Spring 10
IIES seminars usually take place between 15:00 and 16:30 in A822. Preliminary and Incomplete Schedule for Spring 10.
Thursday January 14, Tobias Broer, IIES
"Stationary equilibrium distributions in economies with limited commitment"
Thursday January 21, Per Pettersson Lidbom and Mårten Palme, Stockholm University
TBA
***Job Talks***
Tuesday January 26, Sebastian Koehne, University of Mannheim
“The First-Order Approach to Moral Hazard Problems with Hidden Saving”
Thursday January 28, Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo
“The Tip of the Iceberg: Modeling Trade Costs and Implications for Intra-Industry Reallocation”
Monday February 1, Tiago Berriel, Princeton University
“Nominal Portfolio Choice and Wealth Redistribution Effects of Inflation Surprises”
Tuesday February 2, Cecilia Machado, Columbia University
"Selection, Heterogeneity and the Gender Wage Gap"
Thursday February 4, Davide Cantoni, Harvard University
“The Economic Effects of the Protestant Reformation: Testing the Weber Hypothesis in the German Lands”
Monday February 8, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, University of California, Berkeley
“Diversity and Institutions: Theory and Evidence from the Spread of Industrialization”
Tuesday February 9, Loukas Karabarbounis, Harvard University
“Labor Wedges and Open Economy Puzzles”
Thursday February 11, Reena Badiani, YALE
“Factories and Farms: How Does Economic Growth Impact Rural Incomes and Education?”
Monday February 15, Peter Nilsson, Uppsala University
“The Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Lead Exposure: Evidence from the Phase-out of Leaded Gasoline”
Tuesday February 16, David Cesarini, MIT
“Genetic Variation in Financial Decision Making”
Wednesday February 17, Pascal Michaillat, University of California, Berkeley
“Do Search Frictions Explain Unemployment? Not in Bad Times”
Friday February 19, Leonardo Bursztyn, Harvard University
"The Schooling Decision: Family Preferences, Intergenerational Conflict, and Moral Hazard in the Brazilian Favelas"
***End of Job Talks***
Tuesday March 9, Andreas Madestam, Bocconi University and IIES
TBA
Thursday March 11, Ethan Ilzetzki, London School of Economics
TBA
Tuesday March 16, Andrew Zeitlin, Oxford
TBA
Thursday March 18, Tony Smith, Yale
TBA
Tuesday March 23, Paola Giuliano, UCLA
TBA
Thursday March 25, Guillermo Ordonez, Yale
TBA
Tuesday March 30, Ina Simonovska, UC Davis
TBA
Thursday April 1, David Myatt, Oxford
TBA
Tuesday April 13, Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto
TBA
Thursday April 15, Jordi Galí, CREI
TBA
Tuesday April 20, Mirko Wiederholt, Northwestern University
TBA
Thursday April 22, Emily Oster, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
TBA
Tuesday April 27, Jesse Shapiro, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
TBA
Thursday April 29, Albert Marcet, London School of Economics
TBA
Tuesday May 4, Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics
TBA
Thursday May 6, Rebecca Thornton, University of Michigan
TBA
Thursday May 27, Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
TBA
Thursday June 3, NB 17:00 Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University
TBA
Editor: Annika Andreasson
Source: IIES
Updated: 02/08/10