Details of School of Economics seminars during the 2010-11 academic year. Seminars 2010-11: Semester 2 Gábor Virág (University of Rochester) Thursday 27 January 2011, 2pm - 3.30pm31 Buccleuch Place, Room 3.10Auctions in Markets: Common Outside Options and the Continuation Value Effect Serguei Maliar (Hoover Institution, Stanford) Monday 14 March 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmWilliam Roberston Building, G. 11A cluster-grid projection method: solving problems with high dimensionality Joel Shapiro (Saïd Business School, U. of Oxford) Monday 21 March 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmWilliam Roberston Building, G. 11Ratings Quality over the Business Cycle Esther Hauk (LSE) Monday 18 April 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floor"Civil War and Foreign Influence" joint with Facundo Albornoz. Tim Feddersen (Kellogg School of Management) Monday 25 April 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmConference Room, David Hume Tower, George SquareRevealed Preferences and Aspirations in Warm Glow Theory Antonia Díaz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Monday 9 May 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmDugald Stewart Building, G.06, ground floorA Theory of Energy Use Nicolas Trachter Monday 16 May 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmThe Optimum Quantity of Money with Borrowing Constraints Paul Klein Monday 23 May 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmConsumption risk sharing: confronting models with data Samuel Berlisnki Monday 30 May 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmIncentives, resources and the organization of the school system Emre Ozdenoren Monday 6 June 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmConference Room, David Hume Tower, George SquareTransparency, Appropriability and the Early State Omer Moav Monday 13 June 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmConference Room, David Hume Tower, George SquareTransparency, Appropriability and the Early State by Joram Mayshar (Hebrew University), Omer Moav (Royal Holloway and Hebrew University, and Zvika Neeman (Tel Aviv University)Transparency, Appropriability and the Early State Francesco Caselli Monday 20 June 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmConference Room, David Hume Tower, George SquareDiversification through TradeDiversifcation through Trade Seminars which took place during the 2010-2011 academic year. Semester 1 (previous seminars) Jordi Blanes (LSE) Monday 27 September 2010, 4pm - 5.30pmRevolving Door Lobbyists Gregory Clark (UC Davis) Monday 11 October 2010, 4pm - 5.30pmRegression to Mediocrity? Surnames and Social Mobility in England, 1200-2009 V. Bhaskar (UCL) Monday 25 October 2010, 4pm - 5.30pmMarriage as a rat-race: Noisy pre-marital investments under assortative matching (with Ed Hopkins) Alex Trew (St Andrews) Monday 8 November 2010, 4pm - 5.30pmFinance and Balanced Growth Francisco Pérez-González (Stanford) Monday 15 November 2010, 4pm - 5.30pmRisk Management and Firm Value: Evidence from Weather Derivatives Guido Cozzi (Durham) Monday 22 November 2010, 4pm - 5.30pmThe Evolution of Ideology: Fairness and Redistribution", co-authored by Alberto Alesina (Harvard University) and Noemi Mantovan (Durham University Santiago Sánchez-Pagés (Edinburgh) Monday 29 November 2010, 4pm - 5.30pmThe Interplay between Individual Biological Features and Social Preferences and Their Effects on the Ultimatum Game. ( joint work with Enrique Turiegano) Guilleaume Haeringer (UAB) Monday 6 December 2010, 4pm - 5.30pmVenue: David Hume Tower, Room G.04"Learning to match". (joint work with Hanna Halaburda)David Hume Tower, Room G.04 This article was published on 2024-10-01