Schedule

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Presentations will be held in the Watson Center (60 Sachem St) and Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave)

Thursday, August 18

Welcome Happy Hour/Dinner: 6:30-9:30 pm

37 Hillhouse Backyard

Friday, August 19

Breakfast: 8:30-9

Watson Center A 74

Section 1: 9-10:30

Labor

Luce Hall 101

Econometrics

Watson A74

Micro and Behavioral

Watson A51

Finance

Watson A 60

Education Choice When Returns are Uncertain and Heterogeneous, Shihang Hou (University of Oxford)

Design-Based Justification for Clustering with Multiway Assignment, Luther Yap (Princeton University)

People Don’t Demand Commitment Devices That Might Not Work, Ryan Westphal (Boston College)

Funding Deposit Insurance, Ryan Zalla* (UPenn) and Dick Oosthuizen (University of Pennsylvania)

Selling the American Dream: The Effects of Advertising on Enrollment at Less-Selective Colleges, Elise A Marifian (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Policy Learning under Endogeneity Using Instrumental Variables, Yan Liu (Boston University)

A foundation for universalisation in games, Enrico Mattia Salonia (Toulouse School of Economics)

Bank Competition and Entrepreneurial Gaps Evidence from Bank Deregulation, Xiang Li (Boston College)

Section 2: 10:45-12:15

Labor

Luce Hall 101

Econometrics

Watson A74

Micro and Behavioral

Watson A51

Macro and Finance

Watson A60

Labor Markets and Technological Change: Evidence from Electronic Health Records, Hanna L Glenn (Emory University)

Model-Assisted Inference for Conditional Average Treatment Effects, Manu Navjeevan (UCLA)

Bargaining with LEarning of a Varying Type, Ruizhi Zhu (UToronto)

ESG Investing: A Tale of Two Preferences, Paul C Yoo (UNC Kenan-Flagler)

The Distributional Dynamics of Wages over the Business Cycle, Victor Saldarriaga (Paris School of Economics)

Nonlinear and Nonseparable Structural Functions in Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Designs, Haitian Xie (University of California San Diego)

Gacha Game: When Prospect Theory Meets Optimal Pricing, Tan Gan (Yale University)

From Imitator to Innovator: Appropriate Technology Policy in Developing Countries, Younghun Shim* (University of Chicago) and Jaedo Choi (University of Michigan)

Lunch: 12:15-1:30

Watson Center A 74

Section 3: 1:30-3

Labor

Luce Hall 101

IO

Watson A74

Micro and Behavioral

Watson A51

Finance

Watson A60

Deunionization and Skills, Joseph Pickens (University of Minnesota)

Price controls in a multi-sided market: the case of food delivery, Michael R Sullivan (Yale University)

Career Dynamics with Firm-side Learning - Making Promises about Future Promises, Andy Choi (Chicago)

Decomposing the Credit Risk Channel of Monetary Policy, Stefan Walz (Columbia University)

Managers and the discovery of talent, Virginia M Minni (LSE)

(Foreign) Innovation and the Antitrust Case Against Xerox, Robin Mamrak (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

Robust Model Misspecification and Paradigm Shift, Cuimin Ba (UPenn)

The Effect of Housing on Portfolio Choice: House Price Risk and Liquidity Constraint, Seungyub Han (UCLA)

Coffee Break: 3-3:30

Watson A74

Section 4: 3:30-5

Applied Micro

Luce 101

IO

Watson A74

Micro and Behavioral

Watson A51

Finance

WatsonA60

Miss-Allocation: Occupational Gender Segregation and Gender Composition Preferences, Rachel Schuh (Stanford University)

Pricing Regulations and Entry Decisions: Evidence from the Health Insurance Exchanges, Eilidh Geddes (Northwestern University)

Fragile Stable Matching, Kirill Rudov (Princeton)

Loan Covenants and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy, Kosha Modi (Columbia University)

Isolating the Causal Effect of Grant Rates on Asylum Applications: A Relative Discrete Choice Approach, Xhulio Uruci (UCSB)

Adverse Selection, Equity, and Lapsing in Markets with Guaranteed Renewable Contracts: Evidence from Chile, Cristian Figueroa (Boston College)

Dynamic Monitoring Design, Yu Fu Wong (Columbia)

Monetary Policy, Debt Structure and Credit Reallocation, Yuchen Chen (University of Minnesota)

