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SUMMARY:Stefania Lovo (Virtual Seminar)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Renewable energy technology adoption and the diffusion of information and behaviour in social networks: Evidence from rural China \nAbstract: This paper investigates how social networks affect renewable energy technology adoption. We distinguish between two channels through which social networks may play a role: the diffusion of information\, and the diffusion of behaviour. We conduct a survey on biogas technology adoption in rural China to identify individuals’ networks. We find that both the diffusion of information and behaviour drive farmers’ technology adoption. In addition\, we find heterogeneous social network effects. Friends and relatives or individuals that are trusted affect adoption through the diffusion of information\, while less trusted individuals such as government officials affect adoption through the diffusion of behaviour. \nWatch the recording
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SUMMARY:Steven Bosworth (Virtual Seminar)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Bias and discrimination: What do we know? (joint w/ Marina Della Giusta) \nAbstract: The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias\, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and stereotyping; the incorporation of these insights into current theoretical and empirical research in economics\, and the literature on methods to contrast bias presenting evidence (where it exists) of their effectiveness. The second part of the paper presents results of an experiment in revealing unconscious bias. \nWatch the recording
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SUMMARY:Alex Mihailov (Virtual Seminar)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Quantifying the macroeconomic effects of the COVID-19 lockdown: Comparative simulations of the estimated Galí-Smets-Wouters model \nAbstract: This paper considers 3 scenarios regarding the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown\, staying for 1\, 2 or 3 quarters\, and 2 types of exceptionally rare and devastating disruptions in employment modeled as adverse labour supply shocks\, a temporary one without loss in the labour force due to deaths or a permanent one\, with deaths. The temporary labour supply shock simulations delimit a lower bound\, designed to match about 1/4 of the labour force unable to work\, and an upper bound\, matching about 3/4 of the labour force made economically inactive\, broadly consistent with estimates. The permanent labour supply shock is designed to match\, in 3 scenarios again\, up to 1% loss of the labour force due to mortality\, twice milder than the Spanish fl‡u 2% death rate. Estimated calibrations of the Galí-Smets-Wouters (2012) model for 5 major and most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic economies are simulated: the US\, Germany\, France\, Italy and Spain. The simulations suggest that even in the most optimistic scenario of a brief (lasting for 1 quarter) and mild (with 1/4 of the labour force unable to work) lockdown\, the loss of per-capita consumption (6-7% in annualised terms down from the long-run trend in the impact quarter) and per-capita output (3-4% down) will be quite damaging\, but recoverable relatively quickly\, in 1-2 years. In the most pessimistic simulated scenario of temporary loss the effects will be 10-15 times more devastating\, and the loss of output and consumption will persist beyond 10-15 years. Permanent loss of up to 1.5 percentage points of per-capita consumption and output characterises the simulated permanent labour supply shock. \nDiscussion Paper \nWatch the recording
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