Guest Lectures

2018 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Joshua Gottlieb
(University of British Columbia)
"The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality"
12/06/2018

Lesley Turner
(University of Maryland)
"Framing Effects, Earnings Expectations, and the Design of Student Loan Repayment Schemes"
11/7/2018

Nicholas Papageorge
(Johns Hopkins University)
"Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality"
11/1/2018

Desmond Toohey
(University of Delaware)
"Changes in Nutrient Intake at Retirement"
10/17/2018

Danielle Li
(MIT Sloan)
"Developing Novel Drugs"
10/11/2018

Mark Schweitzer
(Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
"Opioids and the Labor Market"
10/10/2018

Pinka Chatterji
(SUNY-Albany)
"Medical Malpractice Reforms and the Location Decisions of New Physicians"
9/26/2018

Elena Andreyeva
(UPenn Healthcare Management)
"The Effects of Home Health Visit Length on Hospital Readmission"
9/5/2018

Kristin McCue
(Census Bureau)
"Creation and Uses of the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)"
6/6/2018

Pietro Tebaldi
(University of Chicago)
"Nonparametric Estimates of the Demand for Health Insurance Among Low-Income Adults"
5/9/2018

Christopher Palmer
(MIT Sloan)
"Gentrification and the Amenity Value of Crime Reductions: Evidence from Rent Deregulation"
5/3/2018

Jim Jansen
(Penn State)
"Insights through Search and Social Media Data"
4/26/2018

Joel Slemrod
(Michigan Ross)
"Taxing Hidden Wealth: The Consequences of U.S. Enforcement Initiatives on Evasive Foreign Accounts"
4/25/2018

Avinash Gannamaneni
(MIT)
"Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being"
4/11/2018

Atul Gupta
(Upenn Healthcare Management)
"Impacts of Performance Pay for Hospitals: The Readmissions Reduction Program"
4/5/2018

Benjamin Jones
(Northwestern Kellogg)
"Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth"
3/26/2018

2017 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Martin Hackmann
(UCLA)
"The Returns to Nursing: Evidence from a Parental Leave Program"
11/17/2017

Ithai Lurie
(Department of the Treasury)
"Did the Affordable Care Act Young Adult Provision Affect Labor Market Outcomes? Analysis Using Tax Data"
10/18/2017

Kurt Lavetti
(The Ohio State University)
"The Impacts of Restricting Mobility of Skilled Service Workers: Evidence from Physicians"
10/11/2017

Nicholas Sanders
(Cornell University)
"Adapting to Subtle Environmental Change: Agriculture's Trouble with Sulfur After the Acid Rain Program"
9/28/2017

Neale Mahoney
(Chicago Booth)
"Provider Incentives and Healthcare Costs: Evidence from Long-Term Care Hospitals"
5/18/2017

Kevin Stange
(Michigan University)
"Labor Supply Effects of Occupational Regulation: Evidence from the Nurse Licensure Compact"
5/3/2017

Berthold Herrendorf
(Arizona State)
"Unbalanced Growth Slowdown"
4/12/2017

Lisa Dettling
(Federal Reserve Board)
"Minimum Wages and Consumer Credit: Impacts on Access to Credit and Traditional and High-Cost Borrowing"
4/5/2017

Pat Higgins
(Atlanta Federal Reserve)
"Introduction to GDP Nowcast"
3/22/2017

Robert Moffitt
(Johns Hopkins University)
"Welfare Rules, Incentives, and Family Structure"
2/22/2017

Adriana Kugler
(Georgetown Public Policy)
"Beyond Job Lock: Impacts of Public Helath Insurance on Occupational and Industrial Mobility"
2/15/2017

Irina Panovska
(Lehigh University)
"Is Business Cycle Asymmetry Intrinsic in Industrialized Economies?"
1/12/2017

2016 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Daniel Shoag
(Harvard Kennedy School)
"No Woman No Crime. Ban the Box, Employment, and Upskilling"
9/28/2016

Ankur Pandya
(Harvard School of Public Health)
"Modeling Cardiovascular Disease Progression, Costs, and Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy"
9/22/2016

John Romley
(RAND, University of Southern California)
"U.S. Hospitals Productivity Growth "
9/8/2016

Andrew Chang
(Federal Reserve Board)
"Measurement Error in Macroeconomic Data and Economics Research: Data Revisions, Gross Domenstic Product, and Gross Domestic Income "
8/4/2016

Jing Guo
(American Institutes for Research)
"What is the Marginal Benefit of Payment-Induced Family Care?"
7/14/2016

Kevin Fox
(UNSW Australia)
"Decomposing Value Added Growth over Sectors into Explanatory Factors "
7/13/2016

