Seminars
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…
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…