Colloquium - Economics Research Seminar

     
 

 

 

The seminar takes place on Fridays from 14.15 to 15.45 in the seminar room 3-4 (seminaarihuone 3-4), Economicum building (ground floor), Arkadiankatu 7.

Occasionally the seminar will meet on some other date, time and/or place. Those occasions will be clearly notified in the programme.

We would like to thank the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation for funding the seminar series.

Spring 2010 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 22 Uskali Mäki (Academy of Finland) What's the point of unrealistic models? A philosopher of economics
answers the question he raised long ago as an economics student.
Related paper: Models and the locus of their truth
January 29, at 14.00-15.00 Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich) Technological Change, Firms’ Organization and the Wealth of Nations (YJ Award Lecture)
January 29, at 15.00-16.00 John van Reenen (CEP/London School of Economics) Technology, Information, and the Decentralization of Firms (YJ Award Lecture)
February 5 No seminar (KT-päivät)  
February 12 Ralf Martin (CEP/London School of Economics). The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Business: Evidence from Microdata (with Laure de Preux and Ulrich Wagner)
February 19 Seppo Honkapohja (Bank of Finland) Expectations, Deflation Traps and Macroeconomic Policy (with George Evans)
February 26 Michael Hoel (University of Oslo) Climate change and carbon tax expectations
March 5 Gino Gancia (CREI/ Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Politicians, Uncertainty and Reforms(with Alessandra Bonfiglioli)
March 12 Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics) The Price Impact of Institutional Herding (with Andrea Prat and Michela Verardo)
March 19 Alexander Ljungqvist (New York University) Monitoring Managers: Does it Matter? (with Francesca Cornelli and Zbigniew Kominek)
March 26 Uwe Sunde (University of St Gallen) Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition
April 2 No Seminar (Pitkäperjantai)  
April 9
in the seminar room 1		 Aleksander Berentsen (University of Basel)  
April 16
in the seminar room 1		 Fabian Waldinger  (University of Warwick)  
April 23 Richard Friberg (Stockholm School of Economics)  
April 30 No Seminar (Vappuaatto)  
May 7 Anna Piil Damm (Aarhus University)  
May 14 Howard Smith (University of Oxford)  
May 21 Estelle Cantillon (ECARES / Université Libre de Bruxelles)  
May 28 Dezsö Szalay (University of Bonn)  
June 4 Georg Kirchsteiger (ECARES / Université Libre de Bruxelles)  

Past seminars

For more information, please contact any of the seminar organizers:

Heikki Pursiainen, heikki.pursiainen[at]helsinki.fi
Staffan Ringbom, staffan.ringbom[at]shh.fi
Marko Terviö, marko.tervio[at]hse.fi