Duke Economics

Todd Sarver

"Comparative Naivete and Sophistication of Dynamically Inconsistent Preferences"

11:45-1:15pm, Social Sciences 113

• Contact: Speckart, James

Brian Clark

12:00pm - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Sergio Rebelo (Northwestern)

"Non-linear Effects of Taxation on Growth"

1:25pm - 2:45pm, Social Sciences 113

Ariel Zetlin-Jones (Carnegie Mellon University)

"Efficient Financial Crises"

10:30am - 12:00pm, Fuqua, Sauer Classroom

Francis Kramarz (CREST)

"Worker Social Networks and Firm-Level Job Creation"

11:30am - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 327

Yang Yu 

11:30am - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 113

Paul Grieco (Penn State)

3:30pm - 5:00pm, *UNC, Gardner 211*

Francis Kramarz (CREST)

"Diversification in the Small and in the Large: Evidence from Trade Networks"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Kevin Thomas (Pennsylvania State University)

"Black immigrants, education-occupation mismatches, and the poverty status of their children"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Gross Hall - 270

Development Field Lunch

12:00pm - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Luis E. Candelaria

"Network Estimation Using High-dimensional GMM"

12:45pm - 1:45pm, Soc Sci 136

David M. Levy (George Mason University)
"Almost Wholly Negative": The Ford Foundation's Appraisal of the Virginia School

3:30pm-5:00pm, Social Sciences 327

• Contact: Zemonek, Angela

Sophia Li and Ashley Vissing 

1:45am - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 327

Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim)

"Dynamic Bargaining with Externalities: A Work-in-Progress Report"

3:30pm - 4:45pm, UNC, Gardner 211 

Markus Mobius (Microsoft Research New England)

"Treasure Hunt"

11:45am - 1:15pm, Social Sciences 113

• Contact: Speckart, James

Jared Ashworth

12:00pm - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Nicolas Vincent (HEC Montreal)

"On the Importance of Sales for Aggregate Price Flexibility"

1:25pm - 2:45pm, Social Sciences 113

Steven Rivkin (UIC)

"The Evolution of Charter School Quality"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Maia Guell (The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

"Intergenerational Mobility and the Informational Content of Surnames"

10:00am - 11:30am, Social Sciences 111

Jean-Noel Barrot (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Trade Credit and Industry Dynamics: Evidence from Trucking Firms"

10:30am - 12:00pm, Fuqua,Sauer Classroom

Linxi Chen

11:30am - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 113

Markus Mobius (Microsoft Research New England)

"Social Media and News Consumption"

1:15pm - 2:45pm, Social Sciences 105

Basit Zafar (NY Fed)

"University Choice: The Role of Expected Earnings, Non-pecuniary Outcomes and Financial Constraints" 

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Social Sciences 111

David Schmidtz (University of Arizona)

"Corruption"

11:45am-12:45pm, Biological Sciences 111

• Contact: Zemonek, Angela
• Sponsor: Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program in American Values and Institutions at Duke University

Jennifer Alix-Gargia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

3:15pm - 4:45pm, Cox Multipurpose Room, RTI International

Simon (Sokbae) Lee (Seoul National University)

"Testing for a General Class of Functional Inequalities"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Social Sciences room 113

Michael Shanahan (UNC - Chapel Hill)

"Personality and Attained Status in Adulthood"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Gross Hall 270

Dan Hirschman (University of Michigan)

"Do Economists Make Policies?"

11:50am-1:00pm, Social Sciences 327

Elisa Maffioli and Jose Martinez 

12:00pm - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Fu Ouyang

"Semiparametric Estimation of Discrete Choice Models with Random Coefficients"

12:45pm - 1:45pm, Social Sciences 136

Joseph Newhouse (Harvard)

10:00am - 11:00am, UNC, McGavran-Greenberg Hall 1301

Jeff Biddle (Michigan State University)

"Professor Douglas's Regression"

3:30pm-5:00pm, Social Sciences 327

• Contact: Zemonek, Angela

Yifang Guo and Eduardo Jardim

11:45am - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 327

Sevi Mora (The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

"Countries and Regions: Another Look at the Border Effect"

1:15pm - 2:45pm, Social Sciences 228

Francis Bloch (Paris School of Economics and Universit Paris 1)

"Dynamic allocation of objects to queuing agents"

3:30pm - 4:45pm, Social Sciences 111

Aaron Kolb

11:45am - 1:15pm, Social Sciences 113

• Contact: Speckart, James

Katya Roshchina

12:00pm - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Juan Rubio-Ramiez

1:25pm - 2:45pm, Social Sciences 113

Dave Donaldson (MIT)

"Who's Getting Globalized"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Darrell Duffie (Stanford University)

"The Efficiency of Network Contracting Markets" 

10:30am - 12:00pm, Fuqua, Sauer Classroom

Marat Kussainov

 11:30am - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 113

Adam Rosen (University College London)

"An Overview of Generalized Instrumental Variable (GIV) Models with an Illustrative Application to Inference on Average Treatment Effects"

1:30pm - 3:00pm, Gross Hall 111

Clement Joubert (UNC)

"The Career Prospects of Overeducated Americans"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Rohit Deo (NYU)

3:30pm - 5:00pm, NISS

Fenaba Addo (University of Wisconsin)

"Playing house: Financial Integration and Relationship Transitions among Current Cohabitors"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Gross Hall - 270

Roman Levkin

12:00pm - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Adam Rosen (University College London)

"Application of GIV Analysis to Simultaneous Equations Models for Discrete Outcomes"

12:30pm - 2:00pm, Social Sciences 136

Kristoph Kleiner

11:45am - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Eli Liebman and Paul Elliason

11:45am - 1:00pm, Social Psychology 319 

Jidong Zhou (NYU Stern)

3:30pm - 4:45pm, UNC Gardner 211 

PhD Student Presentations

11:45-1:15pm, Social Sciences 113

Margaux Luflade

"What to Expect from the Recent Higher Education Reforms",

12:00pm - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge)

1:25pm - 2:45pm, Social Sciences 113

Kamran Bilir (Wisconsin - Madison)

"R&D and Productivity in Multinational Firms"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Social Sciences 111

Undergraduate honors students share their research in a poster session. All faculty and students welcome.

5:00pm - 7:00pm, SSRI-West Connections / 2nd Floor Gross Hall

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Chris Nosko (Booth School of Business) 

"Quality and Reputation in Two-sided Markets"

10:30am - 12:00pm, Fuqua R. J. Reynolds Auditorium

Peter Kondor (Central European University)

"Liquidity Risk and the Dynamics of Arbitrage Capital"

10:30am - 12:00pm, Fuqua, Sauer Classroom

Chris Roark 

11:30am - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 113

"Uses of the Roy Model"

Matthew Panhans and John Singleton

11:50am -1:00pm, Social Sciences 07

Jonathan Williams (UGA)

3:30pm - 5:00pm, UNC, Gardner 211

David Atkin (Yale University)

"Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Social Sciences 111

"Hayek, Chile and Pinochet"

Bruce Caldwell,  Andrew Farrant (Dickinson College), Leonidas Montes (Adolfo Ibáñez University)

3:30pm-5:00pm, Social Sciences 327

• Contact: Zemonek, Angela

Alexandre Poirier (University of Iowa)

"Efficient Estimation in Models with Independence Restrictions"

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Social Sciences room 113

DuPRI student PAA practice presentations

3:30pm - 5:00pm, Gross Hall 270

Undergraduate research will be presented in a one-day symposium.

9:00am - 5:30pm, Social Sciences 111

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Elisa Maffioli

12:00pm - 1:00pm, Social Sciences 111