"Aversive Processing in the Human Striatum"

CESS/CREED (University of Amsterdam) Graduate Student Conference

Bargaining in Stationary Networks

"Foreign Policy and Global Public Bads"

Venture Capital and Underpricing: Capacity Constraints and Early Sales

Robust Confidence Intervals in Nonlinear Regression under Weak Identification

Dimensions of Parenting in Relation to Children's Language and Cognitive Development: Findings from the Early Head Start National Evaluation Study

Cooperation and Status in Organizations (joint with Catherine Eckel and Rick Wilson)

Functional Ito Calculus and Robust Volatility Hedge

Functional Ito Calculus and Robust Volatility Hedge

"Moralizing Role of Distance in Adam Smith"

A Model for Maximizing Entropy in the Labor Market

Interview/Talk with Prof. Tomasz Sadzik and Prof. Shing-Yi Wang

Political Mergers as Coalition Formation: Estimates from Japanese Municipal Mergers

Central Bank Cooperation at the Periphery: Scandanavian Central Bank and the Bank for International Settlements, 1930-31

"Roaring Twenties and Austrian Business Cycle Theory"

Estimation and Inference with Many Moment Inequalities

Factor Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression

Financial Markets Conference

"Overconfidence?" (joint with Jean-Pierre Benoit) and "Does the Better-Than-Average Effect Show That People Are Overconfident?: An Experiment." (joint with Jean-Pierre Benoit and Don Moore)

Another look at Credit Index Option Pricing

Policy-Specific Information and Informal Agenda Power (with Alexander V. Hirsch)

President's Day - No Seminar

Identifying Sibling Influences on Teenage Risky Behavior

Implementation Via Code of Rights

Dynamic Hedging of Portfolio Credit Derivatives

Friday Seminar Series (Stern) - TBA

Wall Street's first corporate governance crisis: the conspiracy trials of 1826

What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pensin Reforms (with Vincenzo Galasso)

"Hume's Natural History of Justice"

Winning Play in Spectrum Auctions (co-authored with Jeremy Bulow and Paul Milgrom)

Overidentifying Inequality Moment Conditions

Interbank Contagion at Work

"Waiting for News in The Dynamic Market for Lemons"

What does an option price mean?

Does Experience Teach? Professionals and Minimax Play in the Lab.

Diverse Beliefs, Survival, and the Market Price of Risk

Crashes and Recoveries in Illiquid Markets (Joint with Guillaume Rocheteau and Pierre-Olivier Weill)

Scylla or Charybdis? Some historical reflections on the two basic problems of corporate governance

Decoding Terror (with Tomas Sjostrom)

Nonlinear Time Series Models and Weakly Dependent Innovations

Non-neutralities in Science Funding - CANCELED

"Context-dependent Value Computations"

Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation Prices (co-authored with Liran Einav and Mark Cullen)

Duration of Sovereign Debt Renegotiation

Survival of the fittest? Financial and economic distress and restructuring outcomes in Chapter 11

Psychological Traits and Family Outcomes

Choosing the two Finalists

Bayesian Analysis and Model Revision for k'th Order Markov Chains with Unknown k

Corporate Governance Externalities

Transitions

Debt Covenants and Distressed Equity Issuance: Optimal Financing in the Presence of Monitoring

Rollover Risk and Market Freezes

"Deep" Fundamentals in the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus, 1880-2004

The Making of Policy: Formal or Informal Arenas (with Carlos Scartascini)

Estimating a Dynamic Oligopolistic Game with Serially Correlated Unobserved Production Costs

"Neurophysiological Basics of Methodological Individualism"

Labor Laws and Innovation

Position Auctions with Consumer Search (Co-authored with Susan Athey)

Are Lawyers Good for Growth?

Empirical Likelihood

The Pecking Order, Debt Capacity, and Information Asymmetry

Learning While Voting: Determinants of Collective Experimentation

Naked exclusion: Towards a behavioral approach to exclusive dealing

Equilibrium corporate finance and macroeconomics (with Piero Gottardi - EUI - and Guido Ruta - NYU)

Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market

Too interconnected to fail: contagion and systemic risks in financial networks

Friday Seminar Series (Stern) - TBA

Instrument Selection by First Stage Prediction

Spring Break - No Seminar

International Economics Workshop - TBA

"Self-Regulation in Adult Film Industry"

Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Claimants

A Simple Model of Demand Accumulation (co-authored with Aviv Nevo)

Do Falling Iceberg Costs Account for US Export Growth?

Risk and Expected Returns of Private Equity Investments: Evidence Based on Market Prices

"Occupational Response of Native Born Workers: Impact of Immigration on the Wage Structure of Local Labor Markets"

Tips from the ASSA Job Market

The Subjective Approach to Ambiguity -- A Critical Assessment

Nominal Shocks and Long-Term Contracts

Words or Actions? An Experimental Study on Signaling

Pricing Houses: Extremal Equilibria in Allocation Markets with Non-Transferable Utility

Modelling the Smile of Volatility

A Conversation with Dambisa Moyo, author of "Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa," and William Easterly

Friday Seminar Series (Stern) - TBA

How to be less ignorant about the Solow residual, or what technical change really is in a disaggregate production function

Duration Dependence and Timevarying Variables in Discrete Time Duration Models

Call for Papers: Heterogeneous Firms in International Trade Conference, Venice, July 2009

Could Better Constitutional Design Have Saved the Roman Republic?

