• Initial Conditions and the Big Push (Daniel Velasquez, CMC)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    This paper examines how initial conditions shape the long-run impact of large temporary shocks on economic geography. Using WWII supply contracts in the United States, we show that temporary spending had persistent effects on population and manufacturing employment only in counties with low initial manufacturing development. Motivated by these findings, we develop a multisector economic […]

  • In-Context Kernel Ridge Regression with Transformers (Mingsong Yan, UCSB)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    Large language models (LLMs) can use examples provided in a prompt to make predictions for new queries without updating their parameters, a capability known as in-context learning. In this talk, […]