Seminars by Year

 

 

Seminars for Current Academic Year
Spring 2023

Topic to be Announced | Microeconomics Seminar
Jeong Yoo Kim - University of Korea/Kyung Hee University
Apr. 28, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Dynamic Probit Models with Network Interdependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity | Econometrics Seminar
Peter Egger - ETH Zurich
Apr. 25, 2023, 12 - 1:30 p.m.

Topic to be Announced | Microeconomics Seminar
Anca Cristea - University of Oregon
Apr. 14, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Identification in some discrete choice models: A computational approach | Econometrics Seminar
Eric Mbakop - University of Calgary
To be presented on Zoom
Apr. 7, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Workforce Aging and Manufacturing Decline | Macroeconomics Seminar
Qi Li - Penn State University
Apr. 3, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.
Update: the seminar scheduled for April 3 has been canceled.

A Theory of Non-Coasean Labor Markets | Macroeconomics Seminar
Christian Moser - Columbia University
Mar. 31, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Who's Most Exposed to International Shocks? Estimating Differences in Import Price Sensitivity across U.S. Demographic Groups | Microeconomics Seminar
Ryan Monarch - Syracuse University
Mar. 22, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Baby Multinationals: Market Access and Productivity | Microeconomics Seminar
Veronica Rappoprt - London School of Economics, joint with Jim Goldman (Warwick), Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD), and Christian Roerig (QuantCo)
To be presented on Zoom
Mar. 20, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Updating about Yourself by Learning about the Market:The Dynamics of Beliefs and Expectations in Job Search | Macroeconomics Seminar 
Philipp Kircher - Cornell University, joint work with Qiwei He
Mar. 10, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Bonus Question: How Does Incentive Pay Affect Wage Rigidity | Macroeconomics Seminar 
Abdoulaye Ndiaye - NYU
Feb. 17, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Were Covid-19 shutdowns good for maternal, fetal and infant health? | Microeconomics Seminar 
Daniel Dench - Georgia Tech
Feb. 3, 2023, 3 - 4:20 p.m.

Fall 2022

Trade From Space: Shipping Networks and The Global Implications of Local Shocks | Microeconomics Seminar 
Inga Heiland - Keil University
Oct. 5, 2022

Prices vs Quantities in the Small and in the Large with Risk Aversion and Income Effects | Microeconomics Seminar 
Edward Schlee - Arizona State University
Oct. 11, 2022

An Aggregate Perspective on the Geo-spatial Distribution of Residential Solar Panels | Macroeconomics Seminar
Nick Pretnar - University of California Santa Barbara
Oct. 24, 2022

Fast Inference for Quantile Regression with Millions of Observations | Econometrics Seminar
Yuan Liao - Rutgers University
Oct. 21, 2022

Loss aversion and the welfare ranking of policy interventions | Econometrics Seminar
Antonio F. Galvao - Michigan State University
Oct. 26, 2022

Welfare Effects of International Trade in Waste | Microeconomics Seminar
Prakrati Thakur - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Nov. 2, 2022

Did the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Eligibility Expansions Crowd Out Private Health Insurance Coverage? | Microeconomics Seminar
Conor Lennon - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Nov. 4, 2022

The Overall and Distributional Impacts of Hazardous Waste Cleanups on Infant Health | Microeconomics Seminar
Elaine Hill - Rochester University
Nov. 7, 2022 

Getting the ROC into Sync | Econometrics Seminar
Liu Yang - Nanjing University
Nov. 9, 2022

Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era | Microeconomics Seminar 
Maggie Chen - George Washington
Nov. 11, 2022

Past Seminars by Academic Year
2021-2022

Fall 2021

Marginal Treatment Effects with Misclassified Treatment | Econometrics Seminar
Desire Kedagni - Iowa State University
November 15, 2021

Challenges in Forecasting the Economy | Forecasting Seminar 
Azhar Iqbal - Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking
December 1, 2021

Homo moralis goes to the voting booth | Microeconomics Seminar
Ingela Alger - Toulouse School of Economics and the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole
December 3, 2021

 

Spring 2022 

The Economics of Time-Limited Development Options: The Case of Oil and Gas Leases | Microeconomics Seminar
Ryan Kellogg - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago 
January 28, 2022

Strategic Avoidance of U.S. Solar Panel Tariffs | Microeconomics Seminar
Kenneth Gillingham - Yale University
February 11, 2022