Neighbors and Co-Workers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks

Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?

Loopholes: Social Learning and the Evolution of Contract form

Dynamic Agency and the q Theory of Investment

Early Inequality

"Turbulent Firms, Turbulent Wages?"

"Asymptotic Equivalence of Probabilistic Serial and Random Priority Mechanisms'' (with Yeon-Koo Che)

Continuous Dilemmas (Joint with Ryan Oprea)

Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar TBA

New Exporter Dynamics (Joint with Jonathan Willis)

Friday Seminar Series (Stern) - TBA

The boats that did not sail: evidence on the sources of asset price volatilityfrom an 18th century natural experiment

Unit Root Tests with Wavelets

Non-neutralities in Science Funding

The tax evasion social multiplier: evidence from Italy

Monetary Policy and Unspanned Macroeconomic Factors in the Term Structure

"Cognitive Control and Motivation during Decision Making"

The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale

Trade, Growth, and Productivity

Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008

Information Transmission in Dynamic Elections

A Subjective Model of Temporal Preferences

A Dialogue on the Global Financial Crisis

A Theory of Firm Decline

Edgar Allan Poe's Riddle: Framing Effects in Repeated Matching Pennies Games (joint with Krif Eliaz)

Learning the Wealth of Nations

The Rhetorical Strategies of Leaders: Stepping Down, Standing Back, and Speaking Clearly

Activity Signature Functions for High-Frequency Data Analysis

Easter Monday - No Seminar

R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics

Wealth Distribution in Finite Life with Idiosyncratic Investment Risk

Dynamics of innovation in energy technologies and why design matters

Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India

Equilibrium Prices in the Presence of Delegated Portfolio Management

Panel Conditioning in Longitudinal Social Science Surveys

Implementing the Nash Program in Stochastic Games

Putting Free-Riding to Work: A Partnership Solution to the Common Property Problem (joint with Heintzelman, Schott, Uler, Cherry)

Extreme Events Implied by Equity Index Options

A Model of "Unconventional" Monetary Policy

Friday Seminar Series (Stern) - CANCELED

Labor Court Inputs, Judicial Cases Outcomes, and Labor Flows: Identifying Real EPL (with Henri Fraisse & Corinne Prost)

Conditional Moment Inequalities in Roy Models with Cross-Section and Panel Data

"Drug Disasters and the Growth of the FDA"

Applied Micro Workshop - TBA

Using Experiments as Benchmarks for Non-experimental Estimators of Causal Effects: What Have We Learned?

Factor-augmenting technical change and the British Industrial Revolution

"Generating Expectations of Pleasure and Pain"

Managing Strategic Buyers (co-authored with Johannes Horner)

Higher Order Beliefs and the Comovement of Asset Prices

Wednesday Finance Seminar Series - TBA

Semi-parametric Estimation of Demand for Multichannel Television

Global Defeminization? The Role of Trade, Competition and Structural Change

Dowry Inflation in India: The Role of Demographic Change (preliminary)

Sentiments

Evolution of Family Capitalism: A Comparative Study of France, Germany, Italy and the UK

Diverging Opinions (with Tymofiy Mylovanov)

Fragile Beliefs and the Market Price of Uncertainty

Sources of Lifetime Inequality

Friday Seminar Series (Stern) - TBA

The rationale of private note issuance: note-issuing private banks in Swedish financial and economic development

A Theory of Government Regulation and Self-Regulation with the Specter of Nonmarket Threats (With Alan E. Wiseman)

Weak Factors Asymptotics

World War I: The Triumph of Statism

Pride and Prejudice: Evidence from the "Promised Land

Hyperbolic Discounting and Entrepreneurship

Reputational Incentives and Dynamics (co-authored with Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn)

Wednesday Finance Seminar Series - TBA

"Relational Contracts with On-the-Job Search"

Accounting for Plant-Level Misallocation (Joint with Daniel Xu)

Unequal we stand: an empirical analysis of economic inequality in the United States 1967-2006 (with Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri)

Unequal we stand: an empirical analysis of economic inequality in the United States 1967-2006(with Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri)

Friday Seminar Series (Stern) - TBA

The underpricing of initial public offerings in imperial Germany, 1870-1896

Political Economy Workshop - TBA

Econometrics Seminar: TBA

Local and Systemic Entrepreneurship

Unemployment Accounts

Promotion, Turnover and Compensation in the Executive Market (co-authored with George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan)

International Economics Workshop - TBA

Wednesday Finance Seminar Series - TBA

Unemployment Compensation and High European Unemployment: A Reassessment with New Benefit Indicators

Jonathan Morduch Book Signing and Discussion

Botswana Panel Discussion and 2008 Award Dinner