Past Colloquium Seminars

     
 

 

 

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

Spring 2010
Autumn 2009

Spring 2009
Autumn 2008
Spring 2008


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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 (with Matteo Cervellati)
April 2 No Seminar (Pitkäperjantai)  
April 9
in the seminar room 1
Aleksander Berentsen (University of Basel) Optimal Monetary Policy in a Channel System
Related paper: Monetary policy in a channel system
April 16
in the seminar room 1
Fabian Waldinger  (University of Warwick) Moved to Sep 24th due to volcanic activity.
April 23 Richard Friberg (Stockholm School of Economics) Moved to Nov 19th.
April 30 No Seminar (Vappuaatto)  
May 7 Anna Piil Damm (Aarhus University) The Effect of Growing Up in a High Crime Area on Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from a Random Allocation Experiment (with Christian Dustmann)
May 14 Howard Smith (University of Oxford) Local Clustering in Commercial Radio: Scale Economies or Product Positioning?
May 21
in the seminar room 1
Estelle Cantillon (ECARES / Université Libre de Bruxelles) Competition between Exchanges: Lessons from the Battle of the Bund (with Pai-ling Yin)
May 28 Dezsö Szalay (University of Bonn) Regulating a Multi-Product and Multi-Type Monopolist
June 4 Georg Kirchsteiger (ECARES / Université Libre de Bruxelles) How (not) to take a decision: Modeling procedural games (with Gani Aldashev and Alexander Sebald)
(Abstract)

 

Autumn 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 18 in the lecture room

Balázs Szentes (University College London)

Contractible Contracts in Common Agency Problems
September 25 Tarjei Havnes (University of Oslo) Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Differences-in-Differences(with Magne Mogstad Statistics Norway)
October 2 Jan Eeckhout (ICREA / Pompeu Fabra) Assortative Learning (with Xi Weng)
October 9 Omer Moav (Hebrew University) Saving Rates and Poverty: The Role of Conspicuous Consumption and Human Capital (with Zvika Neeman)
October 16 William Kerr (Harvard Business School) Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
October 23 No seminar  
October 29
in the lecture room
from 13.00 to 14.00
Jörgen Weibull (Stockholm School of Economics) Charles Darwin meets Max Weber: On Kinship, Economic Incentives and Evolution                               Related paper
October 30 Ola Kvaløy (University of Stavanger) Incentive provision when contracting is costly (with Trond Olsen)
November 6 No seminar  
November 13 Tobias Broer (IIES) Stationary equilibrium distributions in economies with limited commitment
November 20 Natalia Fabra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) How to Allocate Forward Contracts
The case of electricity markets
(with María-Ángeles de Frutos)
November 27
 
No seminar  
December 4
in the lecture room
Gernot Müller (University of Bonn) Fiscal stimulus with spending reversals (with Giancarlo Corsetti and André Meier)
December 11 Clemens Fuest (Oxford University) Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe (with Mathias Dolls and Andreas Peichl)
December 18 Javier Andrés (Universitat de Valencia) Banking Competition, Housing Prices
and Macroeconomic Stability
(with Oscar Arce)


Spring 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 23

Jos Jansen
(Max Planck Institute for   Research on Collective Goods)

On Competition and the Strategic Management of Intellectual Property in Oligopoly

January 30 Matthijs van Veelen   (University of Amsterdam)

Evolution of strategies in repeated games with discounting

February 6

 NO SEMINAR

February 13

Paul Heidhues
(University of Bonn)

Exploiting naivete about self-control in the credit market (with Botond Köszegi, University of California, Berkeley)

February 20

 NO SEMINAR

February 27

Francesco Drago
(University of Naples)

Spillovers Effects and Social
Interactions in Crime: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

March 6

Bruno Decreuse (University of Aix-Marseilles II)

Matching with phantoms

March 13 in seminar room 1

David Card
(University of California, Berkeley)

Immigration and Inequality

March 20

Helena Skyt Nielsen
(University of Aarhus)

Causes and Consequences of Fathers' Child Leave: Evidence from a Reform of Public Sector Leave Scheme

March 27

Olmo Silva
(London School of Economics)

Unobservables and Matching as an Evaluation Method: Evidence from an Education Intervention

April 3

Tymon Tatur
(University of Bonn)

Correlated k-Equilibrium

April 10

 NO SEMINAR

April 17

Nicola Gennaioli
(Pompeu Fabra)

Institutions and Foreign Finance: Sovereign and
Private Flows

April 24

Gilat Levy
(London School of Economics)

A Dynamic Model of Agenda Formation

May 1

 NO SEMINAR

 
May 8

Pierre Dubois
(Toulouse School of Economics)

Non Linear Contracting and Endogenous Buyer Power
between Manufacturers and Retailers : Identification and
Estimation on Differentiated Products

May 15

Matteo Cervellati
(University of Bologna)

