Seminars which took place during the 2011-2012 academic year. Semester 1 Robert Topel (Chicago) Monday 12 September 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02"Intermediaries and Competition". (with Kevin M Murphy co-author) Miklos Koren (Central European University) Monday 19 September 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02 József Sákovics (Edinburgh) Monday 3 October 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02A New Marshallian Theory of the Consumer Michele Tertilt (Stanford) Monday 10 October 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development? Double bill for this Monday: Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan) Monday 31 October 2011, pm - 2.30pm7 George Square, room 2.37The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in theGlobal Market for Crude OilThe Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil Enrique Sentana (CEMFI) Monday 31 October 2011, pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02'Underidentification?' with Manuel Arellano and Lars Peter HansenUnderidentification? Jan Potters (Tilburg) Monday 7 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02The Effect of Link Costs on the Formation and Outcome of Buyer-Seller Networks (with Gönül Dogan, Marcel van Assen) Double bill for this Friday: Michele Belot (Nuffield College (Centre for Experimental Social Sciences) Friday 11 November 2011, 12.30pm - 2pmDavid Hume Tower, Conference RoomCognitive Discrimination – A Benchmark Experimental Study Document M_Bilot_Nov2011 (211.04 KB / PDF) Philipp Kircher (LSE) Friday 11 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmDavid Hume Tower, Conference RoomSorting and Factor Intensity: Production and Employment Across Skills Document Eeckhout_Kircher_April2011 (385.87 KB / PDF) Gianni De Fraja (Leicester) Monday 14 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02 Jan Eeckhout (UPF) Monday 21 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmConference Room, David Hume Tower, George SquareMatching information Tianxi Wang (Essex) Monday 28 November 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02Paper Circulation by Banks and Nominal Liquidity Xavier Mateos-Planas (QMUL) Wednesday 7 December 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmDavid Hume Tower, Faculty Room SouthConsumer default with complete markets Document Xavier Mateos-Planas (362.55 KB / PDF) Catherine Thomas (Columbia) Monday 12 December 2011, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, seminar room 5 Document Catherine Thomas (1.15 MB / PDF) Seminars which took place during the 2011-2012 academic year. Orley Ashenfelter (Princeton) Thursday 1 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmUniversity of Edinburgh, St Cecilia's HallComparing Real Wages: the McWage IndexUniversity of Edinburgh, St Cecilia's Hall Document Ashenfelter_Seminar_March2012 (683.15 KB / PDF) Emmanuel Petrakis (University of Crete) Monday 5 March 2012, 1pm - 2.30pm31 Buccleuch Place, Room 4.06 (amended times and venue) Ghazala Azmat (Queen Mary, Univ of London) Monday 12 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmChrystal Macmillan Building, ground floor, G.02Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers 2 seminars Monday 19 March: P.J Healy (Ohio) Monday 19 March 2012, 1pm - 2.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place"Epistemic Conditions for the Failure of Nash Equilibrium". Gilat Levy (LSE) Monday 19 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch PlaceRituals or Good Works: Social Signalling in Religious Organizations (Joint with Ronny Razin) Silvana Tenreyro (LSE) Monday 26 March 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch PlaceHot and Cold seasons in the housing market. Dirk Engelmann (Mannheim) Monday 2 April 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch PlaceChoosing how to choose: efficiency concerns and constitutional choice Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI) Monday 23 April 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place'Optimal Life Cycle Unemployment Insurance', joint with Hernan Ru (CEMFI and UTDT) Document Claudio_Michelacci (769.91 KB / PDF) Roberto Burguet (CSIC-Barcelona) Wednesday 2 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch PlaceSimultaneous Nash Bargaining with Consistent Beliefs Document Roberto Burguet (397.76 KB / PDF) Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton) Friday 4 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch PlaceStructural empirical paper on Trade and inequality Russell Cooper (EUI) Monday 7 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch PlaceCostly Labor Adjustment: Effects of China's Employment Regulations Dan Friedman (UC Santa Cruz) Friday 11 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch PlaceFrom Imitation to Collusion: Long-run Learning in a Low-Information Environment by Dan Friedman (UCSC), Steffen Huck (UCL), Ryan Oprea (UBC), and Simon Weidenholzer (U Essex) Gino Gancia (CREI) Monday 14 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place"Offshoring and Directed Technical Change" (with Daron Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti). Fiona M. Scott Morton (Yale, US Department of Justice) Thursday 17 May 2012, 5pm - 6.30pmInstitute for Academic Development, 7 Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9ALLecture: Competition Law and Policy: How Is Economics Useful?Venue details, mapRegistration is required Ludo Visschers (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) Wednesday 23 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place Document Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle (1.49 MB / PDF) 2 seminars Monday 28 May: Nick Netzer (University of Zurich) Monday 28 May 2012, 1pm - 2.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch PlaceProbability Weighting as Evolutionary Second-best Document Nick Netzer May 2012 (735.07 KB / PDF) Árpád Ábrahám (European Univ Inst) Monday 28 May 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place"Efficient Risk Sharing with Limited Commitment and Hidden Storage" (joint with Sarolta Laczo, UCLA) Document Árpád Ábrahám (554.44 KB / PDF) Jakub Steiner (Kellogg, Northwestern and CERGE) Monday 18 June 2012, 4pm - 5.30pmMeeting room 4.06, 31 Buccleuch Place Document Price Distortions in High-Frequency Markets (259.88 KB / PDF) This article was published on 2024-10-01