Tuesday, Sept. 25th
Econometrics |
Faculty Presentations |
Thursday, Sept. 27th
Macro |
Manuel Amador (Stanford)
"Sovereign Debt and the Tradegy of the Commons" |
Monday, October 1st
Applied Micro |
Matt Lewis (Ohio State University)
"When do Consumers Search?" in collaboration with Howard Marvel |
Tuesday, October 2nd
International/Development |
Faculty Introduction
IR/PS Dean's Conference Room |
Tuesday, October 2nd
Econometrics |
Faculty Presentations |
Wednesday, October 3rd
Micro Theory |
Vincent Crawford (UCSD)
"Let's Talk it Over: Coordination via Preplay Communication with Level-K Thinking" |
Thursday, October 4th
Macro |
Guido Lorenzoni (MIT)
"News Shocks and Optimal Monetary Policy" |
Monday, October 8th
Applied Micro |
Lei Meng (UCSD)
"Rural-to-Urban Migration in Hinterland China" |
Tuesday, October 9th
International/Development |
Ran Abramitsky (Stanford)
"Testing Self-Selection in Migration: Evidence from the Israeli Kibbutz"
IR/PS Dean's Conference Room |
Tuesday, October 9th
Econometrics |
Lubos Pastor (University of Chicago)
"Predictive Systems: Living with Imperfect Predictors" in collaboration with Robert Stambaugh |
Wednesday, October 10th
Micro Theory |
Heikki Rantakari (University of Southern California)
"Motivating Information Acquisition through Organizational Design" |
Thursday, October 11th
Macro |
Seth Pruitt (UCSD)
"When Data Revisions Matter to Macroeconomics" |
Monday, October 15th
Applied Micro |
Kathryn Shaw (Stanford University, Graduate School of Business)
"Reaching for the Stars: Who Pays for Talet in Innovative Industries" in collaboration with Fredrik Anderson & Matthew Freedman from Cornell; John Haltiwanger from Univ. of Maryland and Julia Lane from Univ. of Chicago |
Tuesday, October 16th
International/Development |
James Rauch (UCSD)
"Gravity and Matching"
In collaboration with Johannes Moenius from the Uniersity of Redlands and Vitor Trinidade from the University of Missouri, Columbia |
Tuesday, October 16th
Econometrics |
Dong Jin Lee (UCSD)
"Asymptotically Efficient Tests for Parameter Stability in Seminparametric Models" |
Wednesday, October 17th
Micro Theory |
David Ahn (U.C. Berkeley) |
Thursday, October 18th
Macro |
Andra Ghent (UCSD)
"Sticky Housing and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy" |
Monday, October 22nd
Applied Micro | Jose Martinez (UCSD)
"Globalization and Its Impact on Migration in Agricultural Communities in Mexico" |
Tuesday, October 23rd
International/Development |
Kalina Manova (Stanford University)
"Credit Constraints, Heterogeneous Firms, and International Trade" |
Tuesday, October 23rd
Econometrics |
Daniel Smith (Simon Fraser University)
"Conditional Backtesting of Value-at-Risk Models" |
Wednesday, October 24th
Micro Theory |
Bill Sandholm (University of Wisconsin)
"Schelling Redux: An Evolutionary Dynamic Model of Residential Segregation" in collaboration with Emin Dokumanci |
Thursday, October 25th
Macro |
John Williams (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
"Learning and the Role of Macroeconomic Factors in the Term Structure of Interest Rates" |
Monday, October 29th
Applied Micro |
Ricard Gil (U.C. Santa Cruz) |
Tuesday, October 30th
International/Development |
Takeo Hoshi (UCSD)
"Listing Policy and Development of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the Pre-War Period" in collaboration with Yasushi Hamao from the University of Southern California and Tetsuji Okazaki from The University of Tokyo |
Tuesday, October 30th
Econometrics |
Gray Calhoun (UCSD)
"Evaluating Overfit Models with Holdout Samples" |
Wednesday, October 31st
Micro Theory |
Tom Palfrey (Cal Tech)
"The Dynamics of Distribution Politics" in collaboration with Marco Battaglini from Princeton University |
Thursday, November 1st
Macro |
Joshua Aizenman (U.C. Santa Cruz)
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Monday, November 5th
Applied Micro |
Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia)
"Perfomance-pay and Wage Inequality" in collaboration with W. Bentley Maeleod from Columbia University and Daniel Parent from McGill University |
Tuesday, November 6th
International/Development |
Doireann Fitzgerald (Stanford University)
"Trade Costs, Asset Market Frictions and Risk Sharing: A Joint Test" |
Tuesday, November 6th
Econmetrics |
Simone Manganelli (European Central Bank)
"Forcasting with Judgement" |
Wednesday, November 7th
Micro Theory | On Amir (UCSD)
"The Dishonest of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance" |
Thursday, November 8th
Macro |
Ricardo Reis (Princeton University)
"A Measure of Pure Inflation" in collaboration with Mark Watson from Princton |
Tuesday, November 13th
International/Development |
Mark Wright (U.C. Los Angeles) |
Tuesday, November 13th