What’s Missing in Environmental (Self-)Monitoring: Evidence from Strategic Shutdowns of Pollution Monitors | Microeconomics Seminar 
Eric Zou - University of Oregon
February 18, 2022

Labor Market Dynamics and Growth | Macroeconomics Seminar
Jake Bradley - University of Nottingham
February 21, 2022

Trade Policy as an Exogenous Shock: Focusing on the Specifics | Macroeconomics Seminar
Andrew Greenland - Elon University
March 23, 2022

Opening the Black Box of Quantitative Trade Models | Macroeconomics Seminar
Bohdan Kukharskyy - CUNY
April 1, 2022

On the Origins of the Multinational Premium | Macroeconomics Seminar 
Stefania Garetto - Boston University
April 8, 2022

The Marginal Efficiency of Active Search | Macroeconomics Seminar 
Chris Huckfeldt - Cornell University
April 15, 2022

Factor extraction in Dynamic Factor Models: Kalman Filter versus Principal Components | Econometrics Seminar 
Pilar Poncela - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
April 19, 2022

The Alpha Beta Gamma of the Labor Market | Macroeconomics Seminar 
Guido Menzio - NYU
April 22, 2022

Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Abilities at Older Ages: Causal Evidence from Nonparametric Bounds | Econometrics Seminar
Vikesh Amin - Central Michigan University
April 20, 2022

Minimum Wages and Employment Composition: Evidence from the Nursing Home Industry | Microeconomics Seminar 
Ashvin Gandhi - UCLA Anderson
April 29, 2022

The Anatomy of U.S. Sick Leave Schemes: Evidence from Public School Teachers | Microeconomics Seminar
Nicolas Ziebarth - Cornell University
April 12, 2022

2020-2021

Fall 2020

Has Mortality Risen Disproportionately for the Least Educated? | Microeconomics Seminar 
Christopher Ruhm - University of Virginia
November 13, 2020

The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap | Microeconomics Seminar 
Daniel Rees - University of Colorado Denver
November 13, 2020

Race to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Science | Microeconomics Seminar 
Carolyn Stein - MIT
November 17, 2020

Finite-sample Corrected Inference for Two-step GMM in Time Series | Econometrics Seminar 
Jungbin Hwang - University of Connecticut
November 18, 2020

 

Spring 2021

Lead in Drinking Water and Birth Outcomes: A Tale of Two Water Treatment Plants  | Microeconomics Seminar
Dhaval Dave - Bentley University
March 5, 2021

Human Capital and Black-White Earning Gaps,1966-2017 | Microeconomics Seminar
Owen Thompson - Williams College
March 5, 2021

Strategic Default with an Exit Decision | Macroeconomics Seminar
Betty Daniel - University at Albany
March 15, 2021

What Were the Odds: Estimating the Market's Probability of Uncertain Events | Microeconomics Seminar
Ashley Langer - University of Arizona
April 2, 2021

Identifying Collusion in English Auctions with Unobserved Heterogeneity | Econometrics Seminar 
Vadim Marmer - University of British Columbia
April 5, 2021

Identification and Estimation of Heterogeneous Dynamic Causal Effects using Local Projection Instrumental Variable | Econometrics Seminar
Seojeong (Jay) Lee - University of New South Wales
April 16, 2021

Assets and Job Choices: Student Debt, Wages and Amenities | Macroeconomics Seminar
Mi Lou - Emory University
April 21, 2021

Credit Condition, Inflation, and Unemployment | Macroeconomics Seminar
Liang Wang - University of Hawaii at Manoa
April 26, 2021

Job stability, earnings dynamics, and life-cycle savings | Macroeconomics Seminar 
Moritz Kuhn - University of Bonn
April 28, 2021

The Distributional Impacts of Real-Time Pricing | Microeconomics Seminar
Mar Reguant - Northwestern University
May 3, 2021

Reliability and Deep Decarbonization of Electricity Sectors: Lessons from the California (2020) and Texas (2021) Blackouts | Microeconomics Seminar
Paul Joskow - MIT
May 10, 2021

Reparations and Persistent Racial Wealth Gaps | Macroeconomics Seminar
Loukas Karabarbounis - University of Minnesota
May 14, 2021

2019-2020

Fall 2019

Bargaining With Renegotiation In Models With On-The-Job Search | Macroeconomics Seminar
Axel Gottfries - University of Edinburgh
July 22, 2019

Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Capital Flows - The Role or Credit Market imperfection | Econometrics Seminar
Sugata Marjit - Reserve Bank of India
August 26, 2019

