Seminars which took place during the 2008-2009 academic year. Oyama Daisuke (Paris School of Economics, and Hitotsubashi University) - On the Strategic Impact of an Event under Non-Common Priors (joint with Olivier Tercieux) Monday 27 April 2009, 4pm - 6pm Flavio Toxvaerd (Cambridge) - An Introduction to Games of Infection (Abstract) Monday 4 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm Gordon Hughes (University of Edinburgh and World Bank) - The Econometrics of Adapting to Climate Change - A $1 Trillion Question Monday 11 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm Luis Cabral (Stern School of Business, New York University) - Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects Friday 15 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm Paper Navin Kartik (Columbia University) - "Implementation with Evidence: Complete Information" (coauthored with Olivier Tercieux) Wednesday 20 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm Paper Alwyn Young (LSE) - Real Consumption Measures for the Poorer Regions of the World Monday 25 May 2009, 4pm - 6pm Oriana Bandiera (LSE) - How do CEOs spend their time? Thursday 4 June 2009, 4pm - 6pm Berthold Herrendorf (Arizona State University) - Transportation and Development: Insights from the U.S. 1840-1860 Monday 8 June 2009, 4pm - 6pm Abstract Seminars (Sept-Dec 2008) Gary Charness (University of California) - The Origin of the Winner's Curse Monday 8 September 2008, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Room G.04 - Conference Room Paper Glen Waddlell (University of Oregon) - Income-targeted financial aid and patterns of post-secondary matriculation Monday 22 September 2008, 4pm - 6pm 7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01 Paper Josep Pijoan-Mas, CEMFI (Madrid) - The Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Working Time: the US-EU Experience Monday 29 September 2008, 4pm - 6pm 7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01 Vicente Cunat (LSE) - Information gathering externalities in product markets Monday 6 October 2008, 4pm - 6pm 7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01 Paper Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics) - "Marry for what? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India" (with A. Banerjee, E. Duflo, and J. Lafortune) Monday 13 October 2008, 5.30pm - 6.30pm Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower Paper Michael Elsby (University of Michigan) - Stepping Off the Wage Escalator: A Theory of the Equilibrium Employment Rate (with Matthew D. Shapiro) (Prelimary copy) Monday 20 October 2008, 4pm - 5pm Torsten Persson (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University) - "The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence" (with Tim Besley) Friday 7 November 2008, 4pm - 6pm William Robertson Building, Room G.01 - 16.00-18.00 Paper Antonio Cabrales (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - "Implementation in Adaptive Better-Response Dynamics" Monday 10 November 2008, 4pm - 6pm 7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01 Paper Giovanni Gallipoli (University of British Columbia) - Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability, Labour Supply and Marriage Tuesday 11 November 2008, 4pm - 6pm 7 George Square (Psychology Building); 2nd floor, room 2.01 Seminars (Jan-Mar 2009) Juanjo Ganuza (UPF) - Signal Orderings based on Dispersion and Private Information Disclosure in Auctions (with Jose S. Penalva, Instituto de Analisis Economico, CSIC and Universidad Carlos III) Monday 12 January 2009, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North (G.01) Paper Bruno Biais (Toulouse University) - "Risk, limited liability and dynamic moral hazard" (with Thomas Mariotti, Jean Charles Rochet and Stéphane Villeneuve (all from Toulouse University) Monday 19 January 2009, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Conference Room Paper Marcos Vera-Hernandez (University College London) Does class-size affect the academic performance of first year college students? (with Matilde Pinto Machado, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Monday 26 January 2009, 4pm - 6pm Seminar Room 2.14, Second Floor of the Appleton Tower Paper Prof. Ed Hopkins, Personal Chair of Economics, will deliver his Inaugural Lecture entitled “Which Inequality Should We Care About?” Tuesday 27 January 2009, 5.15pm - 6.15pm Lecture Theatre B David Hume Tower, George Square Javier Ortega (City University London and CEP (LSE) - "Work-Sharing, Firm Heterogeneity, and Efficiency" Monday 2 February 2009, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04) Paper Gilles Saint-Paul (University of Toulouse) - Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another look at the economics of marriage Monday 9 February 2009, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04) Paper Joseph P. Ferrie (Northwestern University) - "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise'? The Link Between Conditions in Childhood and Physical, Economic, and Cognitive Outcomes After Age 65 in the U.S., 1895-2005" Monday 16 February 2009, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04) Paper Per Krusell (Princeton University) - Asset Trading and Valuation with Uncertain Exposure Preliminary and incomplete Monday 23 February 2009, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Conference Room (G.04) Paper John Knowles (University of Southampton) - "Birth Control and the Rise in Female LFP; What Can we Learn From Women's Occupational Choices?" Monday 2 March 2009, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Conference Room North (G.01) Paper Monika Merz (Bonn University and IZA) - "Changes in married women's labor supply in Germany: 1985-2005" Monday 9 March 2009, 4pm - 6pm 31 Buccleuch Place, room 4.06 Paper Fuhito Kojima (Cowles Foundation, Yale University) - "Asymptotic Equivalence of Random Priority and Probabilistic Serial Mechanisms" ( joint with Yeon-Koo Che) Monday 16 March 2009, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North (G.01) Paper This article was published on 2024-10-01
