Economics Economics

Workshops 2010-2011

Workshop Programme session 2010-2011

Semester 2

Albert Marcet (LSE)Monday 18 April 2011, 1pm - 2pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floor
Recursive Contracts (with Ramon Marimon)
Ingela Alger (Carleton University)Monday 25 April 2011, 1pm - 2pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floor
A generalization of Hamilton's rule (with Jörgen W. Weibull)
Selim Gulesci (LSE)Monday 2 May 2011, 1pm - 2pmConference Room, David Hume Tower
Labor-Tying and Poverty in a Rural Economy: Evidence from Bangladesh
Dr Petros Milionis (University of Groningen)Monday 9 May 2011, 1pm - 2pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floor
Innovation-Based Growth & Long-Run Economic Development
Prof Mariko Klasing (Carlton University)Tuesday 10 May 2011, 1pm - 2pmConference Room, David Hume Tower
Cultural Traits, Collective Values and the Roots of Political Institutions
Nick Vikander (Edinburgh)Monday 16 May 2011, 1pm - 2pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floor
Prof Sebastian Koehne (Institute for International Economic Studies Stockholm University)Monday 23 May 2011, 1pm - 2pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floor
Habit formation, local substitution, and the taxation of capital
Prof Alexei Parakhonyak Higher School of Economics (HSE), MoscowMonday 30 May 2011, 1pm - 2pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floor
Oligopolistic Search Markets with Costly Second Visits
Caterina Calsamiglia (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)Monday 6 June 2011, 1pm - 2pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floor
Do parents choose under the Boston mechanism? Evidence from Barcelona
Francisco Gonzalez (Calgary)Monday 13 June 2011, 1pm - 2pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floor
How intergenerational disagreement constrains government intervention

Semester 1

Dr Zaki Wahhaji (Oxford)Monday 27 September 2010, 1pm - 2pm
SOCIAL NORMS, HIGHER-ORDER BELIEFS AND THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES
Andy Snell (EdinburghMonday 4 October 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Nick Vikander (Edinburgh)Monday 11 October 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Dr Heiko Karle (ECARES)Monday 18 October 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Consumer Loss Aversion and the Intensity of Competition
Dimitra Politi (Edinburgh)Monday 25 October 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Jonathan Thomas (Edinburgh)Monday 8 November 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Tatiana Kornienko (Edinburgh)Monday 15 November 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Dr Makoto Watanabe (Carlos III)Monday 22 November 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Middlemen: A Directed Search Equilibrium Approach
Dr Loukas Balafoutas (University of Innsbruck)Monday 29 November 2010, 1pm - 2pm
Monday 6 December 2010, 1pm - 2pm

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