The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

May 22

Bĺrd Harstad
(Northwestern University)

The Dynamics of Climate Agreements

May 29

Leena Rudanko
(Boston University)

Labor Market Dynamics under Long-Term Wage Contracting

June 5

Rohini Pande (Harvard University)

Do Social Interactions Facilitate Cooperative Behavior? Evidence from a Group Lending Experiment in India

June 12

Helmut Bester (Free University, Berlin)

Exit Options in Incomplete Contracts with Asymmetric Information (joint with Daniel Krähmer)

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Autumn 2008 schedule:

Date Speaker Title

September 19

Helmut Lütkepohl
(European University Institute)
Acquisition of information and share prices: An empirical investigation of cognitive dissonance (co-authors Elena Argentesi and Massimo Motta)
September 26 Guy Michaels (LSE) Urbanization (co-authors Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding)
October 3 Lars Calmfors
(IIES, Stockholm University)
Pattern Bargaining and Wage Leadership in a Small Open Economy (co-author Anna Larsson)
October 10 Aart de Zeeuw
(Tilburg University)
Can a focus on breakthrough technologies improve the performance of international environmental agreements? (co-author Michael Hoel)
October 17 Corinne Langinier
(University of Alberta)
Patent search of prior art and revelation of information (co-author Philippe Marcoul)
October 24 Robert Östling
(IIES Stockholm)
Strategic Thinking and Learning in the Field and Lab: Evidence from Poisson LUPI Lottery Games (co-authors Joseph Tao-yi Wang, Eileen Chou, and Colin F. Camerer)
October 31 Sergei Izmalkov
(New Economic School)
Perfect Implementation of Normal-Form Mechanisms (co-authors Matt Lepinski and Silvio Micali )
November 7 Mikael Lindahl
(Uppsala University)
The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods (co-authors Helena Holmlund and Erik Plug)
November 21 Volker Grossmann (University of Fribourg) Qualifying Religion: The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production (co-authors Timo Boppart, Josef Falkinger, Ulrich Woitek and Gabriela Wüthrich)
November 28 Virginia Sánchez Marcos (Universidad de Cantabria) Aggregate shocks and the volatility of house prices (co-author José-Víctor Ríos-Rull)
December 5 Erin Krupka (IZA) Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary? (co-author Roberto Weber)
December 19 Johanna Wallenius
(Arizona SU)
Micro and Macro Elasticities in a Life Cycle Model With Taxes (pdf, co-author Richard Rogerson)

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Spring 2008 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 18 Walter Fisher (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna) Keeping up with the Ageing Joneses (co-author Ben J. Heijdra)
January 25 Sascha Becker (University of Munich) Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History (co-author Ludger Woessmann)
February 1 Martin Ljunge (University of Copenhagen) Sick of the Welfare State? Social Insurance and Social Norms
February 8 Carsten Ochsen (University of Rostock) Who Benefits from Labor Market Institutions? Evidence from Surveys of Life Satisfaction (co-author Heinz Welschb)
February 22 Katri Sieberg (University of Tampere) Negotiations - the Parts versus the Whole: A Social Choice Approach to Labor Issues
February 29 Pascal Courty (European University Institute) On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Specialties: Understanding Shortages and Growth in Specialization (co-author Gerald Marschke)
March 7 Tomer Blumkin (Ben-Gurion University) Incorporating Affirmative Action into the Welfare State (co-authors Yoram Margalioth and Efraim Sadka)
March 14 Makoto Watanabe (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) A Model of Merchants
March 28 Timo Goeschl (University of Heidelberg) On Backstops and Boomerangs: Environmental R&D under Technological Uncertainty (co-author Grischa Perino)
April 4 Albrecht Glitz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labour Supply?
April 11 Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (New Economic School, Moscow) Reforms in Business Regulation: Evidence from Russia (co-author Evgeny Yakovlev)
April 18 Stefano Gagliarducci (CEMFI, Madrid) Outside Income and Moral Hazard: The Elusive Quest for Good Politicians (co-authors Tommaso Nannicini and Paolo Naticchioni)
April 25 Claudio Mezzetti (University of Warwick) Manipulative Disclosure
May 9 Eirik Gaard Kristiansen (Norwegian School of Economics and BA) Financial contracting under imperfect enforcement (co-author Tore Ellingsen)
May 16 Paul Söderlind (University of St. Gallen) Inflation Risk Premia and Survey Evidence on Macroeconomic Uncertainty
May 23 David Myatt (Oxford University) On the Sources and Value of Information: Public Announcements and Macroeconomic Performance (co-author Chris Wallace)
May 30 Patrick Bajari (University of Minnesota) Identification and Estimation of a Discrete Game of Complete Information (co-authors Han Hong and Stephen Ryan)
June 9 Ed Prescott (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Arizona State University) Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Accounts (co-author Ellen R. McGrattan)

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