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Seminar in Applied Economics
The Seminar in Applied Economics is a weekly event series that takes place each semester.
The seminar is organized each semester by a different professor and will include notable economists from different institutions. All upcoming seminar events can be found below, as well as a link to seminars by semester.
Students are required to participate in one semester of the seminar, with the option of taking it a second time for credit. The seminar may be audited in subsequent semesters.
The Graduate Center community, as well as others interested in economics, are also welcome to join.
View our seminar schedules by semester below and view recent past seminars on YouTube.
Schedule
Organized by Professor Yochanan Shachmurove
Email: yshachmurove@ccny.cuny.edu
Tuesdays, 12:00pm-1:45pm
Register for the seminars here.
To Participants:
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others who participate in any of the following seminars with their camera on or use a profile image are agreeing to have their video or image recorded solely for the purpose of creating a record for participants in this seminar to refer to, including those enrolled students who are unable to attend live. If you are unwilling to consent to have your profile or video image recorded, be sure to keep your camera off and do not use a profile image. Likewise, participants who un-mute during the seminar or class and participate orally are agreeing to have their voices recorded. If you are not willing to consent to have your voice recorded, you will need to keep your mute button activated and communicate exclusively using the "chat" feature, which allows participants to type questions and comments live.
Release forms can be found here. They can be submitted here.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/1 | 12:00 PM EST |
Matthew Nagler | City College of New York and The Graduate Center | "Focusing As Commitment" | TBA |
| 2/8 | 12:00 PM EST | Dorian Abreu | The Graduate Center | "High Frequency Trading and Liquidity" | TBA |
| 2/15 | 12:00 PM EST | Loukas Karabarbounis | University of Minnesota | "Reparations and Persistent Racial Wealth Gaps" | TBA |
| 2/22 | 12:00 PM EST | Orley Ashenfelter | Princeton University | TBA | TBA |
| 2/28 | 4:00 PM EST | Nobel Laureate Joshua D. Angrist | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | "Worth the Trip? Effects of School Transportation in Boston and New York" | TBA |
| 3/8 | 12:00 PM EST | Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman | The Graduate Center, CUNY | "Credible Irresponsibility Revisited" | TBA |
| 3/15 | 12:00 PM EST | Abdoulaye Ndiaye | NYU Stern | "Redistribution with Peromance Pay" | TBA |
| 3/22 | 12:00 PM EST | Michaela Pagel | Columbia Business School | TBA | TBA |
| 3/29 | 12:00 PM EST | Lawrence J. White | NYU Stern | "The Dead Hand of Cellophane and the Federal Google and Facebook Antitrust Cases: Market Delineation Will Be Crucial" | TBA |
| 4/5 | 12:00 PM EST | Daniele D'Alvia | Queen Mary University of London | "A Re-Interpretation of Risk and Uncertainty in the Science of Statistics" | TBA |
| 4/12 | 12:00 PM EST | April Klein | NYU Stern | Investors’ Response to the #MeToo Movement: Does Corporate Culture Matter? | TBA |
| 4/19 | Spring Recess No Seminar |
Spring Recess No Seminar |
Spring Recess No Seminar |
Spring Recess No Seminar |
Spring Recess No Seminar |
| 4/26 | 12:00 PM EST | Nobel Laureate Thomas Sargent | NYU | Three World Wars: Fiscal-Monetary Consequences | TBA |
| 5/3 | 12:00 PM EST | David Schoenherr | Princeton University | Financial Access and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Credit Lotteries | TBA |
| 5/10 | 12:00 PM EST | Jess Benhabib | NYU | "Innovation and Imitation" | TBA |
Schedule
Organized by Professor Lilia Maliar
Email: lmaliar@gc.cuny.edu
Tuesdays, 12:00pm-1:45pm
To Participants:
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others who participate in any of the following seminars with their camera on or use a profile image are agreeing to have their video or image recorded solely for the purpose of creating a record for participants in this seminar to refer to, including those enrolled students who are unable to attend live. If you are unwilling to consent to have your profile or video image recorded, be sure to keep your camera off and do not use a profile image. Likewise, participants who un-mute during the seminar or class and participate orally are agreeing to have their voices recorded. If you are not willing to consent to have your voice recorded, you will need to keep your mute button activated and communicate exclusively using the "chat" feature, which allows participants to type questions and comments live.
Release forms can be found here. They can be submitted here.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/31 | 12:00 PM EST |
Pete Klenow | Stanford University | "Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States" | Remote |
| 9/14 | 12:00 PM EST | John Cochrane | Hoover Institution | "The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level" | Remote |
| 9/21 | 12:00 PM EST | Cristina Arellano | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | "Micro Risks and Pareto Improving Policies" | Remote |
| 9/28 | 12:00 PM EST | Wim Vijverberg | The Graduate Center, CUNY | "Factors, Filtersm and Cross Sectional Dependence: The Currency Implied Volatility Surface Forecast Revisited" | Remote |
| 10/05 | 12:00 PM EST | Linda Tesar | University of Michigan | "A North-South Model of Structural Change and Growth" | Remote |
| 10/12 | 12:00 PM EST | Refet Gurkaynak | Bilkent University | "News, Noiss, and Anchorign Shape International Yield Curves" | Remote |
| 10/19 | 12:00 PM EST | Luigi Pistaferri | Stanford University | Econometrics | Remote |
| 10/26 | 12:00 PM EST | Mark Duggan | SIEPR and Standford University | "Getting the Price Right? The Impact of Competitive Bidding in the Medicare Program" | Room 5417 |
| 11/02 | 12:00 PM EST | Ricardo Reis | London School of Economics | Public Policy | Remote |
| 11/09 | 12:00 PM EST | Hugo Benitez-Silva | Stony Brook University | Social Security | In person |
| 11/16 | 12:00 PM EST | Martin Uribe | Columbia University | Macroeconomics | Remote |
| 11/23 | 12:00 PM EST | Andrea Tambalotti | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | "Inequality and Business Cycles" | In person |
| 11/30 | 12:00 PM EST | Bernard Salanie | Columbia University | Econometrics | In person |
| 12/07 | 12:00 PM EST | Joseph Zeira | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | The Israeli Economy | Remote |
Schedule
Organized by Professor Lilia Maliar
Email: lmaliar@gc.cuny.edu
Tuesdays, 12:00pm-1:45pm
To Participants:
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others who participate in any of the following seminars with their camera on or use a profile image are agreeing to have their video or image recorded solely for the purpose of creating a record for participants in this seminar to refer to, including those enrolled students who are unable to attend live. If you are unwilling to consent to have your profile or video image recorded, be sure to keep your camera off and do not use a profile image. Likewise, participants who un-mute during the seminar or class and participate orally are agreeing to have their voices recorded. If you are not willing to consent to have your voice recorded, you will need to keep your mute button activated and communicate exclusively using the "chat" feature, which allows participants to type questions and comments live.
