School of Economics

Seminars 2012-2013

Seminars which took place during the 2012-2013 academic year.

Programme

Date Speaker Paper
17/09/2012 Davide Debortoli (Univ California, San Diego) Profit and Labor Income Taxation and the Supply of public capital
1/10/2012 Jaume Ventura, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Bubbly Collateral and Economic Activity (joint with Alberto Martin)
8/10/2012
Olivier Compte (Paris School of Economics)
talk entiled 'Group decisions' (joint work with Philippe Jehiel) based on two papers
24/10/2012 Juan-Carlos Conesa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
29/10/2012 Péter Eső (Oxford University)
5/11/2012 Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI, CEPR) Endogenous labor supply in an assignment model with balanced growth, with Claudio Michleacci, CEMFI
12/11/2012 Manuel Bagues (Universidad Carlos III) Politicians' Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery (with B.Esteve-Volart)
19/11/2012 Matthias Kredler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) A Dynamic Model of Altruistically-Motivated Transfers (with Daniel Barczyk, under review)
26/11/2012 Sonia Bhalotra (Bristol University)
3/12/2012 Piero Gottardi (European University Institute) Dynamic Competitive Economies with Complete Markets and Collateral Constraints (with Felix Kubler)
10/12/2012 Christian Haefke (IZA) Labor Market Participation and Labor Supply Elasticities
12/12/2012 Marco Faravelli (University of Queensland) “Mandate and Paternalism: A Theory of Large Elections” (M. Faravelli, P. Man & R. Walsh)
14/01/2013 Pieter Gautier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
21/1/2013 Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo) Redistributive Taxation in a Partial Insurance Economy" joint with Heathcote and Violante.
28/1/2013 Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE) Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection
4/2/2013 Pedro Rey Biel (Autonoma Barcelona)
8/2/2013 Jonathan Feinstein (Yale) Creating Fields: Learning, Creativity Generation, Paths of Development
18/2/2013 Etienne Wasmer (SciPo, Paris)
25/2/2013 Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Goethe Universität) Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis
27/2/2013 Sascha Becker (Warwick) Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide (venue: Chrystal MacMillan Building rm 4)
4/3/2013 Emilia Del Bono (ISER) Breastfeeding and child cognitive outcomes: evidence from a hospital-based BF support policy
6/3/2013 Elena Pastorino (University of Minnesota) Careers in Firms: Estimating a Model of Learning, Job Assignment, and Human Capital Acquisition
11/3/2013 Natalia Zinovyeva (IPP-CSIC)
18/3/2013 Guy Michaels (LSE) Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012AD (joint with Ferdinand Rauch)
2/4/2013 Scott E. Carrell (UC Davis) LATE INTERVENTIONS MATTER TOO: THE CASE OF COLLEGE COACHING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE" (with Bruce Sacerdote)
17/4/2013 Yona Rubinstein (LSE)
29/4/2013 Andrei Levchenko (Michigan) Firms, Destinations, and Aggregate Fluctuations
1/5/2013 Bart Hobijn (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) Downward Nominal Wage Rigidities Bend the Phillips Curve (joint with Mary Daly)
6/5/2013 Olivier l'Haridon (Université of Rennes) Learning under ambiguity: An experiment using initial public offerings on a stock market
13/5/2013 Mónica Martínez Bravo (CEMFI, Madrid)
15/5/2013 Albrecht Glitz (UPF) Coworker Networks in the Labour Market
20/5/2013 Basit Zafar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Determinants of College Major Choice: Identification Using an Information Experiment (M Wiswall)
20/5/2013 David Jaeger (CUNY) Are Drone Strikes Effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the Dynamics of Violence
22/5/2013 Aytek Erdil (Cambridge) Prioritizing Diversity in School Choice
27/5/2013 Stefan Lauermann (Michigan)
31/5/2013 Christopher House (Michigan) A Quantitative Model of Toxic Assets and Unconventional Monetary Policy (joint with Rudi Bachmann)
3/6/2013 Theodore Papageorgiou (Penn State) Large Firms and Labor Markets
10/6/2013 Dirk Krueger (Penn Institute for Economic Research) On the Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects of Bailout Guarantees in the Mortgage Market"