Overview 2012
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 May 23, 2012