Seminari 2009

Stanislav Anatolyev-New Economic School Moscow

January 15, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Sequential Testing with Uniformly Distributed Size

Francesco Russo - Boston University (Seminario per il Job Market )

January 16, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

The Cost of the Legal System and the Hidden Economy

Eric Weese - MIT (Job Market Seminar)

January 19, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Political Mergers as Coalition Formation: Evidence from Japanese Municipal Amalgamations

Mathis Wagner - University of Chicago (Job Market Seminar)

January 20, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Understanding the Labor Market Impact of Immigration

Marc Hallin - Université Libre de Bruxelles

January 22, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Dynamic Factors in the Presence of Block Structure

Emilio Calvano - Toulouse School of Economics (Job Market Seminar)

January 23, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Pricing Payment Cards

Ufuk Akcigit - MIT (Job Market Seminar)

January 26, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Firm Size, Innovation Dynamics and Growth

Aspen Gorry - University of Chicago (Job Market Seminar)

January 27, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Labor Market Experience and Worker Flows

Sirio Aramonte - London Business School (Job Market Seminar)

January 30, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Option Returns

Giacomo Ponzetto - Harvard University (Job Market Seminar)

February 2, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Case Law vs. Statute Law: An Evolutionary Comparison

Hakki Yazici - University of Minnesota (Job Market Seminar)

February 4, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Efficient Investment in Children and Implications for Policy

Joshua Miller - University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Job market seminar)

February 6, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

The Difficulty of Being Fair

Stefano Sacchetto - London Business School (Job Market Seminar)

February 9, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Preemptive Bidding, Target Resistance and Takeover Premia: An Empirical Investigation

Bulent Guler- The University of Texas at Austin (Job Market Seminar)

February 12, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Innovations in Information Technology and the Mortgage Market

David Martinez Miera - CEMFI (Job Market Seminar)

February 13, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

The Credit Worthiness of the Poor: A Model of the Grameen Bank

David Dorn - Boston University (Job Market Seminar)

February 17, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Price and Prejudice: The Interaction between Preferences and Incentives in the Dynamics of Racial Segregation

Roberto Piazza - University of Minnesota (Job Market Seminar)

February 20, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Growth and Crisis, Unavoidable connection?

Tobias Broer - European University Institute (Job Market Seminar)

February 23, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Domestic or Global Imbalances? Rising Inequality and the Fall in the US Current Account

Lutz Kilian- University of Michigan (Lunch Seminar)

February 24, 2009
from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Pitfalls in Estimating Asymmetric Effects of Energy Price Shocks

Andrea Pozzi - Stanford University (Job Market Seminar)

February 24, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Shopping Cost and Brand Exploration in Online Grocery

Gustaf Bruze - University of Chicago (Job Market Seminar)

February 27, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Schooling, Marriage, and Male and Female Consumption

Facundo Piguillem - University of Minnesota (Job Market Seminar)

March 9, 2009
from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm

Heterogeneous Beliefs and Optimal Taxation

Bernard Salanié - Columbia University

March 9, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Matching with Trade-offs: Revealed Preferences over Competing Characteristics

Antoni Espasa-Universidad Carlos III

March 12, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Forecasting Disaggregates and Aggregate with Common Features

Silvia Barcellos - Princeton University (Job Market Seminar)

March 13, 2009
from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

The Dynamics of Immigration and Wages

Leonardo Carvalho - Princeton University (Job Market Seminar)

March 13, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Poverty and Time Preferences

Jonathan Halket - New York University (Job Market Seminar)

March 14, 2009
from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

Home Ownership, Savings, and Mobility Over The Life Cycle

Klaus Adam-Mannheim University

March 16, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Stock Market Volatility and Learning

Hank Farber - Princeton University

March 17, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Are Voters Rational? Turnout in Union Representation Elections. A Progress Report

Sung K. Ahn - Washington State University

March 19, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Estimation of Vector Error Correction Models with Mixed-Frequency Data

Paolo Surico-Bank of England

March 23, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Monetary Policies and Low-Frequency Manifestations of the Quantity Theory

Victor Lavy-The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

March 26, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

The Good, Bad and Average: Evidence on the Scope and Scale of Ability Peer Effects in Schools

Georg Weizsäcker-LSE

March 30, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Do We Follow Others When We Should? A Simple Test of Rational Expectations

Ingrid Van Keilegom-Université catholique de Louvain

April 2, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Semiparametric Modeling and Estimation of the Dispersion Function in Regression

Keith Crocker-The Pennsylvania State University

April 6, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Optimal Managerial Compensation, Earnings Manipulation, and Manager Ownership

Riccardo Scarpa-The University of Waikato

April 9, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Incorporating Model Uncertainty into the Generation of Efficient Stated Choice Experiments: A Model Averaging Approach

Worshop on Structural Approaches to Productivity and Industrial Dynamics (Part I)

April 16, 2009
from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Programma 

Johannes Van Biesebroeck (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Market Structure and Innovation: A Dynamic Analysis of the Global Automotive Industry

Volker Nocke (University of Oxford)
Globalization and the Size Distribution of Multiproduct Firms

Mark J. Roberts (Pennsylvania State University)
R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics

Aleksey Tetenov-Collegio Carlo Alberto

April 16, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Measuring Precision of Statistical Inference on Partially Identified Parameters

Workshop on Structural Approaches to Productivity and Industrial Dynamics (Part II)

April 17, 2009
from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm

Programma

James R. Tybout (Penn State)
Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

Carlos Daniel Santos (University of Alicante) 
Recovering the Sunk Costs of R&D: The Moulds Industry Case

Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)
A Dynamic Oligopoly Game of the US Airline Industry: Estimation and Policy Experiments

John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland and NBER)
The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning About Demand?

