February 8, 3:30 PM
Microeconomics Seminar
Misperception and Technology Adoption
Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College)
Fall 2018 Seminars
December 5, 4:15 PM
Science, Interrupted: Budget Uncertainty and Its Effects on Innovation
Wei Yang Tham (Ohio State University)
December 3, 4:15 PM
The Impact of High Deductible Health Insurance Plans on Spending and Enrollee Behavioral Response
Alicia Atwood (Vassar College)
November 16, 3:30 PM
Inflation Targeting with Sovereign Default Risk
Gabriel Mihalache (Stony Brook University)
November 14, 4:15 PM
Does Health IT Save Money and Lives? New Evidence from Vendor Heterogeneity
Jianjing Lin (RPI)
November 13, 3:30 PM
Predictive Quantile Regression: Adaptive Lasso Approach
Rui Fan (RPI)
TBA
Microeconomics Seminar
Pinka Chatterji, Siyang Li, Jerry Marschke (University at Albany)
November 1, 3:30 PM
Automation and the Diffusion of Information Technology
Unnikrishnan Sadasivan Pillai (SUNY Polytechnic Institute)
October 12, 3:30 PM
A Decision Tree Analysis and Net lift Model in Children's Health Care Analysis
Hua Lin (University at Albany)
October 9, 3:30 PM
Inflation-Linked Public Debt in Emerging Economies
Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez (Fordham University)
October 2, 3:30 PM
Analyzing the Interplay Between Public-Pension Finances and Governmental Finances: Lessons from Linking an Economic Model to a Pension Fund Model
Yimeng Yin (University at Albany)
September 28, 3:30 PM
Resource-Envy-Freeness: A New Notion of Fairness in Production Economies with Dedicated Factors
Laurence Kranich (University at Albany)
September 24, 4:15 PM
Does Seasonality of Birth Outcome Really Exist? Evidence from Weather Conditions During Pregnancy
Jun Soo Lee (University at Albany)
September 17, 4:15 PM
The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap
Eric Young (University of Virginia)
September 12, 4:15 PM
Unpacking Changes in the Funds Rate Target
Kenneth N. Kuttner (Williams College)
Spring 2018 Seminars
April 27, 3:30 PM
A Test of Selection on Observables Assumption Using a Discontinuously Distributed Covariate
Nese Yildiz (University of Rochester)
April 26, 3:30 PM
Policy Analysis Using Panel and Multilevel Regression Models with Group Interactive Fixed Effects
Min Seong Kim (University of Connecticut)
April 25, 3:30 PM
Approximate Cluster-Robust Inference
James MacKinnon (Queen's University, Kingston)
April 13, 3:30 PM
College Access and Adult Health
Ben Cowan (Washington State University)
April 9, 3:30 PM
Is Quality Contagious? The Role of Physician Networks in Promoting Quality HIV Care
Chad Daniel Stecher (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
April 6, 3:30 PM
Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit
Michael Luca (Harvard Business School)
April 5, 4:15 PM
Bootstrap Model Averaging Unit Root Inference
James MacKinnon (Queen's University, Kingston)
April 3, 4:15 PM
Essays on Money, Banking, and Finance
Duong Ngo (University at Albany)
March 21, 3:30 PM
Nevertheless, She Disrupted: the Role of Women in Research
Julia Lane (New York University)
March 20, 4:15 PM
Endogenous Driving Behavior in Veil of Darkness Tests for Racial Profiling
Matthew B. Ross (Ohio State University)
February 6, 4:15 PM
Harnessing the Power of the Sun through Online Platforms: Evidence from the Rooftop Solar Market
Jackson Dorsey (University of Arizona)
February 2, 3:30 PM
Fang Yang (Louisiana State University)
January 31, 3:30 PM
Borrowing Constraints, Search, and Life Cycle Inequality
Benjamin Griffy (UC Santa Barbara)
January 30, 4:15 PM
Which Fossil Fuel Taxes Promote Innovation In Renewable Electricity Generation?
