Sovereign Debt Restructurings

    Maximiliano Dvorkin. ( Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis).   Sovereign Debt Restructurings.   Attendance confirmation.

    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 […]

Formal and Informal Firm Dynamics

    Gabriel Ulyssea. (University of Oxford).   Formal and Informal Firm Dynamics.   Attendance confirmation.

    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. […]

Blockholder Voting

    Heski Bar-Isaac. (University of Toronto).   Blockholder Voting.   Attendance confirmation.