Matthew Shum (California Institute of Technology HSS)
How Much Competition is a Secondary Market

Frederic Warzynski (Aarhus School of Business) 
Markups and Firm-Level Export Status

Anastasios Karantounias - Atlanta FED

April 20, 2009
from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Ramsey Taxation and Fear of Misspecification

Paula Bustos - Universitat Pompeu Fabra and CREI

April 20, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

The Impact of Trade on Technology and Skill Upgrading: Evidence from Argentina

Luca Anderlini - Georgetown University

April 27, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Communication and Learning

Marcus Feldman - Stanford University

April 28, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

The Growth of Technology and Maladaptation: an Application of Cultural Transmission

Serge Guillas -UCL

April 30, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Bivariate Splines for Spatial Functional Regression Models

Andrea Tambalotti-Federal Bank of New York

May 4, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

CONDI: A Cost-Of-Nominal-Distortions Index

Paolo Zaffaroni - Imperial College London

May 7, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Generalized Least Squares Estimation of Panel with Common Shocks

Costas Azariadis - UCLA

May 18, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Capital Misallocation and Aggregate Factor Productivity

Gary Koop - University of Strathclyde

May 21, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Modeling the Dynamics of Inflation Compensation

George Akerlof - University of California, Berkeley

May 22, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Animal Spirits and The Economy

David Levine - Washington University

May 25, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Quality Ladders, Competition and Endogenous Growth

Edi Karni - Johns Hopkins University

May 28, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

A Theory of Bayesian Decision Making

Martijn Cremers - Yale University

May 29, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Thirty Years of Corporate Governance: Determinants and Equity Prices

Francis Vella - Georgetown University

June 4, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Triangular Semiparameteric Models featuring Two Dependent Endogenous Binary Outcomes

Diego Comin - Harvard Business School

June 9, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Medium Term Cycles in Developing Countries

Andrea Vindigni - Princeton University

June 15, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

The Political Economy of Science, Religion and Growth

Irina Telyukova - University of California - San Diego

June 22, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Precautionary Demand for Money in a Monetary Business Cycle Model

Fernando Alvarez - University of Chicago, Francesco Lippi - University of Sassari and Luigi Guiso - EUI Florence

June 30, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Durable consumption and asset management in the presence of transaction and information cost

Effi Benmelech - Harvard University and NBER

July 6, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Negotiating with Labour under Financial Distress

Aleh Tsyvinski - Yale University

July 13, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Optimal Taxes on Fossil Fuel in General Equilibrium

Martin Uribe - Columbia University

July 20, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

What’s News in Business Cycles

Karl Schlag - Universidad Pompeu Fabra

July 27, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Can Sanctions Induce Pessimism?An Experiment

Gianni De Nicolò - IMF

August 3, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Financial Intermediation, Competition, and Risk: A General Equilibrium Exposition

Kevin Lang - Boston University

October 1, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

TBA

Eric Ghysels - University of North Carolina

October 8, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

News - Good or Bad - and its Impact on Volatility Forecasting Over Multiple Horizons

Fabio Canova - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

October 12, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Does Money Matter in Shaping Domestic Business Cycles: An International Investigation

Francisco J. Ruge - Murcia - University of Montreal

October 19, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Sectoral Price Rigidity and Aggregate Dynamics

Jesus Carro - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

October 22, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Dynamic Binary Outcome Models with Maximal Heterogeneity

Mariassunta Giannetti - Stockholm School of Economics

October 26, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Do Cultural Differences Between Contracting Parties Matter? Evidence from Syndicated Bank Loans

Bartosz Mackowiak - European Central Bank

November 2, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Business Cycle Dynamics under Rational Inattention

Massimo Franchi - Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

November 5, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

A Representation of VAR Processes with Common Cyclical Features

Massimo Morelli - Columbia University

November 9, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure?

Pedro Teles - FCEE, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

November 16, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Monetary Policy and the Financing of Firms

Roberto Renò - University of Siena

November 19, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Nonparametric Leverage Effects

Dezsö Szalay - University of Warwick-Bonn

November 23, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Screening and the Positive Correlation Between Risk and Incentives

Arnoud W.A. Boot - University of Amsterdam

November 30, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Competition and Entry in Banking: Implications for Capital Regulation

Costas Meghir - University College London

December 3, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Matching, Sorting and Wages

Andrei Shleifer - Harvard University

December 9, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

What Comes to Mind

Francesco Giavazzi - Bocconi University

December 10, 2009
from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes

Tatiana Komarova - LSE

December 10, 2009
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Set Identification in Binary Response Models with Discrete Regressors

Nicola Gennaioli - CREi

December 14, 2009
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Contractual Resolutions of Financial Distress