Itziar Lazkano (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
January 29, 3:30 PM
Energy Efficiency and Directed Technical Change: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation
Gregory Casey (Brown University)
January 23, 4:15 PM
Financial Stability, Growth and Macroprudential Policy
Chang Ma (Johns Hopkins University)
Fall 2017 Seminars
Dec 13, 3:30 PM
Technology Spillover, Product Market Synergies and Value Creation
Gusang Kang (University at Albany)
Dec 12, 3:30 PM
Explain Sovereign Debt Default in Argentina
Rongzi Shan (University at Albany)
Dec 1, 3:30 PM
Pinka Chatterji (University at Albany)
Nov 30, 4:15 PM
The Long-Term Health and Socioeconomic Effects of Bangladesh 1974 Famine
Mir Mahmud Nahid (University at Albany)
Nov 29, 3:30 PM
Multi-Type Resource Allocation
Lirong Xia (RPI)
Nov 27, 3:30 PM
Medicaid and Provider Supply
Jason Huh (RPI)
Nov 17, 3:30 PM
Optimal Taxation with Private Insurance
Yena Park (University of Rochester)
Nov 14, 4:15 PM
Children-at-Work: A District-Level Study of Rural West Bengal
Anil Bhuimali (Raiganj University)
Nov 10, 3:30 PM
Globalization and Executive Compensation
William Olney (Williams College)
Nov 8, 3:30 PM
Identification and Estimation of Multi-Period Simple Contracts
Daiqiang Zhang (University at Albany)
Oct 25, 3:30 PM
Interest on Reserves and Monetary Policy of Targeting Both Interest Rate and Money Supply
Duong Ngotran (University at Albany)
Oct 17, 4:15 PM
Yulong Wang (Syracuse University)
Oct 16, 3:30 PM
Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market
Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
Oct 11, 3:30 PM
The Cyclical Behavior of Job Quality and Real Wage Growth
Baris Kaymak (University of Montreal)
Oct 2, 3:30 PM
Optimal Income Taxes, Transfers and Inequality for an Atkinson-Based Social Welfare Function
Michael Sattinger (University at Albany)
Sep 28, 4:15 PM
Evaluating the Disability Review Process: A Latent Variable Approach using Matched SIPP/Administrative Data
Angela VanDerwerken (University at Albany)
Sep 25, 4:15 PM
Dynamic Model of Labor Supply and Fertility with Ben-Porath Human Capital Accumulation
Minhee Kim (University at Albany)
Sep 19, 4:15 PM
Adaptive Lasso for Stochastic Frontier Models
Hyunseok Jung (Syracuse University)
Sep 18, 3:30 PM
Foreign Peer Effects and Stem Major Choice
Kevin Shih (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Sep 13, 3:30 PM
Good and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the Eu Enlargement
Fernando Parro (SAIS,John Hopkins Washington D.C.)
Sep 11, 3:30 PM
Equity in Production Economies with Dedicated Factors
Laurence Kranich (University at Albany)
Sep 8, 3:30 PM
Forecasting New York State Tax Revenue: A Factor MIDAS Approach
Cheng Yang (University at Albany)
Aug 31, 4:15 PM
Effect of Biomarker Information on Health Awareness and it's Disparities: A Study from the HRS Panel
Soumyadeb Chatterjee (University at Albany)
Spring 2017 Seminars
May 4, 4:15 PM
Foreign Bank Entry and Bank Efficiency
Chun-Yu Ho (University at Albany)
May 1, 3:30 PM
Monetary Policy in India and Role of Survey Forecasts
Abhiman Das (India Institute of Management)
April 21, 3:30 PM
Multidimensional Sorting Under Random Search
Ilse Lindenlaub (Yale University)
April 20, 4:15 PM
Foundations of Infometrics in Pictures
Amos Golan (American University)
April 18, 4:15 PM
Inverse Probability Tilting with Spatial Data: Small Sample Performance and Real Estate Application
Jeffrey Cohen (University of Connecticut)
March 27, 3:30 PM
Reducing Inappropriate Prescribing: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Medicare
Adam Sacarny (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health)
March 24, 3:30 PM
On The Double Taxation of Corporate Profits
Alexis Anagnostopoulos (Stony Brook University)
March 20, 3:30 PM
Why Don't Rich Countries Default? Explaining Debt/GDP and Sovereign Debt Crises
Betty Daniel (University at Albany)
March 7, 4:15 PM
Three Essays on Electricity Pricing, Congestion, and Market Efficiency
Yu Zou (University at Albany)
Feb 3, 3:30 PM
Why Don't Rich Countries Default? Explaining Debt/GDP and Sovereign Debt Crises
