7th Annual UTDT Economics Conference
Wednesday, December 19th, 2018 | Aula Magna, UTDT
10.30-11.30 “Equilibrium in Misspecified Markov Decision Processes" | Demian Pouzo (UC Berkeley)
11.30-12.30 “Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium” | Pablo Fajgelbaum (UCLA & NBER)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 “Skill-biased Technological Transitions” | Martín Beraja (MIT & NBER)
15.00-16.00 “Capital Accumulation and Structural Transformation” | Paula Bustos (CEMFI & CEPR)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 “The Rise and Fall of Labor Force Growth: Implications for Firm Demographics and Aggregate Trends” | Hugo Hopenhayn (UCLA)
17.30-18.30 "Global Firms in Large Devaluations" | Joaquín Blaum (Brown University)
20.00 Conference Dinner at Gardiner
Thursday, December 20th, 2018 | Aula Magna, UTDT
10.30-11.30 “An Empirical Framework for Sequential Assignment: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys” | Paulo Somaini (Stanford University & NBER)
11.30-12.30 “The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies” | Diego Daruich (St. Louis FED)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00 “Financing Ventures” | Juan Sanchez (St. Louis FED)
15.00-16.00 “Supply Chain Bargaining and Asset Prices” | María Cecilia Bustamante (University of Maryland)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 “Reserve Accumulation, Macroeconomic Stabilization and Sovereign Risk” | César-Sosa Padilla (University of Notre Dame)
17.30-18.30 “Deposit Spreads and the Welfare Cost of Inflation” | Pablo Kurlat (Stanford University)