Release forms can be found here. They can be submitted here.
Schedule
Organized by Professor Yochanan Shachmurove
Email: yshachmurove@ccny.cuny.edu
Tuesdays, 11:45am-1:45pm
To Participants:
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others who participate in any of the following seminars with their camera on or use a profile image are agreeing to have their video or image recorded solely for the purpose of creating a record for participants in this seminar to refer to, including those enrolled students who are unable to attend live. If you are unwilling to consent to have your profile or video image recorded, be sure to keep your camera off and do not use a profile image. Likewise, participants who un-mute during the seminar or class and participate orally are agreeing to have their voices recorded. If you are not willing to consent to have your voice recorded, you will need to keep your mute button activated and communicate exclusively using the "chat" feature, which allows participants to type questions and comments live.
Release forms can be found here. They can be submitted here.
| Date | Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper Title | Follow Up | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-Sep-20 | TUES | Benjamin Liebman | Saint Joseph's University | "Chinese steel futures response to tariffs" | Interview | |||
| 8-Sep-20 15-Sep-20 |
TUES | Nobel Laureate Yisrael (Robert J.) Aumann | Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel | "A synthesis of behavioural and mainstream economics" | PPT Interview |
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| 15-Sep-20 | TUES | Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer | Harvard University | "Water Treatment and Child Survival: A Meta-Analysis" | ||||
| 22-Sep-20 | TUES | Julapa Jagtiani | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | "Fintech Lending and the Roles of Alternative Data" | PPT Interview |
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| 29-Sep-20 | TUES | Nobel Laureate Oliver Hart | Harvard University | "Exit vs Voice" | ||||
| 6-Oct-20 |
TUES | Nobel Laureate Eric Maskin | Harvard University | "Arrow’s Theorem, May’s Axioms, and Borda’s Rule" | ||||
| 13-Oct-20 |
TUES | Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller | Yale University | "Narrative Economics and the Trump/Covid-19 Stock Market Boom" | PPT | |||
| 20-Oct-20 | TUES | Nobel Laureate Peter Diamond | MIT | "Good Pension Design" | PPT | |||
| 27-Oct-20 |
TUES | Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman |
Gradute Center, CUNY |
“Why did the trade war fail?” | ||||
| 3-Nov-20 | TUES | Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith | Chapman University Orange, California. | "Market Price Formation: Classical Market Theory and Experiments" | PPT | |||
| 10-Nov-20 |
TUES | Branko Milanovic | Gradute Center, CUNY | "Recent trends in global inequality and their political implications" |
Additional Paper | |||
| 17-Nov-20 | TUES | Nobel Laureate Lars Peter Hansen | University of Chicago | "How should Climate Change Uncertainty Impact Social Valuation and Policy?" | Background paper PPT |
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| 24-Nov-20 | TUES |
Milos Vulanovic | EDHEC Business School, Lille, France | "Deindustrialization and Real Effective Exchange Rates in Eastern Europe" | PPT | |||
| 1-Dec-20 | TUES 11:00am |
Nobel Laureate James Heckman | University of Chicago | "American Inequality and Social Mobility Viewed Through a Danish Prism." |
PPT | |||
| 1-Dec-20 | TUES 12:55pm |
Richmond Kyei Fordjour | the Graduate Center, CUNY | "Over the Counter Market Microstructure" | PPT | |||
| 8-Dec-20 | TUES | Nobel Laureate Kydland and co-authors | University of California | "Exploring the Role of Limited Commitment Constraints in Argentina's 'Missing Capital' |
JAN 28, 2020 | 12:00 PM
Details
WHERE:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave
ROOM:
5382
WHEN:
January 28, 2020: 12:00 PM
CONTACT INFO:
ADMISSION:
Free
SPONSOR:
Ph.D. Program in Economics
Description
This semester's Seminar in Applied Economics is organized by Professor Miles Corak (mcorak@ccny.cuny.edu)
Unless otherwise noted, all events are on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Email mcorak@gc.cuny.edu or yzhang1@gc.cuny.edu with questions.
Papers and presentations are accessible below.
Announcement: The Applied Economics Seminars are cancelled from March 10, 2020 to the end of this spring semester.
| Date | Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper Title | Interview |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28-Jan-20 | TUES | Leah Boustan | Princeton University | "Economic and cultural effects of living in an ethnic enclave: Early 20th century evidence from the Industrial Removal Office" | Interview |
| 03-Feb-20 | MON | John Roemer | Yale University | "What is socialism today? Conceptions of a cooperative economy" | Interview |
| 11-Feb-20 | TUES | Wojciech Kopczuk | Columbia University | "Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway" |
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| 18-Feb-20 | TUES | Stephen Jenkins | London School of Economics | "Better off? Distributional comparisons for ordinal data about personal well-being" | Interview |
| 25-Feb-20 | TUES | Chris Naubert and Lilia Maliar |
The Graduate Center, CUNY | "Monetary Policy and Redistribution Guided by TANK: the Magic of Output Stabilization and Capital Adjustment Costs" | |
| 03-Mar-20 | TUES | Ellora Derenoncourt | University of California, Berkeley | "Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration" | Interview |
| Seminar Cancelled | TUES | Owen Zidar | Princeton University | "Top Wealth in America: New Estimates and Implications for Taxing the Rich" | |
| Seminar Cancelled | TUES | Maria Rosales-Rueda | Rutgers University | "Social Interventions, Health and Wellbeing: The long-term and Intergenerational Effects of a School Construction Program" | |
| Seminar Cancelled | TUES | Michèle Lamont | Harvard University |
"American growing inequality and the production of narratives of hope" |
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| Seminar Cancelled | TUES | Sandra Black | Columbia University | To be determined | |
| Seminar Cancelled | TUES | Yonatan Berman | London Mathematical Laboratory | "The Long Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility" | |
| Seminar Cancelled | WED | Barbara Biasi | Yale University | "Higher Salaries or Higher Pensions? Inferring Preferences from Teachers’ Retirement Behavior" |
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| Seminar Cancelled | TUES | Nishant Yonzan | The Graduate Center, CUNY | "State Capacity and Conflict: Evidence from Nepal's decade long Civil War" | |
| Seminar Cancelled | TUES | David Jaeger | St. Andrew’s University / The Graduate Center, CUNY | "The Demand for Interns" | |
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AUG 27, 2019 | 12:00 PM
Details
WHERE:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave
ROOM:
5383
WHEN:
August 27, 2019: 12:00 PM
CONTACT INFO:
ADMISSION:
Free
SPONSOR:
Ph.D. Program in Economics
Description
This semester's Seminar in Applied Economics is organized by Professor Yochanan Shachmurove (yshachmurove@ccny.cuny.edu).
