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…
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Campus Visit
Hunter East 706Seminar: Sebastian Heise (NY Fed)
Hunter West 1537 (Economics Dept. Seminar Room) 912 Lexington Avenue, New York, NYTitle: 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…
Info Session for M.S. in Accounting
Hunter West 415Panel Discussion: “Experiments in Public Policy” (RSVP)
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute 47 East 65 Street, New York, NYYou are invited to a panel discussion on "Experiments in Public Policy": Perspectives on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics Location: Roosevelt House Institute for Public Policy (47-49 E 65th Street) Date: Tuesday November 19, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. A reception will follow. Click here to RSVP . Panelists include: Karna Read more…