Behavioral Impediments to Valuing Annuities: Complexity and Choice Bracketing | Microeconomics Seminar
Erzo F.P. Luttmer - Dartmouth College
September 11, 2019

Air Passenger Demand Forecasting using Deep Learning Methods | Econometrics Seminar
Nahid Jafari - State University of New York - Farmingdale
September 13, 2019

Panel Nonparametric Estimation of Conditional Heteroskedastic Frontiers | Econometrics Seminar
Jun Cai - Syracuse University
September 25, 2019

Bias Correction and Robust Inference in Semiparametric Models | Econometrics Seminar
Xiye Yang - Rutgers University
September 30, 2019

Compatibility and Investment in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market | Microeconomics Seminar
Jing Li - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
October 3, 2019

Understanding the Decline in Private Sector Unionization:  A Skill-based Approach | Microeconomics Seminar
Michael Lovenheim - Cornell University
October 4, 2019

China's Product Quality-Upgrading in U.S. Market: a Micro-Level Analysis based on Exporter Dynamics | Econometrics Seminar
Wufei Wang
October 17, 2019

The Impact of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Safety Net Program Participation: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion | Microeconomics Seminar
L. Shore-Sheppard - Williams College
October 18, 2019

Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective | Macroeconomics Seminar
Mark Hugget - Georgetown University
October 21, 2019

Data-Driven Optimal Auction Theory | Microeconomics Seminar
Tim Roughgarden - Columbia University
November 1, 2019

Freedom and Voting Power | Microeconomics Seminar
Itai Sher - UMass Amherst
November 4, 2019

Noisy Search For Multiple Products | Macroeconomics Seminar
Garth Baughman - The Federal Reserve Board
November 15, 2019

The Micro Anatomy of Large Scale Consumption Adjustments | Macroeconomics Seminar
Diego Perez - New York University
November 20, 2019

 

Spring 2020

The Dark Side of the Moon: Searching for the Other Half of Seasonality | Econometrics Seminar
Gary Cornwall - Bureau of Economic Analysis
January 31, 2020

Identification of Incomplete Preferences | Econometrics Seminar
Arie Beresteanu - University of Pittsburgh
February 28, 2020

Credit Condition, Inflation, and Unemployment | Macroeconomics Seminar
Liang Wang - University of Hawaii Manoa
March 16, 2020

2018-2019

Fall 2018

Unpacking Changes in the Funds Rate Target
Kenneth N. Kuttner - Williams College
September 12, 2018

The Dynamics of the Racial Wealth Gap
Eric Young - University of Virginia
September 17, 2018

Does Seasonality of Birth Outcome Really Exist? Evidence from Weather Conditions During Pregnancy
Jun Soo Lee - University at Albany
September 24, 2018

Resource-Envy-Freeness: A New Notion of Fairness in Production Economies with Dedicated Factors
Laurence Kranich - University at Albany
September 28, 2018

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
October 2, 2018

Inflation-Linked Public Debt in Emerging Economies
Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez - Fordham University
October 9, 2018

A Decision Tree Analysis and Net lift Model in Children's Health Care Analysis
Hua Lin - University at Albany
October 12, 2018

Automation and the Diffusion of Information Technology
Unnikrishnan Sadasivan Pillai - SUNY Polytechnic Institute
November 1, 2018

Microeconomics Seminar
Pinka Chatterji, Siyang Li, Jerry Marschke - University at Albany
TBA

Predictive Quantile Regression: Adaptive Lasso Approach
Rui Fan - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
November 13, 2018

Does Health IT Save Money and Lives? New Evidence from Vendor Heterogeneity
Jianjing Lin - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
November 14, 2018

Inflation Targeting with Sovereign Default Risk
Gabriel Mihalache - Stony Brook University
November 16, 2018

The Impact of High Deductible Health Insurance Plans on Spending and Enrollee Behavioral Response
Alicia Atwood - Vassar College
December 3, 2018

Science, Interrupted: Budget Uncertainty and Its Effects on Innovation 
Wei Yang Tham - Ohio State University
December 5, 2018

 

Spring 2019

Misperception and Technology Adoption | Microeconomics Seminar
Jonathan Skinner - Dartmouth College
February 8, 2019

Inflation Targeting with Sovereign Default Risk | Macroeconomics Seminar
Gabriel Mihalache - Stony Brook University
March 1, 2019

Relinquishing Riches: Auctions vs Informal Negotiations in Texas Oil and Gas Leasing | Microeconomics Seminar
Richard Sweeney - Boston College
March 4, 2019

