Francesco Fabbri's (Francesco Fabbri) job market paper shows that a novel holdup problem emerges in markets where consumers invest in acquiring information about product quality. francesco-fabbri.github.io/documents/jmp.…

Georgios Nikolakoudis's (George Nikolakoudis) job market paper examines how production networks create macroeconomic risk when firms operate under incomplete information. nikolakoudis.com/JMP.pdf

Alejandro Sabal's (Alejandro Sabal) job market paper explores how product entry shapes the impact of national protectionist subsidies on global market outcomes in the automobile industry. docs.google.com/viewer?url=htt…

Hassan Sayed's (Hassan S.) job market paper studies why political incumbents pursue partisan policies to win reelection. hassansayedecon.github.io/hassan-sayed.c…

What is the cost of waiting for nationality? JMC Yanina finds that admin delays prolong periods of restricted mobility, limiting immigrants' access to better jobs and leading to much lower earnings over 10 years. sites.google.com/view/yaninadom…

How do contract types and worker characteristics influence individual income volatility? JMC @i_lagrosa develops a model to study income trajectories in dual labor markets, accounting for latent individual heterogeneity. ivanlagrosa.com

Did rising house prices contribute to the marital and cohabitation decline in the US? JMC Francesco Chiocchio finds that higher housing cost explain much of this decline, especially for non-college-educated, by making it harder to leave the parents' home fchiocchio.github.io

What determines optimal deposit insurance coverage? JMC Vedant Agarwal studies the effects of deposit insurance coverage on banks' exposure to runs, risk-taking incentives, fiscal costs, and welfare in a quantitative macroeconomic model with bank runs vedant-agl.github.io

How should we think about estimation uncertainty of heterogeneous responses when the sample is a large fraction of the population? Víctor Sancibrián explores this in repeated measurement problems, such as when documenting the extent of firm misallocation sancibrian-v.github.io

Very excited to share that I'll be joining Università Bocconi Econ as an AP later this year! I'm immensely grateful to Manuel Arellano, Dmitry Arkhangelsky, Enrique Sentana, Mikkel Plagborg-Møller, and the CEMFI community for their support

📢 New Seminar tomorrow at our department! 🎓 Speaker: Víctor Sancibrián Víctor Sancibrián , CEMFI CEMFI 🧮 Topic: Estimation uncertainty in repeated finite populations 🕓 Time: 12:30 🔗 Join via MS Teams: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/…

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Congratulations to Víctor Sancibrián for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis at CEMFI!. Thanks to Aureo de Paula Aureo de Paula, Laura Hospido and Geert Mesters for serving in the Thesis Defense Committe and to Víctor’s advisor Manuel Arellano Manuel Arellano

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If you are someone with strong quantitative skills and would like to work at CEMFI with me as a Research Assistant (Pre-doc), apply here cemfi.es/forms-cemfi/jo…. Excellent opportunity to build your skills in a dynamic research environment. The deadline is Friday, August 8th!

*** Meet REStud North American 2025 Tourists! *** The REStud North American Tour recognizes the most promising graduating doctoral students in economics and finance from European universities, and introduces them and their research to audiences in North America, 🧵 1/13

.@sancibrian_vshows that standard errors are too large when the sample covers a large share of the population and the features of interest are (repeatedly) measured with noise. 👇 10/13

He proposes simple adjustments that yield non-conservative inference and up to 50% shorter CIs in two applications. sancibrian-v.github.io/files/sancibri… 11/13

📢 Universita Bocconi Economics is hiring! We have 2 junior positions open this year. If you’re on the market, we’d love to hear from you — please apply and share. #EconJobMarket #EconTwitter aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…