Job Talks
Cambridge-INET will be holding Postdoctoral Research Fellows Job Market Talks in the Meade and Marshall rooms over the next few weeks.
Organised by: Cambridge-INET
Event Date: Friday 31st January 2014 - Tuesday 25th February 2014
Time: 03:00pm - 04:00pm
Friday, 31st January
Location - Meade Room
13:00 - 13:45 Laura Zimmermann (University of Michigan)
"Why Guarantee Employment? Evidence from a Large Indian Public-Works Program"
14:00 - 14:45 Veronique Gille (University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
"How to get a job in the public sector? The role of local politics and caste networks in affirmative action programs in India"
15:00 - 15:45 Jihyun Kim (University of Chicago)
"Mean Reversion and Unit Root in Diffusions"
16:00 - 16:45 Ilwoo Hwang (University of Pennsylvania)
"Dynamic Trading with Increasing Asymmetric Information"
Tuesday, 4th February
Location - Marshall Room
10:00 - 10:45 Julia Wirtz (University of Warwick)
"Feedback and Learning in Tournaments"
11:00 - 11:45 Juan Block (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Timing and Codes of Conduct"
12:00 - 12:45 Piotr Evdokimov (University of Minnesota: Twin Cities)
"Cooperative Institutions"
14:00 - 14:45 Abhimanyu Khan (Maastricht University) - CANCELLED
"Coordination under global random interaction and local imitation"
Friday, 7th February
Location - Keynes room
13:00 - 13:45 Christopher Rauh (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
"The Political Economy of Early and College Education - Can Voting Bend the Great Gatsby Curve?"
15:00 - 15:45 Peter Malec (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
"Capturing the Zero: A New Class of Zero-Augmented Distributions and Multiplicative Error Processes"
16:00 - 16:45 Julien Penasse (ESSEC Business School, Université de Cergy-Pontoise)
"International return predictability and the term structure of risk"
17:00 - 17:45 Daniel Bjorkegren (Harvard University)
"The Adoption of Network Goods; Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda."
Monday, 10th February
Location - Keynes room
11:00 - 11:45 Abhimanyu Khan (Maastricht University)
"Coordination under global random interaction and local imitation"
Tuesday, 11th February
Location - Meade Room
11:00 - 11:45 David Jinkins (Pennsylvania State University)
"Peer Learning, Labour Mobility, and Knowledge Diffusion"
13:30 - 14:15 Choong Nam (University of Warwick)
“The role of product diversification in skill-biased technological change”
14:30 - 15:15 Miguel Morin (Columbia University)
"Technology adoption and the evolution of the labor market"
15:30 - 16:15 Francois Geerolf (Toulouse School of Economics)
"A Theory of Power Law Distributions for the Returns to Capital and of the Credit Spread Puzzle" - CANCELLED
Wednesday, 12th February
Location - Meade Room
11:30 - 12:15 David Frazier (University of North Carolina)
"Maximization By Parts in Semiparametric Models"
Tuesday, 25th February
Location - Meade Room
3:00 - 3:45 Scott Swisher (The University of Wisconsin-Madison)
"Reassessing Railroads and Growth: Accounting for Transport Network Endogeneity?"