Schedule for the 2020-2021 academic year

Autumn 2020

• October 7: Edouard Schaal (U Pompeu Fabra). Herding Cycles

• October 14: Rossella Calvi (Rice). 'Til Dowry Do Us Apart: Bargaining and Violence in Indian Families

• October 21: no seminar

• October 28: Kristiina Huttunen (Helsinki and Aalto). In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples

• November 4: Pietro Reichlin (LUISS). Optimal Taxation with Home Ownership and Wealth Inequality

• November 25: Elisa Giannone (Penn State). Unpacking Moving

• December 2: Eric T. Chyn (Dartmouth). Moved to Vote: The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhoods on Political Participation

• December 9: Manudeep Bhuller (Oslo). Sequential Choices, Option Values and the Returns to Education

Spring 2021

• January 27: Vincenzo Bove (Warwick). Micromotives and macromoves: Political preferences and internal migration in England and Wales

• February 3: Seema Jayachandran  (Northwestern). A five-question women's agency index created using machine learning and qualitative interviews

• February 10: Abdoulaye Ndiaye (NYU Stern). Redistribution with Performance Pay

• February 17: Tommaso Porzio (Columbia). The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions

• February 24: Weilong Zang (Cambridge). Bargaining Power and Portfolio Choice

• March 3: Gadi Barlevy (Chicago Fed). On Speculative Frenzies and Price Stability

• March 17: Guillaume Plantin (Science Po). Bubbles against Financial Repression

• March 24: Jan De Loecker (KU Leuven). The Welfare Impact of Market Power. The OPEC Cartel

Summer 2021

• May 19: Anja Shortland (King's College). Trading in Looted and Stolen Art

• May 26: Selim Gulesci (Trinity College of Dublin). Childcare and Cash Grants for Labor Supply and Wellbeing: Experimental Evidence from Uganda 

• June 2: Hans Sievertsen (Bristol). Saving Neonatal Lives for a Quarter 

• June 9: Gabrielle Fack (Paris Dauphine). The Effect of Affirmative Action on Targeted and Non-Targeted Students: Evidence from Low-income priorites in Paris High Schools 

• June 16: Glenn W. Harrison (Georgia State). Do No Harm? The Welfare Consequences of Behavioural Interventions