First Annual UTDT Economics Conference

Conference Program

The first UTDT Annual Economics Conference was held on December 14th-17th at the UTDT Campus.

December 14th

09:45-10:00 Opening Remarks

10:00-10:50 "The Macro Economics of Microfinance." View Download

Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Joseph Kaboski (University of Notre Dame) and Francisco Buera

10:50-11:40 "Market Access and Regional Specialization in a Ricardian World." 

Pablo D. Fajgelbaum (UCLA) and  A. Kerem Coşar

11:40-12:00        COFFEE BREAK

12:00-12:50 "Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation."  View Download

Paula Bustos (U Pompeu Fabra), Bruno Caprettini and Jacopo Ponticelli

12:50-14:20 LUNCH

14:20-15:10 "The Economics of Cross-Border Travel."  View Download 

Mariano Tappata (University of British Columbia), Ambarish Chamdra and Keith Head

15:10-16:00 "The Demographic Consequences of Gender Selection Technology." View Download

Juan Pantano (Washington University in St. Louis), Qi Li 

16:00-16:20 COFFEE BREAK

16:20-17:10 "The Effect of Curriculum Breadth and General Skills on Unemployment." View Download 

Ofer Malamud (Harris School, University of Chicago)

17:10-18:00 "Labor Supply of Bicycle-Taxi Drivers in Kenya: One Shock at the time."

Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University) 

We will go to a bar for drinks and then for dinner.

December 17th

09:00-09:50 "Knowledge spillovers and the optimal taxation of multinational firms." View Download 

Alexander Monge-Naranjo (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Penn state University)

09:50-10:40 "Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy". View

Ariel Burstein (UCLA) and Andrew Atkeson

10:40-11:00      COFFEE BREAK

11:00-11:50 "On the Measure of Distortions." View Download 

Hugo A. Hopenhayn (UCLA)

11:50-12:40 "Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accouting." View Download

Benjamin Moll (Princeton University), David Lagakos, Tommaso Porzio and Nancy Qian

12:40-14:10         LUNCH

14:10-15:00 "Dealing with the Trilemma: Optimal Capital Controls with Fixed Exchanges Rates." View Download

Ivan Werning (MIT) and Emmanuel Farhi

15:00-15:50 "On the optimal Supply of Liquidity With Borrowing Constraints." View Download 

Nicholas Trachter (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) and Francesco Lippi

15:50-16:10           COFFEE BREAK

16:10-17:00 "Price Setting with Menu Cost for Multi-Product Firms." View Download  

Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago) and Francesco Lippi 

17:00-17:50 "Fiscal Sentiment and the Weak Recovery from the Great Recession: A Quantitative Exploration." View Download

Carlos E. J. M. Zarazaga (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas) and Finn Kydland