Seminars
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…
Seminar: Matt Baker and Jonathan Conning (Hunter College)
Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter College Library Room East 706 115 E 68th Street, New York, NY, United StatesFind the paper here. Title: A Model of Enclosures: Coordination, Conflict, and Efficiency in the Transformation of Land Property Rights Abstract: We study a simple general equilibrium model of the transformation of customary, informal property rights to land into exclusive ownership. We characterize the transformation in property rights - the Read more…
Seminar: Jesse Schreger (Columbia University)
Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter College Library Room East 706 115 E 68th Street, New York, NY, United StatesFind the paper here Title: Internationalizing Like China Abstract: We empirically characterize how China is internationalizing the Renminbi by selectively opening up its domestic bond market to foreign investors and propose a dynamic reputation model to explain this internationalization strategy. The Chinese government deliberately controlled the entry of foreign investors into Read more…
Jose Mota (University of Houston)
Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter College Library Room East 706 115 E 68th Street, New York, NY, United StatesYou can find the paper here. Title: International Migrants and the Human Capital Formation of Their Left-Behind Children Abstract: International migration can disrupt families and affect the human capital investment of left behind children. Using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, I document that mothers with husbands in the Read more…
Tereza Ranosova (University of Michigan)
Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter College Library Room East 706 115 E 68th Street, New York, NY, United StatesYou can find the paper here. Title: Commuting and the Value of Marriage Abstract: Over time, as metro-areas sprawled to the suburbs, long commutes became common. In this paper I combine motivating evidence with a structural model to show how policies resulting in long commutes affect singles differently than couples Read more…
Filip Babalievsky (University of Minnesota)
Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter College Library Room East 706 115 E 68th Street, New York, NY, United StatesYou can find the paper here. Title: Misallocation in the Market for Inventors Abstract: How much misallocation is there in the market for inventors? This paper introduces a novel growth model where firms search for inventors in a frictional labor market, and where the efficiency of innovation depends on the Read more…
Minki Kim (University of California, San Diego)
Hemmerdinger Screening Room, Hunter College Library Room East 706 115 E 68th Street, New York, NY, United StatesYou can find the paper here. Title: How Will a New Malaria Vaccine Shape Africa’s Economic Future? A Macroeconomic Analysis Abstract: Malaria is the primary cause of death among children and a barrier to childhood human capital accumulation in sub-Saharan Africa. The macroeconomics literature thus far concludes that eradicating malaria Read more…