Yang Lu (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Feb 1, 3:30 PM
Estimating and Testing High Dimensional Factor Models with Multiple Structural Changes
Fa Wang (Syracuse University)
Jan 27, 4:15 PM
Testing for Heteroscedasticity in Jumpy and Noisy High-Frequency Data: A Resampling Approach
Ulrich Hounyo (University of Montreal)
Jan 25, 3:30 PM
Incremental Factor Model for High Frequency Observations with Large Dimension and Long Span
Ye Lu (Indiana University)
Fall 2016 Seminars
Dec 9, 3:30 PM
Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (Syracuse University)
Dec 8, 4:15 PM
Gross Migration, Housing, and Urban Population Dynamics
Morris Davis (Rutgers University)
Dec 2, 3:30 PM
Optimal Sovereign Defaults in the Presence of Financial Frictions
Yun Pei (University at Buffalo)
Nov 21, 3:30 PM
Fertility Restrictions and Life Cycle Outcomes: Evidence from the One Child Policy in China
Wei Huang (Harvard University and NBER)
Nov 18, 3:30 PM
Equilibrium Corporate Finance and Intermediation
Gian Luca Clementi (New York University)
Nov 17, 4:15 PM
A Random Walk Down the Economic Policy Street: Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Forecasting Future Real Economic Activity
Juha Junttila (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
Nov 7, 3:30 PM
Santadarshan Sadhu (NORC at the University of Chicago)
Oct 14, 3:30 PM
Aging and Health Financing in the US: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Juergen Jung (Towson University)
Sep 8, 4:15 PM
Unemployment Shocks for Individuals on the Margin: Exploring the Recidivism Effects
Garima Siwach (University at Albany)
Sep 6, 4:15 PM
Stationary Points for Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models
Ian Wright (Northeastern University)
Spring 2016 Seminars
May 3, 3:30 PM
Engine of Dominance: Competence-Enhancing Process Innovation
Stuart Rosenthal (Syracuse University)
April 29, 3:30 PM
Trade Inequality, and the Endogenous Sorting of Heterogeneous Workers
Eunhee Lee (Yale University)
April 28, 3:30 PM
The Vertical City: Rent Gradients and Spatial Structure
Kenneth Simons (Rennsealer Polytechnic Institute)
April 26, 3:30 PM
Transferring Ownership of Public Housing to Existing Tenants: A Mechanism Design Approach
Lars Ehlers (University of Montreal)
April 25, 3:30 PM
Measuring the Effects of Employment Protection Policies for the Disabled: Evidence from the Americans with Disabilities Act
Soojin Kim (Purdue University)
April 20, 3:30 PM
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Michael Luca (Harvard Business School)
April 15, 3:30 PM
Multidimensional Sorting Under Random Search
Ilse Lindenlaub (Yale University)
April 13, 3:30 PM
Lifecycle Retirement Planning: Experimental Evidence
Yue Li (University at Albany)
March 28, 3:30 PM
Supervisors and Performance Evaluation Systems
Fabian Lange (Mcgill University)
Mar 9, 3:30 PM
The Price Puzzle and Var Identification
Arturo Estrella (Renssellaer Polytechnique Institute)
Fall 2015 Seminars
Dec 04
State-Dependent Effects of Fiscal Expansions
Huixin Bi (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
Dec 02
Within-Group Estimator for Fixed Effects Quantile Panels
Heng Chen (Bank of Canada)
Nov 20
Evaluating Long-Term-Care Policy Options, Taking the Family Seriously
Daniel Barczyk (McGill University)
Nov 19
Money, Credit, Monetary Policy and the Business Cucle in the Euro Area
Domenico Giannone (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Nov 18
Effects of Collecting Income Taxes on Social Security Benefits
Yue Li (University at Albany)
Nov 2
Gender-Neutral Inheritance Laws, Family Structure, and Women's Social Status in India
Sulagna Mookerjee (Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar)
Oct 23
A Stock-Flow thoery of Unemployment with Endogenous Match Formation
Williams Hawkins (McGill University)
Oct 9
Forecast Error Monetary Policy Shocks
Tara Sinclair (George Washington University)
Sep 21
Macroeconomic Uncertainty Through the Lens of Professional Forecasters
Rodrigo Sekkel (Bank of Canada)
Spring 2015 Seminars
May 1
Austerity Measures: Do They Avert Fiscal Crises?
