A list of seminars held in 2009-2010, and their associated papers. Sept-Dec 2009 Programme Enrico Moretti (University of California, Berkeley) - Real Wage Inequality Tuesday 22 September 2009, 4pm - 5pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.01Real Wage Inequality Climent Quintana (Alicante) - "Fatter attraction: marital status and the relationship between BMI and labor supply" (with Sonia Oreffice) Monday 28 September 2009, 4pm - 5pm Claude d'Aspremont (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) "Competition with varying toughness" Monday 5 October 2009, 4pm - 5pmThe talk will also be based on the paper "Price-quantity competition with varying toughness", 2009, Games and Economic Behavior, 65(1), 62-82.'Strategic R&D Investment, Competitive Toughness and Growth' Hervé Moulin (Rice University) - Egalitarianism Under Earmark Constraints Wednesday 7 October 2009, 4pm - 5pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.01Egalitarianism Under Earmark Constraints Florian Heider (European Central Bank) - "Liquidity Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads: The Role of Counterparty Risk" Monday 26 October 2009, 4pm - 5pmLiquidity Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads: The Role of Counterparty Risk Maria Guadalupe (Columbia) - Corporate Governance, Stock Returns and Firm Outcomes: Causal Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design Monday 19 October 2009, 4pm - 5pmAbstract Leonardo Felli (LSE) - Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption" (with Mariagiovanna Baccara (NYU), Allan Collard-Wexler (NYU) and Leeat Yariv (Caltech)) Monday 2 November 2009, 4pm - 5pmAbstract Gauti Eggertsson (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) - The Fed’s Response to the Financial Crisis (Marco Del Negro, Andrea Ferrero, Gauti Eggertsson Federal Reserve Bank of New York SUNY Stony-Brook) Monday 16 November 2009, 4.30pmAbstract Tom Hubbard (Northwestern) - The Economics of Radiator Springs:Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs, and Spatial Demand Shifts (with Jeffrey R. Campbell) Wednesday 11 November 2009, 4pm - 5pmDavid Hume Tower, Conference RoomThe Economics of Radiator Springs:Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs, and Spatial Demand Shifts (with Jeffrey R. Campbell) John Moore - "Contagious Illiquidity" and Tim Besley - "Estimating the Peace Dividend: Evidence from Northern Ireland House Prices" Friday 13 November 2009, 10am - 1pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room North (G.01) Zahra Siddique (IZA) - Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy Monday 23 November 2009, 4pm - 5pmCaste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy Seminars (Jan-Mar 2010) Programme John Hassler (Stockholm) Monday 11 January 2010, 4pm - 6pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium Paco Alcalá (U de Murcia) Monday 18 January 2010, 4pm - 6pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)'Time to Consume, Quality, and Growth' Jacob Goeree (California Institute of Technology) Monday 15 February 2010, 4pm - 6pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)An equilibrium analysis of the simultaneous ascending auction John Van Reenen (LSE) Monday 22 February 2010, 4pm - 6pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, diffusion and productivity Irma Clots Figueras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Friday 5 March 2010, 2pm - 4pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room NorthEducation, Language and Identity Martin Gervais (University of Southampton) Monday 8 March 2010, 4pm - 6pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02)Abstract: Optimal Fiscal Policy over the Business Cycle Revisited. Double act: Larry Samuelson (Yale) and John Moore (University of Edinburgh) Friday 19 March 2010, 2pm - 6pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room North (G.01)Paper: Larry Samelson, Incentives for Experimenting Agents 14.00-15.30: John Moore: Contagious Illiquidity16.00-17.30: Larry Samuelson: Incentives for Experimenting Agents Isaac Mbiti (Southern Methodist University) Friday 26 March 2010, 1pm - 3pm31 Buccleuch Place, top floor Economics seminar roomAbstract: Access, Sorting and Achievement: the Short-Run Effects of Free Primary Education in Kenya Seminars (April -June 2010) Programme Christoph Kuzmics (Kellogg Northwestern) Friday 23 April 2010, 10.30am- 12.30pmHume Tower, Conference Room (G.04)Symmetric players in repeated games: theory and evidence. NOTE: This talk has now been postponed. Julia Thomas (Ohio) Monday 26 April 2010, 4pm - 6pmRoom, David Hume Tower (G.04)Credit Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity (joint with Aubhik Khan (National Bureau of Economic Research) Cancelled - María José Luengo-Prado (Northeastern, Boston) Monday 10 May 2010, 4pm- 6pmRoom, David Hume Tower (G.04)We regret that this seminar has been cancelled due to the volcanic ash problem. Abstract: House Prices and Risk Sharing Gary Biglaiser (University of North Carolina) Wednesday 12 May 2010, 4pm - 6pmChrystal Macmillan Building, Room B.02Quality, Upgrades and Equilibrium in a Dynamic Monopoly Market Robert Topel (Chicago Booth Faculty) Monday 24 May 2010, 4pm- 6pmChrystal Macmillan Building, B0.2Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has now been postponed Al Roth (Harvard) Monday 31 May 2010, 4pm - 6pmHume Tower, Conference Room (G.04)Matching with Couples: Stability and Incentives in Large Markets Jim Andreoni University of California, San Diego) Monday 7 June 2010, 4pm - 6pmRoom, David Hume Tower (G.04)Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences (with Charles Sprenger) Alan Kirman (l'Université d'Aix-Marseille III et Directeur d'Etudes à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) Monday 14 June 2010, 4pm - 6pmRoom, David Hume Tower (G.04)The Economic Crisis is a Crisis for Economic Theory This article was published on 2024-10-01
