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Workshop: Montreal Workshop on Markets with Frictions

CIRANO

Monday 30 Apr 2018
From 8:30AM To 4:50PM

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This workshop was organized by Fabian Lange (McGill University, CIRANO, CIREQ, IZA), Theodore Papageorgiou (McGill University, CIREQ) and Markus Poschke (McGill University, CIREQ, IAE, IZA). The focus of the workshop was new research, both theoretical and applied, focusing on markets where frictions, broadly defined, are present, such as labor market or product markets to name a few.

 

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Jan Eeckhout

Jan Eeckhout is ICREA research professor at UPF, Barcelona. His research in macroeconomics focusses on the labor market and market power. His work has been published in the AER, QJE, Econometrica, REStud, JPE, and his book "The Profit Paradox" is published by Princeton University Press. He has received funding from the NSF and the ERC, as well as private grants. Jan Eeckhout has been a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He has also been visiting professor at Princeton (Louis A. Simpson Visiting Professor), NYU Stern and MIT. He has been editor of the IER and is currently on the board of the RED and the JET, and is past board member of the JEEA. He is fellow of the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and Academia Europaea. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from LSE in 1998.

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Bart Hobijn

Bart Hobijn is Professor in the Department of Economics at Arizona State University.

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Rasmus Lentz

Rasmus Lentz is Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Andrea Prat

Andrea Prat is the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Columbia University.

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Susan Vroman

Susan Vroman is Professor at Georgetown University.

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David Wiczer

David Wiczer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Stony Brook University.

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Program

8:30 - 9:00
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Structural Transformation: A Race between Demographics and Technology
Bart Hobijn
9:50 - 10:40
Directed Search and Phantom Vacancies
Susan Vroman
10:40 - 11:10
Coffe Break
11:10 - 12:00
The Technological Origins of the Decline in Labor Market Dynamism
Jan Eeckhout
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 13:50
On Worker and Firm Heterogeneity in Wages and Employment Mobility: Evidence from Danish Register Data
Rasmus Lentz
13:50 - 14:40
Wages, Workers and Vacancy Durations: Evidence from Linked Data
14:40 - 15:10
Coffee Break
15:10 - 16:00
Network Search: Climbing the Ladder Faster
David Wiczer
16:00 - 16:50
Organizational Capital, Corporate Leadership, and Firm Dynamics
Andrea Prat

Location


1130 Rue Sherbrooke O #1400, Montréal, QC H3A 2M8, Canada