Departmental Seminar 2017-2018

Date	Speaker	Title
October 23, 2017	Yaacov Rosenberg BIU	Beginning of the year faculty meerting + Special talk on ר' ירמיה - קושיותיו, סילוקו ו"טעותו" הכלכלית
October 30, 2017	Michael Amior Hebrew University	The contribution of foreign migrants to local labor market adjustment
November 06, 2017	Moshe Kim & Nir Billfeld Haifa	SEMIPARAMETRIC FOURIER-DEPENDENT SIEVE IV ESTIMATOR
November 13, 2017	Tomer Shushi Ben Gurion	Explicit solution of a portfolio optimization problem by a general bivariate functional of the mean and variance
November 20, 2017	Eliav Danziger Simon Fraser University	Uncertainty and Export Status: Theory and Evidence
November 21, 2017	James Heckman University of Chicago	Understanding the Multi-Faceted Life-Cycle Benefits of an Influential Early Childhood Program
November 27, 2017	Limor Hatsor Bar Ilan	The consequences of shocks to product safety, evidence from baby formula (Job Talk)
December 04, 2017	Yael Elster Hebrew University	Rockets and Votes (Job Talk)
December 11, 2017	Yaniv Yedid-Levi U. of British Columbia	How Exporters Grow (Job Talk)
December 18, 2017	Ben-Pazi Hanoch BIU	כשהכלבים נובחים: אתיקה של זכויות ואתיקה של חובות + חידון לחנוכה
December 25, 2017	Yuval Salant Northwestern University	Statistical Inference in Games
January 01, 2018	Anat Bracha Federal Reserve Bank of Boston	The Effect of Text Reminders and APR Information on Creditworthiness in the United States
January 08, 2018	Joel Guttman Bar Ilan University	Cultural Transmission and the Roots of Trust: Theory and Evidence
January 15, 2018	Warren Young BIU	Evolution of Modern Growth Theory: Documents and Recollections
January 22, 2018	Hodaya Lampert Ben Gurion	Patents and Pools in Pyramidal Innovation Structures

Semester B

Date	Speaker	Title
March 05, 2018	Dan Zeltzer Tel Aviv University	Horizon Effects and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance Markets
March 12, 2018	Analia Schlosser Tel Aviv University	Fostering Non-Cognitive Skills in Active Labor Market Programs: Evidence from an RCT in Israel
March 19, 2018	Alexander Frankel University of Chicago	Which findings should be published?
April 09, 2018	Ori Heffetz HUJI & Cornell	Consumption as a social signal: upward/downward visibility and income elasticities
April 16, 2018	David Neumark U. of California -- Irvine	Longer-Run Effects of Anti-Poverty Policies on Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
April 23, 2018	Stephan Lauermann Bonn	Costly Advice, Protests, and Nonbinding Elections
April 30, 2018	Johannes Horner Yale	Motivational Ratings
May 07, 2018	Ariell Reshef Paris School of Economics	Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity: Firm Level Evidence from France
May 14, 2018	Tilman Borgers University of Michigan	STRATEGICALLY SIMPLE MECHANISMS
May 15, 2018	Elhanan Helpman Harvard	The Productivity Slowdown and the Declining Labor Share: A Neoclassical Exploration
May 28, 2018	Assaf Razin Tel Aviv University & Cornell	Israel’s Immigration Story: Winners and Losers
June 11, 2018	Simon Board U. of California Los Angeles	Borderline Disorder: An Inspection Model of Learning in Networks
June 18, 2018	Joshua Aizenman University of Southern California	Fiscal Revenue, Fiscal Space and Expenditure Cyclicality Patterns: A Comparison of Asia, Latin America, and OECD Countries,

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