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The Role of Reputation and Corruption in Procurement (REPCOR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2021,

Nearly all activities in which the public sector is involved, from defense to transportation, from education to healthcare, require the public sector to procure works or goods from private contractors. Thus, it is crucial that the procedures through which procurement occurs be designed to avoid waste and enhance social welfare. Preventing corruption and ensuring contractor compliance with their ob ...
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Macroeconomic Dynamics with Product Market Frictions (MACROPMF)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

The transmission of microeconomic and macroeconomic shocks to firms' price and demand in product markets is the cornerstone of a large volume of macroeconomic literature. Product market frictions, by reducing the ability of demand to relocate across different suppliers, affect firms' incentives when setting prices, and therefore the pass-through of shocks to both demand and prices. In this proj ...
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The macroeconomic effects of microeconomic inaction (MEF)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

"A large part of macroeconomics embeds some form of inertial behavior by firms and/or house- holds. Whether it is in price or wage setting, real or financial investment choices, saving or consumption decisions, some element of stickiness leading to inaction ranges in individuals’ choices (in prices, consumption, investment) is often included to reconcile the model with observed individual data. Ye ...
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Estimation of General Equilibrium Labor Market Search Models (ESEMO)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"My proposal deals with the estimation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models with important heterogeneity at the level of firms and households and frictions in the labor market. In the estimation I will exploit mixed frequency data (monthly, quarterly and annual) available in different countries. I will also efficiently take care of possible missing values in the data. This might requir ...
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New Strategies and New Data to Test Intertemporal Consumer and Firm Behavior (NSND)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"Whenever markets fail to offer perfect insurance possibilities, consumers and firms, separately or jointly, will develop ways to reduce their intertemporal exposure to risk. The goal of this proposal is to use new empirical strategies and newly available microeconomic data to understand the behavioral, organizational, and contractual responses to uncertainty by consumers and firms, to describe th ...
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