University of Chicago: Department of Economics

Fall 2011

September 26
Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago)
"Pareto Improvements from Lexus Lanes: The Case for Value Pricing on Heavily Congested Highways"

October 3
John W. Hatfield (Stanford University)
"Promoting School Competition Through School Choice: A Market Design Approach"

October 10
Edward Lazear (Stanford University)
"The Value of Bosses"

October 17
Jennifer Hunt (Rutgers University)
"What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?"
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17187.pdf
joint with Michael C. Burda

October 24
Xavier Gabaix (New York University)
"A Sparsity-Based Model of Bounded Rationality"

October 31
John Friedman (Harvard University)
"The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood"
 http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/value_added.pdf

November 7
Jonathan Levin (Stanford University)
"Sales Taxes and Internet Commerce"

November 14
Kevin Murphy and Robert Topel (University of Chicago)
"Intermediaries and Competition"

November 21
Rui Silva (University of Chicago)
"The Real Cost of Conglomerates"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~ruisilva/JMP_RuiSilva.pdf

November 28
Lee Lockwood (NBER)
"Incidental Bequests: Bequest Motives and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks"

December 5
Rodrigo Soares (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
"The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon"