Seminars 2010

January and February will mainly be devoted to Job Market seminars.

Estefania Santacreu-Vasut - University of California, Berkeley (Job Market Seminar)

January 14, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Diversity and Institutions: Theory and Evidence from the Spread of Industrialization

Lunch Seminar: Emanuela Ciapanna - Bank of Italy

January 18, 2010
from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Demand and Supply-side Determinants of Manager Compensation (with Eliana Viviano - Bank of Italy)

Carlos R. Lever - Stanford University (Job Market Seminar)

January 25, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

A Model of Political Campaigns, Lobbying and Marketing over Social Networks: Whom to Target?

Nicholas Trachter - University of Chicago (Job Market Seminar)

January 26, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Ladders in Post-Secondary Education

Hector Perez-Saiz - University of Chicago (Job Market Seminar)

January 29, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Building New Plants or Entering by Acquisition? Estimation of an Entry Model for the US Cement Industry

Jean-Paul L’Huillier - MIT (Job Market Seminar)

February 1, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Heterogeneous Information and Nominal Rigidities

Florian S. Peters - University of California, Berkeley (Job Market Seminar)

February 2, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Risk Premia in Executive Compensation: A Life-Cycle Perspective

Jacek Rothert - University of Minnesota (Job Market Seminar)

February 3, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Endogenous Regime Switching

Alejo Costa - University of Chicago (Job Market Seminar)

February 4, 2010
from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Sovereign Default under Model Uncertainty

Peter Hansen - Stanford University

February 4, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Realized GARCH: A Complete Model of Returns and Realized Measures of Volatility

Lunch Seminar: Alberto Giovannini - Unifortune Asset Management SGR

February 5, 2010
from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Financial Reform from First Principles

Joakim Bång - Stockholm School of Economics (Job Market Seminar)

February 5, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Tit-for-tat Compensation

Nicolas Roys - CeMMAP (Job Market Seminar)

February 8, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Estimating Labor Market Rigidities with Heterogeneous Firms

Leonardo Melosi - University of Pennsylvania (Job Market Seminar)

February 11, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

A Likelihood Analysis of Models with Information Frictions

Asier Mariscal - University of Chicago (Job Market Seminar)

February 13, 2010
from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

Global Ownership Patterns

Special Lecture: David Levine - Washington University

February 15, 2010
from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Game Theory and Behavioral Economics

Andrea Vedolin - University of Lugano (Job Market Seminar)

February 15, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Uncertainty and Leveraged Lucas Trees: The Cross Section of Equilibrium Volatility Risk Premia

Sera Linardi - California Institute of Technology (Job Market Seminar)

February 17, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

No Excuses for Good Behavior: How Social Environment Affects Volunteers

Roberto Pancrazi - Duke University (Job Market Seminar)

February 18, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Who Cares About The Great Moderation?

Special Lecture: David Levine - Washington University

February 19, 2010
from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Game Theory and Behavioral Economics

Ija Trapeznikova - Northwestern University (Job Market Seminar)

February 19, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Employment Adjustment and Labor Utilization

Special Lecture: David Levine - Washington University

February 22, 2010
from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Game Theory and Behavioral Economics

Heng Chen - University of Zurich (Job Market Seminar)

February 23, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Underdevelopment of Financial Markets and Excess Consumption Volatility in Developing Countries

Special Lecture: David Levine - Washington University

February 26, 2010
from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Game Theory and Behavioral Economics

Alessio Saretto - Purdue University (Job Market Seminar)

February 26, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Union Strikes and the Impact of Non-financial Stakeholders on Capital Structure

Special Lecture: Kenneth D. West - University of Wisconsin

March 4, 2010
from 9:30 am to 11:00 am

Forecast Evaluation

Rita Ginja - University College London (Job Market Seminar)

March 4, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Income Shocks and Investments in Human Capital

Special Lecture: David Levine - Washington University

March 5, 2010
from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Game Theory and Behavioral Economics

Lunch Seminar: Marco Lippi - University of Rome “La Sapienza” & EIEF

March 8, 2010
from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Fundamentalness, VARs, DSGEs

Special Lecture: Kenneth D. West - University of Wisconsin

March 11, 2010
from 9:30 am to 11:00 am

Forecast Evaluation

Bent Nielsen - Oxford University

March 11, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

The Role of Income in Money Demand During Hyper-inflation: the Case of Yugoslavia

Joseph Altonji - Yale University

March 18, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Modeling Earnings Dynamics

Gary Charness - University of California, Santa Barbara

March 22, 2010
from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

Participation

LABOUR Lectures: Janet Currie - Columbia University & NBER

March 23, 2010
from 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Early Life and Human Capital Development: Human Capital Development Before Age Five

This course will provide an overview of recent literature in Economics linking early life experiences to human capital development and longer term outcomes.

