Ilan Noy (Climate Change and Natural Disasters) This course offered an overview of the economics of disasters and climate change. It discussed the main theoretical frameworks in the literature and the available data. It then discussed extant issues, possible methodological answers and avenues for future research.

Mónica Dias (Empirical Methods for Policy Evaluation) The course addressed the most frequent methods in the literature for quantifying the causal effects of an intervention. It focused on their underlying assumptions, identification strategies, parameters identified, and relative merits and weaknesses. The course offered several examples from recent literature.

John Antonakis (On Doing Consequential Experiments In Management Research) This course discussed the basics of experimentation and why experiments provide robust causal claims. It covered a range of experimental designs to address relevant research questions in management science, addressing the limitations of traditional approaches. It also touched on experimentally-randomized instrumental variables, mediation testing, and natural experiments.

NEW! (11-15 Sept.) Florencio Lopez de Silanes (Law and Finance, the Regulation of Financial Markets) These lectures will focus on “Law and Finance”, namely the lack of efficient corporate control mechanisms. Accounting for asymmetric information and moral hazard, the lectures will enlighten how differences in institutional characteristics, shareholder protection, and creditor rights across countries affect capital markets, firm valuation, and firm financing. Enroll here.