Econometrics |
Rosalin Wu (UCSD)
"Stock Return Variability, Forecast Revisions, and Investors' Learning" |
Wednesday, November 14th
Micro Theory |
Yossi Feinberg (Stanford University, Graduate School of Business)
"Testing Multiple Forecasters" in collaboration wtih Colin Stewart |
Thursday, November 15th
Macro |
Chris Reicher (UCSD)
"Labor Matching, Bargaining Shocks, and the Great Depression: Estimates from Historical Data" |
Monday, November 19th
Applied Micro |
Greg Clark (U.C. Davis)
"Genetically Capitalist? The Malthusian Era and the Formation of Modern Preferences" |
Tuesday, November 20th
International/Development |
Gordon Hanson (UCSD) |
Tuesday, November 20th
Econometrics |
Sylvain Champonnois (UCSD Rady School)
"What Determins the Distribution of Firm Sizes?" |
Monday, November 26th
Applied Micro |
Matt Kahn (U.C. Los Angels / Tufts)
"Environmentalism as a Determinant of Housing Supply Regulation" |
Tuesday, November 27th
Econometrics |
Andres Santos (UCSD)
"Instrumental Variables Methods for Recovering Continuous Linear Functionals" |
Tuesday, November 27th
International/Development | Kalina Manova (Stanford University)
"Credit Constraints, Heterogeneous Firms, and International Trade" |
Wednesday, November 28th
Micro Theory |
Marcus Mobius (Harvard University)
"Consumption Risk-sharing in Social Networks" |
Thursday, November 29th
Macro |
Peter Klenow (Stanford University)
"Misallocation and Manufacturing TF8 in China and India" in collaboration with Chang-Tai Hsieh from UC Berkeley |
Monday, December 3rd
Applied Micro |
Abigail Payne (McMaster University)
"School Competition and Efficiency with Publically Funded Catholic Schools" in collaboration with David Card from UC Berkeley and Martin Dooley from McMaster University |
Tuesday, December 4th
International/Development |
Marc Muendler (UCSD)
"The Extensive Margine of Exporting Goods: A Firm-level Analysis" |
Tuesday, December 4th
Econometrics | Daniel Smith (Simon Fraser University)
"Conditional Backtesting of Value-at-Risk Models" |
Wednesday, December 5th
Micro Theory |
Joel Sobel (UCSD)
"Evolution and Honesty" |
Thursday, December 6th
Macro |
Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; visiting MIT)
"The Three Horsemen of Growth" |
Monday, December 10th
Applied Micro |
Betsey Stevenson (Wharton School)
"The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness" |
Monday, February 11th
Applied Micro |
Andrew Daugherty and Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt University)
"Communicating Quality: A Unified Model of Disclosure and Signaling" |
Wednesday, February 13th
Micro Theory |
Navin Kartik (UCSD)
"Opinions as Incentives" |
Wednesday, February 20th
Micro Theory |
David Miller (UCSD)
"A Theory of Disagreement in Repeated Games with Renegotiation" |
Thursday, February 21st
Macro |
Garey Ramey (UCSD) |
Thursday, February 21st
Theory
*Please Note Special Time/Location: 12:00 - 1:00pm in Sequoyah Hall Rm. 244 |
Daniel Quint (Wisconsin)
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Monday, February 25th
Applied |
Silke Forbes (UCSD Dept. of Economics)
"Does Vertical Integrtation Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from the Airline Industry" |
Tuesday, February 26th
International/Development |
Sylvain Champonnois (UCSD Rady School)
"Comparing Financial Systems: A Structural Analysis" |
Wednesday, February 27th
Micro Theory
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William Fuchs (University of Chicago)
"Bargaining with Arrival of New Traders" |
Thursday, February 28th
Macro |
Valerie Ramey (UCSD) |
Friday, February 29th
Department Colloquium
3:30p-5:00p, Econ. Rm. 300
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Richard Thaler (University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business)
"Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" |
Monday, March 3rd
Applied Micro |
Catherine Wolfram (UC Berkeley)
"Sacred Cards? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources" joint with Meredith Fowlie of Univ. of Michigan and Chris Knittel of U.C. Davis |
Tuesday, March 4th
International/Development |
Miklos Koren (Princeton)
"A Balls-and-Bins Model of Trade" in collaboration with Roc Armenter |
Tuesday, March 4th
Econometrics |
M. Hashem Pesaran (University of Cambridge)
"Infinite Dimensional VARs and Factor Models" |
Wednesday, March 5th
Micro Theory |
Leeat Yariv (Cal Tech) |
Thursday, March 6th
Macro |
Dror Goldberg (Texas A&M)
"Search-Theoretic Foundations of the Keynesian Multiplier" |
Friday, March 7th
Econometrics |
Arthur Lewbel (Boston College)
"The Returns to Lying When the Truth is Unobserved" |
Tuesday, March 11th
International/Development
**Special Location**
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Stergios Skaperdas (UC Irvine)
