Anna Houstecka. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Unemployment Insurance and Occupational Switching. Abstract: "In this paper, I study the relationship between unemployment benefits and occupational switching. Using US data, I document two new facts. First, unemployed individuals who are eligible to higher unemployment benefits are less likely to switch occupation. Second, I show that conditional on […]
Timo Boppart. (IIES). A theory of falling growth and rising rents. Attendance confirmation.
Andreas Gulyas. (University of Mannheim). Understanding the Sources of Earnings Losses After Job Displacement: A Machine-Learning Approach. Abstract: We document the sources behind earnings losses after job displacement adapting the generalized random forest due to Athey et al. (2019). Using administrative data from Austria over three decades, we show that displaced workers face large […]
Fabien Postel-Vinay. (UCL). The Job Ladder: Inflation vs. Reallocation. Attendance confirmation.
Roberto Pancrazi. (University of Warwick). Healthy Dietary Choices in Distorted Food Environments. We analyze how distortions in the food market limit the achievement of a healthy diet. Using Nielsen data we document a novel pattern on the relationship between healthy diet and income. We then build and estimate a tractable general equilibrium model in which […]
Leonardo Melosi. (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago). Bad jobs and low inflation. Attendance confirmation.
Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee. (Queen Mary University of London). Inequality of Fear and Self Quarantine: Is There a Trade-off between GDP and Public Health?. Virtual seminar - Enter the session through this link.
Philipp Kircher. (European University Institute). An economic model of the Covid-19 pandemic with young and old agents: Behavior, testing and policies. Virtual seminar - Join the session through this link.
Tommaso Monacelli. (Universitá Bocconi). Bewley Banks (co-authored with R. Jamilov). Virtual seminar - Join the session through this link.
Matteo Maggiori. (Stanford Graduate School of Business). "Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens" (co-authored with A. Coppola, B. Neiman, J. Schreger). Virtual seminar - Join the session through this link.