Unless otherwise noted, all events are on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Email yshachmurove@ccny.cuny.edu or yzhang1@gc.cuny.edu with questions.
Papers and presentations are accessible below.
Details
WHERE:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
ROOM:
5383
CONTACT INFO:
SERIES EVENTS:
JAN 29, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Serguei Maliar, Santa Clara University
FEB 05, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Gabriel Mihalache, Stony Brook University
FEB 19, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Feridoon Koohi, City College, CUNY
FEB 27, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Larry Kotlikoff, Boston University
MAR 05, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Raquel Fernandez, New York University
MAR 12, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Eva Carceles, Stony Brook University
MAR 19, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Pablo Winant, Paris School of Economics
APR 02, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Juan Conesa, Stony Brook University
APR 09, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Victor Ríos-Rull, University of Pennsylvania
APR 16, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Andres Drenik, Columbia University
APR 30, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Alexis Toda, Princeton UC - San Diego
MAY 07, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Marco del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
MAY 07, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Columbia University
MAY 14, 2019 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Francesc Ortega, Queens College, CUNY
ADMISSION:
Free
SPONSOR:
Ph.D. Program in Economics
Description
This semester's Seminar in Applied Economics is organized by Professor Lilia Maliar (lmaliar@gc.cuny.edu).
All events are on Tuesdays at 12 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. in Room 5383.
Papers and presentations are accessible below and through each event listing.
We look forward to seeing you there.
| Date | Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Field/Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29-Jan-19 | TUES | Professor Serguei Maliar | Santa Clara University | A Tractable Framework for Analyzing a Class of Nonstationary Markov Models | |
| 5-Feb-19 | TUES | Professor Gabriel Mihalache | Stony Brook University | Inflation Targeting with Sovereign Default Risk | |
| 19-Feb-19 | TUES | Professor Feridoon Koohi | City College, CUNY | The Rothbarth Internal Allocation Model Re-examined: Semi-Nonparametric and Parametic Tests of Child Gender Discrimination | |
| 27-Feb-19 | WED Room: 9205 |
Professor Larry Kotlikoff | Boston University | Climate Change and Carbon Taxation -- Leaving God Out of the Equation | |
| 5-Mar-19 | TUES | Professor Raquel Fernandez | New York University | Girls, Boys, and High Achievers (co-authors: Angela Cools and Eleonora Patacchini) |
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| 12-Mar-19 | TUES | Professor Eva Carceles | Stony Brook University | On the Optimal Design of a Financial Stability Fund | |
| 19-Mar-19 | TUES | Professor Pablo Winant | Paris School of Economics | Managing Capital Outflows with Limited Reserves | |
| 2-Apr-19 | TUES | Professor Juan Conesa | Stony Brook University | Trade and Structural Transformation in Spain since 1850 |
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| 9-Apr-19 | TUES | Professor Victor Ríos-Rull | University of Pennsylvania | Wealth, Wages, and Employment (Slides) | |
| 16-Apr-19 | TUES | Professor Andres Drenik | Columbia University | Price Dispersion and Frictions in the Physical Capital Market | |
| 30-Apr-19 | TUES | Professor Alexis Toda | University of California San Diego | Pareto Extrapolation: Bridging Theoretical and Quantitative Models of Wealth Inequality | |
| 7-May-19 | TUES | Professor Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé | Columbia University | Exchange Rates and Uncovered Interest Differentials: The role of Permanent Monetary Shocks (Slides) |
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| 14-May-19 | TUES | Professor Francesc Ortega | Queens College, CUNY | Is There a Gender Glass Ceiling in Access to Graduate Fellowships? | |
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Details
WHERE:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave
ROOM:
5383
CONTACT INFO:
SERIES EVENTS:
AUG 28, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with David Jaeger, Graduate Center, CUNY and NBER
SEP 04, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Theodore Joyce and Daniel Dench, Baruch College and GC
SEP 25, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Max Kasy, Harvard University
OCT 02, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Shqiponja Telhaj, University of Sussex
OCT 09, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Jessica van Parys, Hunter College, CUNY
OCT 16, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Phil Orreopolous, University of Toronto and NBER
OCT 23, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Johannes Haushofer, Princeton University and NBER
OCT 30, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Michael Dinerstein, University of Chicago and NBER
NOV 06, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Kiki Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER
NOV 13, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Yale School of Management
NOV 20, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Agustin Indaco, Graduate Center, Ph.D. Student
NOV 27, 2018 | 1:00 PM TO 2:30 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Joshua Angrist, MIT and NBER
DEC 04, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Leah Platt Boustan, Princeton University and NBER
DEC 11, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with George Borjas, Harvard University and NBER
ADMISSION:
Free
SPONSOR:
Ph.D. Program in Economics
Description
This semester's Seminar in Applied Economics is organized by Professor David A. Jaeger (Web: www.djaeger.org | Email: dj@djaeger.org | Twitter @DavidAJaeger)
Unless otherwise noted, all events are on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Papers and presentations are accessible below.