"Economics and Conflict: The Dark Side of Self-interest" |
Tuesday, March 11th
Econometrics |
Stefan Hoderlein (University of Mannheim)
"How Many Consumers ar Rational?" |
Wednesday, March 12th
Econometrics |
Badi Baltagi (Syracuse University)
"A Generalized Spatial Panel data Model with Random Effects" |
Wednesday, March 12th
Micro Theory |
David Levine (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Self Control, Risk Aversion and the Allias Paradox" |
Thursday, March 13th
Macro |
Mirko Wiederhold (Northwestern University)
"Business Cycle Dynamics Under Rational Inattention" |
Monday, March 17th
Applied Micro |
Justine Hastings (Yale University)
"Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments" |
Friday, March 21st
10:00am - 11:30am; Econ. 300
Theory |
Kim-Sau Chung (University of Minnesota)
"Object-Based Unawareness II: Applications" |
Friday, March 21st
1:00pm - 230pm; Econ. 300
Theory |
Amanda Friedenberg (Washington University)
"The Context of the Game" |
Tuesday, March 25th
Econometrics |
James Powell (UC Berkeley)
"Simple Estimators for Semiparametric Multinomial Choice" |
Tuesday, April 1st
International/Development
IRPS Dean's Conference Room
|
Jeffrey Nugent (University of Southern California)
"A Quest for Reducing Maternal Mortality: The Case of Indonesia and its Village Midwife Program" joint with Tomoya Matsumoto & Shailender Swaminathan |
Wednesday, April 2nd
Theory |
Wojciech Olszewski (Northwestern)
Talk Title: Testing Strategic Expert
Based on:
-"Falsifiability" joint with Alvaro Sandroni from the Univ.. of Pennsylvania
-"Strategic Manipualtion of Emperical Tests" joint with Alvaro Sandroni from the Univ. of Pennsylvania
-"Manipulability of Future-Indepentent Tests" joint with Alvaro Sandroni from the Univ. of Pennsylvania
-"A Nonmanipulable Test" joint with Alvaro Sandroni from the Univ. of Pennslyvania
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Thursday, April 3rd
Macro |
Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania) |
Friday, April 4th
Time: 12:00p - 1:30p
Location: Econ. Rm. 304 |
Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School)
"Surplus Extraction with Cnotract Terms: The Lost Volume Problem" joint with Barry Adler from New York University |
Monday, April 7th
Applied Micro |
Kelly Bedard (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Is September Better than January? The Effect of School Entry Age Laws on Skill Accumulation" joint with Elizabeth Dhuey from University of Toronto |
Tuesday, April 8th
International/Development
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Katheryn Russ (Univeristy of California, Davis)
"FDI in the Banking Sector: Why borrowing costs fall while spreads increase" joint with Beatriz de Blas from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid |
Wednesday, April 9th
Theory |
Matthew Rabin (University of California, Berkeley)
"Choices, Situations and Happiness" joint with Botond Kosgezi of UC Berkeley
Supplemental document "Mistakes in Choice-Based Welfare Analysis" joint with Botond Kosgezi of UC Berkeley |
Thursday, April 10th
Macro |
Richard Rogerson (Arizona State University) |
Thursday, April 10th
Theory |
Heski Bar-Isaac (New York University)
"Information and Human Capital Management" joint with Ian Jewitt (Oxford) and Clare Leaver (Oxford) |
Monday, April 14th
Applied Micro |
Michelle White (University of California, San Diego)
“Home Ownership and Bankruptcy” |
Tuesday, April 15th
International/Development
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago Graduate School of Business)
"Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure" |
Tuesday, April 15th
Macro |
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
"Reference Prices and Nominal Rigidities" |
Wednesday, April 16th
Theory |
Simon Board (University of California, Los Angeles)
"Relational Contracts with On-the-Job Search" |
Thursday, April 17th
Econometrics |
Quang Vuong (Pennsylvania State University)
"Nonparametric Identification of Risk Aversion in First-Price Auctions Under Exclusion Restrictions" joint with Isabelle Perrigne of Pennsylvania State University and Emmanuel Guerre of Queen Mary University of London |
Monday, April 21st
Applied Micro |
Alan Sorensen (Stanford University)
"The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale" joint with Phillip Leslie from Stanford University |
Tuesday, April 22nd
Econometrics |
Peter Hansen (Stanford University)
"In-Sample and Out-of-Sample Fit" Their Joint Distrubtion and Implications for Model Selection" |
Tuesday, April 22nd
International/Development
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Gita Gopinath (Harvard)
"Frequency of Price Adjustment and Pass-through" joint with Oleg Itskhoki from Harvard University |
