School of Economics

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

Paper

Navin Kartik (Columbia University) - "Implementation with Evidence: Complete Information" (coauthored with Olivier Tercieux)

Wednesday 20 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm

Paper

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

Abstract

Seminars (Sept-Dec 2008)

Gary Charness (University of California) - The Origin of the Winner's Curse

Monday 8 September 2008, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Room G.04 - Conference Room

Paper

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

Paper

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

Monday 6 October 2008, 4pm - 6pm

7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01

Paper

Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics) - "Marry for what? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India" (with A. Banerjee, E. Duflo, and J. Lafortune)

Monday 13 October 2008, 5.30pm - 6.30pm

Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower

Paper

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)

Friday 7 November 2008, 4pm - 6pm

William Robertson Building, Room G.01 - 16.00-18.00

Paper

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

Paper

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)

Monday 12 January 2009, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North (G.01)

Paper

Bruno Biais (Toulouse University) - "Risk, limited liability and dynamic moral hazard" (with Thomas Mariotti, Jean Charles Rochet and Stéphane Villeneuve (all from Toulouse University)

Monday 19 January 2009, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Conference Room

Paper

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)

Monday 26 January 2009, 4pm - 6pm

Seminar Room 2.14, Second Floor of the Appleton Tower

Paper

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

Javier Ortega (City University London and CEP (LSE) - "Work-Sharing, Firm Heterogeneity, and Efficiency"

Monday 2 February 2009, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04)

Paper

Gilles Saint-Paul (University of Toulouse) - Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another look at the economics of marriage

Monday 9 February 2009, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04)

Paper

Joseph P. Ferrie (Northwestern University) - "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise'? The Link Between Conditions in Childhood and Physical, Economic, and Cognitive Outcomes After Age 65 in the U.S., 1895-2005"

Monday 16 February 2009, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04)

Paper

Per Krusell (Princeton University) - Asset Trading and Valuation with Uncertain Exposure Preliminary and incomplete

Monday 23 February 2009, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04)

Paper

John Knowles (University of Southampton) - "Birth Control and the Rise in Female LFP; What Can we Learn From Women's Occupational Choices?"

Monday 2 March 2009, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Conference Room North (G.01)

Paper

Monika Merz (Bonn University and IZA) - "Changes in married women's labor supply in Germany: 1985-2005"

Monday 9 March 2009, 4pm - 6pm

31 Buccleuch Place, room 4.06

Paper

Fuhito Kojima (Cowles Foundation, Yale University) - "Asymptotic Equivalence of Random Priority and Probabilistic Serial Mechanisms" ( joint with Yeon-Koo Che)

Monday 16 March 2009, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North (G.01)

Paper