PhD Alumni Conference

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“Long-Run Economic Consequences of Firm Avoidance in the Threshold Regulation for Financial Reporting”

Yu Cao

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“Held-to-Maturity Accounting and Bank Runs”

Kaiji Chen

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“Inequality and the Rise of Finance”

Dario Laudati

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“Household Debt and Labor Share”

Diego Vilan

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12:00 PM ⋅ Keynote Lecture

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Ayşe İmrohoroğlu

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Ayşe İmrohoroğlu is a macroeconomist who specializes in understanding business cycles, inflation, unemployment insurance, and social security. Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and Journal of Monetary Economics. She received a National Science Foundation grant in 1992 to investigate the effects of social security programs on economies with imperfect insurance. From 2004 to 2007, she was Chair of the Department of Finance and Business Economics.

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“AI-Powered Bidding in Procurement Auctions”

Jingyi Tian

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“A Neyman-Orthogonalization Approach to the Incidental Parameter Problem”

Martin Weidner

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“Conditional Choice Probability Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice”

Tim Derdenger

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“Raking for Estimation and Inference in Panel Models with Nonignorable Attrition and Refreshment”

Grigory Franguridi

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“Caste and Space in Indian Cities”

Sripad Motiram

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“The Power of Connections: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Corporate Performance in Egypt, 1890‚Äì1950”

Mohamed Saleh

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Market Reactions to the Withdrawal of the Pharmaceutical Rebate Rule: Implications for Confidential Rebates

Yugen Chen

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Social Incentives of Non-Elected Leaders in Village Economics

Minji Kwak

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Uncertain Markup Cycles

Kehui “Chris” Leng

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Bundling to Mitigate Adverse Selection: Evidence from Land-Expropriated Farmers in China’s Social Security System

Xiaoxin Zhang

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6:30 PM ⋅ Dedication to Richard Easterlin

Maggie Switek

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7:30 PM ⋅ Industry Panel

Moderator:

Manuel Castro (Liftoff)

Panelists:

Maggie Switek (Milken Institute)

Enrique Rayon (VIASAT)

Rodney Swan (Swan Holdings)

Peter Resnick (XB Fulfillment)

Cheng Zhou (Discover Financial Services)

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“Brothers, Dowry, and Spousal Quality”

Urvashi Jain

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“Preferences and the Puzzle of Female Labor Force Participation”

Mahdi Majbouri

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12:00 PM ⋅ Keynote Lecture

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Thomas Chaney

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Thomas Chaney holds a PhD in economics from MIT, where he worked under the supervision of Daron Acemoglu (Nobel Prize 2024), Xavier Gabaix, and Marc Melitz. He joined the faculty of USC Economics in 2021. He is joint Managing Editor at the Review of Economic Studies, a member of the Council of the European Economic Association, a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a Research Fellow at the CESifo Research Network.

Thomas’s research focuses on international trade. He has studied the role of trade in the emergence of ancient cities in the Bronze Age, the role of production networks in shaping the patterns of international trade, and the importance of circulation of ancient coins in fostering trade and economic growth in the Ancient Mediterranean.

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“The Limit of Market-share Contracts”

Yong Chao

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“Using Incentives to Form Physical Activity Habits”

Ashish Sachdeva

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“Opportunity Cost Pass-Through and Merger Price Effects”

Brijesh Pinto

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“Skill Choices, Automation and Growth”

Laurent Cellarier

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“Enhancing Economic Literacy through Causal Diagrams”

Oleg Pavlov

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“Econometric Inference for High Dimensional Predictive Regressions”

Zhan Gao

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