Details of School of Economics seminars during the 2013-14 academic year. Seminars 2013-14All seminars start at 16.00, in room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place unless indicated otherwise.Some weeks have a double schedule, in which case we also have a lunchtime seminar starting at 12.00.Seminar venue is room 3.10 - 31 Buccleuch Place Semester 2: after Easter break onwards Christian Dustmann (UCL) Monday 28 April 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Antonio Cabrales (UCL) Monday 5 May 2014, 4pm - 5.30pmRisk-sharing and contagion in networks (with Piero Gottardi) Matthew Shapiro (University of Michigan) Monday 12 May 2014, 4pm - 5.30pmHarnessing Naturally-Occurring Data to Measure the Response of Spending to Income Joel Sobel (UC San Diego) Monday 19 May 2014, 12.00pm - 1.30pmseminar 1: "Effective Communication in Cheap Talk Games" Michael Kosfeld (University of Frankfurt) Monday 19 May 2014, 4pm - 5.30pmseminar 2: I (don’t) like you - but who cares? Francisco Buera (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and UCLA) Monday 26 May 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm‘The Global Diffusion of Ideas’, joint work with Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University). David Levine (Washington University) Monday 2 June 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm"Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony and the Power of the State" (with Salvatore Modica) Tor Jacobsen (Sveriges Riksbank) Tuesday 3 June 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm“Inter-Firm Lending: An Empirical Evaluation of Trade Credit Contracts” by Tore Ellingsen, Tor Jacobson, and Erik von Schedvin. Arnaud Costinot (MIT) Monday 9 June 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University) Wednesday 18 June 2014, 1pm - 2.30pm Archived: Sept 2013 until Easter break Flavio Cunha (University of Pennsylvania) Monday 9 September 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm Document Flavio_Cunha2013 (893.35 KB / PDF) John Kennan (University of Wisconsin) Monday 23 September 2013, 4pm - 5.30pmImmigration Restrictions and Labor Market Skills Syngjoo Choi (UCL) Monday 30 September 2013, 4pm - 5.30pmTrading in Networks: Theory and Experiment Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) Monday 7 October 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm Document Jean Tirole public lecture (622.17 KB / PDF) Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics) Tuesday 8 October 2013, 1pm - 3pmSeminar: Addressing the patent thicket Rachel Griffith (University of Manchester) Monday 21 October 2013, 4pm - 5.30pmseminar 2: Estimating the Effects of Banning Advertising on Demand and Firms’ Pricing (Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith and Martin O'Connell) Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich) Monday 28 October 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm Document Jean Charles Rochet (285.14 KB / PDF) Greg Kaplan (Princeton University) Monday 4 November 2013, 4pm - 5.30pmUnderstanding the Long-Run Decline in Interstate Migration Nicola Pavoni (Bocconi University) Monday 11 November 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm'Ramsey Asset Taxation with Asymmetric Information' (joint with Piero Gottardi, EUI). Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam) Monday 18 November 2013, 12pm - 1.30pmseminar 1: Fertility Effects on Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments Victor Rios-Rull (University of Minnesota) Monday 18 November 2013, 4pm - 5.30pmseminar 2Financial Frictions, Asset Prices, and the Great Recession (Zhen Huo and Jose-Vctor Ros-Rull) George Mailath (University of Pennsylvania) Monday 25 November 2013, 4pm - 5.30pmThe Curse of Long Horizons Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (Washington University) Monday 2 December 2013, 4pm - 5.30pmConsumption and Income Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Lifetime With No Humps and Little Partial Insurance" (joint work with Leandro Magalhaes (Bristol)) Robert Shimer (University of Chicago) Monday 9 December 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm Leena Rudanko (University of Boston, NBER) Friday 13 December 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm Benjamin Moll (Princeton University) Friday 13 December 2013, 4pm - 5.30pm Benjamin Moll (Princeton University) Monday 16 December 2013, 4pm - 5.30pmOptimal Development Policies with Financial Frictions Margaret Bray (London School of Economics) Monday 24 February 2014, 12pm - 1.30pmConference Room, David Hume TowerRethinking the Mean Variance Frontier: Dominated Mean Variance Efficient Portfolios Uwe Sunde (University of Munich) Monday 3 March 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm‘The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development’ (joint with Matteo Cervellati) Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics) Friday 7 March 2014, 2pm - 3.30pmPaper: Cooperation vs. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes Co-opetition Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas) Monday 10 March 2014, 4pm - 5.30pmPaper: Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination Christopher Woodruff (University of Warwick) Monday 17 March 2014, 12pm - 1.30pmPlease note earlier time slot Andryi Zapechelnyuk (University of Glasgow) Monday 24 March 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Brit Grosskopf (University of Exeter) Monday 31 March 2014, 12pm - 1.30pmseminar 1: "The Demand for Expressing Emotions" , joint work with Kristian Lopez-Vargas Rajiv Sarin (University of Exeter) Monday 31 March 2014, 4pm - 5.30pmseminar 2: "A model of satisficing behavior'', joint work with Hyun Chang Yi. 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