Glenn Ellison, Professor
Jan/20 | Tue | 10:30AM-11:30AM | E17-139 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This lecture will discuss some of the basic models that economists use to think about the retail industry and apply these principles to help understand the development of Internet retail, Amazon's role in the industry, and why there have been large swings in Amazon's market value.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
Roberto Rigobon
Jan/07 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:30PM | E51-145 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This session will discuss how several kinds of economists (in fields such as IO, applied micro, applied theory, macro, and international) have found productive professorial careers in several kinds of faculty groups (including economics, strategy, political economy, and international management) within several kinds of business schools (from Chicago to HBS, and many in between). Of course, a professorial career includes both research and teaching, so we will discuss how both may be somewhat different than in an economics department, but also how in many business schools the differences compared to a department are greater in terms of teaching than research.
Sponsor(s): Economics, Academic Media Production Services
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
Parag Pathak, Professor
Jan/13 | Tue | 02:30PM-04:00PM | E17-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
In Fall 2014, the Recovery School District in New Orleans became the first district in the United States to become 100% charter. In this talk, I will review some recent research from MIT’s School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative (SEII) on the effects of these reforms on student achievement.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
Amy Finkelstein, Professor
Jan/27 | Tue | 01:00PM-02:30PM | E25-117 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This talk will describe the results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: a randomized evaluation of the effects of covering low income uninsured adults with Medicaid. It will also discuss strategies and opportunities for increasing the use of randomized evaluations to study important questions in US health policy.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
Heidi Williams, Professor
Jan/26 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:00PM | E25-117 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This IAP talk with discuss how intellectual property rights -- like the patent system -- affect the rate and direction of research and development (R&D). It will focus in part on reporting research findings that explore how variation in the length of patent protection for new drugs affects the allocation of R&D spending.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
Sara Ellison, Senior Lecturer
Jan/14 | Wed | 10:30AM-12:00PM | E17-136 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This talk will cover economic issues in the used book market, in particular, changes in competition and consumer search facilitated by the migration of used book sales from brick and mortar stores to online markets. The talk will be based on new research by Glenn Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison. It will be appropriate for undergraduate and graduate attendees.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
Benjamin Olken, Professor
Jan/21 | Wed | 01:00PM-02:00PM | E17-136 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
In this talk, we will examine how economists study corruption in the field, and how the tools of economics can help us understand how corrupt officials determine how much they can charge in bribes. We will study examples from Indonesia including village road-building, bribes paid by long-distance truck drivers, and illegal logging.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
Peter Diamond, Institute Professor Emeritus
Jan/12 | Mon | 01:00PM-02:30PM | E17-136 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Debates about higher structural unemployment occur whenever unemployment has stayed high. Consistent with the academic literature, a shift in the Beveridge curve, as in the current recovery, has been viewed as a structural change, suggesting a limited role for stimulus. But a shift has occurred in 8 of the 9 recoveries since 1954.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
Pol Antras, Professor
Jan/15 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:30PM | E17-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
This session will discuss how world production processes have been sliced across borders. An emphasis will be placed on how economists have attempted to systematically document this phenomenon and how they have attempted to understand it through theoretical models
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
Seema Jayachandran, Associate Professor
Jan/22 | Thu | 01:00PM-02:30PM | E17-133 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Gender gaps in education, legal rights, life satisfaction, etc. are smaller in high-income countries than low-income countries. This talk discusses how the process of economic development narrows gender gaps, as well as why gender equality might be good for economic growth.
Sponsor(s): Economics
Contact: Linda Woodbury, E18-201D, 617 253-8885, LWOODBUR@MIT.EDU
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