Seminars
Seminar: David Jaeger (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYDavid Jaeger is a professor of economics from The Graduate Center, CUNY. Paper: "Shift-Share Instruments and Dynamic Adjustments: The Case of Immigration" Speaker's website: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Faculty/Core-Bios/David-A-Jaeger If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, please subscribe to the seminar listserv.
Seminar: Prabal De (City College, CUNY)
Hunter West 1543 (History Dept. Conference Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesPrabal De is an associate professor at The City College of New York, CUNY. This is joint work with Laxman Timilsina, an economics doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Paper: Cash-based Maternal Health Interventions can Improve Child Vaccination - Evidence from India If you would like to be Read more…
Sean Murphy (Cornell Medicine)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYSean Murphy is an Associate Professor of Research in Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College. Paper: “Will Converting Naloxone to Over-The-Counter Status Increase Pharmacy Sales?” Speaker’s website: http://vivo.med.cornell.edu/display/cwid-smm2010 If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, please subscribe to the seminar listserv.
Seminar: Rodrigo Soares (Columbia University)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYRodrigo Soares is the Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, SIPA. Paper: "Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations" Speaker's website: https://sites.google.com/view/rodrigo-r-soares/ If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, please subscribe to the Read more…
Seminar: Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYEric Verhoogen is a Professor of International and Public Affairs and of Economics at Columbia University, SIPA. Paper: "Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production" Speaker's website: http://www.columbia.edu/~ev2124/ If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, please subscribe to the seminar listserv.
Seminar: Adam Sacarny (Columbia University)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYAdam Sacarny is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Paper: “Hospital Allocation and the Evolution of Racial Health Disparities: Evidence from Heart Attacks” Speaker's website: http://sacarny.com/ If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, please subscribe to Read more…
Seminar: Manuel Garcia Santana (Pompeu Fabra)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYManuel Garcia Santana is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Paper: "Investment Demand and Structural Change" Speaker's website: https://garciasantana.weebly.com/ If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, please subscribe to the seminar listserv.
Seminar: Aaron Chalfin (UPenn)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYAaron Chalfin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania. Paper: "Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City" Speaker's website: http://achalfin.weebly.com/ If you would like to be informed of all of the department’s future seminars, Read more…
Seminar: Natalie Cox (Princeton)
Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter College Library Room East 706 115 E 68th Street, New York, NY, United StatesTitle: Market Power in Small Business Lending (with Ernest Liu and Daniel Morrison) Abstract: Do government-funded guarantees and interest rate caps primarily benefit borrowers or lenders under imperfect competition? We study how bank concentration impacts the effectiveness of these policy interventions in the small business loan market. Using data from Read more…
Seminar: John McDermott (University of South Carolina)
Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter College Library Room East 706 115 E 68th Street, New York, NY, United StatesTitle: Regulation and Taxation in a Model of Growth (with Luis Felipe Saenz) Abstract: In this paper we construct a growth model with increasing returns stemming from product variety to explore the different effects of regulations and taxes on economic activity. Regulations primarily raise fixed costs, while taxes increase variable costs. Read more…