Course Syllabus

Meeting day/time: Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00
Meeting Location: Littauer M-17,
North Yard Instructors: Oliver Hart, Philippe Aghion, and Luigi Zingales

Participants present their own research in progress in an informal setting. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their general examinations and are in the early stages of their dissertations.

 

 Date

 Speaker(s)

 Presentation

January 27

No Meeting Today

 

February 3

No Meeting Today

 


 

February 10

 

Jonathan Libgober

Harvard University

 Canceled - Snow Storm

 

"TBA"

February 17

 

Anastassia Fedyk

Harvard Business School

 

 

 "Asymmetric Naivete"

February 24

Ansgar Walther

Oxford University

 

 

 "Discretion vs. Rules in Bank Resolution"

March 3

 Scott Lee

Harvard Business School

 

 "Intrinsic Incentives: A Field Experiment on Leveraging Intrinsic Motivation in Public Service Delivery"

March 10

Kirill Borusyak

Harvard University

 

 

"Decision Authority and Contracting with an Informed Agent"

March 17

No Meeting Today

Spring Break

 

 

March 24

Nancy Wang

Harvard University

 

 

 "Milk Safety in China: A Field Experiment"

March 31

Torben Mideksa 

University of Oslo

 

"Conservation Contracts and Political Regime"

April 7

Aubrey Clark

 Harvard University

 

 

"Principal-Agent Problems with Costly Attention" 

April 14

Divya Kirti

Harvard University

 

 

 "Why do bank dependent firms bear interest rate risk?"

April 21

Victor Lyonnet

 École Polytechnique

 

 

"Buyers of Last Resort: Commercial Banks in the Shadow"

April 28

Sangram Kadam

Harvard University

 

 

"Interviewing in Matching Markets"

 

Course Summary:

Course Summary
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