2024 events
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PhD ECONOMIC THEORY SEMINAR: Differentiated Public Goods
Kim-Sau Chung paper studies a model where different citizens have different preferences over different public goods.
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ECONOMIC THEORY SEMINAR: Designing Open Source licences
Kim-Sau Chung paper looks at Designing Open Source licences
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Alex Chan (Harvard) - Opt In? Opt Out?
Using an event studies design and newly constructed cross-country panel data, Alex Chan offers novel causal evidence on the impact of presumed consent laws on donation rates
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Alex Squires - Technology in Teaching: Towards a More Balanced Approach
Alex explains how and why he has used technology to have a positive impact on his teaching.
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Mishel Ghassibe - Intertemporal Pass-Through (iPT)
Mishel Ghassibe (et al) study intertemporal pass-through (iPT): the sensitivity of firms’ prices to changes in their expected future marginal costs
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SEMINAR: Kenichi Nagasawa presents 'Treatment Effect Estimation with Noisy Conditioning Variables'
Kenichi Nagasawa's paper discusses developing a new identification strategy for treatment effects when noisy measurements of unobserved confounding factors are available.
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Dmitry Mukhin - How Good is International Risk Sharing?
The paper revisits whether global output is (Pareto) efficiently distributed across countries over time.
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SEMINAR: Optimal Allocation Strategies in a Discrete-Time Two-Armed Bandit Problem
Audrey Hu's study addresses a theoretic-bandit problem involving a "safe" and a "risky" armacross countable periods.
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SEMINAR: Strategic Ignorance and Information Design
The authors study information design in strategic settings when agents can publicly refuse to viewtheir private signals.
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SEMINAR: Comparisons of Signals with Emir Kamenica (Chicago)
Emir will be presenting the paper “Comparison of Signals” (see abstract below) in which he studies the comparison of signals beyond the usual “Blackwell” comparisons.
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2nd Durham – York Biannual Macroeconomics Workshop
2nd Durham – York Biannual Macroeconomics Workshop
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ECONOMETRICS SEMINAR: Synthetic Control via Random Forest
Zhijie Xiao's paper investigates robust inference procedures for treatment effects in panel data with flexible relationship across units via the random forest method.
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SEMINAR: Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings
Stephen Kastoryano's paper reveals how police departments exploit specific laws surrounding death investigations to facilitate the underreporting of police killings.
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Follow the Money: How much does Britain cost?
Paul Johnson explores UK economy costs, government spending impact on welfare, education, health, and future prospects.