Seminars 1999

Thursday, December 16, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
W. Keller (University of Texas, Austin)
Geographic Localization of International Technology Diffusion

Thursday, December 2, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
F. Zilibotti (IIES, Stockholm University)
Employment and Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time

Thursday, November 18, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Neil Rankin (University of Warwick)
Time Consistency, Ability to Commit and Optimal Seigniorage: Further Perspectives on the Inflation Bias Problem

Thursday, November 11, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
P. Battigalli (EUI)
Writing Costs and Contract Incompleteness (joint with G. Maggi)

Thursday, October 28, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
P. Martin (Universit de Paris)
Financial Super-markets: size matters for asset trade (with H. Rey)

Thursday, October 21, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
M. Ottaviani (UCL)
Professional Advice (with P. Sorensen)

Monday, October 4, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
V. Rao (World Bank)
Wedding celebrations as conspicuous consumption: Signalling socialstatus in rural India (with F. Bloch and S. Desai)
CANCELLED

Thursday, June 3, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Alex Cuckierman (Tel Aviv University)
When do Representative and Direct Democracies Lead to Similar Policy Choices?

Thursday, May 27, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
F. Lopez de Silanes (Harvard University)
The Quality of Government

Thursday, May 20, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Richard Baldwin (MIT)
Simulating Transitional Dynamics: The Core-Peripery Model with Forward Looking Expectations

Friday, May 14, 1999
PhD Awards - Seminari Itineranti Italiani

Thursday, May 6, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Ricardo J. Caballero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Improper Churn: Social Costs and Macroeconomic Consequences

Friday, April 30, 1999
PhD Awards - Seminari Itineranti Italiani

Thursday, April 29, 1999, at 2.30 p.m.
Gian Marco Ottaviano and Giorgio Basevi (Università di Bologna) - joint with Centro Studi Luca dAgliano
The District goes Global: Export Vs. Foreign Direct Investment

Thursday, April 22, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Francois Bourguignon (Delta, Paris)
Education, distribution and development: Taiwan 1979-1994

Thursday, April 15, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Andrea Ichino (European University Institute, Florence)
Group Interactions and Individual Background. Explaining Regional Shirking Differential in a Large Italian Firm

Thursday, April 8, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Morten Ravn (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Frictions in International Trade and Relative Price Movements

Thursday, March 25, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Sidney Afriat (Università di Siena)
General Equilibrium Reconsidered

Wednesday, March 24, 1999, at 12.30 p.m.,Job Market Seminar, room 312
Alejandro Cuat (Harvard University)
Sectoral Allocation in the Process of Growth

Wednesday, March 17, 1999, at 1.00 p.m., MEc Classroom
Carlo A. Favero (IGIER-Università Bocconi and CEPR)
Modeling and identifying central banks preferences

Thursday, March 4, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Gilles Saint Paul (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
The Political Economy of Firing Costs

Friday, February 26, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., Job Market Seminar, via San Mansueto 4, 1st floor (organized by Centro Studi Luca dAgliano, phone 02.5836.3390)
Dieter Urban (Copenhagen Business School)
Neoclassical Growth, Manufacturing Agglomeration, and Terms of Trade

Friday, February 26, 1999, at 12.30, Job Market Seminar, room 312
Maristella Botticini (Boston University)
Marriage Markets and Intergenerational Transfers in a Pre-Modern Economy: Tuscany, 1260-1435

Thursday, February 25, 1999, at 2.30 p.m., MEc Classroom
Thomas Gehring (Universitaet Freiburg)
Project Evaluation and Organizational Design

Friday, February 19, 1999, at 12.30, Job Market Seminar, room 312 (organized by Centro Studi Luca dAgliano, phone 02.5836.3390)
Ivan B. Alves (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
On Equity and Efficiency of Share Privatization

Tuesday, February 16, 1999, at 12.30, Job Market Seminar, room 312
Tommaso Monacelli (New York University)
Into the Mussa Puzzle: Monetary Policy Regimes and the Real Exchange Rate in a Small Open Economy

Friday, February 12, 1999, at 1.30 p.m., Job Market Seminar, room 312
Ignacio Garcia Perez (CEMFI and Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Non-Stationary Job Search with Firing: A Structural Estimation

Thursday, February 4, 1999, at 12.30, Job Market Seminar, room 312Matthias Brueckner (European University Institute, Florence)
Strategic Delegation in n-person Bargaining Games with Sidepayments

Friday, January 29, 1999, at 12.30, Job Market Seminar, room 312
Oriana Bandiera (Boston College)
On the Structure of Tenancy Contracts: Theory and Evidence from 19th Century Rural Sicily