School of Economics

Seminars 2009-2010

A list of seminars held in 2009-2010, and their associated papers.

Sept-Dec 2009

Programme

Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkeley) - Real Wage Inequality

Tuesday 22 September 2009, 4pm - 5pm

Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.01

Real Wage Inequality

Climent Quintana (Alicante) - "Fatter attraction: marital status and the relationship between BMI and labor supply" (with Sonia Oreffice)

Monday 28 September 2009, 4pm - 5pm

Claude d'Aspremont (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) "Competition with varying toughness"

Monday 5 October 2009, 4pm - 5pm

The talk will also be based on the paper "Price-quantity competition with varying toughness", 2009, Games and Economic Behavior, 65(1), 62-82.

'Strategic R&D Investment, Competitive Toughness and Growth'

Hervé Moulin (Rice University) - Egalitarianism Under Earmark Constraints

Wednesday 7 October 2009, 4pm - 5pm

Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.01

Egalitarianism Under Earmark Constraints

Florian Heider (European Central Bank) - "Liquidity Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads: The Role of Counterparty Risk"

Maria Guadalupe (Columbia) - Corporate Governance, Stock Returns and Firm Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Monday 19 October 2009, 4pm - 5pm

Abstract

Leonardo Felli (LSE) - Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption" (with Mariagiovanna Baccara (NYU), Allan Collard-Wexler (NYU) and Leeat Yariv (Caltech))

Monday 2 November 2009, 4pm - 5pm

Abstract

Gauti Eggertsson (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) - The Fed’s Response to the Financial Crisis (Marco Del Negro, Andrea Ferrero, Gauti Eggertsson Federal Reserve Bank of New York SUNY Stony-Brook)

Monday 16 November 2009, 4.30pm

Abstract

Tom Hubbard (Northwestern) - The Economics of Radiator Springs:Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs, and Spatial Demand Shifts (with Jeffrey R. Campbell)

John Moore - "Contagious Illiquidity" and Tim Besley - "Estimating the Peace Dividend: Evidence from Northern Ireland House Prices"

Friday 13 November 2009, 10am - 1pm

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

Zahra Siddique (IZA) - Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy

Monday 23 November 2009, 4pm - 5pm

Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy

Seminars (Jan-Mar 2010)

Programme

John Hassler (Stockholm)

Monday 11 January 2010, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)

Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium

Paco Alcalá (U de Murcia)

Monday 18 January 2010, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)

'Time to Consume, Quality, and Growth'

Jacob Goeree (California Institute of Technology)

Monday 15 February 2010, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)

John Van Reenen (LSE)

Monday 22 February 2010, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)

Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, diffusion and productivity

Irma Clots Figueras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Friday 5 March 2010, 2pm - 4pm

David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North

Education, Language and Identity

Martin Gervais (University of Southampton)

Monday 8 March 2010, 4pm - 6pm

David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)

Abstract: Optimal Fiscal Policy over the Business Cycle Revisited.

Double act: Larry Samuelson (Yale) and John Moore (University of Edinburgh)

Friday 19 March 2010, 2pm - 6pm

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

  • 14.00-15.30: John Moore: Contagious Illiquidity
  • 16.00-17.30: Larry Samuelson: Incentives for Experimenting Agents

Isaac Mbiti (Southern Methodist University)

Friday 26 March 2010, 1pm - 3pm

31 Buccleuch Place, top floor Economics seminar room

 

Seminars (April -June 2010)

Programme

Christoph Kuzmics (Kellogg Northwestern)

Friday 23 April 2010, 10.30am- 12.30pm

Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04)

Symmetric players in repeated games: theory and evidence. NOTE: This talk has now been postponed.

Cancelled - María José Luengo-Prado (Northeastern, Boston)

Monday 10 May 2010, 4pm- 6pm

Room, David Hume Tower (G.04)

We regret that this seminar has been cancelled due to the volcanic ash problem.
 

Gary Biglaiser (University of North Carolina)

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 4pm - 6pm

Chrystal Macmillan Building, Room B.02

Quality, Upgrades and Equilibrium in a Dynamic Monopoly Market

Robert Topel (Chicago Booth Faculty)

Monday 24 May 2010, 4pm- 6pm

Chrystal Macmillan Building, B0.2

Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has now been postponed

Al Roth (Harvard)

Monday 31 May 2010, 4pm - 6pm

Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04)

Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets

Jim Andreoni University of California, San Diego)

Monday 7 June 2010, 4pm - 6pm

Room, David Hume Tower (G.04)

Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences (with Charles Sprenger)

Alan Kirman (l'Université d'Aix-Marseille III et Directeur d'Etudes à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

Monday 14 June 2010, 4pm - 6pm

Room, David Hume Tower (G.04)

The Economic Crisis is a Crisis for Economic Theory