Seminars 1998

Thursday, December 17, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., Via S.Mansueto
Taku Yamamoto (Hitotsubashi University)
Lag Augmentation in Regression Models with Possibly Integrated Regressors

Thursday, December 3, 1998, at 2.30, Via S.Mansueto
Grayham Mizon (European University Institute, Firenze)
On Selecting Policy Analysis Models by Forecast Accuracy

Thursday, November 26, 1998, at 2.30, Via S.Mansueto
Giuseppe Bertola (European University Institute, Firenze)
Uninsurable Risk in the Labor Market

Wednesday, November 4, 1998, at 2.30, Via Gobbi, Room 312, 3rd floor
Antoine Faure-Grimaud (London School of Economics)
A Theory of Supervision with Endogenous Transaction Costs

Thursday, October 29, 1998, at 2.30, Via S.Mansueto
Andrea Bassanini (OECD)
Localized Technological Change and Path-dependent Growth

Thursday, October 15, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., Via S.Mansueto
David Webb (London School of Economics-Financial Market Group)
Taking Precautions Can Lead to Excessive Insurance

Friday, October 9, 1998, 2.30-6.15 p.m., Un. Bocconi, Aula 4
Centro Baffi and Igier
The Euro: its Implications for Asset Prices and Portfolio Allocation

Thursday, October 1, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., Via S.Mansueto
Isabelle Brocas (ECARE, Bruxelles)
Optimal Regulation of Cooperative RD under Incomplete Information

Monday, June 22, 1998, at 1.00 p.m., (lunch seminar) - IGIER, via Salasco, 3/5
Fabio GHIRONI (University of California at Berkeley)
Monopoly, Investment, and Current-Account Dynamics

Thursday, June 11, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 6*
Ashish ARORA (Carnegie Mellon University)
The Impact of NSF Support for Basic Research in Economics

Thursday, June 4, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 6* (European Macro Seminar, joint with CEPR)
Robert SHIMER (Princeton University)
Why is the U.S. Unemployment Rate So Much Lower?

Friday, May 29, 1998, at 1.00 p.m., (lunch seminar) - IGIER, via Salasco, 3/5
Paolo PESENTI (Princeton University)
Welfare and macroeconomic interdependence

Thursday, May 28, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 6*
David HENDRY (Nuffield College, Oxford)
On Winning Forecasting Competitions in Economics

Thursday, May 21, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 6*
Gianmarco OTTAVIANO (Università di Bologna)
Rostovian Growth Take-offs: Catastrophic Agglomeration and Endogenous Growth

Wednesday, May 20, 1998, at 1.00 p.m., (lunch seminar) - IGIER, via Salasco, 3/5
Fabio CANOVA (Universitat Pompeu i Fabra - Barcelona)
Testing for Convergence Club: A Predictive Density Approach

Thursday, May 14, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 6*
Harald UHLIG (CentER, Tillburg)
What are the Effects of Monetary Policy? Results from an Agnostic Identification Procedure

Thursday, May 7, 1998, at 5.00 p.m., Aula Seminari, Dipartimento di Economia Politica e Aziendale, Universit degli Studi di Milano, via Conservatorio 7, Milano (seminar organized by IGIER and Universit degli Studi di Milano)
Giovanni Andrea CORNIA, (Director WIDER UNU, Helsinki)
Income distribution in transitional economies: theory and initial evidence
Discussant: Daniele Checchi (Universit degli Studi di Milano)

Thursday, April 30, 1998, at 2.30, room 6*
Dale MORTENSEN (Northwestern University)
Unemployment Responses to "Skill Biased" Technology Shocks: The Role of Labor Market Policy

Tuesday, April 28, 1998, at 12.30, (lunch seminar) - IGIER, via Salasco 3/5
Eric VAN WINCOOP (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Does Exchange Rate Stability Increase Trade and Capital Flows?

Thursday, April 23, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 6* (European Macro Seminar, joint with CEPR)
Patrick KEHOE(University of Pennsylvania)
On the Need for Fiscal Restraints in a Monetary Union

Thursday, April 16, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 6*
Guido FRIEBEL (SITE, Stockholm)
Privatization and Managerial Efficiency

Tuesday, April 7, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 36, via Sarfatti, 25
Robert STAIGER (Wisconsin University)
An Economic Theory of GATT

Thursday, April 2, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 6*
Olivier JEANNE (CERAS ENPC, Paris)
Currency Crisis and Unemployment: Sterling in 1931

Friday, March 27, 1998, at 1 p.m. (lunch seminar) - IGIER, via Salasco, 3/5
Mario GILLI (Università Bocconi)
Inhibiting Bidders Collusion in Uniform-Price Treasury Auctions

Thursday, March 19, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., Room 6*
Sren JOHANSEN (Istituto Universitario Europeo, Firenze)
Multiperiod Factor Models as Cointegration Models

Friday, March 13, 1998, at 1 p.m. (lunch seminar) - IGIER, Via Salasco, 3/5
Michele BOLDRIN (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
Growth under Perfect Competition

Thursday, March 12, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 6*
Juan CARRILLO (ECARE, Bruxelles)
Self Control, Moderate Consumption and Craving

Thursday, February 26, 1998, at 2.30 p.m., room 4
Christian SCHULTZ (Copenhagen University)
Elections, Public Debt and Migration

Tuesday, February 17, 1998, at 5.30 p.m., room 312
Marco DEL NEGRO (Dept. of Economics, Yale University)
Aggregate Risk Sharing Across US States and European Countries

Monday, February 16, 1998, at 4.00 p.m., room 312
Andrea BERARDI (London Business School)
Term Structure, Non-neutral Inflation and Economic Growth: A Three-Factor Model

Friday, February 6, 1998, at 12.30 p.m., room 312
Giovanni PERI (Dept. of Economics, University of California at Berkeley)
Accumulation of Skills and Experience Premia; Do Local Human Capital Externalities Matter in the Information Society?