Randall Reback
(Barnard College)
"Does Access to Health Care Affect Teen Birth Rates and School Dropout Rates? Evidence from School-based Health Centers "
6/27/2016

Robert Kaestner
(University of Illinois-Chicago)
"Effects of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage and Labor Supply"
4/14/2016

Maria Marta Ferryra
(World Bank)
"Charter School Entry and School Choice: The Case of Washington, D.C."
3/1/2016

Eduardo Morales
(Princeton University)
"What do Exporters Know?"
1/20/2016

2015 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Ellen McGrattan
(University of Minnesota)
"On Financing Retirement with an Aging Population "
12/17/2015

Tal Gross
(Columbia University)
"Hospitals Insurers of Last Resort "
11/12/2015

Richard Hornbeck
(University of Chicago)
"Who Benefits from Productivity Growth? The Local and Aggregate Impacts of Local TFP Shocks on Wages, Rents, and Inequality "
11/5/2015

Mark Shepard
(Harvard)
"Hospital Network Competition and Adverse Selection: Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange"
10/21/2015

Missaka Warusawitharana
(Federal Reserve Bank)
"Profitability and the Lifecycle of Firms"
10/13/2015

David Weinstein
(Columbia University)
"Bar-Code Data and the Measurement of Real Output"
10/6/2015

Zack Cooper
(Yale University)
"Why is Health Spending on the Privately Insured in Grand Junction, Colorado so High? Prices, Market Concentration, and Health Spending "
9/28/2015

Gabriel Zucman
(London School of Economics)
"Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States since 1913"
9/21/2015

Erzo F.P. Luttmer
(National Bureau of Economic Research)
"The Value of Medicaid: Interpreting Results from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment"
9/10/2015

Michael Chrisitan
(University of Wisconsin)
"Measuring Human Capital in the National Accounts"
8/27/2015

Charles Roehrig
(Altarum Institute)
"National Health Expenditures by Medical Condition, 1996-2012"
7/30/2015

Daniel Murphy
(University of Virginia)
"Urban Density and the Substitution of Market Purchases for Home Production"
7/9/2015

JP Morgan Chase Institute Team
(JP Morgan Chase)
"Weathering Volatility: Big Data on the Financial Ups and Downs of US Individuals"
7/7/2015

2014 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Matthew Shapiro
(University of Michigan)
"Harnessing Naturally-Occurring Data to Measure Spending and Income"
12/4/2014

Nicolas Ziebarth
(University of Iowa)
"Internal capital markets in the Great Depression"
11/19/2014

Brent Neiman
(University of Chicago)
"Labor Shares and Inequality"
10/8/2014

Matthew Lewis
(Clemson University)
"Hospital Systems and Bargaining Power: Evidence from Out-Of-Market Acquisitions"
9/25/2014

Jonathan Skinner
(Dartmouth College)
"Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending"
9/17/2014

Christopher Ruhm
(University of Virginia)
"Recessions, Healthy No More?"
9/9/2014

Mun Ho
(Harvard University)
"Double Dividend: Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States"
8/4/2014

Matthew Grennan
(Wharton – University of Pennsylvania)
"Regulating Innovation with Uncertain Quality: Information, Access, and Risk in Medical Devices"
7/31/2014

Mark Huggett
(Georgetown University)
"Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective"
5/30/2014

Tomas Philipson and Mark Egan
(University of Chicago)
"Adjusting Measures of Economic Output for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?"
4/18/2014

Marika Cabral
(UT-Austin)
"Claim Timing and Ex Post Adverse Selection"
4/4/2014

Jeff Clemens
(UC-San Diego)
"The Effect of U.S. Health Insurance Expansions on Medical Innovation"
3/17/2014

Martha Starr
(American University)
"Decomposing growth in healthcare spending: Prices, quantities, diseases, and demographics."
2/4/2014

2013 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Ariell Reshef
(University of Virginia)
"Estimating Network Effects in a Dynamic Environment"

Marc Rysman
(Boston University)
"Estimating Network Effects in a Dynamic Environment"

Robin Lee
(NYU-Stern)
"Insurer Competition and Negotiated Hospital Prices"

F.X. Diebold
(University of Pennsylvania)
"Improving GDP Measurement: A Measurement Error Perspective"

Chad Syverson
(University of Chicago)
"Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector"

Maxim Pinkovskiy
(MIT)
"The Impact of Managed Care Backlash on Health Care Costs"

Heidi Williams
(MIT)
"Do Fixed Patent Terms Distort Innovation? Evidence from Cancer Clinical Trials"

Leemore Dafny
(Federal Trade Commission)
"Healthcare and Antitrust"

Iain Cockburn and Ernst Berndt
(Boston University/MIT)
"Price Indexes for Clinical Trial Research: A Feasibility Study"

Jessie Handbury
(Wharton)
"Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities"

