Congratulations to Raquel Bernal '03 on being named Rector of Universidad de los Andes. She is an expert on human capital development and social policy, and we are proud to see her continue her remarkable record of achievement
What are the drivers of the recent inflation surge?
Luca Gagliardone and Mark Gertler explore this issue with a simple quantitative model with an emphasis on oil shocks
and easy monetary policy
Link to the paper:
New from Mark Gertler: "I write on Marvin Goodfriend's contribution to research on monetary policy. In doing so I take a short trip through the literature."
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Congratulations to Professor Mark Gertler, the 2021 recipient of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Economics, Finance and Management category!!!
View his acceptance speech here:
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New paper by
@fercirelli
and Mark Gertler:
In the Covid recession, many firms "won" by offering safe substitutes for products with exposure to the virus. How did this reallocation contribute to the unequal nature of the recession and recovery?
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0/10. Today we highlight Matias Covarrubias JMP thread. He uses artificial intelligence algorithms to answer; How do oligopolistic strategies affect the transmission of monetary policy?
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Paula Onuchic is a microeconomic theorist who works on information economics, especially questions of career concerns in teams and discrimination. Learn more at
NYU Economics is proud to announce its 2021 Job Market Candidates.
Please see the complete list at
Threads on each candidate's research will appear here in the coming days.
NYU Economics is proud to announce its 2023 Job Market Candidates.
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Keep an eye out for threads on each candidate's research in the coming days.
1/11. Today we highlight Zahin Haque’s JMP. She documents a new fact showing Engel’s Law holds for production and uses it to understand the agricultural productivity gap.
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Website:
Are corporate tax cuts good at stimulating the economy, or just a gift to shareholders?
In my JMP, I show that the answer depends on tax depreciation policy and the share of pass-through economic activity, and I use the Trump’s and Kennedy’s tax cuts as an illustration.
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Felicitamos a Raquel Bernal '03 por ser elegida como rectora de la Universidad de los Andes. Es una experta en el campo del desarrollo del capital humano y la política social. Estamos muy orgullosos de sus importantes logros.
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@RaquelBernal3
We are happy to highlight Lena Song and her JM paper on
#econjobmarket
today
Her fields are: Applied Microeconomics, Development, Behavioral & Experimental, Political Economy
1/8 Hi
#EconTwitter
I am on the
#econjobmarket
this year!
Does lack of financing force promising young firms to exit? In my
#JMP
, I argue that the answer is yes, and this is especially the case in developing countries.
Website:
Teresa Steininger is a labor economist whose research centers around understanding inequalities in the labor market and in higher education, with a focus on policies that may address gender gaps. Learn more at .
NYU Economics is proud to announce its 2022 Job Market Candidates.
Please see the complete list at
Threads on each candidate's research will appear here in the coming days.
William Witheridge (
@WillWitheridge
) is a macroeconomist in international finance and monetary economics, who studies monetary policy and inflation in emerging-market economies. Learn more at
Hey everyone, I’m on the job market this year. Let me share with you a thread about my job market paper
“Firms’ Rollover Risk and Macroeconomic Dynamics”
website:
jmp paper:
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Andres Ghini (
@andresghini92
) is a macroeconomist specialized in monetary economics and fiscal-monetary policy. He studies how the welfare costs of inflation vary across households. Learn more at .
Facundo Danza (
@f_danza
) is an applied microeconomist whose research explores how agents adapt to weather variability and water scarcity, combining agronomic and economic modeling with microdata. Learn more at
Check out this paper by Sydney Ludvigson,
@Francesco_Bia
and
@LettauMartin
On the origins of a 40-year decline in real interest rates: What's the Fed got to do with it?
Angela Crema (
@angcrema
) is a labor economist who combines reduced-form empirics and structural modeling to design education policies that increase student achievement and reduce learning inequality. Learn more at
Vishal Ashvinkumar is a microeconomic theorist who aims to develop decision-theoretic tools that are useful and accessible for non-theorists in fields such as behavioral and experimental economics. Learn more at
Here's our next Job Market Candidate,
@elliott_jt
. His fields are Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics, Applied Microeconomics.
Please read about his JM paper in this thread.
Dear
#econjobmarket
, we are happy to highlight the JM paper by
@KristinaKomis
today.
Her fields are: Macroeconomics, Urban Economics, International Trade, Applied Microeconomics.
1/11 Hi
#EconTwitter
! I’d like to tell you about my JMP «Location Choices over the Life Cycle: the Role of Relocation for Retirement».
The paper studies the role of the life cycle for individual’s location choices and for the distribution of economic activity across cities.