Investment versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy | Microeconomics Seminar
Todd Gerarden - Cornell University
March 8, 2019

Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Field Experimental Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study | Microeconomics Seminar
Laura Gee - TUFTS University
March 26, 2019

Accounting for Gender and Race Labor Market Gaps during the Life Cycle: A Search and Matching Approach | Macroeconomics Seminar
Juan Carlos Cordoba - Iowa State University
April 1, 2019

Asymmetric Information, Reputation, and Welfare in Online Credit Markets | Econometrics Seminar
Yi Xin - Johns Hopkins University
April 4, 2019

Misallocation Effects of Labor Market Frictions | Macroeconomics Seminar
Stanislave Rabinovich - University of North Carolina
April 5, 2019

Difference-in-Differences with Multiple Time Periods | Econometrics Seminar
Pedro Sant'Anna - Vanderbilt University
April 11, 2019

Simple Semiparametric Estimation of Ordered Response Model | Econometrics Seminar
Ruixuan Liu - Emory University
April 15, 2019

Endogenous Skills and Labor Income Inequality | Macroeconomics Seminar
Guanyi Yang - St. Lawrence University
April 19, 2019

Information, Relative Performance and Technology Abandonment: Evidence from a FDA Safety Communication | Microeconomics Seminar
Bingxiao Wu - Rutgers University
April 30, 2019

 

2017-2018

Fall 2017

Effect of Biomarker Information on Health Awareness and its Disparities: A Study from the HRS Panel
Soumyadeb Chatterjee - University at Albany
Aug 31, 2017

Forecasting New York State Tax Revenue: A Factor MIDAS Approach
Cheng Yang - University at Albany
Sep 8, 2017

Equity in Production Economies with Dedicated Factors 
Laurence Kranich - University at Albany
Sep 11, 2017

Good and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the Eu Enlargement
Fernando Parro - SAIS, John Hopkins Washington D.C.
Sep 13, 2017

Foreign Peer Effects and Stem Major Choice
Kevin Shih - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sep 18, 2017

Adaptive Lasso for Stochastic Frontier Models
Hyunseok Jung - Syracuse University
Sep 19, 2017

Dynamic Model of Labor Supply and Fertility with Ben-Porath Human Capital Accumulation
Minhee Kim - University at Albany
Sep 25, 2017

Evaluating the Disability Review Process: A Latent Variable Approach using Matched SIPP/Administrative Data
Angela VanDerwerken - University at Albany
Sep 28, 2017

Optimal Income Taxes, Transfers and Inequality for an Atkinson-Based Social Welfare Function
Michael Sattinger - University at Albany
Oct 2, 2017

The Cyclical Behavior of Job Quality and Real Wage Growth
Baris Kaymak - University of Montreal
Oct 11, 2017

Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market
Gautam Gowrisankaran - University of Arizona
Oct 16, 2017

FIX-k ASYMPTOTICALLY UNBIASED Estimation of Tail properties with complete, censored, or truncated data
Yulong Wang - Syracuse University
Oct 17, 2017

Interest on Reserves and Monetary Policy of Targeting Both Interest Rate and Money Supply
Duong Ngotran - University at Albany
Oct 25, 2017

Identification and Estimation of Multi-Period Simple Contracts
Daiqiang Zhang - University at Albany
Nov 8, 2017

Globalization and Executive Compensation
William Olney - Williams College
Nov 10, 2017

Children-at-Work: A District-Level Study of Rural West Bengal
Anil Bhuimali - Raiganj University
Nov 14, 2017

Optimal Taxation with Private Insurance
Yena Park - University of Rochester
Nov 17, 2017

Medicaid and Provider Supply
Jason Huh - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Nov 27, 2017

Multi-Type Resource Allocation
Lirong Xia - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Nov 29, 2017

The Long-Term Health and Socioeconomic Effects of Bangladesh 1974 Famine
Mir Mahmud Nahid - University at Albany
Nov 30, 2017

HEALTH INSURANCE AND THE BOOMERANG GENERATION: DID THE 2010 ACA Dependent Care Provision Affect Geographic Mobility and Living Arrangements Among Young Adults?
Pinka Chatterji - University at Albany
Dec 1, 2017

Explain Sovereign Debt Default in Argentina
Rongzi Shan - University at Albany
Dec 12, 2017

Technology Spillover, Product Market Synergies and Value Creation
Gusang Kang - University at Albany
Dec 13, 2017

 

