Paris Trade Seminar - Sept 20th
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Yuhei MIYAUCHI is Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University since 2019. Prior to joining Boston University, he was a Research Scholar at the Asia - Pacific Research Institute of Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
His main fields are in Trade, Urban, Development, and Networks Economics. His primary research theme is to understand how production and demand linkages shape socio-economic activity within cities and across regions and countries. He tackles these questions using a combination of theory and new sources of granular data, such as cell phone, smartphone transaction data and firm-level transaction data.
Yuhei MIYAUCHI will present a paper, joint with Costas Arkolakis and Federico Huneeus, at the next Paris Trade Seminar on the theme:
Spatial Production Networks (read paper)
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Date: TUESDAY, September 20th - 2:45 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
The next Paris Trade Seminar will host Isabela MANELICI (LSE) on October 4th.
Roy-ADRES Seminar - Sept 19th
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Ran SPIEGLER is the Aaron Rubenstein Professor of Economics at Tel Aviv University and Professor of Economics at the University College London (UCL). Among his editorial duties, he is Associate Editor of Theoretical Economics, after a long stint as Co-Editor and Editor.
He is specialised in economic theory. His recent research interests include: decision making under flawed causal reasoning, the role of narratives in politics and economics, markets with boundedly rational consumers, and incentive issues arising from interactions with platforms and algorithms. His work has warranted him a number of honours and grants: he is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. He is an Elected member of the Council of the Game Theory Society. He was the recipient of the Yrjo Jahnsson Award in 2017 and, earlier in 2013, of the Michael Bruno Award. He has just completed an ERC Advanced Grant for his project Bayesian Networks and Non-Rational Expectations, the second Advanced grant that the ERC has awarded him.
Ran SPIEGLER will present a paper, joint with Kfir Eliaz and Simone Galperti, at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the theme:
False Narratives and Political Mobilization (read abstract, PDF 27.4 KB)
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Date: MONDAY, September 19th - 5 PM
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R1-09
The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Jorgen WEIBULL (Toulouse School of Economics) on September 26th.
Departmental Seminar *via Zoom* - Sept 19th
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Christine L. EXLEY is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit of the Harvard Business School (HBS). She is the co-organizer of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics' Experimental Economics Workshop. Among her editorial duties, she is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
Her main fields of study are gender, experimental economics, and behavioural economics. In her work on gender, she focuses on the drivers of gender gaps in the labour market (e.g. negotiation, discrimination, and self-promotion). In her other work, she focuses on how to encourage more charitable giving and volunteering, often by investigating how individuals exploit excuses not to give. She also studies the drivers of (in)equity concerns more broadly.
Christine L. EXLEY will present a paper at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:
The Gender Gap in Confidence : Expected But Not Accounted For (read paper)
More about Christine L. EXLEY and her research
Date: MONDAY, September 19th - 2:45 PM
Location: Zoom (link will follow in email)
The next Departmental Seminar will host Shengwu LI (Harvard University) on September 26th.
Exceptional Seminar - Sept 16th
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Victor POULIQUEN is Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Economics at Nuffield College and the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. He was awarded a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (PSE) in 2020.
His research interests are in Development Economics, Taxation, Gender, Household Economics. He currently focuses on two main questions: what are the consequences of informality in developing countries? how do new technologies reshape the way governments collect taxes? He addresses these questions using field experiments, survey experiments and administrative datasets.
Victor POULIQUEN will present a paper, joint with Rachel Glennerster and Joanna Murray, at an exceptional seminar this Friday on the theme:
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Date: Friday, September 16th - 12:30 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
Empirical IO Seminar *online* - Sept 13th
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Fabiano SCHIVARDI is Full Professor of Economics and and Vice-Rector for Research at LUISS University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), and at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and an IGIER Fellow. Among his editorial duties, he is Member of the editorial board of the online economics blog, www.lavoce.info.
His research interests are in Applied Micro, Corporate Finance, and Entrepreneurship. Internationally recognised for his research, he was recently awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his project Industrial Structure and the European Productivity Growth Divergence.
Fabiano SCHIVARDI will present a paper, joint with Julien Sauvagnat, at the next Empirical IO Seminar on the theme:
Are Executives in Short Supply? Evidence from Death Events (read paper, PDF 1.28 MB)
More about Fabiano SCHIVARDI and his research
Date: Tuesday, September 13th - 3:15 PM
Location: via Zoom (link to follow via email)
Our next Empirical IO Seminar will host Giacomo CALZOLARI (European University Institute) on September 27th.
