We are looking for profs, post-docs and PhD students interested in a one-day replication challenge at University of Toronto in Canada. Participants will be matched with other researchers working in the same field (e.g., dev economics, American Politics). Each team will work on replicating a...

The aim of the workshop is to bring together academic scientists, researchers and research scholars who are interested in or are working on spatial econometric and statistical issues. The program will consist of invited and contributed papers that cover theoretical, methodological and empirical...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

Conference and summer school theme is "Methodology and applications of dynamic structural models with strategic interactions". The summer school and conference will run in-person. The primary focus of DSE summer school is to provide PhD students with tools and hands-on computational instruction...

The 2022 DSE conference Methodology and applications of dynamic structural models with strategic interactions is run adjacent to the summer schools and brings together top junior and senior researchers from the field to share the recent advances in their theoretical and applied work. We invite...

We introduce shocks to the availability of US dollar funding for non-US financial intermediaries in a two-country New Keynesian model with financial frictions. Such dollar shortages lead to uncovered interest rate parity deviations and have a significant negative effects on the macroeconomy....

The Workshop on Growth and Development in Macroeconomics /International Trade will take place within the framework of the 2022 RIDGE December Forum.

This paper investigates how monetary expansion affects household consumption and savings through household debts. Using monetary policy cuts in China in the end of 2008 as an experiment, we find that the resulted increase in indebted households’ disposable income leads to increasing...