Spring 2018

Financial Stability, Growth and Macroprudential Policy
Chang Ma - Johns Hopkins University
January 23, 2018

Energy Efficiency and Directed Technical Change: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation
Gregory Casey - Brown University
January 29, 2018

Which Fossil Fuel Taxes Promote Innovation In Renewable Electricity Generation?
Itziar Lazkano - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
January 30, 2018

Borrowing Constraints, Search, and Life Cycle Inequality
Benjamin Griffy - UC Santa Barbara
January 31, 2018

Marriage-Related Policies in an Estimated Life-Cycle Model of Households' Labor Supply and Savings for Two Cohorts
Fang Yang - Louisiana State University
February 2, 2018

Harnessing the Power of the Sun through Online Platforms: Evidence from the Rooftop Solar Market
Jackson Dorsey - University of Arizona
February 6, 2018

Endogenous Driving Behavior in Veil of Darkness Tests for Racial Profiling
Matthew B. Ross - Ohio State University
March 20, 2018

Nevertheless, She Disrupted: the Role of Women in Research
Julia Lane - New York University
March 21, 2018

Essays on Money, Banking, and Finance
Duong Ngo - University at Albany
April 3, 2018

Bootstrap Model Averaging Unit Root Inference
James MacKinnon - Queen's University, Kingston
April 5, 2018

Survival of the Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit
Michael Luca - Harvard Business School
April 6, 2018

Is Quality Contagious? The Role of Physician Networks in Promoting Quality HIV Care
Chad Daniel Stecher - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
April 9, 2018

College Access and Adult Health
Ben Cowan - Washington State University
April 13, 2018

Approximate Cluster-Robust Inference
James MacKinnon - Queen's University, Kingston
April 25, 2018

Policy Analysis Using Panel and Multilevel Regression Models with Group Interactive Fixed Effects
Min Seong Kim - University of Connecticut
April 26, 2018

A Test of Selection on Observables Assumption Using a Discontinuously Distributed Covariate
Nese Yildiz - University of Rochester
April 27, 2018

2016-2017

Fall 2016

Stationary Points for Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models
Ian Wright - Northeastern University
Sep 6, 2016

Unemployment Shocks for Individuals on the Margin: Exploring the Recidivism Effects
Garima Siwach - University at Albany
Sep 8, 2016

Aging and Health Financing in the US: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Juergen Jung - Towson University
Oct 14, 2016

Financial Education and Savings Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment among Low Income Clients of Branchless Banking in India 
Santadarshan Sadhu - NORC at the University of Chicago
Nov 7, 2016

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 17, 2016

Equilibrium Corporate Finance and Intermediation
Gian Luca Clementi - New York University
Nov 18, 2016

Fertility Restrictions and Life Cycle Outcomes: Evidence from the One Child Policy in China
Wei Huang - Harvard University and NBER
Nov 21, 2016

Optimal Sovereign Defaults in the Presence of Financial Frictions
Yun Pei - University at Buffalo
Dec 2, 2016

Gross Migration, Housing, and Urban Population Dynamics
Morris Davis - Rutgers University
Dec 8, 2016

Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes - Syracuse University
Dec 9, 2016

 

Spring 2017

Incremental Factor Model for High Frequency Observations with Large Dimension and Long Span
Ye Lu - Indiana University
Jan 25, 2017

Testing for Heteroscedasticity in Jumpy and Noisy High-Frequency Data: A Resampling Approach
Ulrich Hounyo - University of Montreal
Jan 27, 2017

Estimating and Testing High Dimensional Factor Models with Multiple Structural Changes
Fa Wang - Syracuse University
Feb 1, 2017

Why Don't Rich Countries Default? Explaining Debt/GDP and Sovereign Debt Crises
Yang Lu - Aix-Marseille School of Economics
Feb 3, 2017

Three Essays on Electricity Pricing, Congestion, and Market Efficiency
Yu Zou - University at Albany
March 7, 2017

Why Don't Rich Countries Default? Explaining Debt/GDP and Sovereign Debt Crises
Betty Daniel - University at Albany
March 20, 2017

On The Double Taxation of Corporate Profits
Alexis Anagnostopoulos - Stony Brook University
March 24, 2017

Reducing Inappropriate Prescribing: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Medicare
Adam Sacarny - Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
March 27, 2017

Inverse Probability Tilting with Spatial Data: Small Sample Performance and Real Estate Application
Jeffrey Cohen - University of Connecticut
April 18, 2017

