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 - 5pm Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.01 Real 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 - 5pm The 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 - 5pm Chrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.01 Egalitarianism Under Earmark Constraints Florian Heider (European Central Bank) - "Liquidity Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads: The Role of Counterparty Risk" Monday 26 October 2009, 4pm - 5pm Liquidity 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 - 5pm Abstract 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 - 5pm Abstract 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, 4.30pm Abstract 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 - 5pm David Hume Tower, Conference Room The 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 - 1pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North (G.01) Zahra Siddique (IZA) - Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy Monday 23 November 2009, 4pm - 5pm Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy Seminars (Jan-Mar 2010) HTML Programme John Hassler (Stockholm) Monday 11 January 2010, 4pm - 6pm David 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 - 6pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02) 'Time to Consume, Quality, and Growth' Jacob Goeree (California Institute of Technology) Monday 15 February 2010, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02) An equilibrium analysis of the simultaneous ascending auction John Van Reenen (LSE) Monday 22 February 2010, 4pm - 6pm David 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 - 4pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North Education, Language and Identity Martin Gervais (University of Southampton) Monday 8 March 2010, 4pm - 6pm David 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 - 6pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North (G.01) Paper: Larry Samelson, Incentives for Experimenting Agents 14.00-15.30: John Moore: Contagious Illiquidity 16.00-17.30: Larry Samuelson: Incentives for Experimenting Agents Isaac Mbiti (Southern Methodist University) Friday 26 March 2010, 1pm - 3pm 31 Buccleuch Place, top floor Economics seminar room Abstract: Access, Sorting and Achievement: the Short-Run Effects of Free Primary Education in Kenya Seminars (April -June 2010) HTML Programme Christoph Kuzmics (Kellogg Northwestern) Friday 23 April 2010, 10.30am- 12.30pm Hume 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 - 6pm Room, 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- 6pm Room, 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 - 6pm Chrystal Macmillan Building, Room B.02 Quality, Upgrades and Equilibrium in a Dynamic Monopoly Market Robert Topel (Chicago Booth Faculty) Monday 24 May 2010, 4pm- 6pm Chrystal Macmillan Building, B0.2 Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has now been postponed Al Roth (Harvard) Monday 31 May 2010, 4pm - 6pm Hume 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 - 6pm Room, 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 - 6pm Room, David Hume Tower (G.04) The Economic Crisis is a Crisis for Economic Theory This article was published on 2024-10-01
HTML Programme John Hassler (Stockholm) Monday 11 January 2010, 4pm - 6pm David 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 - 6pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02) 'Time to Consume, Quality, and Growth' Jacob Goeree (California Institute of Technology) Monday 15 February 2010, 4pm - 6pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South (G.02) An equilibrium analysis of the simultaneous ascending auction John Van Reenen (LSE) Monday 22 February 2010, 4pm - 6pm David 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 - 4pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North Education, Language and Identity Martin Gervais (University of Southampton) Monday 8 March 2010, 4pm - 6pm David 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 - 6pm David Hume Tower, Faculty Room North (G.01) Paper: Larry Samelson, Incentives for Experimenting Agents 14.00-15.30: John Moore: Contagious Illiquidity 16.00-17.30: Larry Samuelson: Incentives for Experimenting Agents Isaac Mbiti (Southern Methodist University) Friday 26 March 2010, 1pm - 3pm 31 Buccleuch Place, top floor Economics seminar room Abstract: Access, Sorting and Achievement: the Short-Run Effects of Free Primary Education in Kenya
HTML Programme Christoph Kuzmics (Kellogg Northwestern) Friday 23 April 2010, 10.30am- 12.30pm Hume 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 - 6pm Room, 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- 6pm Room, 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 - 6pm Chrystal Macmillan Building, Room B.02 Quality, Upgrades and Equilibrium in a Dynamic Monopoly Market Robert Topel (Chicago Booth Faculty) Monday 24 May 2010, 4pm- 6pm Chrystal Macmillan Building, B0.2 Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has now been postponed Al Roth (Harvard) Monday 31 May 2010, 4pm - 6pm Hume 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 - 6pm Room, 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 - 6pm Room, David Hume Tower (G.04) The Economic Crisis is a Crisis for Economic Theory
