Hasan Toprak (University of Virginia)

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You can find the paper here. Title: The Composition of Capital Inflows and Optimal Monetary Policy in Sudden-Stop Economies Abstract: Accounting for different types of capital flows, this paper studies whether monetary policy in emerging market economies should be prudential—i.e., deviate from price stability to induce agents to borrow less Read more…

Andrea Atencio-De-Leon (University of Illinois)

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You can find the paper here. Title: Contracting out Labor Market Dynamism Abstract: This paper investigates how domestic outsourcing affects plant-level labor responses to revenue productivity shocks and biases the measurement of aggregate job reallocations. I develop a methodology to transform reported expenses on temporary and leased workers into plant-level Read more…

Tereza Ranosova (University of Michigan)

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You 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)

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You 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)

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You 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…

Amanda Agan (Rutgers University)

Hunter West 619

Title: Removing the Mark: Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation Abstract: We investigate whether removing or reducing the severity of a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. Using quasi-experimental strategies and a field experiment, we estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have been widely enacted Read more…

Elizabeth Ananat (Barnard)

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Elizabeth Ananat is Mallya Professor of Women and Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University since 2020. In 2010 she served as Senior Economist for Labor, Education, and Welfare at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Her research focuses on the intergenerational dynamics of poverty and inequality. Title: "The Effects Read more…

George Vachadze (College of Staten Island)

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Prof. George Vachadze holds Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (2003) and Ph.D. in Economics from the Center of Economic Research and Graduate Education of Charles University (1999). Between 2000 and 2005 he worked for National Economic Research Associates Inc., Vortex Trading LLC, Bank of Nova Scotia, Read more…

Sharon Traiberman (NYU)

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Rosemary Kaiser (Rutgers University)

Hunter West 208

Rosemary Kaiser is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University in the Department of Economics. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2022. Her research interests are in macroeconomics and labor economics. Title: Labor Participation, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Business Cycle. Abstract:We explore labor force Read more…