| Date | Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28-Aug-18 | TUES | Professor David Jaeger | CUNY Graduate Center and NBER | "Shift-Share Instruments and Dynamic Adjustments: The Case of Immigration" |
| 04-Sep-18 | TUES | Professor Theodore Joyce and Daniel Dench | Baruch College, CUNY Graduate Center, and NBER | "Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Infant Health: A Comment" |
| 11-Sep-18 | TUES | |||
| 18-Sep-18 | TUES | |||
| 25-Sep-18 | TUES | Professor Max Kasy | Harvard University | "Which Papers Do Get Published? Which Papers Should Get Published?" |
| 02-Oct-18 | TUES | Professor Shqiponja Telhaj | University of Sussex | "Atheism and Economic Prosperity: The Long-Run Impact of a National Ban on Religions" |
| 09-Oct-18 | TUES | Professor Jessica van Parys | Hunter College, CUNY | The Effects of Primary Care Physician (PCP) Practice Styles on Health Care Utilization and Outcomes: Evidence from Medicare Beneficiaries Affected by Physician Moves |
| 16-Oct-18 | TUES | Professor Phil Orreopolous | University of Toronto and NBER | The Remarkable Unresponsiveness to Nudging College Students: Evidence from 10 Experiments over 4 Years |
| 23-Oct-18 | TUES | Professor Johannes Haushofer | Princeton University and NBER |
Income Changes and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya |
| 30-Oct-18 | TUES | Professor Michael Dinerstein | University of Chicago and NBER | Allocation and Choice in Urban Education |
| 06-Nov-18 | TUES | Professor Kiki Pop-Eleches | Columbia University and NBER | Parental Monitoring and Children’s Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues |
| 13-Nov-18 | TUES | Professor Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham | Yale School of Management | Predictably Unequal? The Effects of Machine Learning on Credit Markets |
| 20-Nov-18 | TUES | Agustin Indaco | CUNY Graduate Center PhD student | "From Twitter to GDP: Estimating Economic Activity from Social Media" |
| 27-Nov-18 Time: 1 pm - 2:30 pm Room: 9204 |
TUES | Professor Joshua Angrist | MIT and NBER | Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design |
| 04-Dec-18 | TUES | Professor Leah Platt Boustan | Princeton University and NBER | The intergenerational effects of a large wealth shock: White southerners after the Civil War |
| 11-Dec-18 | TUES | Professor George Borjas | Harvard University and NBER | Job Vacancies and Immigration: Evidence from Pre- and Post-Mariel Miami |
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Details
WHERE:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave
ROOM:
5383
CONTACT INFO:
SERIES EVENTS:
JAN 30, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Arpit Gupta, NYU Stern
FEB 06, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Jess Benabib, NYU
FEB 08, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Evan Warshaw, GC PhD student
FEB 13, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Constantine Yannelis, NYU Stern
FEB 27, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Timothy Christensen, NYU Stern
FEB 27, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Suresh Sundaresan, Columbia University
MAR 06, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, GC
MAR 13, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Fabris Nikola, Central Bank of MNE
MAR 15, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Professor Boyan Jovanovic, NYU Stern
MAR 20, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Andreas Kakolyris, Graduate Center, CUNY, PhD student
APR 10, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Andres Drenik, Columbia University
APR 12, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Salvatore Morelli, Graduate Center, CUNY
APR 17, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Steph Schmitt-Grohé, Columbia University
APR 24, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Stephen Morris, Princeton University
MAY 01, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Punit Arora, City College, CUNY
MAY 03, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University
MAY 08, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with J.L. Montiel Olea, Columbia University
MAY 15, 2018 | 12:00 PM TO 1:45 PM
Seminar in Applied Economics: A lecture with Biwei Chen, Graduate Center, Ph.D. Student
ADMISSION:
Free
SPONSOR:
Ph.D. Program in Economics
Description
This semester's Seminar in Applied Economics is organized by Professor Yochanan Shachmurove (yshachmurove@ccny.cuny.edu)
Unless otherwise noted, all events are on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Papers and presentations are accessible below.
| Date | Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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| 30-Jan-18 | TUES | Professor Arpit Gupta | NYU, Stern School of Business | Leverage, Default, and Mortality: Evidence from Cancer Diagnoses |
| 6-Feb-18 | TUES | Professor Jess Benabib | NYU | Skewed Wealth Distributions: Theory and Empirics Wealth distribution and social mobility in the US: A quantitative approach |
| 8-Feb-18 | THURS | Evan Warshaw | Graduate Center, CUNY, PhD student |
Asymmetric Volatility Spillover Between European Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets |
| 13-Feb-18 | TUES | Professor Constantine Yannelis | NYU, Stern School of Business | When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education |
| 20-Feb-18 | TUES | No Seminar | ||
| 27-Feb-18 | TUES | Professor Suresh Sundaresan | Columbia University, Finance Division | An Explanation of Negative Swap Spreads: Demand for Duration from Underfunded Pension Plans |
| 6-Mar-18 | TUES | Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman | Graduate Center, CUNY | It’s Baaack, Twenty Years Later |
| 13-Mar-18 | TUES | Professor Nikola Fabris | Central Bank of Montenegro and Faculty of Economics, Belgrade University | Monetary policy: Modern Trends and Challenges |
| 15- Mar-18 | THURS | Professor Boyan Jovanovic | NYU, Stern School of Business | Product Recalls and Firm Reputation: |
| 20-Mar-18 | TUES | Andreas Kakolyris | Graduate Center, CUNY, PhD student | Correlation Aversion and Insurance Demand |
| 27-Mar-18 | TUES | Professor William Easterly | NYU, Economics Department | In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes |
| 3-Apr-18 | TUES | No Seminar, Spring Recess | ||
| 10-Apr-18 | TUES | Professor Andres Drenik | Columbia University, Economics Division | Pricing in Multiple Currencies in Domestic Markets |
| 12-Apr-18 | THURS | Professor Salvatore Morelli | Graduate Center, CUNY | The Concentration of Personal Wealth in Italy: 1995-2013 (Slides) |
| 17-Apr-18 | TUES | Professor Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé | Columbia University, Economics Division | |
| 24-Apr-18 | TUES | Professor Stephen Morris | Princeton University, Economics Department | Crises: Equilibrium Shifts and Large Shocks |
| 1-May-18 | TUES | Professor Punit Arora | City College - CUNY, Economics and Business Department | Environmental Sustainability Practices, Institutional Obstacles and Exports: Evidence on the Interplay of Strategy and Institutions in Latin America |
| 3-May-18 | THURS room: C203 |
Professor Jeffrey Sachs | Columbia University | R&D, Structural Transformation, and the Distribution of Income |
| 8-May-18 | TUES | Professor José Luis Montiel Olea | Columbia University, Economics Division | A/B Testing |
| 15-May-18 | TUES | Biwei Chen | Graduate Center, CUNY, PhD student | Shapes and Transitions of the Interest Rate Term Structure |
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AUG 29, 2017 | 12:00 PM
Details
WHERE:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave
ROOM:
5382
WHEN:
August 29, 2017: 12:00 PM
CONTACT INFO:
ADMISSION:
Free
SPONSOR:
Ph.D. Program in Economics
Description
This semester's Seminar in Applied Economics is organized by Professor Núria Rodríguez-Planas (nuria.rodriguezplanas@qc.cuny.edu)
Unless otherwise noted, all events are on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Papers and presentations are accessible below.
