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Super-Star Firms, Monopolies, and Productivity: Are We in a New Gilded Age or a New Rust Age?
Super-Star Firms, Monopolies, and Productivity: Are We in a New Gilded Age or a New Rust Age?
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Consumer Finance: Micro and Macro Approaches
On May 10-11, the Becker Friedman Institute's Consumer Finance Conference brought together micro- and macro-economists working in the field of consumer finance, with the goal of building bridges between researchers working on similar questions using different methodological approaches. Topics of interest included consumer borrowing (credit cards, payday loans, mortgages), savings and investment decisions, and personal […]
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Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice
The economics of crime and justice is a booming field, owing largely to new sources of data and methodological innovation. This conference was the first of an annual series to be held in alternate years in Chicago and London. It assembled scholars from around the world to discuss recent work on issues involving the economics […]
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University of Chicago Graduate China Forum: Economics Panel
University of Chicago Graduate China Forum: Economics Panel
Overall leverage ratio of China’s real economy in 2018 was around 243.7%, among which the China’s state-owned enterprises (SOE) leverage ratio was 103% and government leverage ratio was 37%. However, if considering off-balance financing funded by local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) that were often packaged as fund products and sold to individual investors, the leverage […]
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Women in Macro Conference
The second annual Women in Macro Conference brought together influential women economists from around the world working in the field of macroeconomics, broadly defined. The objective of the conference is to feature the high-quality work of women in a field in which they are significantly under-represented. It provided participants an informal venue to strengthen their […]
From Theory to Practice: New Developments in Structural Econometrics and Policy Analysis
From Theory to Practice: New Developments in Structural Econometrics and Policy Analysis
In recent years there has been tremendous progress in the use of structural econometric models for policy evaluation and analysis. This conference brought together leaders and experts from a variety of related areas, ranging from methodological areas, such as econometrics, statistics and causal inference, to applied areas, including environmental economics, energy policy and regulation, public […]