Sandra Polanía-Reyes (University of Navarra)   "Overcoming empathy failures to reduce inequality: Experimental evidence from Colombia" ABSTRACT In recent years, Latin America and the Caribbean has faced a wave of six million migrants from Venezuela, three million of them entering Colombia. The migration crisis adds to the demographic shock stemming from internally displaced people (IDPs), […]

Eleni Aristodemou (University of Cyprus)   "Binary Response Dynamic Panel Data Models with Switching State Dependence" Abstract: This paper studies identification in binary response dynamic panel data models with switching state dependence. Departing from the standard approach of modelling binary response dynamic panel data models, where last period's choice enters as an additional regressor, this […]

Trade Credit and Financial Amplification

15.1.39

Luigi Bocola (Stanford)   "Trade Credit and Financial Amplification" (joint with G. Bornstein) In most countries, suppliers of intermediate goods are also the main providers of short term financing to their customers via trade credit contracts. This paper builds a model where these inter-firm financial linkages arise endogenously and uses it to understand how trade […]

PhD Student Workshop – Econometrics Session

15.1.03 & 15.1.39

Econometrics Session   Chair: Juan Carlos Escanciano   ROOM 15.1.03 09:15-09:35 - Andrey Ramos - On the association between a panel of temperatures and CO2. 09:35-09:50 - Alejandro Puerta - TBA. 09:50-10:10 - Joan Alegre - Locally Robust Inference for Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity. 10:10-10:30 - Facundo Argañaraz - On the Existence of Locally Robust […]

PhD Student Workshop – Macroeconomics Session

15.1.03

Macroeconomics Session   Chair: Felix Wellschmied   ROOM 15.1.03 11:00 -11:20 - Anastasios Koufakis - The Changing Age-Occupation Profile of Spain’s Wealth top 10%: Financial Frictions and Young Entrepreneurs. 11:20 -11:35 - Sofía Sánchez - Liquidity kills you fast: the transmission of monetary policy. 11:45 -12:05 - Alvaro Jañez - Inequality, Production Organization, and Labor […]