Exceptional Seminar *in-person* - June 14th
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Clara MARTÍNEZ-TOLEDANO is Assistant Professor of Financial Economics at Imperial College Business School and Wealth Distribution Coordinator at WID.world. She is also a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and at CESifo, and a Research Fellow at the EU Tax Observatory. She was previously a Postdoctoral scholar at Columbia Business School.
In 2020 she was awarded a PhD in Economics by the Paris School of Economics (PSE).
Her research interests span Public Finance, Household Finance, Macroeconomics, and Economic History. Her recent work focuses on understanding the determinants of wealth accumulation and wealth inequality dynamics within and across countries.
Clara MARTÍNEZ-TOLEDANO will present a paper at an exceptional seminar on the theme:
House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality and Portfolio Reshuffling (read paper, PDF 2.93 MB)
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Date: TUESDAY, June 14th - 12 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
Roy-ADRES Seminar *in-person* - June 13th
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Matt ELLIOTT is Professor/Reader at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge. He is also Cambridge Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Coordinator / Janeway Coordinator, Networks Theme since 2019. Among his editorial duties, he will be Associate Editor of Econometrica, starting in July 2022, and is a Member of the Review of Economic Studies Editorial Board and an Associate Editor of Network Science.
His research focuses on networked markets, network games, bargaining, cascades on networks, search, and matching. His research has been awarded a number of grants and honours. Among the latest, he was awarded an IESE grant, as collaborator, for 3 years (2021 − 2024), an ERC Starting grant for his project Embedded Markets and the Economy in 2018, and a Keynes Fund grant for his project Experts Opinions and Persuasion in Times of Uncertainty, Cambridge Univeristy in 2020.
Matt ELLIOTT will present a paper, joint with A. GALEOTTI, A. KOH, and Wenhao LI, at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the theme:
Market Segmentation through Information
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Date: MONDAY, June 13th - 5 PM
Location:PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R1-14
The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Colin STEWART (University of Toronto) on June 20th.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 101001694)
Departmental Seminar *via Zoom* - June 13th
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Michaela PAGEL is the Roderick H. Cushman Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. She is also a Research Network Affiliate of the Center for Economic Studies (CES-ifo), a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a Household Finance Network Member. Among her editorial duties, she is Associate Editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance.
She works on topics in behavioural economics, household finance, and macroeconomics. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the consumption and investment implications of non-standard preferences. Her current work analyzes transaction-level data on income, spending, balances, credit limits, and logins stemming from a financial aggregation app. Furthermore, she is working with bank account data linked to individual investors' security trades and portfolios.
Michaela PAGEL will present a paper, joint with Benjamin LOOS and Steffen MEYER, at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:
Consumption out Fictitious Capital Gains and Selective Inattention (read paper, PDF 3.04 MB)
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Date: MONDAY, June 12th - 2:45 PM
Location: Via Zoom (link to follow via email)
This is our last Departmental Seminar of the academic year 2021-22 - we look forward to seeing you again next Fall !
Friday Seminar *in-person* - June 10th
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Kerstin HOLZHEU joined the Department in 2019 after spending a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She is also an IZA Fellow. She defended her PhD in 2018 at the University of Chicago.
Her work studies labour economics and firm dynamics from the standpoint of applied macroeconomics. In particular, she is interested in the question of employment allocations.
Kerstin HOLZHEU will present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the theme:
Worker Specialization and the Economy (abstract to follow)
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Date: FRIDAY, June 10th - 12:30 PM
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Room H 405
This is our last Friday Seminar of the academic year 2021/22 - we look forward to seeing you again in the Fall !
Exceptional Seminar *in-person* - June 8th
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Yanos ZYLBERBERG is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol since 2021. He is also Fellow at CESifo and at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Among his editorial activities, he is Editorial Advisor at the Canadian Journal of Economics. Prior to joining the University of Bristol in 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at CREi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (PSE).
His research fields are Labour Economics, Development, Public Economics, and Urban Economics. In his recent work he has been addressing a number of different questions, e.g., the shape of unemployment benefits, the behaviours of job seekers in recessions, the long-term effects of pollution in Victorian England, tax evasion and fiscal policies, or rural-urban migration in transition economies.
He has received a number of research grants. Just last year, he was awarded two grants. The project Mapping History – What can historical maps can tell about urban development? (MAPHIS), for which he is a partner, was awarded an ANR grant. And as the Principal Investigator, he was awarded a grant from the BA Global Challenges Research Fund for his project Floods, Risk Diversification and Livelihoods.
Yanos ZYLBERBERG will present a paper, joint with S. HEBLICH and S. REDDING, at an exceptional seminar on the theme:
More about Yanos ZYLBERBERG and his research
Date: WEDNESDAY, June 8th - 12:30 PM
Location: Department of Economics – 4th floor – Room H 405
