Hot off the press! Optimal dynamic contests with endogenous feedback. Big thank you to all who helped improve this paper!

Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Théo Durandard’s research interests are Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organizations. Learn more about Theo & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/people/phd-job…

This paper uses game theory to study how favor exchange influences household wealth dynamics. It identifies a tension between accumulating wealth and relying on favors, which can exacerbate wealth inequality.

From Daniel Barron, Yingni Guo and Reich:

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*New working paper* “Monitoring Harassment in Organizations,” w/ @SylvainChassang, Ada González-Torres🇺🇦, and @RachelMHeath. I'm excited to present it tomorrow at #NBERSI Personnel @ 2:40 pm! Watch here: youtube.com/nbervideos.

Also, a thread about our paper.

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I'm super excited to announce that I got tenure at Northwestern Kellogg School! So grateful for colleagues, friends, family, and the awesome economics community.

Extremely thankful with Luis, David, and Dan! 😌

We are optimistic that this year we will finally be able to meet again in person. Of course, this will depend on the Covid situation, so let us keep our fingers crossed! See relationalcontracts.net for more info on this year's and past workshops.
Daniel Barron Matthias Fahn

Energy/enviro econ job market candidates: just found out that postdoc at Berkeley in natural resource econ did not make it into JOE. Deadline is this Friday (w no flexibility). Pay is light, but duties are even lighter. Great colleagues. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03177

Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Ruozhou Yan’s research interest is Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organizations, Political Economy. Learn at kelloggphds.northwestern.edu/ruozhou-yan/ & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/people/phd-job…

Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Henrique Castro-Pires’s research interest is Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organizations. Learn more about Henrique at sites.northwestern.edu/kelloggphds/he… & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/people/phd-job…

Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Ruozhou Yan’s research interest is Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organizations, Political Economy. Learn about Ruozhou Yan at kelloggphds.northwestern.edu/ruozhou-yan/ & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/people/phd-job…

Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Miguel Ángel Talamas Marcos’s research interest is Development Economics, Organizational Economics, Labor Economics. Learn more at kelloggphds.northwestern.edu/miguel-talamas/ & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/people/phd-job…

Kellogg School of Management PhD Candidate Andres Espitia’s research interest is Economics of Organizations, Microeconomic Theory, Behavioral Economics. Learn more about Andres Espitia & other Northwestern Economics Job Market Candidates at economics.northwestern.edu/people/phd-job…

The first presenter is Daniel Barron (Daniel Barron Kellogg School) who talks about “Wealth Dynamics in Communities,” (joint with Yingni Guo Yingni Guo and Bryony Reich. They develop a model to explore a key obstacle to wealth accumulation: wealth can crowd out favor exchange.

Hayek (1945) recognized that well-functioning economic systems must motivate parties to adapt to changing circumstances. How do business relationships navigate such adaptation problems?

Congratulations to Isaiah Andrews of Harvard University, winner of the 2021 John Bates Clark Medal! aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…

This is the account of the annual “Workshop on Relational Contract”. Follow us to find out about interesting papers, conferences, or stories on relational contracts and informal relationships! Daniel Barron Michael Powell hideshi Matthias Fahn

(3/n) We are releasing an open-source deep-learning powered library, Layout Parser, that provides a variety of tools for automatically processing document image data at scale.

Webpage: layout-parser.github.io
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2103.15348
Github: github.com/Layout-Parser/…

We will have a seminar in 45 minutes (at April 1, 2021 at 10:00AM)! The seminar will be broadcasted via Twitch: ift.tt/3q14xCW Presentation info: Daniel Barron (Northwestern, Kellogg), Wealth Dynamics in Communities

We're hiring a development econ postdoc! 2-year position with Christopher Udry, Lori Beaman, and me at Northwestern, 1/2 time on collaborations with us on gender/devo, 1/2 on your own research. Email CV, cover letter & JMP plus letters to [email protected]. Pls use that email for ?'s.