Spring 2001

Spring 2001 Seminars

January

Thursday, January 11, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Carlo Favero (Università Bocconi and IGIER)
"Recursive Modeling and Dynamic Portfolio Allocation. How to become rich with econometrics" (joint with M. Aiolfi and G. Primiceri)
room 312, Istituto di Economia Politica, third floor, via Gobbi, 5

Tuesday, January 16, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Guido Tabellini (Università Bocconi and IGIER)
Do Political Institutions shape Economic Policy?
Room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, January 18, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Nicolas Boccard (CSEF, Università di Salerno)
"Corporate Finance and the New Economy"
Room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Tuesday, January 23, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Massimiliano Marcellino (Università Bocconi and IGIER)
"Unit Roots and Cointegration: Should We Use Panel Methods?"
Room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

February

Tuesday, February 6, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Paolo Manasse (Universit degli Studi di Milano, IGIER)
"Looking for the wage effects of trade and technology: evidence from a panel of plant level data for Italian firms"
(joint with L. Stanca and A. Turrini)
room C, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25
TO BE POSTPONED

Thursday, February 15, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Klaus Adam (Center for Studies in Economics and Finance, University of Salerno)
"Adaptive Learning and the Cyclical Behavior of Output and Inflation"
room A, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Tuesday, February 27, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Carlo Altomonte (Università Bocconi)
"The geography of transition: regional industrial patterns in Poland" (joint with Laura Resmini)
room 24, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

March

Tuesday, March 6, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Shumpei Takemori (Keio University, Tokyo e Isesao)
"Will Japan lag behind Korea? A theoretical and empirical analysis of a transition to new economy"
room 24, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, March 8, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Giorgio Topa (New York University)
"An Empirical Analysis of Religious Homogamy and Socialization in the U.S." (joint with A. Bisin and T. Verdier)
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Tuesday, March 13, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Gianluca Cassese (Università Bocconi)
"A Note on Asset Bubbles in Continuous Time"
room 24, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, March 15, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Peter Bossaerts (Caltech)
Reconciling Competitive And Strategic Approaches to Price Discovery In Financial Markets: The Empirical Evidence"
(joint with E. Asparouhova and C. Plott)
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Tuesday, March 20, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Vincenzo Galasso (IGIER, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
"On the Political Complementarities between Health Care and Social Security" (joint with C. Bethencourt)
room 24, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, March 22, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Oliver Hart (Harvard University)
Financial Contracting
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, March 29, 2001 at 12.30 p.m.
Philippe Bacchetta (University of Lausanne)
"A Corporate Balance-Sheet Approach to Currency Crises"
room 24, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

April

Tuesday, April 3, 2001 at 13:00
Franois Bourguignon (DELTA, Paris)
"The Political Economy of Education and Development in an Open Economy" (joint with T. Verdier)
room 203, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, April 5, 2001 at 13:00
Robert Helsley (University of British Columbia)
"Knowledge Barter" (joint with W.C. Strange)
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Tuesday, April 10, 2001 at 13:00
Alejandro Cuat (IGIER, Università Bocconi)
"Growth and Interdependence under Complete Specialization"
(joint with M. Maffezzoli)
room 24, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, April 19, 2001 at 13:00
Paul Geroski (London Business School)
"Advertising and the dynamics of market structure in the US car industry"
room 45, fourth floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, April 26, 2001 at 13:00
Kjell Nyborg (London Business School)
"Multiple Unit Auctions and Short Squeezes"
(joint with Ilya A. Strebulaev)
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

May

Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at 13:00
Jordi Gal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Markups, Gaps, and Economic Fluctuations" (joint with Mark Gertler and David Lopez-Salido)
room 24, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, May 3, 2001 at 13:00
Vincenzo Denicol (Universit degli Studi di Bologna)
"How should forward patent protection be provided?"
(joint with P. Zanchettin)
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Tuesday, May 15, 2001 at 13:00
Robin Burgess (London School of Economics)
"The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India" (joint with T. Besley)
room 203, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, May 17, 2001 at 13:00
John C. Coffee (Columbia University, School of Law)
"The Rise of Dispersed Ownership: The Role of Law in the Separation of Ownership and Control"
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 13:00
Paolo Manasse (Universita Milano Bicocca, IGIER)
"Looking for the Wage effects of Trade and Technology: Evidence from a Panel of Plant Level Data for Italian Firms" (joint with Luca Stanca e Alessandro Turrini)
room 24, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, May 24, 2001 at 13:00
Christopher J. Flinn (New York University)
"Minimum Wage Effects on Labor Market Outcomes under Search with Bargaining"
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Tuesday, May 29, 2001 at 13:00
Alan V. Deardorff (The University of Michigan)
Local Comparative Advantage: Trade Costs and the Pattern of Trade"
room 24, second floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, May 31, 2001 at 13:00
Michael McAleer (University of Western Australia)
"A Survey of Recent Theoretical Results for Time Series Models with GARCH Errors" (joint with W.K. Li and Shiqing Ling)
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

June

Thursday, June 7, 2001 at 13:00
Gabriele Galati (BIS)
"The Impact of the Euro on Europes Financial Markets" (joint with Kostas Tsatsaronis)
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, June 14, 2001 at 13:00
Alessandro Lizzeri (New York University)
"The Drawbacks of Electoral Competition" and "Voting Externalities and the Expansion of the Franchise"(joint with Nicola Persico)
room D, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, June 21, 2001 at 13:00
Francesco Nucci (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
"Sticky Prices and Contractionary Technology Shocks" (joint with Domenico J. Marchetti)
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

Thursday, June 28, 2001 at 13:00
Mariagiovanna Baccara (Marshall School of Business-University of Southern California)
"Firm Formation and Endogenous Market Structure in Absence of Intellectual Property Rights" (joint with Ronny Razin)
room E, ground floor, Via Sarfatti 25

July

Thursday, July 5, 2001 at 13:00
Ester Faia (New York University)
"Credit Frictions and Exchange Rate Regimes: Mundell-Fleming Enters the Financial World" (joint with Tommaso Monacelli)
room 10, first floor, Via Sarfatti 25