Minnesota Seminar Series
The Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute co-sponsors a seminar and visitor series launched in 2014 by Professor Ellen McGrattan. The series covers a wide range of topics and provides graduate students with a unique opportunity to collaborate with leaders in the field.
Social Inequalities in the Risk of Police-Involved Homicide
The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
Higher Education and Earnings Inequality
Persuading Risk-Conscious Agents: A Geometric Approach
The Elusive Gains from Nationally-Oriented Monetary Policy
Michael Peters, Yale University, November 29, 2018
Spatial Structural Change
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia University, November 15, 2018
Taking Orders and Taking Notes: Dealer Information Sharing in Treasury Auctions
Vasiliki Skreta, University College of London, October 25, 2018
Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment: A Revelation Principle
Jeremy Fox, Rice University, October 4, 2018
Geographic Expansion Mergers and FCC Spectrum Policy: Estimating a Matching Game with Externalities
Jon Steinsson, UC Berkeley, September 27, 2018
Women, Wealth Effects, and Slow Recoveries
Costas Arkolakis, Yale University, September 13, 2018
The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvement
Alessandra Voena, University of Chicago, May 3, 2018
Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University, April 19, 2018
Dancing with the Stars: Innovation through Interactions
Flavio Cunha, Rice University, April 12, 2018
Parental Beliefs and Investments in Human Capital
Nick Papageorge, Johns Hopkins University, April 5, 2018
Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatment
Tarek Hassan, Boston University, March 22, 2018
Currency Manipulation
Larry Samuelson, Yale University, March 8, 2018
The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model-Based Inference
Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 1, 2018
Government Expenditure on the Public Education System
Jan Eeckhout, University College London, November 9, 2017
Pablo Kurlat, Stanford University, October 26, 2017
Signaling to Experts
Jose Victor Rios Rull, University of Pennsylvania, October 19, 2017
Banking Dynamics and Capital Regulation
Greg Lewis, Microsoft Research, October 12, 2017
Dynamic Demand Estimation in Auction Markets
Daniel McFadden, University of California, Berkeley, September 27, 2017
Foundations of Welfare Economics and Product Market Applications
Pierre Yared, Columbia Business School, September 7, 2017
Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Self-Enforcement
Juuso Toikka, MIT, May 4, 2017
Robust Incentives for Teams
Eric French, UCL, April 27, 2017
The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings, and Social Security of Older Americans
Christopher Flinn, NYU, April 13, 2017
Actors in the Child Development Process
Jean-Marc Robin, Sciences Po, April 6, 2017
Marriage, Labor Supply, and Home Production
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford, March 30, 2017
Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth
Joseph Vavra, Chicago Booth, December 8, 2016
Regional Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy
Robert Townsend, MIT, December 1, 2016
Financial Centrality and Liquidity Provision
Robert Town, Texas, November 17, 2016
Externalities and Benefit Design in Health Insurance
Rebecca Diamond, Stanford, November 3, 2016
Who Wants Affordable Housing in their Backyard? An Equilibrium Analysis of Low Income Property Development
Tomasz Strzalecki, Harvard, October 27, 2016
Speed, Accuracy, and the Optimal Timing of Choices
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton, October 20, 2016
Dynamics of Firms and Trade in General Equilibrium
Johannes Stroebel, NYU Stern, October 13, 2016
Do Banks Pass Through Credit Expansions to Consumers Who Want to Borrow? Evidence from Credit Cards
Sebastian Di Tella, Stanford, October 6, 2016
Optimal Asset Management with Hidden Savings
Mihai Manea, MIT, September 29, 2016
Information Resale in Networks
Ken Wolpin, Rice University, May 5, 2016
Accounting for Mathematics Performance of High School Students in Mexico: Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom
Chris Taber, University of Wisconsin Madison, April 28, 2016
Estimation of a Life-Cycle Model with Human Capital, Labor Supply and Retirement
Kjetil Storsletten, University of Oslo, April 21, 2016
Sovereign Debt and Structural Reforms
Mariacristina De Nardi, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, April 14, 2016
The Implications of Richer Earnings Dynamics for Consumption, Wealth, and Welfare
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania, March 31, 2016
Identifying Neutral Technology Shocks
Amy Finkelstein, MIT, December 3, 2015
The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Benjamin Moll, Princeton University, November 19, 2015
Monetary Policy According to HANK
Florian Scheuer, Stanford University, November 12, 2015
The Taxation of Superstars
Bronwyn Hall, University of California, Berkeley, November 5, 2015
Technology Entry in the Presence of Patent Thickets
Helene Rey, London Business School, October 29, 2015
Financial Integration and Growth in a Risky World
Edouard Schaal, NYU, October 22, 2015
Coordinating Business Cycles
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago, October 15, 2015
Disability Benefits, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply
William Fuchs, University of California, Berkeley, October 8, 2015
Information Spillovers in Asset Markets with Correlated Values
Jeremy Lise, University College London, October 1, 2015
Multidimensional Skills, Sorting, and Human Capital Accumulation
Virgiliu Midrigan, NYU, September 17, 2015
Liquidity Constraints in the U.S. Housing Market
Kim Ruhl, NYU, September 10, 2015
Trade Adjustment Dynamics and the Welfare Gains from Trade
Janet Currie, Princeton University, April 23, 2015
Diagnosing Expertise: A Two Factor Model of Physician Skill
Mark Aguiar, Princeton University, April 16, 2015
Sovereign Debt Crises
Mark Rosenzweig, Yale University, March 12, 2015
Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium
Drew Fudenberg, Harvard University, February 26 & 27, 2015
Cooperation in Repeated Games: When and How
Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania, February 26, 2015
How the Design of a Pension System Influences Old Age Poverty and Gender Equity: A Study of Chile's Private Retirement Accounts System
Igor Livshits, Western Ontario, November 20, 2014
Sovereign Default and Banking
Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University November 13, 2014
Payments and Credits
Costas Meghir, Yale University, November 6, 2014
Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Tax Reform
Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University, October 30, 2014
Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting: Chiefs in Rural Malawi
Pinelopi Goldberg, Yale University, October 23, 2014
Competition, Markups and Cost Pass – Through: A View From the Production Side
Matteo Maggiori, Harvard University, December 11, 2014
Very Long-Run Discount Rates
Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business, September 11, 2014
Designing Large Advertising Markets: A Structural Empirical Approach