Events

Events

Events

• Feb28

  Faculty of Business Seminar Series / Efşan Nas Özen

  Title: The Importance of Being Modest: The Roles of Gender and Socioemotional Skill Signals in the Labor Market Abstract: A vast literature shows the importance of socioemotional skills in earnings and employment, but whether they matter in getting hired...

• Feb22

  Faculty of Business Seminar Series / Emre Ergin

  Title: How to compare dictators Abstract: Given a preference order how to compare two other preference orders? We present an intuitive way to derive utilities for preferences over some alternatives, from utilities for those alternatives. We also cover...

• Feb14

  Faculty of Business Seminar Series / Doruk Cengiz

  Title: Seeing Beyond the Trees: Using machine learning to estimate the impact of minimum wages on affected individuals   Abstract: Much of the minimum wage literature has focused on narrow sub-groups such as teens. We use machine learning tools...

• Feb13

  Faculty of Business Seminar Series / Alparslan Tuncay

  Title: “Assortative Mating and Inequality”   Abstract: This paper studies the evolution of assortative mating based on the permanent wage (the individual-specific component of wage) in the U.S., its role in the increase in family wage...

• Feb12

  Faculty of Business Seminar Series / Seungho Choı

  Title: Making News Salient   Abstract: CEOs have incentives to communicate with their investors after news releases if the market misinterprets the news. I examine how CEOs communicate with the market through their trading patterns. I find that...