Coordinators: Ruben Durante, Joan Monràs & Luigi Pascali
Academic year: 2020-2021
Day: Tuesday
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Place:
| 1st TERM | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | NOTE |
| October, 13 | Adam Storeygard (Tufts University) |
"Mobility and congestion in urban India" |
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME: 17.00
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| October, 20 | Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University) | "Economic Shocks and Populism: The Political Implications of Reference-Dependent Preferences" | |
| October, 27 | Tim Besley (LSE) | "The Political Economy of the Great Lockdown: Does Free Media Make a Difference?" | |
| November, 3 |
Randi Hjalmarson |
"The Health Effects of Prison" | |
| November, 10 | Imran Rasul (University College London) | "Search and Matching in Low-income Labor Markets: Evidence from a Six-Year Field Experiment" | |
| November, 17 |
Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) |
"Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing" |
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME: 16.00
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| November, 24 | Roberto Galbiati (Science Po) | "Wealth Accumulation and Institutional Capture: the Rise of the Medici and the Fall of the Florentine Republic" | |
| December, 1 | Ghazala Azmat (Science Po) | "The Fall of the Aspirations Wall: Educational Aspirations, Achievement and Societal Change" | |
| 2nd TERM | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | NOTE |
| March, 2 | Sergei Guriev (Sciences Po) |
"Checking and Sharing Alt-Facts" (joint with Emeric Henry and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya) |
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| March, 9 | Guy Michaels (LSE) | Cities and the Sea Level" (joint with Yatang Lin and Thomas K.J. McDermott) |
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| March, 16 | Leah P. Boustan (Princeton) | "Streets of Gold: Immigration and the American Dream Over Two Centuries" |
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME: 15.00
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| April, 6 | Tommaso Porzio (Columbia Business School) | "The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions" (joint with Sebastian Heise) | |
| 3rd TERM | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE | NOTE |
| April, 13 | Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE) |
"The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands" Joint with Ben Handel (UC Berkeley), Jon Kolstad (UC Berkeley), Thomas Minten (LSE) |
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| April, 20 | Simon Görlach (Bocconi University visiting UPF) | "Terrorism, media coverage and education: Evidence from al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya" | |
| April, 27 | Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M University) |
"Misdemeanor Prosecution" |
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME: 16.00
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| May, 4 | Stefano Della Vigna (University of Berkeley) | "RCTs to Scale: Comprehensive Evidence from Two Nudge Units" |
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME: 15.00
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| May, 11 | Nicola Gennaioli (Bocconi University) | Cancelled |
CANCELLED
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| May, 18 | Davide Cantoni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) | "Do Polls Affect Elections? Evidence from Swiss Referenda" | |
| June, 1 | Nico Voigtlander (UCLA School of Management) | "Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France" |
PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME: 18.00
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For further information, please contact: Susana Gough
Tel: (+34) 93 542 27 56