September

18

Hi-Lin Tan

Idil Edes

Tan: "Who Has A Bigger Impact on the Market?"

Edes: "Implications of Global Imbalances for Small Emerging Markets"

25

Joachim Goeschel

Baris Yoruk

Goeschel: "Learning About the Inflation Target"

Yoruk: "How Responsive are Charitable Donors to Requests to Give?" and "The Power of Asking in Volunteering: Evidence from a Matched Sample"

October

2

Margarita Rubio

Megan Way

Rubio: "Fixed and Variable-Rate Mortgages, Business Cycles and Monetary Policy"

Way: "Intergenerational Transfer Inflows to Adult Children of Divorce?"

9

Olga Sorokina

Massimo Giovannini

Sorokina: "Delayed College Education and Earnings"

Giovannini: "Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents"

16

Yingying Dong

Liza Shevyakhova

Dong: "Why Do the Insured Use More Health Care: The Role of Insurance-induced Unhealthy Behaviors"

Shevyakhova: "Estimating Discrete Games with Incomplete Information and Multiple Equilibria"

23

No Workshop Today

30

Nicola Lostumbo

Nadia Karamcheva

Lostumbo: "Success in Hitting the Inflation Target: Good Luck or Good Policy?"

Karamcheva: "Evaluating the Wage-Pension Trade-Off"

November

6

Andrei Zlate

Vitaliy Strohush

Zlate: "Trade in Intermediate Goods and Business Cycle Co-Movements"

Strohush: "Global Saving Glut"

13

Rado Djeliov

Sisi Zhang

Djeliov: "Synchronization of Global Capital Markets and Business Cycles: Financial Integration and the Real Economy"

Zhang: "How do Wage Shocks Affect Married Couples' Labor Supply: Decision-Evidence from the Collective Mode"

20

Giuseppe Fiori

Zhi Qiu

Fiori: "Business Cycle Comovement, Investment and Sectoral Dynamics"

Qiu: "Hong Kong College Admission System"

27

Dessislava Slavtcheva

Chi Wan

Slavtcheva: "Financial Development, Exchange Rate Regimes and Productivity Growth"

Wan: "Idiosyncratic Volatility and the Cross-section of Stock Returns"

December

4

Nicholas Sim

Tatiana Farina

Sim: "Copula-Based Nonlinear Quantile Regression"

Farina: "How Does Shopping Frequency Affect Experimentation and Competition"