Spring 2016

Organizers: Patrick Bolton and Jose A. Scheinkman

Student Coordinator: Seunghoon Na

Time and Location: Tuesday 2:00pm - 3:00pm, IAB 1102

Schedule

  • Jan 26 No Meeting
  • Feb 2 Kerem Tuzcuoglu

"Interpreting the latent dynamic factors by threshold FAVAR model"

  • Feb 9 Seunghoon Na

"The Great Transformation of the Periphery: Real Consequences of Integration among Heterogeneous Countries"

  • Feb 16 Elise Payzan-LeNestour

"Fooled By Randomness? Financial Decision-Making Under Tail Risk"

  • Feb 23 Xiaoqian Zhang

"Crime and Punishment: Trade-off between Credit Access and Financial Distress"

  • Mar 1 Kiyohiko Nishimura

"Economics of Pessimism and Optimism: Theory and Applications of Knightian Uncertainty"

  • Mar 8 Ye Li

"Financial Intermediation in Weightless Economy"

  • Mar 15 No Meeting - Spring Break Recess
  • Mar 24 Jiayin Hu (Location: 1027 IAB)

"Risk Sharing, Bank Runs, and Optimal Deposit Insurance"

  • Mar 29 No Meeting - Cancellation
  • Apr 5 Leo Lijun Wang

"Defaultable Sovereign Debts under Plausible Risk-Averse Pricing"

  • Apr 12 Yang Jiao

"Private Debt, Bailout and Sovereign Debt Crisis"

  • Apr 19 Tuo Chen

"Heterogeneity in Sectoral TFP Growth in Europe”

  • Apr 26 Ryan Kim

"Price-Cost Markup Cyclicality: New Evidence and Implications"