Seminars 2008-2009
Seminars which took place during the 2008-2009 academic year.
Oyama Daisuke (Paris School of Economics, and Hitotsubashi University) - On the Strategic Impact of an Event under Non-Common Priors (joint with Olivier Tercieux)
Monday 27 April 2009, 4pm - 6pm
Flavio Toxvaerd (Cambridge) - An Introduction to Games of Infection (Abstract)
Monday 4 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm
Gordon Hughes (University of Edinburgh and World Bank) - The Econometrics of Adapting to Climate Change - A $1 Trillion Question
Monday 11 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm
Luis Cabral (Stern School of Business, New York University) - Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects
Friday 15 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm
Navin Kartik (Columbia University) - "Implementation with Evidence: Complete Information" (coauthored with Olivier Tercieux)
Wednesday 20 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm
Alwyn Young (LSE) - Real Consumption Measures for the Poorer Regions of the World
Monday 25 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm
Oriana Bandiera (LSE) - How do CEOs spend their time?
Thursday 4 June 2009, 4pm - 6pm
Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State University) - Transportation and Development: Insights from the U.S. 1840-1860
Monday 8 June 2009, 4pm - 6pm
Seminars (Sept-Dec 2008)
Gary Charness (University of California) - The Origin of the Winner's Curse
Glen Waddlell (University of Oregon) - Income-targeted financial aid and patterns of post-secondary matriculation
Monday 22 September 2008, 4pm - 6pm
7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01
Josep Pijoan-Mas, CEMFI (Madrid) - The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Working Time: the US-EU Experience
Monday 29 September 2008, 4pm - 6pm
7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01
Vicente Cunat (LSE) - Information gathering externalities in product markets
Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics) - "Marry for what? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India" (with A. Banerjee, E. Duflo, and J. Lafortune)
Michael Elsby (University of Michigan) - Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: A Theory of the Equilibrium Employment Rate (with Matthew D. Shapiro) (Prelimary copy)
Monday 20 October 2008, 4pm - 5pm
Torsten Persson (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University) - "The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence" (with Tim Besley)
Antonio Cabrales (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - "Implementation in Adaptive Better-Response Dynamics"
Monday 10 November 2008, 4pm - 6pm
7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01
Giovanni Gallipoli (University of British Columbia) - Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability, Labour Supply and Marriage
Tuesday 11 November 2008, 4pm - 6pm
7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01
Seminars (Jan-Mar 2009)
Juanjo Ganuza (UPF) - Signal Orderings based on Dispersion and Private Information Disclosure in Auctions (with Jose S. Penalva, Instituto de Analisis Economico, CSIC and Universidad Carlos III)
Bruno Biais (Toulouse University) - "Risk, limited liability and dynamic moral hazard" (with Thomas Mariotti, Jean Charles Rochet and Stéphane Villeneuve (all from Toulouse University)
Marcos Vera-Hernandez (University College London) Does class-size affect the academic performance of first year college students? (with Matilde Pinto Machado, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Prof. Ed Hopkins, Personal Chair of Economics, will deliver his Inaugural Lecture entitled “Which Inequality Should We Care About?”
Tuesday 27 January 2009, 5.15pm - 6.15pm
Lecture Theatre B David Hume Tower, George Square