Christos Shiamptanis (Wilfrid Laurier University)
April 23
Subvector Inference for Local Regression
Ke-Li Xu (Texas A&M University)
April 17
On the Efficiency of Stable Matchings in large Markets
Sangmok Lee (University of Pennsylvania)
April 14
Panel Data Models with Multiple Jump Discontinuities in the Parameter
Robin Sickles (Rice University)
April 10
Makoto Watanabe (VU University Amsterdam)
April 9
Nonparametric Threshold Regression: Estimation and Inference
Daniel Henderson (University of Alabama)
March 30
Optimal Personal Income Taxation and the Minimization of Substitution Effects
Michael Sattinger (University at Albany)
March 27
Employment-Based Health Insurance, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and Aggregate Labor Supply
Kai Zhao (University at Connecticut)
March 13
Beauty Premium and Marriage Premium in Search Equilibrium: Theory and Empirical Test
Roberto Bonilla (University of Newcastle)
Fall 2014 Seminars
September 15
Can New Ideas Make Abatement Cheap
Stephi Fried (University of California - San Diego)
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Securing Basic Well Being for All
Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University)
August 18
Fair Allocation of Disputed Properties
Juan Moreno-Ternero (Universidad Pablo de Olivade and CORE, Universite Cahotlique de Louvain)
Spring 2014 Seminars
May 2
The Persistence of Corporate Reputation and Performance
Katsuya Takii (Osaka University)
April 25
Identifying the Distribution of Treatment Effects under Support of Restrictions
Ju Hyun Kim (Columbia University)
April 16
Optimal Personal Income Taxation
Michael Sattinger (University at Albany)
April 11
Minimum Wages and Single Mothers' Welfare Participation - First Preliminary Findings
Peter Brandon (University at Albany)
April 7
Matthias Hartman (Heidelberg University)
April 4
A Tale of Tax Policies in Open Economies
Paul Gomme (Concordia University)
March 28
Giving and Probability
David Reinstein (University of Essex)
Fall 2013 Seminars
December 11
The Gender Gap in Price Negotiations: Evidence from New Car Sales
Ambarish Chandra (University at Albany)
November 8
Optimal Provision-After-Wait in Healthcare
Jing Chen (SUNY Stonybrook)
November 1
Matthew Weinberg (Drexel University)
October 28
Emir Malikov (Binghamton University)
October 25
Old, Sick, Alone and Poor: A welfare Analysis of Old-Age Social Insurance Programs
Tatyana Koreshkova (Concordia University)
October 16
Political Environments, Regulations and Investment in the Electric Power Distribution
Claire Lim (Cornell University)
October 15
MIDAS Regressions with Time-Varying Parameters: An Application to Corporate Bond Spreads and GDP in the Euro Area
Christian Schumacher (Bundesbank, Germany)
October 9
Expanding 'Choice' in School Choice
Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Duke University)
September 30
Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors
Deniz Ozabaci (Binghamton University)
December 11
Unimodal domains, anti-exchange properties, and coalitional strategy-proofness of voting rules
Stefano Vannucci (University of Siena, Italy)
Spring 2013 Seminars
April 26
The Determinants and Consequences of Friendship Composition
Jason Fletcher (Yale School of Public Health)
April 19
Reverse Mortgage Loans: A Quantitative Analysis
Makoto Nakajima (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
April 12,
Bidding for Teams
Benoit Julien (University of New South Wales)
April 8
A Spatial Autoregressive Production Frontier Model for Panel Data
Robin Sickles (Rice University)
March 25
The "Crowd Out" Problem in Structural Models of the Macroeconomy
John Heim (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
February 22
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of the Extended Roy Model
Byoung Gun Park (Yale University)
February 21
Targeted Advertising in Magazine Markets and the Advent of the Internet
Ambarish Chandra (University of Toronto)
February 4
Model Selection in the Presence of Incidental Parameters
Yoonseok Lee (University of Michigan)
February 1
Italo Gutierrez (University of Michigan)
January 31
IDEAL Inference on Conditional Quantiles via Interpolated Duals of Exact Analytic L-statistics
David Kaplan (University of California, San Diego)
January 28
Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from Allocation of Talents
Michael Boehm (London School of Economics & Political Science)
January 25
A Method of Correcting for Misreporting Applied to the Food Stamp Program
Nikolas Mittag (University of Chicago)
January 23
Estimating Various Kinds of Peer Effects on Academic Performance
Chungsang Lam (University of Chicago)
January 21
Predictive Quantile Regression with Persistent Covariates
Ji Hyung Lee (Yale University)
Fall 2012 Seminars
December 3
Detecting Asset Price Bubbles in the Near-Explosive Random Coefficient Autoregressive Model
Guillaume Chevillon (ESSEC Business School)
November 30
