Past seminars
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Brownbag Seminar: Maria Plakhtieva
13:00 - 13:50 28 October 2026
Title: How do acute health shocks impact individual preferences? Evidence from Employment Decisions. Author: Maria Plakhtieva Abstract: This paper studies whether acute health shocks alter the intertemporal preferences that govern employment, leisure, and consumption decisions. I combine British Household...
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Brownbag Seminar: Lucía Contreas
12:00 - 12:50 14 October 2026
Title: Less Simple, Less Distortionary? Evidence from Costa Rica’s Corporate Tax Reform Authors: Lucía Contreas and Jonathan Garita Abstract: This paper studies how firms respond to a less distortionary but less simple tax schedule in a developing economy. We do so in the context of Costa Rica’s...
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Brownbag Seminar: Antonio Nicolò
7 October - 4 November 2026
Title: It can’t happen here: Democratic Backsliding and the Complacency Trap Authors: Edoardo Grillo and Antonio Nicolò Abstract: We study how institutions and citizens interact to restrain the executive in a model of democratic backsliding. We show that this interaction can generate a complacency...
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Brownbag Seminar: Pengguang Lu
12:00 - 12:50 29 September 2026
Title: Heterogeneous Diagnostic Expectations and Wealth Inequality
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Brownbag - Chad Brown
13:00 - 14:00 17 December 2025
Title TBD
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