Agenda

Descripción:

Mike Elsby (Edinburgh). 

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

Ubicación: Online

Fecha: Miércoles 14, Abril de 2021 - 13:30h

Descripción:

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.

Ubicación: Online

Fecha: Jueves 15, Abril de 2021 - 15:00h

Descripción:

Boyao Zhang (UAB-IDEA).

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

Ubicación: Online

Fecha: Viernes 16, Abril de 2021 - 12:00h

Descripción:

Morten Ravn (University College London). 

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

Ubicación: Online

Fecha: Miércoles 21, Abril de 2021 - 13:30h

Descripción:

Ha Luong (Universitat de Barcelona).

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

Ubicación: Online

Fecha: Jueves 22, Abril de 2021 - 13:15h

Descripción:

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).

Ubicación: Online

Fecha: Jueves 22, Abril de 2021 - 15:00h