| Date | Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29-Aug-17 | TUES | Professor Bo Cowgill | Business school, Columbia University |
"Automation and Subjective Judgments: Theory and Evidence from Resume Screening" |
| 5-Sep-17 | TUES | Professor Kevin Thom | NYU Economics department | “Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making” |
| 12-Sep-17 | TUES | Professor Zadia M. Feliciano | Queens College, CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY NBER |
"US MULTINATIONALS IN PUERTO RICO AND THE REPEAL OF SECTION 936 |
| 19-Sep-17 | TUES | |||
| 26-Sep-17 | TUES | Professor Rajeev Dehejia | NYU, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | “The Effect of Fertility on Mothers’ Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries” |
| 3-Oct-17 | TUES | Professor Alberto Bisin | NYU Economics department | "On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions" |
| 10-Oct-17 | TUES | Professor Hani Mansour | U C Denver | "Competition and the Progression of Women's Political Participation" |
| 17-Oct-17 | FRI | Hoda Nouri-Khajavi | Graduate Center PhD student | "How Do Hospitals Respond to Bundled Payment Incentives? Evidence from the Medicare's Bundled Payments for Joint Replacements |
| 24-Oct-17 | TUES | Professor Katarina Borovickova | NYU Economics department | "High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms" |
| 31-Oct-17 | TUES | Professor Daniel Hammermesh | Editor-in-Chief, IZA World of Labor, and IZA Network Director Professor, Royal Holloway University of London Sue Killam Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin | RACIAL/ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN NON-WORK AT WORK |
| 7-Nov-17 | TUES | Paloma Lopez de Mesa Moyano | Graduate Center PhD student | "The Intergenerational Health Effects of the U.S. Bombing Campaign in Cambodia" |
| 14-Nov-17 | TUES | Gunnar Poppe Yanez | Graduate Center PhD student |
"Mortality Learning and Optimal Annuitization" (Last updated: May 14, 2020) |
| 28-Nov-17 | TUES | Belle Lin | Graduate Center PhD student | The Effect of the Dependent Coverage Mandate on Risky Health Behaviors by Young Adults |
| 5-Dec-17 | TUES | Ayse Sera Diebel | Graduate Center PhD student | |
| 12-Dec-17 | TUES | Professor Lena Edlung | Columbia University | Gentrification and Rising Returns to Skill |
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JAN 31, 2017 | 12:00 PM
Details
WHERE:
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave
ROOM:
5383
WHEN:
January 31, 2017: 12:00 PM
CONTACT INFO:
ADMISSION:
Free
SPONSOR:
Ph.D. Program in Economics
Description
This semester's Seminar in Applied Economics is organized by Professor Agbeyegbe (tagbeyeg@hunter.cuny.edu)
Unless otherwise noted, all events are on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Papers and presentations are accessible below.
|
Date |
Speaker | Affiliation |
Field |
Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/31 |
Aboozar |
Graduate Center,CUNY |
Development |
"Anatomy of Income Inequality in the United States:1979- 2013" |
| 2/7 | Xiye Yang | Rutgers University |
Time Series/ |
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| 2/14 | Nobuhiro Kiyotaki | Princeton University |
Macro/Finance |
"Intangibles, Inequality and Stagnation" |
| 2/21 | Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier | Graduate Center, CUNY |
|
Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education |
| 2/28 | Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez | Fordham University |
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| 3/7 | Juliana Friere | New York University |
Environment/ |
Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets |
| 3/14 | TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
| 3/21 | Belinda Archibong | Barnard College, Columbia University |
Development |
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| 3/28 | Judit Temesvary | Board of Governors Washington DC |
Macro/ |
The Currency Dimension of the Bank Lending Channel in International Monetary Transmission |
| 4/4 | Elena Goldman | Pace University |
Time Series |
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| 4/25 | Jonathan Conning & Karna Basu | Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY |
Behavioral Economics |
Breakable commitments: |
| 5/2 | Ayse Sera Diebel | Graduate Center, CUNY (PhD student) |
|
Welfare-Effects-of-Using-Hospital-Rate-Setting-as-an-alternative-to-bargaining_1 |
| 5/9 | Tzuhao Huang | Graduate Center, CUNY (PhD student) |
|
"Using Money Signals to Improve Taylor Rule Performance in the New Keynesian Model.” |
| 5/16 | Temisan Agbeyegbe | Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY |
Macro/Finance |
TBA |
Schedule
Organized by Prof. David Jaeger
DJaeger@gc.cuny.edu
Tuesdays, 11:45am - 1:45pm, Room 5382
| Date | Day | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30-Aug-16 | TUES | David Jaeger & Ted Joyce |
CUNY and NBER |
The Baby Has No Clothes: On the Questionable Association Between Reality TV and Teenage Childbearing |
| 6-Sep-16 | TUES | Gowun Park | CUNY Graduate Center | Unpacking wage inequality in the United States |
| 13-Sep-16 | TUES | Johanna Francis | Fordham University | Unemployment and Gross Credit Flows in a New Keynesian Framework |
| 20-Sep-16 | TUES | Thomas Hauner | CUNY Graduate Center | A Network Model of Wealth Inequality and Financial Instability |
| 27-Sep-16 | TUES | Mary Amiti | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | International Shocks and Domestic Prices: How Large Are Strategic Complementarities |
| 4-Oct-16 | TUES | No Seminar | ||
| 11-Oct-16 | TUES | No Seminar | ||
| 14-Oct-16 | FRI | Morgan Williams | CUNY Graduate Center | Gun Violence in Black and White: Evidence from Policy Reform in Missouri |
| 18-Oct-16 | TUES | Lars Ljungqvist | Stockholm School of Economics and NYU | The Fundamental Surplus |
| 25-Oct-16 | TUES | Eric Verhoogen | Columbia University and NBER | Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production Functions |
| 1-Nov-16 | TUES | Ben Hansen | University of Oregon, NY Crime Lab, and NBER | The Legal Market for Recreational Marijuana: Evidence on Tax Incidence, Elasticities and Deadweight loss from Washington State |
| 8-Nov-16 | TUES | Hilary Hoynes | University of California, Berkeley and NBER | |
| 15-Nov-16 | TUES |
Chinhui Juhn |
University of Houston and NBER | The Quantity-Quality Trade-off and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills |
| 22-Nov-16 | TUES | Tim Roeper | CUNY Graduate Center |
Measuring College Access and Its Effect on Economic Opportunity for Low-Income Youth |
| 29-Nov-16 | TUES | Raul Segura | CUNY Graduate Center | The Impact of Terrorism on Mental Health and Substance Use: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombings |
| 6-Dec-16 | TUES | Anna Arakelyan | CUNY Graduate Center | Who Influences Your Wealth? The Effect of Culture and Ethnic Origin, Neighborhood and Peers on Personal Income: Spatial Econometric Analysis of New York City |
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Schedule
Organized by Prof. David Jaeger
DJaeger@gc.cuny.edu
Tuesdays, 11:45am - 1:45pm, Room 5383
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02-Feb | Oren Shmuel | CUNY Graduate Center |
"Initial results examining the Equity Premium puzzle using Habit Formation and a non-Gaussian stock price movement" |
| 09-Feb | No Seminar | ||
| 16-Feb | Alice Zulkarnain | CUNY Graduate Center | "A Delayed Retirement Policy and Male Labor Supply: Evidence from the Entire Dutch Population” |
| 23-Feb | Hunt Allcott | New York University (Econ) and NBER | “The Welfare Effects of Nudges: A Case Study of Energy Use Social Comparisons” |
| 01-Mar | Joaquin Blaum | Brown University and Princeton University | "The Gains from Input Trade in Firm-Based Models of Importing" |
| 08-Mar | Benjamin Pugsley | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | "Demographic Origins of the Startup Deficit” |
| 15-Mar | Petra Moser | New York University (Stern) and NBER | "Effects of Copyrights on Science: Evidence from the WWII Book Replication Program” |
| 22-Mar | Boyan Jovanovic | New York University (Econ) and NBER | “Learning and Recombination” |
| 29-Mar | Rajeev Dehejia | New York University (Wagner) and NBER | "From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment” |
| 05-Apr | Margaret McMillan | Tufts University and NBER | TBA |
| 12-Apr | Chris Flinn | New York University (Econ) | Search, Matching, and Training |
| 19-Apr | Nuria Rodriguez-Planas | Queens College, CUNY |
Social Norms, Gender, and Youth Smoking |
| 26-Apr |
Spring Break |
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| 03-May | Sean Crockett |
Baruch College, CUNY |
Unravelling the Ellsberg Paradox-Paradox: Mapping Preference for Ambiguity |
10-May |
Carol Propper | Imperial College London and Princeton University | "Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service" |
| 17-May Cancelled |
Natalia Londono |
Queens College, CUNY |
"Transmission of Information within Transnational Social Networks: A Field Experiment" |
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Schedule
Organized by Prof. Sebastiano Manzan
Sebastiano.Manzan@baruch.cuny.edu
Tuesdays, 11:45am - 1:45pm, Room 5383
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3- Sept. | Philip Shaw | Fordham University |
Insecure Tenure and the Location of Smallholder Forest Conversion in Sumatra |
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| 8-Sept. | Daniela Osterrieder | Rutgers University | Unbalanced Regressions and the Predictive Equation |
|
| 25-Sept. (Friday) |
Jushan Bai | Columbia University | Econometric Analysis of Large Factor Models |
|
| 29-Sept. | Laura Veldkamp | New York University | Understanding Uncertainty Shocks and the Role of the Black Swan |
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| 6-Oct. | Jonathan Wright | Johns Hopkins University |
additional paper - here |
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| 13-Oct. | Tobias Adrian | Federal Reserve Bank of NY | Nonlinearity and Flight to Safety in the Risk-Return Trade-Off for Stocks and Bonds | |
| 20-Oct. | Liuren Wu | Baruch College | Centrality of the Supply Chain | |
| 27-Oct. | Robert Engle | New York University | Systemic Risk and Prospect for Global Financial Stability additional paper |
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| (Thurs) 29-Oct |
Onur Altindag | Graduate Center, CUNY | Job market talk | |
| 3-Nov | Ruirui Sun | Graduate Center, CUNY | Job market talk | |
| 10-Nov | Peter Schott | Yale University | Trade Policy and the Structure of Supply Chains | |
| 17-Nov | Frank Schorfeide | University of Pennsylvania |
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| 24-Nov |
|
Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
The Forward Guidance Puzzle | |
| 01-Dec | Aig Unuigbe |
|
Impact of Medicaid Policy Changes on Immigrant Parents | |
8-Dec |
Geert Bekaert | Columbia University | Macro-risks and the Term Structure | |
| 10-Dec (Thurs) |
Steve O'Connell |
|
Job market talk | |
| WILL BE UPDATED SHORTLY |
Schedule
Organized by Prof. Yochanan Shachmurove yshachmurove@ccny.cuny.edu
Tuesdays, 11:45am - 1:45pm, Room 5383
Schedule
Organized by Prof. Tao Wang tao.wang@qc.cuny.edu
Tuesdays: 12:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
Room: 5383 (Tuesdays)
Coordinator:
David Jaeger
djaeger@gc.cuny.edu
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jan | Organizational Meeting with Prof. Jaeger |
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| 30 Jan THURS Room 4419 |
Bill Greene | Stern School of Business, New York University | "Some Applications of Latent Class Modeling." |
| 4 Feb | Jan Svejnar | School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University | “When does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies” |
| 11 Feb | Kirabo Jackson | School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University and NBER | “Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina” |
| 18 Feb | Joshua Angrist | Department of Economics, MIT and NBER |
"Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston's Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice" |
| 25 Feb | Onur Altindag & Stephen O'Connell |
Ph.D. Program in Economics, Graduate Center | “Does Classroom Time Matter? A Randomized Field Experiment of Hybrid and Traditional Lecture Formats in Economics” |
| 4 Mar | Kengo Yasui | Faculty of Economics, Ritsumeikan University | "Long-term Impacts of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the Wage Distribution” |
| 11 Mar | Dirk Krueger | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and NBER | “Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks: On the Trade-off between Short Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long Run Incentive Costs” |
| 18 Mar | Lisa Kahn | School of Management, Yale University | "The Cyclicality of Employment and Firm Quality" |
| 25 Mar | Timothy Guinnane | Department of Economics, Yale University | "Regulating Fertility by Regulating Marriage: The Western European Marriage Pattern in Wuerttemberg, 1600-1914” |
| 27 Mar THURS |
Dean Karlan | Department of Economics, Yale University and NBER | “To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda” |
| 1 Apr | Nathan Hendren | Department of Economics, Harvard University and NBER | "Where is the Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States" |
| 8 Apr | Luc Marest | Ph.D. Program in Economics, Graduate Center | |
| 15 Apr | No Seminar | ||
| 22 Apr | No Seminar | ||
| 29 Apr | Jesse Margolis | Ph.D. Program in Economics, Graduate Center | “Merit Pay and Intrinsic Motivation: The Persistent Effect of the New York City Teacher Bonus" |
| 30 Apr WED |
David Neumark | UC Irvine & NBER | |