Reading:
Almond, Douglas and Janet Currie. “Human Capital Development Before Age 5,” forthcoming in Handbook of Labor Economics, Orley Ashenfelter and David E. Card (eds.), North Holland, 2011.

LABOUR Lectures: Janet Currie - Columbia University & NBER

March 24, 2010
from 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Early Life and Human Capital Development: Evidence Regarding the Causal Relationship Between Child Health, Parental SES, and Human Capital Development

Reading:
Currie, Janet, Mark Stabile, Phongsack Manivong, Leslie L. Roos. “Child Health and Young Adult Outcomes,“ forthcoming Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2010.
Currie, Janet. “Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise? Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development,” Journal of Economic Literature, 47 #1, March 2009, 87-122.
“Air Pollution and Infant Health: Lessons from New Jersey,” Journal of Health Economics, 28 #3, May 2009, 688-703, with Matthew Neidell and Johannes Schmeider.(NIHMSID 96893)

LABOUR Lectures: Janet Currie - Columbia University & NBER

March 25, 2010
from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Early Life and Human Capital Development: Evidence Regarding the Effectiveness of Remediation

Reading:
Almond, Douglas and Janet Currie. “Human Capital Development Before Age 5,” forthcoming in Handbook of Labor Economics, Orley Ashenfelter and David E. Card (eds.), North Holland, 2011.
Currie, Janet and Firouz Gahvari. “Transfers in Cash and In-Kind: Theory Meets the Data,” Journal of Economic Literature, 46 #2, June 2008, 333-383.

Janet Currie - Columbia University & NBER

March 25, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass

Lunch Seminar: Liam Graham - University College London

March 29, 2010
from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

TBA

W. Bentley MacLeod - Columbia University

March 29, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Kjell Salvanes - Norges Handelshøyskole

April 8, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

TBA

Special Lecture: Antonio Forcina - University of Perugia

April 9, 2010
from 9:00 am to 11:30 am

Introduction to Causal Inference without Counterfactuals

Fabrizio Zilibotti - Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich

April 12, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Mark Steel - Warwick University

April 15, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

TBA

Special Lecture: Antonio Forcina - University of Perugia

April 16, 2010
from 9:00 am to 11:30 am

Introduction to Causal Inference without Counterfactuals

Lunch Seminar: Andrea Pozzi - EIEF

April 19, 2010
from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Online Crowding Out

Per Krusell - Princeton University

April 19, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Rosa Matzkin - UCLA

April 22, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

TBA

Roman Inderst - University of Frankfurt and London School of Economics

April 26, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Patrick Gagliardini - University of Lugano

April 29, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Efficency in Large Dynamic Panel Models with Common Factors

Massimo Marinacci - Università di Torino

May 3, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Rainer Dahlhaus - Heidelberg University

May 6, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

TBA

Joachim Voth - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

May 10, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Andrew Chesher - University College London

May 13, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

TBA

Lunch Seminar: Raoul Minetti - Michigan State

May 17, 2010
from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

TBA

Nobu Kiyotaki - Princeton University

May 17, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Stephane Gregoire - EDHEC

May 20, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Testing in Vector Autoregressions with the Possibly Seasonally and Non-Seasonally (Co-)Integrated Processes

Randall D. Wright - Wisconsin University

May 24, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Xavier Giné - The World Bank

May 27, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

LABOUR Lectures: Anne Case - Princeton University

May 31, 2010
from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

TBA

Steven Ongena - Tilburg University

May 31, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

LABOUR Lectures: Anne Case - Princeton University

June 1, 2010
from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

TBA

LABOUR Lectures: Anne Case - Princeton University

June 3, 2010
from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

TBA

Anne Case - Princeton University

June 3, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

TBA

Michele Boldrin - Washington University

June 7, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Michael Lechner - University of St. Gallen

June 10, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

TBA

Jordi Brandts - Institute for Economic Analysis

June 14, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

John Duffy - University of Pittsburgh

June 15, 2010
from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

TBA

Hashem Pesaran - Cambridge University

June 17, 2010
from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

TBA