Seminars 2012-2013

Seminars which took place during the 2012-2013 academic year.

Programme

DateSpeakerPaper
17/09/2012Davide Debortoli (Univ California, San Diego)Profit and Labor Income Taxation and the Supply of public capital
1/10/2012Jaume Ventura, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)Bubbly Collateral and Economic Activity (joint with Alberto Martin)
8/10/2012
Olivier Compte (Paris School of Economics)
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Group decision making (194.11 KB / PDF)
talk entiled 'Group decisions' (joint work with Philippe Jehiel) based on two papers
24/10/2012Juan-Carlos Conesa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
29/10/2012Péter Eső (Oxford University)
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Persuasion and Pricing (456.28 KB / PDF)
5/11/2012Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI, CEPR)Endogenous labor supply in an assignment model with balanced growth, with Claudio Michleacci, CEMFI
12/11/2012Manuel Bagues (Universidad Carlos III)Politicians' Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery (with B.Esteve-Volart)
19/11/2012Matthias Kredler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)A Dynamic Model of Altruistically-Motivated Transfers (with Daniel Barczyk, under review)
26/11/2012Sonia Bhalotra (Bristol University)
3/12/2012Piero Gottardi (European University Institute)Dynamic Competitive Economies with Complete Markets and Collateral Constraints (with Felix Kubler)
10/12/2012Christian Haefke (IZA)Labor Market Participation and Labor Supply Elasticities
12/12/2012Marco Faravelli (University of Queensland)“Mandate and Paternalism: A Theory of Large Elections” (M. Faravelli, P. Man & R. Walsh)
14/01/2013Pieter Gautier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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21/1/2013Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo)Redistributive Taxation in a Partial Insurance Economy" joint with Heathcote and Violante.
28/1/2013Johannes Spinnewijn (LSE)Heterogeneity, Demand for Insurance and Adverse Selection
4/2/2013Pedro Rey Biel (Autonoma Barcelona)
8/2/2013Jonathan Feinstein (Yale)Creating Fields: Learning, Creativity Generation, Paths of Development
18/2/2013Etienne Wasmer (SciPo, Paris)
25/2/2013Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Goethe Universität)Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women across Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis
27/2/2013Sascha Becker (Warwick)Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide (venue: Chrystal MacMillan Building rm 4)
4/3/2013Emilia Del Bono (ISER)Breastfeeding and child cognitive outcomes: evidence from a hospital-based BF support policy
6/3/2013Elena Pastorino (University of Minnesota)Careers in Firms: Estimating a Model of Learning, Job Assignment, and Human Capital Acquisition
11/3/2013Natalia Zinovyeva (IPP-CSIC)
18/3/2013Guy Michaels (LSE)Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012AD (joint with Ferdinand Rauch)
2/4/2013Scott E. Carrell (UC Davis)LATE INTERVENTIONS MATTER TOO: THE CASE OF COLLEGE COACHING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE" (with Bruce Sacerdote)
17/4/2013Yona Rubinstein (LSE)
29/4/2013Andrei Levchenko (Michigan)Firms, Destinations, and Aggregate Fluctuations
1/5/2013Bart Hobijn (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)Downward Nominal Wage Rigidities Bend the Phillips Curve (joint with Mary Daly)
6/5/2013Olivier l'Haridon (Université of Rennes)Learning under ambiguity: An experiment using initial public offerings on a stock market
13/5/2013Mónica Martínez Bravo (CEMFI, Madrid)
15/5/2013Albrecht Glitz (UPF)Coworker Networks in the Labour Market
20/5/2013Basit Zafar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)Determinants of College Major Choice: Identification Using an Information Experiment (M Wiswall)
20/5/2013David Jaeger (CUNY)Are Drone Strikes Effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the Dynamics of Violence
22/5/2013Aytek Erdil (Cambridge)Prioritizing Diversity in School Choice
27/5/2013Stefan Lauermann (Michigan)
31/5/2013Christopher House (Michigan)A Quantitative Model of Toxic Assets and Unconventional Monetary Policy (joint with Rudi Bachmann)
3/6/2013Theodore Papageorgiou (Penn State)Large Firms and Labor Markets
10/6/2013Dirk Krueger (Penn Institute for Economic Research)On the Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects of Bailout Guarantees in the Mortgage Market"