In my JMP, I document a recent buildup of interest rate risk exposure in the U.S. life insurance sector. I find that this increase is the unintended consequence of the regulation that was supposed to curtail excessive risk-taking.
Look at my website:
Read more about NYU Arts and Science Prof. Alessandra Peter's latest research with Gideon Bornstein on pricing strategies, product market concentration, and business subsidies at:
@Ale_M_Peter
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@fdiogocamelo
is a macroeconomist whose research agenda is focused on understanding the macroeconomic causes and consequences of firm heterogeneity. Learn more at
Hi
#EconTwitter
! Kenji Wada is excited to share with you his
#EconJMP
.
He studies the decision making under parameter and state uncertainty, and its implications for equilibrium dynamics and credible policy promises in a general environment. 1/11
Paolo Varraso (
@PaoloVarraso
) is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on the role of financial markets and intermediaries in the transmission of macroeconomic shocks and policies. Learn more at
What makes inflation costly? Who bears these costs?
In my JMP, I explore an understudied mechanism:
Inflation impairs households’ ability to save for precautionary reasons
How? Let’s take a look at households’ liquid assets portfolios
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#Econjobmarket
Aleksandra Alferova (
@AAlferovaEcon
) is a macroeconomist and financial economist who studies financial intermediaries and optimal monetary and regulatory policy using micro-level data and macroeconomic modeling. Learn more at:
A striking fact: in the 19th century, the internal migration rate of whites in the United States was at least three times higher than in other countries.
In my JMP, I study how this feature of US history mattered for the rise of education.
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León F. Guzmán (
@leonguzmanl
) is an applied microeconomist whose research combines structural modeling and econometric tools to examine how organizational decisions within higher education can impact students' learning outcomes. Learn more at
Kenji Wada is a financial and macroeconomist who examines the determinants of economic outcomes and policy design in models with a more realistic treatment of uncertainty and risk. Learn more at
@stefan_f_bucher
is a microeconomist who studies the causes and consequences of cognitive frictions in choice, and thinks about how to reduce them. Learn more at
Dear
#EconTwitter
and
#econjobmarket
, we are very happy to highlight
@XiaoyeLiao
's Job Market paper today.
Xiaoye's fields are Microeconomic Theory, Information Economics, Game Theory.
1/9 Dear
#EconTwitter
, today we highlight Lena Song’s work.
#econjobmarket
Lena studies media and information technologies, with a focus on their relationship to diversity and inequality.
Website:
1/10 Hi
#EconTwitter
– I want to tell you about my JMP "Freelancing and the Value of Flexible Work"
In this paper, I study a modern labor market trend – many workers (such as freelancers) are able to choose their hours flexibly. I quantify the value of this flexible hours choice
Xiaoye Liao is a microeconomic theorist who works on information economics and dynamic interactions, including strategic information transmission and sequential information acquisition in coordination games. Learn more at .
Jin Liu (
@JinLiu79496180
) is a trade and IO economist whose research focuses on understanding micro firm decisions and their aggregate impact, particularly in the areas of innovation, technology, e-commerce, firm dynamics, and industrial policies. See
1/ Hi
#EconTwitter
! It’s time for me to tell you about my JMP: “Adversarial Method of Moments”, which can be found in my website () together with other content.
Guillaume Nevo (
@GuillaumeNevo
) is a macro and labor economist whose research focuses on the granularity of firms, and its effect on labor market outcomes and workers, using employer-employee data and structural modeling. Learn more at
Wonseok Yoo is a behavioral and experimental economist who studies how individuals’ behavioral biases in decisions affect learning patterns in the lab. Learn more at
Hi,
#EconTwitter
!
We've all heard of games of asymmetric information, but many strategic settings have asymmetric *costs* of information. My
#EconJobMarket
paper finds a huge lack of strategic sophistication in such games and identifies a key mechanism underlying it.
1/
Today we are happy to highlight
@YuetengZ
and his JM paper.
His fields are: Macro-Finance, Financial Economics, Money and Banking, Financial Intermediation
#EconTwitter
1/ Hi,
#EconTwitter
! How does FinTech affect banking and monetary policy transmission (MPT)? In my JMP, I study this question with a focus on the competition between FinTech companies and banks in the deposit market.
Look at my website for more details:
Yusufcan Demirkan is microeconomic theorist whose work focuses on individual decision-making models influenced by vision science and social group dynamics, examining their effects on markets. More information is available at .
9/9 We’re glad that the Twitter algorithm brought you this thread and hope this persuades you to check out some of Lena’s work.
