Winter 2013
| March 2013 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 1 3:30, L429 |
Peter Howitt (Brown) "How Inflation Affects Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Investigation" Cireq Macro Seminar |
Alvarez-Cuadrado |
| Friday, March 15 3:30, L429 |
Dilip Abreu (Princeton) "One-sided Uncertainty and Delay in Reputational Bargaining" Montreal Economic Theory Seminar |
R. Dutta |
| Friday, March 22 3:30, L429 |
Huntley Schaller (Carleton) "Corporate Savings, the Marginal Value of Cash, and the Discount Rate: Can Persistent Financial Constraints Be Detected in Aggregate Data?" |
J. Handa |
| April 2013 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, April 5 10:30, L429 |
Remi Jedwab (George Washington University) "Urbanization with and without Structural Transformation" |
M. Chemin |
| Friday, April 12 3:30, L429 |
Mark Weder (Adelaide) "Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles" |
N. V. Long |
| Friday, April 19 3:30, L429 |
Takao Kato (Colgate) "Dynamics of the Gender Gap in the Workplace: An Econometric Case Study of a Large Japanese Firm" |
F. Lange |
| Friday, April 26 3:30, L429 |
Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton) "Behavioral Competitive Equilibrium and Extreme Prices" Montreal Economic Theory Seminar |
J. Li |
| Monday, April 29 3:30, L429 |
Jess Benhabib (NYU) "Uncertainty and Sentiment-Driven Equilibria" |
D. Barczyk |
| May 2013 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, May 3 3:30, L429 |
Guiomar Martin-Herran "Non-Linear Strategies in Differential Games: A Numerical Investigation" |
Benchekroun |
| Tuesday, May 21 3:30, Bronfman 178 |
Thierry Magnac (Univ Toulouse Capitole) "Post schooling human capital investments and the life cycle variance of earnings" Montreal Econometrics Seminar |
TBA |
| Tuesday, May 28 12:00, L429 |
Javier Escobal "Polarización y segregación en la distribución del ingreso en el Perú: Trayectorias desiguales" Cireq Seminar |
F. Alvarez-Cuadrado |
Summer 2012
| July 2012 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, July 12 3:30, L429 |
Omar Licandro (IAE-CSIC and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics) "The Mean Life of Famous People from Hammurabi to Einstein" |
M. Poschke |
Fall 2012
| September 2012 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Sept. 14 1:30, L429 |
Ghazala Azmat (Queen Mary) "The Distribution of Talent across Contests" |
M. Poschke |
| Friday, Sept. 21 3:30, L429 |
Dave Donaldson (MIT) "Who’s Getting Globalized? The Size and Nature of Intranational Trade Costs" |
M. Chemin |
| Friday, Sept. 28 3:30, L429 |
Daniel Leonard (Flinders) "Technology Transfers and Industry Closures" |
N. V. Long |
| October 2012 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Oct. 12 3:00, L429 |
John Haltiwanger (Maryland) "The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning About Demand" Cireq Macro Seminar |
M. Poschke |
| Monday, Oct. 15 10:00, L429 |
David Albouy (Michigan) "Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity" |
J. Galbraith |
| Friday, Oct. 26 3:30, L429 |
Carmen Ponce (GRADE) "Rural-urban contrasts: effects of child work on verbal and numeracy skills in late childhood". Joint with ISID |
TBA |
| November 2012 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Nov. 9 3:30, L429 |
Rahul Deb (Toronto) "Dynamic Screening with Limited Commitment" |
R. Dutta |
| Friday, Nov. 23 1:30, L429 |
Jonathan Newton (Sydney) "Tipping Points: Coalitions and Speed of Convergence to Efficient Equilibrium" |
L. Xue |
| Monday, Nov. 26 1:00, L429 |
Soo Hong Chew (National U of Singapore) "Partial Ambiguity" |
TBA |
| Friday, Nov. 30 3:30, L429 |
Vikram Manjunath (UdeM) "Fractional Matching Markets" |
TBA |
| December 2012 | Speaker and Title | Organizer |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Dec. 7 3:30, L429 |
Keith Chen (Yale) "The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets" |
F. Lange |