| 6 May | Iourii Manovski | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and NBER | |
| 13 May | Alberto Abadie | Kennedy School, Harvard University and NBER |
Tuesdays, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m., Room 5383
Coordinator:
Randall Filer
rfiler@hunter.cuny.edu
Tuesdays, 11:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m.,
Room 5383
Coordinator:
Thom Thurston
tthurston@gc.cuny.edu
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29-Jan | Organizational Meeting with Professor Thurston |
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| 5-Feb | Vasiliki Skreta | NYU Stern | Immunity with Karthik Reddy (Harvard Law School) and Moritz Schularick (U. of Bonn) |
| 14-Feb Thurs. ROOM 6494 |
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh |
NYU Stern | "Firm Volatility in Granular Networks" with Bryan Kelly (Chicago Booth) and Hanno Lustig (UCLA) |
| 19-Feb | Hiroshi Morita | Graduate Center | Empirical evidence of cross-country monetary transmissions: a panel factor-augmented vector autoregression analysis |
26-Feb
Cancelled |
Kjell G. Salvanes RESCHEDULED May 14, 2013 |
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration |
|
| 5-Mar | Frank Diebold * rescheduled for May 3 |
U. of Pennsylvania and Wharton |
On the network topology of variance decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms with Kamil Yilmaz (Koҫ University) |
| 12-Mar | Kris Jones & Sophie Mitra |
Nathan Kline Institute & Fordham |
|
| 19-Mar | Bruce Weinberg | Ohio State University | Peer effects among high school students |
| 21-Mar THURS. |
Robert Seamans | NYU Stern | Responses to entry in multi-sided markets: the impact of Craigslist on local newspapers with Feng Zhu (USC |
| 9-Apr | Tulin Erdem | Stern NYU | Learning Models: An Assessment of Progress, Challenges and New Developments with Andrew Ching (Toronto) and Michael Keane (Arizona State) |
| 16-Apr | Andrea Ferrero | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Structural reforms in a currency union |
| 23-Apr | Max Gillman | Cardiff Business School UK | Deriving the Taylor Principle when the central bank supplies money |
| 30-Apr | Roc Armenter | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Everything all the time? Re-evaluating the role of new import varieties |
| 3-May | Frank Diebold | U. of Pennsylvania and Wharton |
On the network topology of variance decompositions: Measuring the Connectedness of Financial Firms with Kamil Yilmaz (Koҫ University) |
| 7-May | Elizabeth Klee | Federal Reserve Board | Target practice: Monetary policy implementation in a post-crisis environment |
| 14-May | Kjell G. Salvanes | Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration |
This is only a test? Long-run impacts of prenatal exposure to radioactive fallout from nuclear weapon testing |
Tuesday, 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Room 5383
Organizers:
Yochanan Shachmurove
yshachmurove@ccny.cuny.edu
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28 | Samuel Lee | NYU Finance | "Financing from Family and Friends" co-authored with Petra Persson, Columbia University and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) |
| Sep 4 | Marcin Kacperczyk | NYU Finance and NBER | "Does Firm Organization Matter?" co-authored with Amit Seru, University of Chicago and NBER |
| Sep 11 | Boyan Joavanovich (starts at 12:45 p.m) | NYU Economics and NBER | "Misallocation and Growth" |
| Oct 2 | Gabriel Natividad | NYU Management and Organizations | "Property Rights and Competition: A Natural Experiment" co-authored with Natarajan Balasubramanian, Syracuse University |
| Oct 9 | Allan Collard-Wexler | NYU Economics and NBER | "Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the US Steel Industry" co-authored with Jan De Loecker, Economics Princeton University, NBER and Centre for Economic Policy Research |
| Oct 16 | Will Baumol | Princeton and NYU Economics | "Why Education Cost WILL Keep Rising, and Why the Community Will be Able to Afford It" |
| Oct 23 | Edwin Elton | NYU Finance | "The Performance of Separate Accounts and Collective Investment Trusts", co-authored with Martin Gruber, NBER and NYU Finance and Christopher Blake, Fordham University Schools of Business |
| Nov 1 | Robert Seamans Thursday, (2:30-4:00 p.m.) Room 5382 | NYU Management and Organizations | "Technology Shocks in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers" co-authored with Feng Zhu, University of Southern California |
| Nov 6 | Ashwini K. Agrawal | NYU Finance | "Labor Unemployment Risk and Corporate Financing Decisions", co-authored with David A.Matsa, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
| Nov 13 | Gian Luca Clementi | NYU Economics and NBER |
"Entry, Exit, Firm Dynamics, and Aggregate Fluctuationns" |
| Nov 20 | Ed Altman | NYU Finance | "Assessing Sovereign Debt Default Risk: A Bottom Up Approach", co-authored with Herbert Rijken, Finance VU University of Amsterdam |
| Nov 27 | Milos Vulanovic | Western New England University Accounting and Finance | "Institutional Yield Game on the Example of SPACs"co-authored with Milan Lakicevic, University of Montenegro, and Yochanan Shachmurove |
| Nov 29 | Jeffrey Sachs | Columbia University and NBER | "Fundamental Drivers of Economic Development" |
| Dec 4 | Roy Radner | NYU Operations & Management Sciences Department | "A Self-Enforcing Climate-Change Treaty" current work with Prof. Prajit Dutta, Columbia University |
| Dec 6 | Russell Winer Thursday, (2:30-4:00 p.m.) Room 5382 | NYU Marketing | "Does Advertising Work?" |
| Dec 11 | Igor Sorkin and Emily Johnson |
Graduate Center, CUNY |
"The Law of One Price and the Financial Crisis: Evidence from the U.S. and the Canadian Equity Markets" |
Tuesday, 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Room 5383
Organizers:
Merih Uctum muctum@gc.cuny.edu
and
Simone Wegge swegge@gc.cuny.edu
Tuesday, 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Room 5383
Organizer:
David Jaeger
djaeger@qc.cuny.edu
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30 | Organizational Meeting | Graduate Center | |
| Sept 6 | David Jaeger | Rutgers University | "Immigrants and Innovation" |
| Sept 13 | Jenny Hunt | Graduate Center | "The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives" |
| Sept 20 | Su Huang | Graduate Center | "What Does the Financial Crisis Tell Us About the Determinants of Municipal Bonds Yields?" |
| Sept 27 | Wim Vijverberg | Graduate Center | "Pregibit: A Family of Discrete Choice Models" |
| Oct 4 | No Seminar | ||
| Oct 11 | Cassie Lau and Leigh Ann Leung | Graduate Center | "The Effect of Mortgage Debt on Health" |
| Oct 18 | Anne Morrison Piehl | Rutgers University | "Assimilation of Immigrants and Incarceration, 1900-1930" |
| Oct 25 | Christina Fuentes-Albergo | Rutgers University | "Financial Frictions, Financial Shocks, and Aggregate Volatility" |
