Seminars 2017-2018
Archive of the 2017-2018 Seminars.
Semester 1
Gianluca Violante (Princeton University)
MacCaLM: Monday 11th September, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 2.11, 31 Buccleuch Place
Brian Rogers (Washington University, St Louis)
MacCaLM: Tuesday 12th September. 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Cooperation in Anonymous Dynamic Social Networks (Joint with Brendan Lucier and Nicole Immorlica)
Marco Faravelli (The University of Queensland)
MacCaLM: Tuesday 12th September, 16.00 - 17.30
Room 2.11, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Costly Voting: A Large-scale Real Effort Experiment (Joint with Kenan Kalayci and Carlos Pimienta)
Marco Francesconi (University of Essex)
MacCaLM: Monday 25th September, 12:00 - 13:30
Room 2.11, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Understanding Believe Formation: Evidence from Pension Reforms
Bhash Mazumder (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
MacCaLM: Friday 6th October, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 2.11, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: The Effects of the 1930s HOLC “Redlining” Maps (Joint with Daniel Aaronson and Daniel Hartley)
Facundo Albornoz Crespo (University of Nottingham)
MacCaLM: Monday 9th October, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Occupational choice with endogenous spillovers (Joint with Antonio Cabrales and Esther Hauk)
Juan F. Jimeno (Banco de Espana)
MacCaLM: Monday 30th October, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Labour market adjustment in Europe during the crisis: microeconomic evidence from the Wage Dynamics Network survey (Joint with Mario Izquierdo, Theodora Kosma, Ana Lamo, Stephen Millard, Tairi Rõõm, Eliana Viviano)
Michel Serafinelli (University of Toronto)
MacCaLM: Monday 6th November, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Creativity over Time and Space (Joint with Guido Tabellini)
Annette Bergemann (University of Bristol)
Monday 13th November, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: The effect of job displacement on the onset and progression of diabetes (Joint with Erik Gronqvist and Soffia Gudbjörnsdottir)
Yongsung Chang (University of Rochester)
MacCaLM: Monday 20th November, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Optimal Taxation with Private Insurance (Joint with Yena Park)
Andrei Sarychev (Bank of England)
MacCaLM: Monday 27th November, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Why expected loss is not the right measure of credit risk and how to do better
Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University of London)
MacCaLM: Monday 4th December, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV (joint with R. Durante and P. Pinotti)
Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago)
MacCaLM: Monday 11th December, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Semester 2
Joachim Jungherr (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Barcelona)
MacCaLM: Monday 22nd January, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Debt Dilution and Debt Overhang (joint with Immo Schott)
Larbi Alaoui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
MacCaLM: Monday 5th February, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Cost-Benefit Analysis in Reasoning: Theory and Applications
Jordi Gali (CREI)
Mike Simmons (Royal Holloway)
MacCaLM: Tuesday 13th February, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 2.11, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: The importance of job-to-job flows in the dynamics of unemployment
Itai Arieli (Technion)
MacCaLM: Monday 19th February, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Omer Moav (University of Warwick)
MacCaLM: Monday 26th February, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: The Emergence of Hierarchies and States: Productivity vs. Appropriability
Ignacio Garcia Perez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
MacCaLM: Wednesday 28th February, 12.00 - 13.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Family Job Search and Wealth: The Added Worker Effect Revisited (Joint with Sílvio Rendon)
Alan Sutherland (University of St Andrews)
MacCaLM: Thursday 1st March, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 2.11, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Optimal Monetary Policy, Exchange Rate Misalignments and Incomplete Financial Markets
Martin Weale (Kings College London)
MacCaLM: Thursday 1st March, 16:00 - 17:30
Room 2.11, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: A Democratic Measure of Household Income Growth: Theory and Application to the United Kingdom
Laura Pilossoph (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Mariann Ollar (University of Groningen)
Jeremiah Dittmar (London School of Economics)
MacCaLM: Monday 26th March, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Public Goods Institutions, Human Capital, and Growth: Evidence from German History (with Ralf R. Meisenzahl)
Jonathan Wadsworth (Royal Holloway)
MacCaLM: Wednesday April 18th, 12.00 - 13.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Trainspotting: Does Immigration Affect Training and Hiring of Native Workers?
Miltiadis Makris (University of Southampton)
MacCaLM: Monday April 23rd, 14.00 - 15:30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Optimal Income Taxation under Learning-by-Doing (joint with Alessandro Pavan)
George Evans (University of Oregon)
Kjell Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics)
MacCaLM: Monday 7th May, 14.00-15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Breaking the Links: Natural Resource Booms and Intergenerational Mobility
Aditya Kuvalekar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
MacCaLM: Monday 14th May, 14.00 - 15.30
Room: 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Pau Pujolàs Fons (McMaster University)
MacCaLM: Tuesday 15th May, 11.30 - 13.00
Room: 2.11, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: (Quasi-)Efficient Minimum Wage Policy Design (with Zachary Mahone)
Rocio Madera (Southern Methodist University)
MacCaLM: Wednesday 16th May, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Stephen Millard (Durham University)
MacCaLM: Monday 21st May, 14.00 - 15.30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: 'International trade, non-trading firms and their impact on productivity'
David Silver (Princeton University)
MacCaLM: Wednesday 30th May, 14:00-15:30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Haste or Waste? Peer Pressure and the Distribution of Marginal Returns to Health Care
Theodore Papageorgiou (McGill University)
MacCaLM: Monday 4th June, Time 14:00-15:30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Geography, Search Frictions and Endogenous Trade Costs
Martin Sefton (University of Nottingham)
MacCaLM: Friday 15th June, 14:00-15:30
Room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place
Paper: Norm fragility in the presence of image-motivated agents: the role of norm legitimacy (with Hande Erkut and Daniele Nosenzo)