Wednesday, April 23rd
Theory |
Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics)
"Social Frame and Social Image: Explaining Associative Framing Effects in a Prisoners' Dilemma Experiment" joint with Magnus Johannesson of Stockholm School of Economics, Sara Munkhammer and Johanna Mollerstrom |
Thursday, April 24th
Macro |
Paul Klein (The University of Western Ontario)
"Should daycare be subsidized?" joint with David Domeij from the Stockholm School of Economics |
Thursday, April 24th
Theory |
Duncan Foley (The New School for Social Research)
"What's wrong with the fundamental existence and welfare theorems" based on "Classical thermodynamics and economic general equilibrium theory" joint with Eric Smith from the Santa Fe Institute |
Monday, April 28th
Applied Micro |
Jiawei Chen (Univeristy of California, Irvine)
"How Much Competition is a Secondary Market" joint with Susanna Esteban (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Matthew Shum (Johns Hopkins University) |
Tuesday, April 29th
International/Development
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego) |
Tuesday, April 29th
Econometrics |
Marine Carrasco (University of Montreal)
"A regularization approach to the many instruments problem" |
Wednesday, April 30th
Theory |
Michael Grubb (MIT Sloan School of Management)
"Selling to Overconfident Consumers" |
Thursday, May 1st
Macro |
Igor Livshits (The University of Western Ontario)
"Costly Contracts and Consumer Credit" joint with Michele Tertilt from Stanford University
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May 5th
Applied Micro |
Gordon Hanson (University of California, San Diego)
"The Evolution of Earnings in a High End Labor Market: The Compression of Skill and Winnings Among Elite Golfers" joint with Arnaud Costinot from UCSD, and Matt Slaughter and Paul Wolfson, both from Dartmouth. |
Tuesday, May 6th
Econometrics |
Yuichi Kitamura (Yale University)
"Nonparametric Estimation of Random Coefficients Binary Choice Models" joint with Eric Gautier |
Tuesday, May 6th
International/Development
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Daniel Trefler (University of Toronto)
"Improved Access to Foreign Markets Raises Plant-Level Productivity...for Some Plants" joint with Alla Lileeva of York University |
Wednesday, May 7th
Theory |
Isabelle Brocas (University of Southern California)
"Information Processing in the Brain" |
Thursday, May 8th
Macro |
Sagiri Kitao (University of Southern California)
"Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All" joint wtih Juan Carlos Conesa from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Dirk Krueger from University of Pennsylvania |
Monday, May 12th
Applied Micro |
Choon Wang (University of California, San Diego)
"The Effects of Education and the Amish Society"
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Tuesday, May 13th
International/Development
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Jim Rauch (University of California, San Diego)
"Crony Capitalism and Development" |
Wednesday, May 14th
Theory |
Sylvain Chassang (Princeton Univesity)
"Conflict and Deterrence Under Strategic Risk" joint with Gerard Padro i Miquel of the London School of Economics |
| Thursday, May 15th |
Makoto Nakajima (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Optimal Capital Income Taxation with Housing" |
Monday, May 19th
Applied Micro |
David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States" |
Tuesday, May 20th
International/Development
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Giacomo de Giorgi (Stanford University) |
Wednesday, May 21st
Theory |
Ichiro Obara (University of Califoria, Los Angeles) |
Thursday, May 22nd
Macro |
James Hamilton (University of California, San Diego) |
Tuesday, May 27th
International/Development
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Frederico Finan (University of California, Los Angeles) |
Tuesday, May 27th
Econometrics |
Keisuki Hirano (University of Arizona) |
| Wednesday, May 28th |
William Sandholm (University of Wisconsin)
"Survival of Dominated Strategies under Evolutionary Dynamics" |
Thursday, May 29th
Macro |
Michele Tertilt (Stanford University)
"Women's Liberation: What's in It for Men?" joint with Mattias Doepke from Stanford University |
Monday, June 2nd
Applied Micro |
Daniel Ackerberg (University of California, Los Angeles) |
Tuesday, June 3rd
International/Develoopment
IRPS Dean's Conference Room |
Estaban Rossi-Hansberg (Princeton University)
"Organizing Growth" joint with Luis Garicano from University of Chicago |
Wednesday, June 4th
Theory |
Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University) |
Thursday, June 5th
Macro |
Vincenzo Quandrini (University of Southern California) |
