Agenda

Descripció:

Manuel Montesinos (IDEA-UAB). 

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83734438737?pwd=T3N5Q1lab0lObHdrYTJPSUxUeVR2QT09. 

Ubicació: Online

Data: Dijous 6, Maig de 2021 - 13:15h

Descripció:

Fernando Stipanicic (PhD Candidate TSE).

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85235400126?pwd=RklRdU1FTWdsR3pybUZsNVl4d1VrQT09. 

Abstract:

This paper studies the impact of travel time on the diffusion of knowledge. We provide causal evidence by exploiting the beginning of the Jet Age as a quasi-natural experiment. We digitize airlines' historical flight schedules and construct a novel data set of the flight network in the United States. Between 1951 and 1966, average travel time between locations more than 2,000km away decreased 49%. We use patent citations as a measure of knowledge diffusion. For research establishments located more than 2,000km away from each other, the reduction in travel time increased citations by 8.1%. The reduction in travel time accounts for more than one third of the observed increase in citations in this distance interval. Additionally, the reduction in travel time increased the diffusion of knowledge through multi-establishment firms. Firms opened research establishments in locations that obtained a relative reduction in travel time to headquarters. Firms carried knowledge across distant establishments and increased its diffusion.

Ubicació: Online

Data: Dijous 6, Maig de 2021 - 13:30h

Descripció:

Mridula Duggal  (UAB-IDEA). 

Link: http://pareto.uab.es/ufae_gestio/@Discord.

Ubicació: Online

Data: Divendres 7, Maig de 2021 - 12:00h

Descripció:

Flip Klijn (IAE-CSIC). 

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4324121027?pwd=THJkOFE2cS9vZ0FaRzZqUHFsRUVoUT09. 

Ubicació: Online

Data: Divendres 7, Maig de 2021 - 13:15h

Descripció:

Josep Amer-Mestre (EUI) & Miguel Alquézar-Yus. 

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87118826250?pwd=VmFNbUg4dS90cXJCN2xWZ0FkNG9hUT09.

Ubicació: Online

Data: Dilluns 10, Maig de 2021 - 12:00h

Descripció:

Roberto Carlos Asmat Belleza (Warwick).

Abstract:

We investigate whether female and male judges make different decisions in child support trials where a judge decides on the father’s income allocation to the mother who has child custody. The context of high labour informality allows us to disentangle two factors shaping gender-based differences in decisions: judges’ preferences over the income allocation and beliefs about the income of respondents. When respondents have a formal job, judges observe their income and set an award as a fraction of it. However, when respondents work in the informal sector their income is not observable, and judges are forced to form beliefs before setting an award in absolute terms. By exploiting the random assignment of cases to judges in both contexts, we find that female judges have preferences for lower income allocation but believe the income of respondents is higher in comparison to male judges. This evidence suggests that incomplete information attenuates gender-based differences in judicial decisions.

The most recent version of the paper is here.

Zoom-link to the seminar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85440909302?pwd=Q2hLWkRyMUk4WStFdzJIZ0hGOTYyUT09

Ubicació: Online

Data: Dilluns 10, Maig de 2021 - 13:15h