Seminars which took place during the 2006-2007 academic year. Programme Stefan Klonner (Cornell) - Risky loans and the emergence of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations Monday 23 April 2007, 4pm - 5pm Avner Shaked (Bonn) - Gregarious Behaviour of Evasive Prey Monday 30 April 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Gary Solon (Michigan) - The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment Monday 7 May 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Paul Krugman (Princeton) - Trade and inequality, revisited (SIRE event) Tuesday 8 May 2007, 4pm - 5pm Peter Sinclair (Bank of England) - Pareto-improving tax reform Wednesday 16 May 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Willem Buiter (LSE) - Monetary Economics and the Political Economy of Central Banking: Inflation Targeting and Central Bank Independence Revisited (SIRE Event, joint with Heriot-Watt) Friday 25 May 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper John Duffy (Pittsburgh) - Beliefs and voting decisions: A test of the pivotal voter model Wednesday 6 June 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paul Beaudry (UBC) - Spill-Overs from Good Jobs Thursday 7 June 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Botond Kőszegi (UC Berkeley) - Reference-dependent consumption plans Monday 11 June 2007, 4pm - 5pm Seminars (January-March 2007) David Myatt (Oxford) - The Qualities of Leadership: Direction, Communication, and the Art of Rhetoric Monday 15 January 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Tom Krebs (Mannheim) - Job displacement risk and the cost of business cycles Tuesday 16 January 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Martin Peitz (International University in Germany) Intermediation and Investment Incentives Monday 22 January 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Andrew Clark (Paris-Jourdan) - Kahneman meets the Quitters: Peak-End Behaviour in the Labour Market Monday 29 January 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Theo Offerman (Amsterdam) Fighting collusion in auctions Monday 5 February 2007, 4pm - 5pm Eugen Kovac (Bonn) - Stochastic Mechanisms in Settings without Monetary Transfers: Regular Case Monday 5 March 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Steven Matthews (Penn) - Smooth Monotone Contribution Games Monday 12 March 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper Hans Hvide (Aberdeen) - Liquidity constraints and entrepreneurial performance Monday 19 March 2007, 4pm - 5pm Paper This article was published on 2024-10-01