Seminar: Guy David (Wharton)

Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY

Paper Title: Information, Relative Performance and Technology Abandonment

Seminar: Anna Aizer (Brown)

Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY

Paper 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…

Seminar: Margit Reischer (postdoc at Columbia Business School)

Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY

Title: 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…

Seminar: Sebastian Heise (NY Fed)

Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY

Title: Workers’ Home Bias and Spatial Wage Gaps: Lessons from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany (joint with Tommaso Porzio) (link: paper) Abstract: Workers' birth-place shapes their labor market prospects: only few find a job elsewhere, and of those, a large fraction moves back home. Such home bias Read more…