KTI szeminárium: Gyöngyösi Győző - Household Debt Relief and the Debt Laffer Curve

2023.10.19.

  Gyöngyösi Győző Household Debt Relief and the Debt Laffer Curve   Absztrakt: Debt relief programs are often implemented in debt crises to reduce debt overhang and promote economic recovery. If debt overhang is severe, then debt relief can even benefit creditors by increasing repayment. This paper studies the impact of a large-scale household debt […]

KTI szeminárium: Arseniy Samsonov - How can social media limit disinformation?

2023.04.06.

Absztrakt: Political disinformation is dangerous for democracies. Social and government pressure made Facebook and Twitter start labeling posts that contain disinformation. This policy became known as fact-checking. Under which conditions will social media platforms fact-check? I propose a model in which two platforms decide whether to fact-check a politician. One of the platforms is ex-ante […]

KTI szeminárium: Zaifu Yang - A Universally Efficient Dynamic Auction for All Unimodular Demand Types

2023.03.30.

Absztrakt: We propose a novel strategy-proof dynamic auction for efficiently allocating heterogeneous indivisible commodities. The auction applies to all unimodular demand types of Baldwin and Klemperer’s necessary and sufficient condition for competitive equilibrium which accommodate a variety of complements, substitutes, gross substitutes and complements, and any other kinds. Although bidders are not assumed to be […]

KTI szeminárium: Molnár Tímea (Central European University) - Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Ladders

2023.03.23.

Accident-Induced Absence from Work and Wage Ladders (Timea Molnar (Central European University), Aniko Biro, Marta Bisztray, and Joao Galindo da Fonseca (U of Montreal)) Absztrakt: How do temporary spells of absence from work affect individuals’ labor trajectory? To answer this question, we augment a ‘wage ladder’ model, in which individuals receive alternative take-it-or-leave-it wage offers […]

KTI szeminárium: Boza István, Ilyés Virág - Within-firm Wage Premium of Recent Movers – Better Matches or Compensating Differentials?

2023.03.16.

08:00-16:00 Absztrakt: This study examines the impact of geographical mobility on improving worker-firm matches and increasing labor market productivity using Swedish linked employer-employee data. The empirical analysis focuses on newly hired workers and compares the wages of employees who have recently relocated with those hired from the local labor market. We propose that within-firm wage […]