January

22

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

"Welfare Reform and the Wage Growth of Welfare Recipients"

29

Wei Sun

"The Impact of House Price Movements on Older Household Wealth Accumulation"

February

5

Matteo Cacciatore

Kwok Ho Chan

Cacciatore: "Identifying the Role of Labor Markets for Macroeconomic Dynamics and Internatonal Trade with Heterogeneous Firms"

Chan: "Delayed Parenthood and Delayed Retirement Decision"

12

Madhavi Pundit

Farooq Pasha

Pundit: "Business Cycle Comovements and Trade in Intermediate Goods"

Pasha: "Medium Term Busines Cycles in Developing Countries"

19

Paul Batten

"Do the Data Reject Expected Utility"

26

Isabella Blengini

Hongtao Zhou

Blengini: "Relative Price Differentials and the Quality Content of Goods"

Zhou: "Estimating Transaction Costs"

March

11

Nicola Lostumbo

"My House is Worth What! The Asymmetric Effects of Nominal Loss Aversion in the Housing Market"

18

Giuseppe Fiori

Nicolas Sim

Fiori: TBA

Sim: "Modelling Time-Varying Asymmetric Dependence Using Copula Quantile Regression"

25

Luigi Pascali

Zhi Qiu

Pascali: "Globalization and Vertical Structure: an Empirical Analysis"

Qiu: "Signalling Merit of the 'Bad' Boston Mechanism--Chinese College Admission"

April

1

Radostin Djeliov

Chi Wan

Djeliov: "Capital Flows and Asset Markets Synchronization"

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

8

Tatiana Farina

Vitaliy Strohush

Farina: "How Does Shopping Affect Consumer's Brand Choice?"

Strohush: "Two-Country Model of Global Imbalances"

15

Andrei Zlate

Sisi Zhang

Zlate: "Production Sharing and Business Cycle Co-Movements with Heterogeneous Firms"

Zhang: "How Do Wage Shocks Affect the Labor Supplies of Married Couples? - Evidence from the Collective Model"

22

Nadezhda Karamcheva

Dessislava Slavtcheva

Karamcheva: "Evaluating the Wage-Pension Trade-Off in a Dynamic Model of Search and Savings"

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