Economics Seminars (2011-2012)
Unless otherwise noted, seminars begin at 16:00 and finish around 18:00. Room Camille Joset (401), 4th floor, Rempart de la Vierge, 8.
Economics Seminars 2011-2012
co-organized by CERPE, CRED and CEREFIM
Fall
September 29 - Dominic Rohner (University of Zurich) - Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War
October 4 - Giorgio Zanarone (CUNEF, Madrid) - Fixed versus Open Prices: A Choice between Countering Opportunism and Creating Value
October 11 - Mathieu Lefebvre (ULg) - Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, and ”The Broken Windows” Effect: An Experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
October 18 - David de la Croix (UCL) - From polygamy to serial monogamy: a unified theory of marriage institutions
October 25 - Chiara Canta (Core, UCL) - Efficiency, access and the mixed provision of health services
November 8 - Joe Tharakan (University of Liège) - Intermediaries, transport costs and interlinked transactions
November 15 - Maria Perrotta (Stockholm School of Economics) - Understanding Aid Fragmentation --- Entry and Exit Decisions
November 18 - ERC Workshop - Social capital and enforcement of informal contracts in developing economies
November 22 - Alexander Moradi (University of Sussex) - Revolutionizing Transport: Modern Infrastructure, Agriculture and Development in Ghana
November 29 - Zack Brown (OCDE, Paris) - The Economics of Malaria Vector Control
December 6 - Sarah Baird (George Washington University) - Designing experiments to measure spillover and threshold effects
December 13 - Katja Kaufmann (Bocconi University) - Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia in Brazil
December 20 - Aadhaar Chaturvedi (FUNDP, Dept. of Business Administration) - Split Award Auctions for Supplied Retention
Winter
January 31 - Sebastian Krautheim (Univ. of Frankfurt) - Wages and International Tax Competition
February 7 - François Maniquet (UCL) - Multidimensional poverty measurement: shouldn't we take preferences into account?
February 14 - Michele Modugno (ECARES) - Nowcasting with daily data
February 23 - Frédéric Docquier (UCL) - Efficiency gains from liberalizing labor mobility
February 28 - Ola Olsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) - Origins of the Sicilian mafia: the market for lemons
March 2 - Gérard Roland (UC Berkeley) - Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
March 6 - Hylke Vandenbussche (UCL) - Verti-zontal differentiation in monopolistic competition
March 9 - PAI Workshop - Economics of crime and corruption
March 13 - Nicolas Sahuguet (HEC Montreal and ECARES) - Assessing Racial Discrimination in Parole Release
March 23 - Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University) - Law and economics of divorce laws
March 27 - Giacomo Valletta (University of Maastricht) - Health, fairness and taxation
Spring
April 17 - Remco Zwinkels (Erasmus University Rotterdam) - Volatility, investor uncertainty and dispersion
April 24 - Ivan Petrella (University of London) - Speculation in the oil market
May 2 - David Stasavage (New York University) - Technology and the era of mass army
May 15 - Aleksey Tetenov (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin) - Identification of Positive Treatment Effects in Randomized
Experiments with Non-Compliance
May 22 - Bard Harstad (Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University) - Experimentation in federal systems
May 29 - Claudia Senik (Paris School of Economics) - The great happiness moderation
Jun 12 - Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University) - Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to Microfinance (!Room E43!)
Jun 19 - Mikhail Drugov (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - Optimal Patronage
Last updated: June 15, 2012
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