Social Security is NOT a Substitute for Annuities
Frank Caliendo (Utah State University)
November 2
Learning the Ropes: Task Specific Experience and the Output of Idaho State Police
Greg D'Angelo (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
October 23
Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Daniel Aaronson (Chicago Federal Reserve)
October 19
Capital Goods Trade and Economic Development
Piyusha Mutreja (Syracuse University)
October 17
Tax Multipliers: Pitfalls in Measurement and Identification
Daniel Riera-Crichton (Bates College)
October 16
Special seminar in honor of Professor Terry Kinal's retirement
Firm-level Productivity Spillovers in China?s Chemical Industry: A Spatial Hausman-Taylor Approach
Badi Baltagi (Syracuse University)
October 15
Equal Opportunity vs. Innovation
Laurence Kranich (University at Albany)
October 12
Home Production and Social Security Reform
Annie Yang (University at Albany)
October 5
Behavioral Welfare Economics and Redistribution
Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University)
September 21
Endogenous Liquidity and the Business Cycle
Saki Bigio (Columbia University)
September 12
The Economics of Cross-Border Travel
Ambarish Chandra (University of Toronto)
August 27
Trade with time zone differences: Factor market implications
Sugata Marjit (Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta India)
Spring 2012 Seminars
May 2
A Simple Theoretical Argument in Support of Affirmative Action
Laurence Kranich (University at Albany)
May 1
Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education
Annie Yang (University at Albany)
April 27
Information and Efficiency Under Alternative Trading Protocols
Andrei Schevchenko (Michigan State University)
April 24
The Contribution of Study Abroad to Human Capital for United States College Students
Stephen Schmidt (Union College)
April 18
Assignment Models and Qualitative Mismatches
Michael Sattinger (University at Albany)
April 13
Financial Markets and Fluctuations in Uncertainty
Yan Bai (Rochester University)
March 30
Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Naci Mocan (Louisiana State University)
March 27
On the Asymptotic Size of Subvector Tests in the Linear Instrumental Variables Model
Patrik Guggenberger (University of California, San Diego)
March 9
Globalization under Financial Imperfection
Taiji Furusawa (Hitotusbashi and Harvard University)
January 30
Nonparametric Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models with Weak Instruments
Sukjin Han (Yale University)
January 27
Guangyi Ma (Texas A&M University)
January 25
Tests for Overidentifying Restrictions in Factor-Augmented VAR Models
Xu Han (North Carolina State University)
January 23
Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Correlated Random Coefficient Panel Data Models
Zhongwen Liang (Texas A&M University)
Fall 2011 Seminars
November 17
Assessing Global Vector Autoregressive Models for Forecasts
Neil Ericsson (Federal Reserve Board)
November 2
Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education: An Exploratory Model
John Bailey Jones (University at Albany)
October 14
Labor-Market Heterogeneity Aggregation, and the Policy-(In)variance of DSGE Model Parameters
Yongsung Chang (University of Rochester)
October 11
Dual Least Squares
Bruce Dieffenbach (University at Albany)
October 7
Longevity, Life-cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Victoria Prowse (Cornell University)
September 16
The Free Installment Puzzle
John Rust, Sun-Jin Cho (University of Maryland)
September 15
Inside the Refrigerator: Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation
Tara Watson (Williams College)
September 12
Michael Sattinger (University at Albany)
Spring 2011 Seminars
April 29
Insuring student Loans Against the Risk of College Failure
Felicia Ionescu (Colgate University)
April 27
Informed Momentum Trading versus Uninformed "Naive" Investors Strategies
Anurag Banerjee (Durham School of Business)
April 15
Establishment Heterogeneity, Exporter Dynamics and the Effects of Trade Liberalization
George Alessandria (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
April 14
Bayes' procedures for 21-st Century Key Issues
Herman van Dijk (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
April 8
Inflated Responses in Self Assessed Health
William Greene (New York University)
April 1
On the Strategic Disclosure of Feasible Options in Bargaining
Geoffroy de Clippel (Brown University)
March 25
Has the Recession Increased the NAIRU?
Wiliam Dickens (Northeastern University)
March 18
Manolis Galenianos (Pennsylvania State University)
March 15
Spatial Risk Premium on Weather Derivatives and Hedging Weather Exposure in Electricity
Wolfgang Hardle (Humboldt University)
March 11
Mismatch in the US Labor Market
Gianluca Violante (New York University)
February 9
Characterizing Law of Demand Violations for Separable Utility
Yakar Kannai (Weitzmann Institute)