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SUMMARY:Friedman Forum: The Economic Geography of Global Warming
DESCRIPTION:On November 17\, as part of the Friedman Forum speaker series\, University of Chicago’s Esteban Rossi-Hansberg presented his research evaluating The Economic Geography of Global Warming. The Friedman Forum series offers students an opportunity for informal discussions with prominent economists. \nGlobal warming is a worldwide phenomenon with a long and diverse list of potential local economic effects. In new research\, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and co-authors are using a dynamic economic assessment model of the world economy to evaluate the aggregate and local economic consequences of higher temperatures. Their baseline results show welfare losses from global warming as large as 20% in parts of Africa and Latin America but also high heterogeneity across locations\, with northern regions in Siberia\, Canada\, and Alaska experiencing gains. The authors find that global warming will increase spatial inequality\, since estimated welfare losses across locations are negatively correlated with current real income and welfare. They employ the model to assess the impact of policies like carbon taxes and clean energy subsidies\, as well as abatement technologies. Read the related working paper here. \nLunch is provided. \n 
URL:https://legacy.bfistage.com/event/friedman-forum-the-economic-geography-of-global-warming/
LOCATION:Oriental Institute\, Breasted Hall\, 1155 E 58th Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Friedman Forum
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SUMMARY:Capital Market Development: China and Asia Seminar Series - Angry Borrowers: Negative Reciprocity in a Financial Market
DESCRIPTION:The authors examine the consequences of an intrusive debt-collection tactic that targets delinquent borrowers’ social circles. Their identification strategy relies on the fact that some of the delinquent loans are not worked on due to collection agents’ excessive workload. The authors show that this tactic backfires and increases the borrowers’ default rate by 5.9 to 14.3 percentage points. Male borrowers and borrowers with better credit respond more strongly. Moreover\, the effect is concentrated in the period when this collection practice was emerging and likely unexpected. These findings are consistent with the negative reciprocity interpretation: angered borrowers retaliate by defaulting on their loans. \nWatch event video\n\n\nAbout the Seminar Series\nFinancial market development goes hand-in-hand with economic growth. The development of China’s capital markets in terms of size\, regulations\, capability\, and efficiency has been impressive. China may now even lead globally in some dimensions\, notably e-payments systems. Yet\, China’s capital markets are still a work-in-progress facing both generic and unique challenges. Other Asian capital markets have even greater uneven development. Some in advanced Asian economies have acquired globally acclaimed reputation and capabilities while various regulatory and structural weaknesses dwarf others. Corporations and investors have been inclined to arbitrage cross-border regulatory and developmental gaps; so the very uneven status of capital markets across Asia is a policy issue for the governments in the entire region and perhaps globally. Analyzing the positive and negative lessons in the functioning of Asia’s capital markets\, and identifying reforms and applications of technology that could further improve Asian capital markets’ allocation efficiency\, financial inclusion\, and forewarning against reforms that might cause problems can benefit practitioners\, policymakers and researchers\, and can contribute significantly to overall prosperity. \nThe ABFER and the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute China (BFI-China)\, in collaboration with National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School\, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Department of Economics\, CUHK-Shenzhen and Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance (Tsinghua PBCSF)\, hope to provide a virtual network to benefit researchers\, policymakers\, and practitioners from Asia and beyond. \n\n\nAll times are listed in Central Standard Time. A unique Zoom webinar link will be sent to you two days before the event.  \n\nSession Format\nEach session lasts for an hour (30 minutes for the author\, 15 minutes for the discussion\, 15 minutes for participants’ Q&A).
URL:https://legacy.bfistage.com/event/capital-market-development-china-and-asia-seminar-series-angry-borrowers-negative-reciprocity-in-a-financial-market/
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