Foundations of Infometrics in Pictures
Amos Golan - American University
April 20, 2017

Multidimensional Sorting Under Random Search
Ilse Lindenlaub - Yale University
April 21, 2017

Monetary Policy in India and Role of Survey Forecasts
Abhiman Das - India Institute of Management
May 1, 2017

Foreign Bank Entry and Bank Efficiency
Chun-Yu Ho - University at Albany
May 4, 2017

2015-2016

Fall 2015

State-Dependent Effects of Fiscal Expansions
Huixin Bi - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
December 04, 2015

Within-Group Estimator for Fixed Effects Quantile Panels
Heng Chen - Bank of Canada
December 02, 2015

Evaluating Long-Term-Care Policy Options, Taking the Family Seriously
Daniel Barczyk - McGill University
November 20, 2015

Money, Credit, Monetary Policy and the Business Cycle in the Euro Area
Domenico Giannone - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
November 19, 2015

Effects of Collecting Income Taxes on Social Security Benefits
Yue Li - University at Albany
November 18, 2015

Gender-Neutral Inheritance Laws, Family Structure, and Women's Social Status in India
Sulagna Mookerjee - Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar
November 2, 2015

A Stock-Flow theory of Unemployment with Endogenous Match Formation
Williams Hawkins - McGill University
October 23, 2015

Forecast Error Monetary Policy Shocks
Tara Sinclair - George Washington University
October 9, 2015

Macroeconomic Uncertainty Through the Lens of Professional Forecasters 
Rodrigo Sekkel - Bank of Canada
September 21, 2015

 

Spring 2016

Engine of Dominance: Competence-Enhancing Process Innovation
Stuart Rosenthal - Syracuse University
May 3, 2016

Trade Inequality, and the Endogenous Sorting of Heterogeneous Workers
Eunhee Lee - Yale University
April 29, 2016

The Vertical City: Rent Gradients and Spatial Structure
Kenneth Simons - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
April 28, 2016

Transferring Ownership of Public Housing to Existing Tenants: A Mechanism Design Approach
Lars Ehlers - University of Montreal
April 26, 2016

Measuring the Effects of Employment Protection Policies for the Disabled: Evidence from the Americans with Disabilities Act
Soojin Kim - Purdue University
April 25, 2016

Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Michael Luca - Harvard Business School
April 20, 2016

Multidimensional Sorting Under Random Search
Ilse Lindenlaub - Yale University
April 15, 2016

Lifecycle Retirement Planning: Experimental Evidence
Yue Li - University at Albany
April 13, 2016

Supervisors and Performance Evaluation Systems
Fabian Lange - McGill University
March 28, 2016

The Price Puzzle and Var Identification
Arturo Estrella - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
March 9, 2016

2014-2015

Fall 2014

Fair Allocation of Disputed Properties
Juan Moreno-Ternero - Universidad Pablo de Olivade and CORE, Universite Cahotlique de Louvain
August 18, 2014

Securing Basic Well Being for All
Naoki Yoshihara - Hitotsubashi University
September 12, 2014

Can New Ideas Make Abatement Cheap
Stephi Fried - University of California San Diego
September 15, 2014

 

Spring 2015

Beauty Premium and Marriage Premium in Search Equilibrium: Theory and Empirical Test
Roberto Bonilla - University of Newcastle
March 13, 2015

Employment-Based Health Insurance, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and Aggregate Labor Supply
Kai Zhao - University at Connecticut
March 27, 2015

Optimal Personal Income Taxation and the Minimization of Substitution Effects
Michael Sattinger - University at Albany
March 30, 2015

Nonparametric Threshold Regression: Estimation and Inference
Daniel Henderson - University of Alabama
April 9, 2015

Marketmaking Middlemen
Makoto Watanabe - VU University Amsterdam
April 10, 2015

Panel Data Models with Multiple Jump Discontinuities in the Parameter
Robin Sickles - Rice University
April 14, 2015

On the Efficiency of Stable Matchings in large Markets
Sangmok Lee - University of Pennsylvania
April 17, 2015

Subvector Inference for Local Regression
Ke-Li Xu - Texas A&M University
April 23, 2015

Austerity Measures: Do They Avert Fiscal Crises?
Christos Shiamptanis - Wilfrid Laurier University
May 1, 2015

 

2013-2014

Fall 2013

Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors
Deniz Ozabaci - Binghamton University
September 30, 2013

Expanding 'Choice' in School Choice
Atila Abdulkadiroglu - Duke University
October 9, 2013