Andrew Sweeting
(Duke)
"The Potential Entry Defense in Airline Mergers"

Mathew White
(Johns Hopkins University)
"An Ounce of Prevention at Half Price: Evaluating a Subsidy on Health Investments"

Martin Gaynor
(Carnegie Mellon)
"Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service," with Carol Propper and Stephan Seiler

2012 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Charles Roehrig
(Altarum Institute)
"Macro Statistics for the Health Sector"

Tricia Johnson
(Rush University)
"Demand for International Medical Travel into the United States"

Anthony Landry
(Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
"Capital Goods Imports, Investment-Specific Productivity, and U.S. Growth"

Ben Handel
(UC-Berkeley)
"Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Reclassification Risk"

Tom Koch
(Federal Trade Commission)
"Dynamic Selection in Medical Insurance Markets"

Chapin White
(Center for Studying Health System Change)
"Health Status and Hospital Prices Key to Regional Variation in Private Health Care Spending"

Michael Dickstein
(Stanford University)
"Patient vs. Physician Incentives in Prescription Drug Choice"

Amanda Starc
(Wharton)
"Age-Based Heterogeneity and Pricing Regulation on the Massachusetts Health Insurance Exchange"

Amanda Kowalski
(Yale)
"Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform", joint with Jonathan Kolstad

2011 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Michael Chernew
(Harvard University)
"Geographic variation in spending for the privately insured"

Bob Town
(University of Pennsylvania)
"The Impact of the Adoption of Health IT on Patient Outcomes"

Uli Doraszelski
(Wharton)
"Efficiency or Predation: What Drives Pricing When There Is Learning-by-Doing?"

Sean Nicholson
(Cornell University)
"A Quality-Adjusted Price Index for Colorectal Cancer Drugs"

Luis Cabral
(NYU)
"Good Turnover and Bad Turnover: Entry Barriers, Survival Barriers, and Welfare"

Jay Breit
(Colorado State University)
"Incorporating Auxiliary Information Into Complex Survey Estimators Through Modern Regression Methods"

2010 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Ricard Gil
(UC-Santa Cruz)
"Vertical Integration and Technology Adoption: Evidence from U.S. Movie Production 1940–1960"

Allan Collard-Wexler
(NYU Stern)
"Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry"

Dave Rapson
(UC-Davis)
"Does Absolution Promote Sin? A Conservationist's Dilemma"

Janet Hao
(Conference Board)
"Measuring Intangible Capital and Its Contribution to Economic Growth in Europe" with Bart van Ark, Carol Corrado, and Charles Hultenp

Lutz Kilian
(University of Michigan)
"The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil" with Dan Murphy

Forrest McCluer
(Greylock McKinnon Associates)
"Prices and Quantities in Health Care Antitrust Damages"

Ahmed Khwaja
(Yale University)
"Dynamic Entry with Cross Product Spillovers: An Application to the Generic Drug Industry"

Amil Petrin
(University of Minnesota)
"The Impact of Plant-Level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth"

Anne Hall
(Board of Governors)
"Geographical Variation and the Diffusion of Diagnostic Imaging"

Frank Lichtenberg
(Columbia University)
"Has Medical Innovation Reduced Cancer Mortality?"

Ashish Arora
(Duke University)
"Managing Licensing in a Market for Technology"

Andrew Ching
(University of Toronto)
"Measuring the Informative and Persuasive Roles of Detailing on Prescribing Decisions"

Unni Pillai
(SUNY Albany)
"A Model of Technological Progress in the Microprocessor Industry"

George Alessandria
(Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
"The Great Trade Collapse of 2008–09: An Inventory Adjustment?"

2009 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Ellen McGrattan
(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
"Transition to FDI Openness"

Jeff Prince
(Cornell University)
"Has the Internet Accelerated the Diffusion of New Products?"

James Adams
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"Discovery and Invention in Science-Based Firms"

Chad Syverson
(University of Chicago)
"Why Do Firms Own Production Chains?"

Brett Gordon
(Columbia University)
"Does AMD Spur Intel to Innovate More?" 

Gautam Gowrisankaran
(University of Arizona)
"Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods" 

Emi Nakamura
(Columbia University)
"Product Replacement Bias and Pricing to Market"

Ariel Pakes
(Harvard University)
"An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods"

Jon Skinner
(Dartmouth College)
"Technology Growth and Expenditure Growth in Health Care" with Amitabh Chandra

Jay Bhattacharya
(Stanford University)
"Economics of Obesity"

2008 - BEA Seminar Series Speakers

Aviv Nevo
(Northwestern University)
"Timing and Quantity of Consumer Purchases and the Consumer Price Index"

Marc Roberts
(Pennsylvania State University)
"R&D Investment and Export Dynamics"