| Nov 1 | Bilesha Weeranatne | Graduate Center | "A Microdata Based Approach to Identify Unauthorized Immigrants in USA" |
| Nov 8 | Zahra Siddique | IZA, Bonn | "Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India" |
| Nov 15 | Francesc Ortega | Queens College | "Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain" |
| Nov 22 | No Seminar | ||
| Nov 29 | Takuya Hasebe | Graduate Center | "The Structure of Adjustment Costs of Factors of Production: the Evidence from Indonesian Manufacturing Plants" |
| Dec 6 | Sewin Chan | New York University | |
| Dec 13 | Maria Guadalupe | Columbia University | "Functional Centralization and the Division of Labor in Management" |
Tuesday, 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Room 5383
Organizer:
Ryan Edwards
redwards@qc.cuny.edu
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1 | Till von Wachter | Columbia University | The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle: Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates over Twenty Years |
| Feb 8 | Efraim Berkovich | Manhattanville College | SPX Options trading, the VIX, and collateral |
| Feb 15 | Tom Piskula | Graduate Center | Governance and Merger Activity in Banking |
| Feb 22 | Lauren Nicholas | Michigan State University | Is More Care Better? Economic Returns to Elective Surgery |
| Mar 1 | Kevin E. Thom | New York University | Migration Experience and Earnings in the Mexican Labor Market |
| Mar 8 | Emiko Fukase | Graduate Center | Export Liberalization, Job Creation and the Skill Premium: Evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) |
| Mar 15 | Jennifer Roff | Queens College | Child Support Policy and the Underground Economy |
| Mar 22 | Shing-Yi Wang | New York University | Marriage Networks, Nepotism and Labor Market Outcomes in China (Paper available upon request) |
| Mar 29 | Jorge Medina | Graduate Center | Smoking, Drinking, and Binge Drinking: An Empirical Study of The Role of Price on Consumption Among High School Seniors |
| Apr 5 | Pallavi Govil | Graduate Center | Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Social Outcomes: A case study |
| Apr 12 | Matthew Wiswall | New York University | The Dynamics of Teacher Quality |
| Apr 19 | No Seminar | Spring Break | |
| Apr 26 | No Seminar | Spring Break | |
| May 3 | Leigh Linden | Columbia University | The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan |
| May 10 | Sagiri Kitao Selahattin Imrohoroglu |
Federal Reserve Bank of New York | Social Security Reforms: Benefit Claiming, Labor Force Participation and Long-run Sustainability |
| May 17 | Zhen Ma | Graduate Center | Increases in Cigarette Prices after the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) and Drinking Behavior: Applications of Dynamic Panel Data Models |
Tuesday, 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Room 5383
Organizer:
Micahel Grossman
mgrossman@gc.cuny.edu
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31 | Naci Mocan | Louisiana State University and National Bureau of Economic Research | "The Impact of Education on Health Knowledge" |
| Sept 7 | No Seminar | ||
| Sept 14 | No Seminar | ||
| Sept 21 | Michael Grossman | Graduate Center and National Bureau of Economic Research | "It's Better to be the First or One of the First, Even if You're Wrong" |
| Sept 28 | Priya Nagaraj | Graduate Center | "Financial Constraints and Export Participation" |
| Oct 5 | Matthew Neidell | Columbia University and National Bureau of Economic Research | "The Impact of Environmental Conditions on Worker Productivity" |
| Oct 12 | Sangeeta Pratap | Hunter College and Graduate Center | "Financial Frictions and Total Factor Productivity" |
| Oct 19 | Jason Fletcher | Yale University | "The Causal Effects of Alcohol Access and Use on Risky Behaviors: Regression Discontinuity Evidence" |
| Oct 26 | Todd Keister | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | "Bailouts and Financial Fragility" |
| Nov 2 | Susan Averett | Lafayette College | "Effects of Overweight on Risky Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Girls" |
| Nov 9 | Cristian (Kiki) Pop-Eleches | Columbia University | "Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses" |
| Nov 16 | Ce Shang | Graduate Center | "Demand for Cigarettes by Teenagers and Young Adults and Their Smoking Transitions" |
| Nov 23 | Duygu Zirek | Graduate Center | "Aggregate Earnings and Expected Stock Returns in Emerging Markets" |
| Nov 30 | Minchul Kim | Graduate Center | "Analysis of Adult Obesity Based on New Measures of Fatness" |
| Dec 2 (2 to 4pm in room C205) |
Aditya Goenka | NU Singapore and Cornell University | Infectious Diseases and Economic Growth |
| Dec 7 | Linda Edwards | Graduate Center | "The Relationship between the Education and Marriage Decisions of Japanese Women and the Role of the Japanese Equal Employment Opportunity Law" |
Tuesday, 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Room 5383
Organizer:
Tim Goodspeed
tgoodspe@hunter.cuny.edu
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2 | Organizational Meeting | ||
| Feb 5 | Gerhard Glomm | University of Indiana | "Why Do Education Vouchers Fail?" |
| Feb 9 | No Seminar | ||
| Feb 16 | Partha Deb | Hunter College and Graduate Center | Dynamic Cost-offsets of Prescription Drug Expenditures: Panel Data Analysis Using a Copula-based Hurdle Model" |
| Feb 23 | Wojciech Kopczuk | Columbia University | "Polish Business Flat Tax and its Effect on Reported Income" |
| Mar 2 | Alessandro Lizzeri | New York University |
"Sequential Deliberation |
| Mar 9 | Howard Chernick | Hunter College and Graduate Center | "Using Littered Pack Data to Estimate Cigarette Tax Avoidance in NYC" |
| Mar 16 | Harry Grubert | U.S. Treasury Department | "Foreign Taxes, Domestic Income, and the Jump in the Share of Multinational Company Income Abroad: Sales Aren't Being Globalized, Only Profits" |
| Mar 23 | Shang-Jin Wei | Columbia University Business School | "Why Do the Asians Save So Much? A Theory of Competitive Savings Due to a Sex Ratio Imbalance" |
| Mar 24 | Harvey Rosen | Princeton University | "The ABCs of Charitable Solicitation" |
| Mar 30 | No Seminar | Spring Break | |
| Apr 13 | Ryan Conrad | Graduate Center | "The Effects of Palivizumab on RSV-Related Health and Economic Outcomes in California" |
| Apr 20 | David Frame | Baruch College | "Savings and the city: Urban Land Rents in an Intertemporal Environment" |
| Apr 27 | Andrew Haughwout | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | "Second Chances: Subprime Mortgage Modification and Re-Default" and "The Homeownership Gap" |
| May 4 | Yuxiu Zhang | Graduate Center | "Less Marginal Children, Less Teen Moms: The Impact of Legalized Abortion and the Pill on Teenage Childbearing" |
| May 11 | Iliana Dimitrova | Graduate Center | "Sarbanes-Oxley and Managerial Ownership as Alternative Governance Mechanisms: An Evaluation Using Dual-Class Shares" |
