Alexander Aue. (UC Davis).   Detecting deviations from stationarity of functional time series. Abstract: The advent of complex data has led to increased research in virtually all areas of statistics, including functional data analysis (FDA). Within the purview of FDA, the use of methods for serially correlated functions is often prudent. As for […]

    Magne Mogstad. (University of Chicago).    Imperfect Competition, Compensating Differentials and Rent Sharing in the U.S. Labor Market. Abstract: The primary goal of our paper is to quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the U.S. labor market by estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and workers from ongoing employment relationships. […]

Does Economics Make You Sexist?

    Daniele Paserman. (Boston University).   Does Economics Make You Sexist?.   Attendance confirmation.