School of Economics Seminars
2012 Seminars
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School of Economics Seminar Series Semester 1, 2012 |
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*All seminars are scheduled 4-5:30pm unless otherwise stated |
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Thurs 1 March |
"Trade and Insecure Resources: Implications for Welfare and Comparative Advantage" |
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Thur 8 March |
"Input Tariffs, Speed of Contract Enforcement, and the Productivity of Firms in India" |
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Thurs 15 March |
"Monetary and Non-monetary Determinants of Nurses' Labour Supply" |
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Fri 16 March |
"The Iterated Boostrap" |
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Tues 20 March |
"The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment" |
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Thurs 22 March |
"Between-game rule learning in dissimilar symmetric normal-form games" |
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Thur 29 March |
"A Directed Serach Model of Ranking by Unemployment Duration" |
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Tues 3 April |
"Blind Stealing: Experience and Expertise in a Mixed-Strategy Poker Experiment" |
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Thurs 5 April |
"Paths to Stability in the Assignment Problem" |
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Thur 19 April |
"Matching Information" |
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Thurs 26 April |
"Technology, Population and Exhaustible Resources: A Theory of Convergence to Sustainable Growth" |
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Thurs 3 May |
"An Empirical Model of Life-Cycle Earnings and Mobility Dynamics" |
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Thurs 10 May |
"Local Market Structure and Within-City Heterogeneity in Retail Gasoline Price Cycles" |
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Thurs 17 May |
"A Stochastic Dominance Approach to Program Evaluation with an Application to Child Nutritional Status in Kenya" |
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Tues 22 May |
"Asymmetric information quality in multi-object first-price auctions" |
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Thurs 24 May |
"No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time" |
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Thurs 31 May |
"Optimal contracts for loss averse consumers" |
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Tues 19 June |
"Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa: Initial Results from a Randomised Experiment" |
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Thurs 28 June |
"On the Private Provision of Public Goods on Networks" |
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Thurs 5 July |
"Inequality in Conflicts" |
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Wed 11 July |
"A Model of Party Discipline in Congress" |
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Tues 17 July |
"Impossibility Results for Nondifferentiable Functionals" |
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Thurs 2 Aug |
"Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect Their Development?" |
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Thurs 9 Aug 11-12:30 DC Meeting Rm 6 |
"Entrepreneurship of the Left-behind of Migrants in China" |
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Thursday 9 Aug |
"Moral Licensing and Moral Cleansing in Contingent Valuation and Laboratory Experiments of Willingness to Pay to Reduce Negative Externalities" |
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Tues 14 Aug |
"A hidden Markov model for the detection of pure and mixed strategy play in games" |
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Wed 15 Aug |
"Tobin LIVES: Integrating evolving credit market architecture into flow of funds based macro-models" |
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Thur 16 Aug |
"International Prices and Endogenous Quality" |
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Tues 21 Aug |
"Explaining the Birth Order Effect: The Role of Prenatal and Early Childhood Investments" |
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Thurs 30 Aug |
"Dynamic Competing Mechanisms" |
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Thurs 13 Sept |
"Mapping the Industrial Revolution: a 'big-data' approach to inventions, innovation & technology in Europe and the US: 1750-1950" |
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Tues 18 Sept |
"Probabilistic Forecasting for Inflation Warnings from the Federal Reserve" |
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Thurs 20 Sept |
"Equilibrium Unemployment with Incomplete Markets" |
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Thurs 27 Sept |
"How to Choose Your Victim" |
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Thurs 4 Oct |
"Larger Unemployment with Incomplete Markets" |
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Thurs 11 Oct |
"The Health of Migrant Households: Evidence from Mexico" |
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Thurs 25 Oct |
"Platform pricing structure and moral hazard" |
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Mon 29 Oct 4-5:30pm |
"The Effect of Advertising and Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products" |
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Thurs 1 Nov |
"Do Work Decisions among Young Adults Respond to Extended Parental Coverage in the U.S.?" |
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Fri 2 Nov 11am |
"Repeated implementation: complexity, finite mechanism and incomplete information" |
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Thurs 8 Nov |
"Classic Promotion Tournaments Versus Markey-Based Tournaments" |
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LUNCHTIME SEMINARS
Internal seminar coordinator:
2012 Seminars
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ECONOMICS LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES *All seminars take place in H04-397 12:30-2pm |
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Monday 6th August |
Stephen Cheung |
Risk Preferences Are Not Time Preferences: Comment |
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Monday 3 September |
Nic de Roos |
Advertising with Momentum |
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Monday 10 September |
Simon Kwok |
A Nonparametric Test of Granger Causality in Continuous Time |
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Monday 17 September |
Vladimir Smirnov |
Ownership, access and sequential investment |
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Monday 1 October |
PUBLIC HOLIDAY |
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Monday 8 October |
Stephen Whelan |
Looking after the grandkids: who cares and does it really matter? |
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Monday 29 October |
Aarti Singh |
Debt Overhang and Monetary Policy |
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Monday 12 November |
Jian Hong |
Electricity Demand of Residential Households under Real-time Pricing |
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Thursday 22 November |
Jacek Suda |
Financial shocks, learning, and the Great Recession |