Seminars 2011-2012
Seminars which took place during the 2011-2012 academic year.
Semester 1
Robert Topel (Chicago)
Monday 12 September 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
"Intermediaries and Competition". (with Kevin M Murphy co-author)
Miklos Koren (Central European University)
Monday 19 September 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
József Sákovics (Edinburgh)
Monday 3 October 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
A New Marshallian Theory of the Consumer
Michele Tertilt (Stanford)
Monday 10 October 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
- Double bill for this Monday:
Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)
Monday 31 October 2011, pm - 2.30pm
7 George Square, room 2.37
The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in theGlobal Market for Crude Oil
The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil
Enrique Sentana (CEMFI)
Monday 31 October 2011, pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
'Underidentification?' with Manuel Arellano and Lars Peter Hansen
Jan Potters (Tilburg)
Monday 7 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
The Effect of Link Costs on the Formation and Outcome of Buyer-Seller Networks (with Gönül Dogan, Marcel van Assen)
- Double bill for this Friday:
Michele Belot (Nuffield College (Centre for Experimental Social Sciences)
Friday 11 November 2011, 12.30pm - 2pm
David Hume Tower, Conference Room
Cognitive Discrimination – A Benchmark Experimental Study
Philipp Kircher (LSE)
Friday 11 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
David Hume Tower, Conference Room
Sorting and Factor Intensity: Production and Employment Across Skills
Gianni De Fraja (Leicester)
Monday 14 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
Jan Eeckhout (UPF)
Monday 21 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
Conference Room, David Hume Tower, George Square
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Tianxi Wang (Essex)
Monday 28 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
Paper Circulation by Banks and Nominal Liquidity
Xavier Mateos-Planas (QMUL)
Wednesday 7 December 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South
Consumer default with complete markets
Catherine Thomas (Columbia)
Monday 12 December 2011, 4pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, seminar room 5
Seminars which took place during the 2011-2012 academic year.
Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton)
Thursday 1 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
University of Edinburgh, St Cecilia's Hall
Comparing Real Wages: the McWage Index
Emmanuel Petrakis (University of Crete)
Monday 5 March 2012, 1pm - 2.30pm
31 Buccleuch Place, Room 4.06 (amended times and venue)
Ghazala Azmat (Queen Mary, Univ of London)
Monday 12 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02
Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers
2 seminars Monday 19 March:
P.J Healy (Ohio)
Monday 19 March 2012, 1pm - 2.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
"Epistemic Conditions for the Failure of Nash Equilibrium".
Gilat Levy (LSE)
Monday 19 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Rituals or Good Works: Social Signalling in Religious Organizations (Joint with Ronny Razin)
Silvana Tenreyro (LSE)
Monday 26 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Dirk Engelmann (Mannheim)
Monday 2 April 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Choosing how to choose: efficiency concerns and constitutional choice
Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI)
Monday 23 April 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
'Optimal Life Cycle Unemployment Insurance', joint with Hernan Ru (CEMFI and UTDT)
Roberto Burguet (CSIC-Barcelona)
Wednesday 2 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Simultaneous Nash Bargaining with Consistent Beliefs
Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton)
Friday 4 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Russell Cooper (EUI)
Monday 7 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Costly Labor Adjustment: Effects of China's Employment Regulations
Dan Friedman (UC Santa Cruz)
Friday 11 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
From Imitation to Collusion: Long-run Learning in a Low-Information Environment by Dan Friedman (UCSC), Steffen Huck (UCL), Ryan Oprea (UBC), and Simon Weidenholzer (U Essex)
Gino Gancia (CREI)
Monday 14 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
"Offshoring and Directed Technical Change" (with Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti).
Fiona M. Scott Morton (Yale, US Department of Justice)
Thursday 17 May 2012, 5pm - 6.30pm
Institute for Academic Development, 7 Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AL
Lecture: Competition Law and Policy: How Is Economics Useful?
Ludo Visschers (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Wednesday 23 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
2 seminars Monday 28 May:
Nick Netzer (University of Zurich)
Monday 28 May 2012, 1pm - 2.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
Probability Weighting as Evolutionary Second-best
Árpád Ábrahám (European Univ Inst)
Monday 28 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place
"Efficient Risk Sharing with Limited Commitment and Hidden Storage" (joint with Sarolta Laczo, UCLA)
Jakub Steiner (Kellogg, Northwestern and CERGE)
Monday 18 June 2012, 4pm - 5.30pm
Meeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place