Happy Hour: 5:30-8pm

Gryphon's Pub (204 York St)

Saturday, August 20

Breakfast: 8:30-9

Luce Common Room

Section 5: 9-10:30

Public

Luce 101

International, Trade, and Urban

Luce 203

Environmental

Watson A51

Macro

Watson A60

On the Financing and Progressivity of Old-Age Social Security, Francisco Cabezon (Princeton)

House Size and Household Size: The Distributional Consequences of the Minimum Lot Size Regulation, Mike Mei (University of Michigan)

Visibility and Vulnerability: Aid Allocations after the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, Matthew Gordon (Yale)

Labor Market Selection and the Dynamics of a Recovery, Lukas F Mann (Princeton University)

Household Finance and Life-Cycle Economic Decisions under the Shadow of Cancer, Daniel Karpati (Tilburg University)

Product Bundling, Joint Markups and Trade Liberalization, Ji Hye Heo (Vanderbilt University)

Input Efficiency and Discrete Energy Choice, Emmanuel Murray Leclair (Western University)

Job Prospects, Compensaton, and Young Firm Dynamics, Seula Kim (University of Maryland)

Section 6: 10:45-12:15

Labor

Luce 101

International, Trade, and Urban

Luce 203

Political Economy

Watson A51

Macro and Finance

Watson A60

Hidden in Plain Sight: Asymmetric Information and Hidden Income within the Household, Sally Zhang (Stanford University)

Uneven Firm Growth in a Globalized World, Xiaomei Sui (University of Rochester)

Does Polarization Harm Economic Growth? Evidence from Climate Policy, Zoel Martin (UPF)

Stock price booms from technology news in a HANK model with portfolio choice, Maximilian Weiss (Bonn)

Road to Free Labor Market: The Impact of the Job Assignment Reform in China, Yucheng Wang (University of Pittsburgh)

Production Network, Endogenous Misallocation and the Gain from International Trade, Yasutaka Koike-Mori (UCLA)

Mestizaje and Plantation Economies, Dan McGee (Princeton)

Caught in the Wind: Environmental Regulatory Intensity and the Cost of Capital, Ashish Sahay (London Business School)

Lunch: 12:15-1:30

Luce Common Room

Section 7: 1:30-3

Development

Luce 101

International, Trade, and Urban

Luce 203

Political Economy

Watson A51

Macro

Watson A60

Local protectionism, regional production networks, and spatial allocation of firms in China, Xiangyu Shi (Yale)

The Unintended Consequences of Financial Sanctions, Ritt Keerati (Columbia Business School)

Name Recognition and Voting: Evidence from Hurricane Shocks, Xuan Li (Boston University)

Uncertainty and Unemployment Revisited: The Consequences of Financial and Labor Contracting Frictions, Yajie Wang (University of Rochester)

Intergenerational Impact of Land Property Rights: Evidence from Land Certification Reform in Rural China, Yunyu Shu (Brown University)

Buyer market power and the transmission of shocks, Leticia Juarez (University of Michigan)

Muddled Policies: How Autocratic Learning Traps Prevent Revolt, Hassan Sayed (Princeton)

An Economy of Neural Networks: Learning from Heterogeneous Experiences, Artem Kuriksha (University of Pennsylvania)

Coffee Break: 3-3:30

Luce Common Room

Section 8: 3:30-5

Development / Economic History

Luce 101

International, Trade, and Urban

Luce 203

Political Economy

Watson A51

Macro

Watson A60

Did Organized Labor Induce Labor? Unionization and the American Baby Boom, Henry M Downes (University of Notre Dame)

Conducting Unconventional Monetary Policy with Foreign Exchange Reserves, Min Kim (Rutgers University)

Lack of Substantive Representation in Europe: Causes and Consequences, Laurenz Guenther (Bonn)

Low-Interest Rates, Debt Heterogeneity, and Firm Dynamics, Dongchen Zhao (University of Texas)

Sick Pay and Labor Supply, Victoria Barone (UCLA)

Purchase Obligations and Hedging, Alvaro Boitier (UCLA) and Brian Pustilnik (UCLA)

Hate at Scale: Elections, Leader Identity and Hate Speech in Rural Uttar Pradesh, Aarushi Kalra (Brown)

Lower Rates, Less Lending: Monetary Policy and Bank Home Bias, Li Yu (Toulouse School of Economics) and Philipp Wangner (Toulouse School of Economics)