Speaker: Ernest Liu, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Bendheim Center for Finance in Princeton's Department of Economics Paper: Innovation Networks and Innovation Policy Abstract: We study the optimal allocation of R&D resources in an endogenous growth model with an innovation network, through which one sector’s past innovations may benefit other sectors’ future innovations. First, we provide closed-form […]

Please register in advance and contact Chuck McKenney with any questions.  Speakers: Laura Pabón, Eliana Carranza, and Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz Abstract:In mid-2020, the Government of Colombia launched a labor reform consultation process (Misión de Empleo) in response to a deterioration in pre-Covid19 employment indicators and changing economic and labor market conditions. Based on a comprehensive review of Colombia’s labor market performance for […]

Speaker: Martin Kahanec, Professor and Head of the Department of Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. Abstract: (Paper)Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing skill shortages across countries, occupation groups and industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to […]

Speaker: Justin Bloesch, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Harvard University Paper: Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Hold-up Power Abstract: We argue that productive firms share rents with workers only in occupations where workers have individual hold-up power. We present a model of wage determination where firms produce using a novel generalization of […]