Seminar: Jose Asturias (Georgetown – Qatar)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYTitle: Endogenous Transportation Costs (link: EndTranspCosts) Abstract: Quantitative trade models used to evaluate the effects of policy changes have largely abstracted away from modeling the transportation industry. This paper extends a standard Armington trade model to incorporate an oligopolistically competitive transportation industry in which shippers endogenously choose a transportation technology. Read more…
Major Day
Hunter West 3rd Floor CafeteriaHunter College will sponsor a major exploration day. The event is scheduled for Thursday, October 17th from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the 3rd floor cafeteria, West Building. Like previous years, the 2019 major exploration day will provide undergraduate students an opportunity to engage with faculty and explore the academic Read more…
Seminar: Guy David (Wharton)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYPaper Title: Information, Relative Performance and Technology Abandonment
Seminar: Anna Aizer (Brown)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYPaper Title: Discrimination, the Racial Wage Gap and Educational Outcomes of the Next Generation: Evidence from WWII Coauthors: Ryan Boone and Adriana Lleras-Muney Abstract: Can the racial gap in labor market earnings explain black-white disparities in the schooling of the next generation? To answer this, we exploit the large increase in Read more…
Nov. 1: Deadline for M.S. in Accounting Applications (entering Spring 2020)
November 1, 2019 is the deadline to submit an application for the M.S. in Accounting program (entering Spring 2020). For the online application weblink, click here.
Student Career Forum at Fashion Institute of Technology (Registration $15)
Fashion Institute of TechnologyClick on the following flyer for more information: Event #1: Mktg EDGE Student Forum Flyer 11-1-19 Event #2:
Seminar: Margit Reischer (postdoc at Columbia Business School)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYTitle: Finance-thy-Neighbor. Trade Credit Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations (reischer_tcwp102919-main) Abstract: This paper studies the role of endogenous trade-credit linkages for generating interdependent distortions and the propagation of shocks in a static quantitative multi- sector model where firms finance production using bank and trade credit. The adjustment in the volume and Read more…