Spring 2010 Brown Bag Seminars

Brown Bag Seminars (Internal - Spring 2010)   

Date  Speaker  Affiliation Title
April 8th Tommaso NANNICINI Università Bocconi and IGIER “Tying Your Enemy's Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil" (joint with Fernanda Brollo)
April 9th Ferdinando GIUGLIANO  Pembroke College and University of Oxford (IGIER Visitor) "TFP growth in the Italian economy between the wars: a comparative perspective"
April 16th Katja KAUFMANN Università Bocconi and IGIER  "Educational Choices and Subjective Expectations of Returns to Schooling: Intra-household Decisions and Gender Differences" 
April 16th Fabrizio IACONE  University of York   "A Semiparametric Analysis of the US Term Structure of Interest Rates" 
April 23rd Anna SIMONI  Università Bocconi and IGIER TBA 

April 30th

Thomas BRAENDLE  University of Basel and IGIER (Visiting PhD) "The Political Selection of Public Servants and Parliamentary Oversight"
May 7th Andrea TAMONI Università Bocconi  "Demographics and the Term Structure of Stock Market Risk" 
May 14th Pierre BOYER  Toulouse School of Economics and IGIER (Visiting PhD) "Political Competition in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation" (joint with Felix Bierbrauer)
May 17th

Vincenzo GALASSO and Paola PROFETA 

Università Bocconi "When the State Mirrors the Family: The Design of Pension Systems"
May 20th Olmo SILVA  LSE “Neighbourhood Quality and Educational Achievements in England” 
May 28th Benjamin GOLEZ UPF TBA
June 11th Michele PELLIZZARI Università Bocconi  "Evaluate students' evaluations" (joint with Michela Braga and Marco Pacagnella)
July 8th Martin ROSSI  Università 
Bocconi 
"Conscription and Crime" (joint with S. Galiani and E. Schargrodsky)
July 6th Jennifer HUNT  McGill University  TBA