Activitats
Dijous, 15 Abril 2021
Dia · Setmana
15:00
Pecuniary Externalities in Financial Frictions: Do they Matter for Welfare (joint with C. Michelacci)
Descripció:
Webinar seminar.
Andrea Pozzi (EIEF, Roma).
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81973306482?pwd=bk02TmtaN3VUT3ZsTmU5aG9jclJiQT09
Abstract:
The price of a collateral asset can affect agents’ financial constraints and, since agents do not internalize the effects of their choices on asset prices, this induces a so-called pecuniary externality. When it is positive and sizeable, higher asset prices stimulate economic activity, which causes increases in households’ consumption expenditures large enough to improveaggregate welfare despite the higher user cost of assets. This insight yields a sufficient statistic to evaluate the importance of pecuniary externalities related to specific collateral assets. We use Italian data in the late 90’s and early 00’s to estimate the value of our statistic for the price of land—a collateral asset typically used by Italian households and firms to obtain external financing. We rely on exogenous shocks to the foreign demand for Italian land to obtain variation in its price. The data indicate that the Italian economy is subject to sizeable pecuniary externalities with a higher value of land leading to welfare gains, suggesting that the Italian economy is heavily financially constrained.
Ubicació: Online
Data: Dijous 15, Abril de 2021 - 15:00h
Divendres, 16 Abril, 2021
12:00
Bellaterra Macro Club
Descripció:
Boyao Zhang (UAB-IDEA).
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87118826250?pwd=VmFNbUg4dS90cXJCN2xWZ0FkNG9hUT09.
Ubicació: Online
Data: Divendres 16, Abril de 2021 - 12:00h
Dimecres, 21 Abril, 2021
13:30
Bellaterra Macro Seminar
Descripció:
Morten Ravn (University College London).
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83734438737?pwd=T3N5Q1lab0lObHdrYTJPSUxUeVR2QT09.
Ubicació: Online
Data: Dimecres 21, Abril de 2021 - 13:30h
Dijous, 22 Abril, 2021
13:15
"Gender differences in firm performance following natural disasters: Evidence from an experiment in Sri Lanka"
Descripció:
Ha Luong (Universitat de Barcelona).
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83734438737?pwd=T3N5Q1lab0lObHdrYTJPSUxUeVR2QT09.
Ubicació: Online
Data: Dijous 22, Abril de 2021 - 13:15h
15:00
The Academic Market And The Rise Of Universities In Medieval And Early Modern Europe (1000-1800)
Descripció:
Frédéric Docquier (LISER - Luxembourg) with D. de la Croix, A. Fabre, R. Stelter.
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84480729097?pwd=Yk5tZzZqWWQxWGdPcnlTU1MyTnJ5dz09.
Abstract:
We argue that market forces shaped the geographic distribution of upper-tail human capital across Europe during the Middle Ages, and contributed to bolstering universities at the dawn of the Humanistic and Scientific Revolutions. We build a unique database of thousands of scholars from university sources covering all of Europe, construct an index of their ability, and map the academic market in the medieval and early modern periods. We show that scholars tended to concentrate in the best universities (agglomeration), that better scholars were more sensitive to the quality of the university (positive sorting) and migrated over greater distances (positive selection). Agglomeration, selection and sorting patterns testify to a functioning academic market, made possible by the use of a common language (Latin).
Ubicació: Online
Data: Dijous 22, Abril de 2021 - 15:00h
Divendres, 23 Abril, 2021
12:00
Bellaterra Macro Club
Descripció:
Valerio Pieroni (UAB-IDEA).
Link: http://pareto.uab.es/ufae_gestio/@Discord.
Ubicació: Online
Data: Divendres 23, Abril de 2021 - 12:00h