2017

Department seminar. Anna Sanktjohanser is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics. She will present a paper entitled "Endogenous Monitoring in a Partnership Game".

Department seminar. Moritz Kuhn is an Associate Professor at the University of Bonn. He will present a paper entitled "Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2013", co-authored by Moritz Schularick, and Ulrike I. Steins.

Department seminar. Ralph Ossa is a Professor of Economics of Globalization and Emerging Markets at the University of Zurich. He will present a paper entitled "A Quantitative Analysis of Subsidy Competition in the U.S.".

Department seminar. Eduardo Perez-Richet is a professor at the department of economics at Sciences Po. He will present a paper entitled "Information Design under Falsification", co-authored by Vasiliki Skreta.

Department seminar. David Dorn is a Professor of International Trade and Labor Markets at the University of Zurich. He will present a paper entitled "Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure", co-authored by David Autor, Gordon Hanson, and Kaveh Majlesi.

Department seminar. Rossella Argenziano is an Associate Professor at the University of Essex. She will present two papers entitled "Precedents, Reputation, and Higher-Order Induction" and "Second-Order Induction and Agreement", both co-authored by Itzhak Gilboa.

Department seminar. Claire Lim is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. She will present a paper entitled "The Political Economy of Medicaid: Ideology, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures", co-authored by Jee Hun Choi.

Department seminar. Jan De Loecker is a Professor of Economics at the University of Leuven. He will present a paper entitled "The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications", co-authored by Jan Eeckhout.

OFS seminar. Guillermo Peña is a PhD student of Economics at the Department of Public Economics of the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He will present two recent papers, entitled “A new approach to financial VAT” and “Does financial VAT affect the size of the financial sector?”, both co-authored by Julio López Laborda.

Department seminar. Fabian Waldinger is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. He will present a paper entitled "Jewish Managers and Firm Performance - Evidence from ‘Aryanizations’ of Jewish Firms in Nazi Germany".

Department seminar. Hans K. Hvide is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Bergen. He will present a paper entitled "University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege", co-authored by Benjamin F. Jones.

Department seminar. Kyle Herkenhoff is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. He will present a paper entitled "Worker Mobility and the Diffusion of Knowledge", co-authored by Jeremy Lise, Guido Menzio, and Gordon Phillips.

Department seminar. Tuomas Laiho is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oslo. He will present a paper entitled "Information Acquisition in Common Pool Problems", co-authored by Olli-Pekka Kuusela.

Department seminar. Navin Kartik is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He will present a paper entitled "Muddled Information", co-authored by Alex Frankel.

Department seminar. Andrea Papini is a Ph.D Candidate at UiO. He will present a paper entitled "Business Income Risk  and The Insurance Role of Taxation in Norway, 1993-2013".

Department seminar. François Maniquet is a professor at Université Catholique de Louvain. He will present a paper entitled "Preference Responsibility vs Poverty Reduction in the Taxation of Labor Incomes", co-authored by Lancelot Henry de Frahan.

Department seminar. Bryan S. Graham is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He will present a paper entitled "Homophily and transitivity in dynamic network formation".

Department seminar. Eliana La Ferrara is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. She will present a paper entitled "The political economy of enforcing program conditions: Evidence from Brazil", co-authored by Fernanda Brollo, and Katja Kaufmann.

Department seminar. Claudio Michelacci is the Bajola Parisani Professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. He will present a paper entitled "Ambiguous Policy Announcements", co-authored by Luigi Paciello.

Department seminar. Luigi Pistaferri is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He will present a paper entitled "Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth", co-authored by Andreas Fagereng, Luigi Guiso, and Davide Malacrino.

Staff seminar. Jonathan Heathcote is a monetary advisor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He will present a paper entitled "Wealth and Volatility", co-authored by Fabrizio Perri.

OFS seminar. Matthew Notowidigdo is an Associate Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He will present a paper entitled "Quantifying the Welfare Gains from Variety: A Sufficient Statistics Approach", co-authored by Kory Kroft, Jean-William P. Laliberté, and René Leal-Vizcaíno.

Department seminar. Fabian Lange is an Associate Professor of Economics at McGill University. He will present a paper entitled "Supervisors and Performance Management Systems", co-authored by Anders Frederiksen, and Lisa B. Kahn.

OFS seminar. Ingvil Gaarder is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. She will present a paper entitled "Incidence and Distributional Effects of Value Added Taxes".