10th Annual Postdoctoral Fellows Conference

Friday, October 4, 2019

• 9:15am - 9:45am PDT

  Breakfast

• 9:45am - 10:05am PDT

  Welcome and Introductions: Gopi Shah Goda

• 10:05am - 11:55am PDT

  “Price Regulation in Credit Markets: A Trade-off between Consumer Protection and Credit Access” (with Alberto Sepulveda)

  Jose Ignacio Cuesta

  Moderator: 

  Hannes Schwandt

  Discussant(s):

  Amit Seru

• 10:55am - 11:10am PDT

  Break

• 11:10am - 12:00pm PDT

  “Scaling Auctions as Insurance: A Case Study in Infrastructure Procurement”

  Shoshana Vasserman (with Valentin Bolotnyy)

  Moderator: 

  Hannes Schwandt

  Discussant(s):

  Paulo Somaini

• 12:00pm - 1:30pm PDT

  Lunch

• 1:30pm - 2:20pm PDT

  “Why Doesn’t Technology Flow to Poor Countries? An Analysis of Multinational Wage Patterns”

  Hannes Malmberg (with Jonas Hjort and Todd Schoellman)

  Moderator: 

  Molly Schnell

  Discussant(s):

  Pete Klenow

• 2:20pm - 2:35pm PDT

  Break

• 2:35pm - 3:25pm PDT

  “Foxes and Hedgehogs: Personality and Labor Market Adjustment Costs”

  Matthew Grant (with Sharon Traiberman and Hannes Schwandt)

  Moderator: 

  Molly Schnell

  Discussant(s):

  Isaac Sorkin

• 3:25pm - 3:40pm PDT

  Break

• 3:40pm - 4:30pm PDT

  “Wartime Procurement and the Direction of Prosthetic Device Innovation”

  Jeff Clemens (with Parker Rogers)

  Moderator: 

  Molly Schnell

  Discussant(s):

  David Chan

• 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT

  Reception

• 5:30pm - 7:00pm PDT

  Dinner