MICRO and ECONOMETRICS SEMINARS 2003 2004
FALL 2003/2004 MICRO and ECONOMETRICS SEMINARS ON TUESDAYS
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER
All seminars are held in Room 203, second floor, Via Sarfatti, 25, from 12:45 pm to 2:30 pm, unless otherwise indicated.
| September |
Tuesday, September 16 Micro
Pierpaolo Battigalli (Università Bocconi, IGIER)
"Costly Contracting in a Long-Term Relationship"
Tuesday, September 23 Econometrics
Andrew Harvey (University of Cambridge)
"Multivariate Unit Root Tests and Testing for Convergence" joint with David Bates (University of Cambridge)
Tuesday, September 30 Micro
Claudio Mezzetti (University of North Carolina)
"Mechanism Design with Interdependent Valuations: Efficiency and Full Surplus Extraction"
| October |
Tuesday, October 14 Micro
Walter Bossert (Universit de Montral)
"Consistent Rationalizability" joint with Yves Sprumont (Universit de Montral) and Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University)
OCCASIONAL SEMINAR, October 15 Micro
Joseph Harrington (John Hopkins University)
"Cartel Pricing Dynamics in the Presence of an Antitrust Authority"
Tuesday, October 21 Econometrics
Paul Soderlind (University of St. Gallen)
"Is there Evidence of Pessimism and Doubt in Subjective Distributions? A Comment on Abel" joint with Paolo Giordani (University of New South Wales)
Tuesday, October 28 Micro
Antonio Cabrales (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Corporate Downsizing to Rebuild Team Spirit" joint with Antoni Calv-Armengol (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
| November |
Tuesday, November 4 Econometrics
Substitution with MACRO seminar
Tuesday, November 11 Micro
Bruno Cassiman (IESE-Barcelona)
"In Search of Complementarity in the Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D and External Knowledge Acquisition" joint with Reinhilde Vengelers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and CEPR)
Tuesday, November 18 Econometrics
Mike Clements (University of Warwick)
"Evaluating the Survey of Professional Forecasters probability distributions of expected inflation based on derived event probability forecasts"
Tuesday, November 25 Econometrics AULA E (Ground Floor)
Jerome Henry (European Central Bank)
"The Short-Term Impact of Government Budgets on Prices: Results of Some Macroeconometrics Model Simulations"
| December |
Tuesday, December 2 Econometrics
Tommaso Proietti (Università di Udine)
"Dynamic Factor Analysis with Nonlinear Temporal Aggregation Constraints" joint with Filippo Moauro (ISTAT)
OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Wednesday, December 10 Econometrics
Thomas Lubik (John Hopkins University)
"Do Central Banks Respond to Exchange Rate Movements? A Structural Investigation"
OCCASIONAL SEMINAR
Friday, December 12 Micro
Marco Battaglini (Princeton University)
"Long-Term Contracting with Markovian Agents"
Tuesday, December 16 Micro
Federico Ciliberto (North Carolina State University)
"Market Structure and Multiple Equilibria in Airline Markets" joint with Elie Tamer (Princeton University)