MIDAS Regressions with Time-Varying Parameters: An Application to Corporate Bond Spreads and GDP in the Euro Area
Christian Schumacher - Bundesbank, Germany
October 15, 2013

Political Environments, Regulations and Investment in the Electric Power Distribution
Claire Lim - Cornell University
October 16, 2013

Old, Sick, Alone and Poor: A welfare Analysis of Old-Age Social Insurance Programs
Tatyana Koreshkova - Concordia University
October 25, 2013

Are all U.S. Credit Unions Alike? A Generalized Model of Heterogeneous Technologies with Endogenous Switching and Fixed Effects
Emir Malikov - Binghamton University
October 28, 2013

Are Supply Side Drug Control Efforts Effective? Evaluating OTC Regulations Targeting Methamphetamine Precursors
Matthew Weinberg - Drexel University
November 1, 2013

Optimal Provision-After-Wait in Healthcare
Jing Chen - SUNY Stonybrook
November 8, 2013

The Gender Gap in Price Negotiations: Evidence from New Car Sales
Ambarish Chandra - University at Albany
December 11, 2013

Unimodal domains, anti-exchange properties, and coalitional strategy-proofness of voting rules
Stefano Vannucci - University of Siena, Italy
December 11, 2013

 

Spring 2014

Giving and Probability
David Reinstein - University of Essex
March 28, 2014

A Tale of Tax Policies in Open Economies
Paul Gomme - Concordia University
April 4, 2014

Inflation Uncertainty and Monetary Policy in the Eurozone - Evidence from the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters
Matthias Hartman - Heidelberg University
April 7, 2014

Minimum Wages and Single Mothers' Welfare Participation - First Preliminary Findings
Peter Brandon - University at Albany
April 11, 2014

Optimal Personal Income Taxation
Michael Sattinger - University at Albany
April 16, 2014

Identifying the Distribution of Treatment Effects under Support of Restrictions
Ju Hyun Kim - Columbia University
April 25, 2014

The Persistence of Corporate Reputation and Performance 
Katsuya Takii - Osaka University
May 2, 2014

 

2012-2013

Fall 2012

Trade with time zone differences: Factor market implications
Sugata Marjit - Centre for Studies in Social Science, Calcutta India
August 27, 2012

The Economics of Cross-Border Travel
Ambarish Chandra - University of Toronto
September 12, 2012

Endogenous Liquidity and the Business Cycle
Saki Bigio - Columbia University
September 21, 2012

Behavioral Welfare Economics and Redistribution
Marc Fleurbaey - Princeton University
October 5, 2012

Home Production and Social Security Reform
Annie Yang - University at Albany
October 12, 2012

Equal Opportunity vs. Innovation
Laurence Kranich - University at Albany
October 15, 2012

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 16, 2012

Tax Multipliers: Pitfalls in Measurement and Identification
Daniel Riera-Crichton - Bates College
October 17, 2012

Capital Goods Trade and Economic Development
Piyusha Mutreja - Syracuse University
October 19, 2012

Fertility Transitions Along the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Daniel Aaronson - Chicago Federal Reserve
October 23, 2012

Learning the Ropes: Task Specific Experience and the Output of Idaho State Police
Greg D'Angelo - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
November 2, 2012

Social Security is NOT a Substitute for Annuities
Frank Caliendo - Utah State University
November 30, 2012

Detecting Asset Price Bubbles in the Near-Explosive Random Coefficient Autoregressive Model
Guillaume Chevillon - ESSEC Business School
December 3, 2012

 

Spring 2013

Predictive Quantile Regression with Persistent Covariates
Ji Hyung Lee - Yale University
January 21, 2013

Estimating Various Kinds of Peer Effects on Academic Performance
Chungsang Lam - University of Chicago
January 23, 2013

A Method of Correcting for Misreporting Applied to the Food Stamp Program
Nikolas Mittag - University of Chicago
January 25, 2013

Has Job Polarization Squeezed the Middle Class? Evidence from Allocation of Talents
Michael Boehm - London School of Economics & Political Science
January 28, 2013

IDEAL Inference on Conditional Quantiles via Interpolated Duals of Exact Analytic L-statistics
David Kaplan - University of California, San Diego
January 31, 2013

Do Unemployment Benefits Affect Workers' Job Search? Evidence from Establishment Closures in West Germany
Italo Gutierrez - University of Michigan
February 1, 2013

Model Selection in the Presence of Incidental Parameters
Yoonseok Lee - University of Michigan
February 21, 2013

