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
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
Florian Heider (European Central Bank) - "Liquidity Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads: The Role of Counterparty Risk"
Monday 26 October 2009, 4pm - 5pm
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
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
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
Tom Hubbard (Northwestern) - The Economics of Radiator Springs:Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs, and Spatial Demand Shifts (with Jeffrey R. Campbell)
Wednesday 11 November 2009, 4pm - 5pm
David Hume Tower, Conference Room
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
Seminars (Jan-Mar 2010)
Programme
John Hassler (Stockholm)
Monday 11 January 2010, 4pm - 6pm
David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)
Paco Alcalá (U de Murcia)
Monday 18 January 2010, 4pm - 6pm
David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)
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)
Irma Clots Figueras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Friday 5 March 2010, 2pm - 4pm
David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North
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)
Julia Thomas (Ohio)
Monday 26 April 2010, 4pm - 6pm
Room, David Hume Tower (G.04)
Cancelled - María José Luengo-Prado (Northeastern, Boston)
Monday 10 May 2010, 4pm- 6pm
Room, David Hume Tower (G.04)
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)