For comments and questions, email lena.song
@nyu
.edu.
6/9 The same content has little effect on people with progressive or conservative racial beliefs, and extremely progressive content generates a backlash for people with conservative racial beliefs.
3/9 Messages that are closer to one's prior beliefs move beliefs in the direction of the message. However, messages that are far from one's prior beliefs generate backlash effects, that is, move beliefs in the opposite direction.
I have put a lot of effort into making this technology amenable to econ research, both intellectually and computationally. Soon, I will upload an open-source Python platform to , so keep an eye and don't hesitate to contact me!
Eungik (Eun) Lee (
@eungiklee
) is a macro and labor economist working on earnings risk and partial insurance using survey and administrative data from Denmark. Learn more at
2/9 Lena's JMP studies persuasion. Her theoretical model predicts that the persuasiveness of a message is an inverted-U function of its distance to the audience's existing beliefs.
This is a cutting-edge MS for students with research-oriented ambitions in economics, such as a top PhD program or a high-tech job in technology, finance, and research in both the private or public sectors.
6/11. These wedges make it costly for farmers to purchase food on the market. Rather than incurring this wedge, farmers endogenously misallocate resources to satisfy consumption needs and evade the market as much as possible.
4/11. Her JMP documents a new fact: Engel's Law also holds for production. In developing economies, poorer farmers devote a larger percentage of their land towards staple food production. She calls this result the production Engel curve.
Our ten-month MS starts with microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, supplemented by math and data science tools, accompanied by game theory, applied microeconomics, finance, and international economics.
5/11. Why does this pattern appear? She shows this occurs due to price wedges between buying and selling prices for staple foods breaking down the separability between consumption preferences and production outcomes.
2/11. In her job market paper, she examines the role non-homothetic consumption preferences play in generating the agricultural productivity gap. She finds that in the presence of market frictions, non-homotheticities in consumption do matter for production.
10/11. Finally, she uses this model to simulate the effects of various policies on production, welfare, and inequality. A counterfactual in-kind transfer subsidy improves the allocation of factors, increasing marketed production value by 10.35% and aggregate welfare by 2.41%.
The program is taught in a sequence of intensive six-week modules, allowing you to interact with over 20 leading faculty members in the classroom and beyond.
8/11. Next she develops and estimates a structural model of crop choice, based on a Ricardian trade model, in which consumption preferences impact production choices.
3/11. The agricultural productivity gap is well-known: agricultural productivity is significantly lower in poorer countries. Also well-known is Engel's Law: poorer households devote a larger percentage of their incomes toward staple food consumption.
9/11. The model has new implications for the effects of non-farm resources. In the theory (and data) external sources of income exacerbate misallocation, as farmers allocate even more land towards food production.
1/10. If the typical market has few firms competing, we want to understand how their strategic behavior affects price-setting dynamics and MP effectiveness. My contribution: allow for repeated game strategies and any number of firms.
7/11. She tests this theory using microdata from Vietnam. Consistent with the theory, she finds the steepest production Engel curves in the regions with the largest market frictions.
9/10. By inspecting the converging policies directly, we can corroborate a number of expected behaviors. One crucial example: As suggested by the mechanism, money growth increase (decrease) incentives to adjust for low (high) markup firms.
8/9 In other projects, Lena has conducted archival research or field experiments to study barriers to growth of microenterprises, social media addiction, and racial discrimination of firm owners in the media market.
5/9 After exposure to moderately progressive tweets supporting racial justice, people with moderate views on racial issues are persuaded (increase in beliefs in existence of discrimination, reduction in stereotypes, and increase in support for progressive policies).
He studies the equilibrium consequence of credible policy promises to mitigate agents’ uncertainty and heightened risk premia during crises. These promises potentially affect the set of consistent beliefs and eliminate some beliefs inconsistent with policy announcements. 7/11
4/10. Here is the performance of the algorithm in an RBC model after 50 updates of the neural net (roughly 1 min. of computation), compared to the exact solution:
Importantly, such promises can change the entire equilibrium dynamics but do not involve actual implementations. In this situations, policymakers should be aware of how their policies alleviate uncertainty and shape the beliefs of private agents to understand the efficacy. 8/11
Develops a novel methodology for agents to form the set of unknown parameters and states. They discipline the set of alternative beliefs consistent with observable information and the understanding of partial structure of the economy, cross-equation restrictions. 2/11
6/10. Mechanism part 2: When firms react to the markup of the other firm (i.e. they have a steep reaction function), the impact on incentives to adjust is lower, so MP is more effective. Collusive strategies imply steeper reaction functions, which make deviations costly.