January

20

Wataru Hirata

Alessandro Barattieri

Hirata: "Incentives and Macroeconomic Effects of Zombie Lending?

Barattieri: "Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages"

27

Anna Blank

Shannon Phillips

Blank: "The Effect of Risk Aversion on Marriage Decisions"

Phillips: "The Effect of Widow Inheritance on Child Schooling in sub-Saharan Africa"

February

3

Cancelled

10

Francis Georges

Aaron Fix

Georges: "Shifting Smokestacks: Understanding the Entry, Exit and Relocation Decisions of U.S. Firms"

Fix: "Exclusive Dealing with N Downstream Competitors"

17

Caglar Yurtseven

Shoghik Hovhannisyan

Yurtseven: "A Social Interaction Model of Wireless Pricing"

Hovhannisyan: "Differences in Occupational Composition of Employment and Cross-Country Income Variances"

24

Rucha Bhate

Radoslav Raykov

Bhate "Capital Flows and Economic Growth in Developing Countries-Explaining the Allocation Puzzle"

Raykov: "Asymptotic Efficiency in Marriage Markets with Indifferences"

March

10

Chuanliang Jiang

Samson Alva

Jiang: "Is the Mode of Stock Return Predictable? A Quantile Selection Approach Based on Asymmetric Laplace Distribution"

Alva: "Electoral Competition and Social Learning"

17

Geoffrey Sanzenbacher

Hongtao Zhou

Sanzenbacher: "Wage Growth and the Job Dynamics of Welfare Recipients"

Zhou: "Impact Costs of Transaction: Estimation and Forecasting"

24

Alessandro Barattieri

Matteo Cacciatore

Barattieri: "Estimating Trade and Investment Flows: Partners and Volumes"

Cacciatore: "International Trade and TFP revisited ina Panel of Romanian Firms"

31

Paul Batten

"Do the Data Reject Expected Utility?"

April

7

Wei Sun

"Consumption or Insurance, How Do You Want to Use Your House?"

14

Kwok Ho Chan

"The Timing of Parenthood and Retirement"

21

Isabella Blengini

Madhavi Pundit

Blengini: "Crisis Transmission Mechanisms"

Pundit: "Trade in Intermediate Goods and the Co-movement of Business Cycles"

28

Farooq Pasha

Luigi Pascali

Pasha: "What Aspects of a Job are Important for Individuals? What Factors Affect These Values?"

Pascali: "Does Local Financial Development Affect Growth? An Instrumental Variable Approach Using the Jewish Population in 1450 AD"

May

5, Seminar Room 429

Matteo Cacciatore

"International Trade, Labor Markets and Macroeconomic Dynamics"