Seminars 2013-2014
Details of School of Economics seminars during the 2013-14 academic year.
Seminars 2013-14
All seminars start at 16.00, in room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place unless indicated otherwise.
Some weeks have a double schedule, in which case we also have a lunchtime seminar starting at 12.00.
Semester 2: after Easter break onwards
Christian Dustmann (UCL)
Monday 28 April 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
Antonio Cabrales (UCL)
Monday 5 May 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
Risk-sharing and contagion in networks (with Piero Gottardi)
Matthew Shapiro (University of Michigan)
Monday 12 May 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
Harnessing Naturally-Occurring Data to Measure the Response of Spending to Income
Joel Sobel (UC San Diego)
Monday 19 May 2014, 12.00pm - 1.30pm
seminar 1: "Effective Communication in Cheap Talk Games"
Michael Kosfeld (University of Frankfurt)
Monday 19 May 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
seminar 2: I (don’t) like you - but who cares?
Francisco Buera (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and UCLA)
Monday 26 May 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
‘The Global Diffusion of Ideas’, joint work with Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University).
David Levine (Washington University)
Monday 2 June 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
"Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony and the Power of the State" (with Salvatore Modica)
Tor Jacobsen (Sveriges Riksbank)
Tuesday 3 June 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
“Inter-Firm Lending: An Empirical Evaluation of Trade Credit Contracts” by Tore Ellingsen, Tor Jacobson, and Erik von Schedvin.
Arnaud Costinot (MIT)
Monday 9 June 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)
Wednesday 18 June 2014, 1pm - 2.30pm
Archived: Sept 2013 until Easter break
Flavio Cunha (University of Pennsylvania)
Monday 9 September 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
John Kennan (University of Wisconsin)
Monday 23 September 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
Immigration Restrictions and Labor Market Skills
Syngjoo Choi (UCL)
Monday 30 September 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics)
Monday 7 October 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics)
Tuesday 8 October 2013, 1pm - 3pm
Seminar: Addressing the patent thicket
James Banks (University of Manchester)
Monday 21 October 2013, 12pm - 1.30pm
seminar 1: The links between early life and late life health: Differences between the US and UK
Rachel Griffith (University of Manchester)
Monday 21 October 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
seminar 2: Estimating the Effects of Banning Advertising on Demand and Firms’ Pricing (Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith and Martin O'Connell)
Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich)
Monday 28 October 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
Greg Kaplan (Princeton University)
Monday 4 November 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
Nicola Pavoni (Bocconi University)
Monday 11 November 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
'Ramsey Asset Taxation with Asymmetric Information' (joint with Piero Gottardi, EUI).
Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam)
Monday 18 November 2013, 12pm - 1.30pm
seminar 1: Fertility Effects on Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments
Victor Rios-Rull (University of Minnesota)
Monday 18 November 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
seminar 2
Financial Frictions, Asset Prices, and the Great Recession (Zhen Huo and Jose-Vctor Ros-Rull)
George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania)
Monday 25 November 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
The Curse of Long Horizons
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (Washington University)
Monday 2 December 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
Consumption and Income Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Lifetime With No Humps and Little Partial Insurance" (joint work with Leandro Magalhaes (Bristol))
Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
Monday 9 December 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
Leena Rudanko (University of Boston, NBER)
Friday 13 December 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
Benjamin Moll (Princeton University)
Monday 16 December 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm
Margaret Bray (London School of Economics)
Monday 24 February 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm
Conference Room, David Hume Tower
Rethinking the Mean Variance Frontier: Dominated Mean Variance Efficient Portfolios
Uwe Sunde (University of Munich)
Monday 3 March 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
‘The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development’ (joint with Matteo Cervellati)
Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics)
Friday 7 March 2014, 2pm - 3.30pm
Paper: Cooperation vs. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes Co-opetition
Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas)
Monday 10 March 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
Paper: Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
Christopher Woodruff (University of Warwick)
Monday 17 March 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm
Please note earlier time slot
Andryi Zapechelnyuk (University of Glasgow)
Monday 24 March 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
Brit Grosskopf (University of Exeter)
Monday 31 March 2014, 12pm - 1.30pm
seminar 1: "The Demand for Expressing Emotions" , joint work with Kristian Lopez-Vargas
Rajiv Sarin (University of Exeter)
Monday 31 March 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
seminar 2: "A model of satisficing behavior'', joint work with Hyun Chang Yi.