Targeted Advertising in Magazine Markets and the Advent of the Internet
Ambarish Chandra - University of Toronto
February 4, 2013

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of the Extended Roy Model
Byoung Gun Park - Yale University
February 22, 2013

The "Crowd Out" Problem in Structural Models of the Macroeconomy
John Heim - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
March 25, 2013

A Spatial Autoregressive Production Frontier Model for Panel Data
Robin Sickles - Rice University
April 8, 2013

Bidding for Teams
Benoit Julien - University of New South Wales
April 12, 2013

Reverse Mortgage Loans: A Quantitative Analysis
Makoto Nakajima - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
April 19, 2013

The Determinants and Consequences of Friendship Composition
Jason Fletcher - Yale School of Public Health
April 26, 2013

2011-2012

Fall 2011

Qualitative Mismatches
Michael Sattinger - University at Albany
September 12, 2011

Inside the Refrigerator: Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation
Tara Watson - Williams College
September 15, 2011

The Free Installment Puzzle
John Rust, Sun-Jin Cho - University of Maryland
September 16, 2011

Longevity, Life-cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Victoria Prowse - Cornell University
October 7, 2011

Dual Least Squares
Bruce Dieffenbach - University at Albany
October 11, 2011

Labor-Market Heterogeneity Aggregation, and the Policy-(In)variance of DSGE Model Parameters
Yongsung Chang - University of Rochester
October 14, 2011

Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education: An Exploratory Model
John Bailey Jones - University at Albany
November 2, 2011

Assessing Global Vector Autoregressive Models for Forecasts
Neil Ericsson - Federal Reserve Board
November 17, 2011

 

Spring 2012

Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Correlated Random Coefficient Panel Data Models
Zhongwen Liang - Texas A&M University
January 23, 2012

Tests for Overidentifying Restrictions in Factor-Augmented VAR Models
Xu Han - North Carolina State University
January 25, 2012

Empirical Likelihood Based Constrained Nonparametric Regression with an Application to Option Price and State Price Density Estimation
Guangyi Ma - Texas A&M University
January 27, 2012

Nonparametric Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models with Weak Instruments
Sukjin Han - Yale University
January 30, 2012

Globalization under Financial Imperfection
Taiji Furusawa - Hitotusbashi and Harvard University
March 9, 2012

On the Asymptotic Size of Subvector Tests in the Linear Instrumental Variables Model
Patrik Guggenberger - University of California, San Diego
March 27, 2012

Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Naci Mocan - Louisiana State University
March 30, 2012

Financial Markets and Fluctuations in Uncertainty
Yan Bai - Rochester University
April 13, 2012

Assignment Models and Qualitative Mismatches
Michael Sattinger - University at Albany
April 18, 2012

The Contribution of Study Abroad to Human Capital for United States College Students
Stephen Schmidt - Union College
April 24, 2012

Information and Efficiency Under Alternative Trading Protocols
Andrei Schevchenko - Michigan State University
April 27, 2012

Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education
Annie Yang - University at Albany
May 1, 2012

A Simple Theoretical Argument in Support of Affirmative Action
Laurence Kranich - University at Albany
May 2, 2012

Spring 2011

Spring 2011

Insuring student Loans Against the Risk of College Failure
Felicia Ionescu - Colgate University
April 29, 2011

Informed Momentum Trading versus Uninformed "Naive" Investors Strategies
Anurag Banerjee - Durham School of Business
April 27, 2011

Establishment Heterogeneity, Exporter Dynamics and the Effects of Trade Liberalization
George Alessandria - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
April 15, 2011

Bayes' procedures for 21st-Century Key Issues
Herman van Dijk - Erasmus University Rotterdam
April 14, 2011

Inflated Responses in Self Assessed Health
William Greene - New York University
April 8, 2011

On the Strategic Disclosure of Feasible Options in Bargaining
Geoffroy de Clippel (Brown University
April 1, 2011

Has the Recession Increased the NAIRU?
Wiliam Dickens - Northeastern University
March 25, 2011

Hiring Through Referrals
Manolis Galenianos - Pennsylvania State University
March 18, 2011

Spatial Risk Premium on Weather Derivatives and Hedging Weather Exposure in Electricity
Wolfgang Hardle - Humboldt University)
March 15, 2011

Mismatch in the US Labor Market
Gianluca Violante - New York University
March 11, 2011

Characterizing Law of Demand Violations for Separable Utility
Yakar Kannai - Weitzmann Institute
February 9, 2011