London School of Economics

Date and venue

Date: Thursday 9th May - Friday 10th May 2019

Venue: Wolfson Theatre, LG floor, New Academic Building, London School of Economics, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, London WC2A 3LJ (Map)

Programme

Thursday 9th May 2019

10:30 - 10:55 Registration and coffee

10:55 - 11:00 Opening remarks

11:00 - 12:30 Sydnee Caldwell (MIT) "Outside Options, Bargaining and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks"

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 15:30 Ellora Derenoncourt (Harvard) "Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration"

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

16:00 - 17:30 Wayne Gao (Yale) "Robust Semiparametric Estimation in Panel Multinomial Choice Models"

19:00 - 22:00 Dinner (by invitation)


Friday 10th May 2019

09:15 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 11:00 Weijie Zhong (Columbia) "Optimal Dynamic Information Acquisition"

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee

11:30 - 13:00 Pooya Molavi (MIT) "Macroeconomics with Learning and Misspecification: A General Theory and Applications"

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch

14:30 - 16:00 Clare Balboni (LSE) "In Harm’s Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities"

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee

16:30 - 18:00 (Jose) Ignacio Cuesta (Chicago) "Price Regulation in Credit Markets: A Trade-off between Consumer Protection and Credit Access"

Registration

All participants must register in advance. Please follow this link to register. You can only request one ticket for ONE date at a time. If you would like to attend BOTH DAYS (9th – 10th May), please make sure that you return to the Eventbrite registration page to request a ticket for the other date.

Local organisers

The London meeting is hosted by the Department of Economics, Department of Finance, Department of Management and Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics.

Contact details:

  • Ann Law, Centre Manager, Financial Markets Group, LSE and Journal Manager, Restud
  • Oana Crenicean-Tudoran, Events Coordinator and Office Administrator, Financial Markets Group, LSE