Seminars 2011-2012
Semester 1
Robert Topel (Chicago)Monday 12 September 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
"Intermediaries and Competition". (with Kevin M Murphy co-author)
Miklos Koren (Central European University)Monday 19 September 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
Machines and machinists: Capital-skill complementarity from an international trade perspective
József Sákovics (Edinburgh)Monday 3 October 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
A New Marshallian Theory of the Consumer
Michele Tertilt (Stanford)Monday 10 October 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
- Double bill for this Monday:
Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)Monday 31 October 2011, 1pm - 2.30pm7 George Square, room 2.37
The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the
Global Market for Crude Oil
Enrique Sentana (CEMFI)Monday 31 October 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
'Underidentification?' with Manuel Arellano and Lars Peter Hansen
Jan Potters (Tilburg)Monday 7 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
The Effect of Link Costs on the Formation and Outcome of Buyer-Seller Networks (with Gönül Dogan, Marcel van Assen)
- Double bill for this Friday:
Michele Belot (Nuffield College (Centre for Experimental Social Sciences)Friday 11 November 2011, 12.30pm - 2pmDavid Hume Tower, Conference Room
Cognitive Discrimination – A Benchmark Experimental Study
Philipp Kircher (LSE)Friday 11 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmDavid Hume Tower, Conference Room
Sorting and Factor Intensity: Production and Employment Across Skills
Gianni De Fraja (Leicester)Monday 14 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
A Theoretical Analysis of Public Funding for Research
Jan Eeckhout (UPF)Monday 21 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmConference Room, David Hume Tower, George Square
Matching information
Tianxi Wang (Essex)Monday 28 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
Paper Circulation by Banks and Nominal Liquidity
Xavier Mateos-Planas (QMUL)Wednesday 7 December 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room South
Consumer default with complete markets
Catherine Thomas (Columbia)Monday 12 December 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, seminar room 5
Semester 2
Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton)Thursday 1 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmUniversity of Edinburgh, St Cecilia's Hall
Comparing Real Wages: the McWage Index
Emmanuel Petrakis (University of Crete)Monday 5 March 2012, 1pm - 2.30pm31 Buccleuch Place, Room 4.06 (amended times and venue)
Ghazala Azmat (Queen Mary, Univ of London)Monday 12 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers
2 seminars Monday 19 March:
P.J Healy (Ohio)Monday 19 March 2012, 1pm - 2.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
"Epistemic Conditions for the Failure of Nash Equilibrium".
Gilat Levy (LSE)Monday 19 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Rituals or Good Works: Social Signalling in Religious Organizations (Joint with Ronny Razin)
Silvana Tenreyro (LSE)Monday 26 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Dirk Engelmann (Mannheim)Monday 2 April 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Choosing how to choose: efficiency concerns and constitutional choice
Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI)Monday 23 April 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
'Optimal Life Cycle Unemployment Insurance', joint with Hernan Ru (CEMFI and UTDT)
Roberto Burguet (CSIC-Barcelona)Wednesday 2 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Simultaneous Nash Bargaining with Consistent Beliefs
Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton)Friday 4 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Russell Cooper (EUI)Monday 7 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Dan Friedman (UC Santa Cruz)Friday 11 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
From Imitation to Collusion: Long-run Learning in a Low-Information Environment by Dan Friedman (UCSC), Steffen Huck (UCL), Ryan Oprea (UBC), and Simon Weidenholzer (U Essex)
Gino Gancia (CREI)Monday 14 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
"Offshoring and Directed Technical Change" (with Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti).
Fiona M. Scott Morton (Yale, US Department of Justice)Thursday 17 May 2012, 5pm - 6.30pmInstitute for Academic Development, 7 Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AL
Lecture: Competition Law and Policy: How Is Economics Useful?
Ludo Visschers (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)Wednesday 23 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
2 seminars Monday 28 May:
Nick Netzer (University of Zurich)Monday 28 May 2012, 1pm - 2.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Probability Weighting as Evolutionary Second-best
Árpád Ábrahám (European Univ Inst)Monday 28 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
"Efficient Risk Sharing with Limited Commitment and Hidden Storage" (joint with Sarolta Laczo, UCLA)
Jakub Steiner (Kellogg, Northwestern and CERGE)Monday 18 June 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
This article was published on Aug 30, 2012