Micro/Econometrics Spring Seminars 2004

MICRO/ECONOMETRICS SPRING SEMINARS ON TUESDAYS
sponsored by IEP and IGIER

All seminars are held in Room 27, second floor,
Via Sarfatti, 25
, at 12:45 pm, unless otherwise indicated.

 January

 Job Market Seminars

 February

 Job Market Seminars 

 March

Wednesday, March 3       OCCASIONAL SEMINAR    Micro
Francesco Squintani (University of Rochester)
"Private Polling in Elections" joint with John Duggan (University of Rochester) and Dan Bernhardt (University of Illinois)

Tuesday, March 9      Econometrics 
Juan Dolado (Universidad Carlos III Madrid)
"A Simple Test of Long-Memory vs. Structural Breaks in the Time Domain: What is what?" joint with Jesus Gonzalo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Laura Mayoral (Universidat Pompeu Fabra)

Tuesday, March 16     Micro
Massimo Morelli (Ohio State University) 
"Endogenous Affirmative Action: Gender Bias Leads to Gender Quotas" joint with Francois Moniquet (University of Namur), Guillaume Frechette (Harvard University) and Ji Li (Ohio State University)

Wednesday, March 17    OCCASIONAL SEMINAR   Micro
Jean-Pierre Benoit (New York University)
"Information Revelation in Auctions" joint with Juan Dubra (Universidad de Montevideo)

Tuesday, March 23        Econometrics
Andrea Moro (University of Minnesota)
"Why Do Incumbent Senators Win? Evidence from a Dynamic Selection Model" joint with Gautan Gowrisankaran (Washington University and NBER) and Matthew Mitchell (University of Iowa)

Tuesday, March 30      Micro
Andrea Prat (London School of Economics)
"Trading Volume with Career Concerns" joint with Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics)

 April

Tuesday, April 6           Econometrics
Hashem Pesaran (Cambridge University)
"Estimation and Inference in Large Heterogenous Panels with Cross Section Dependence"

Tuesday, April 13
NO SEMINAR SCHEDULED

Tuesday, April 20         Econometrics
Fabio Canova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Università Bocconi)
"Time Variations in Monetary Policy: Who is Right?" joint with Luca Gambetti (UPF)
 figures for paper

Wednesday, April 21     OCCASIONAL SEMINAR     Micro
Giovanna Iannantuoni (Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)
"A Spatial Voting Model where Proportional Rule Leads to Two-Party Equilibria" joint with Francesco De Sinopoli (Carlos III de Madrid)

Monday, April 26        OCCASIONAL SEMINAR         Econometrics
Jesper Lind (Bank of Sweden)
"The Effects of Permanent Technology Shocks on Labor Productivity and Hours in the RBC Model"

Tuesday, April 27      Micro
Ray Fisman (Columbia University)
"Revealed Preference Determinants of Mate Selection: Evidence from an Experimental Dating Market" joint with Sheena Sethi-Iyengar and Itamar Simonson

 May

Tuesday, May 4
Frank Vella (European University Institute)         Econometrics
"Identification and Estimation of the Triangular Siumultaneous Equation Model in The Absence of Exclusion Restrictions and in the Presence of Heteroskedasticity"

Tuesday, May 11      Micro
Andrew Newman (University College London)
"Competing for Ownership" joint with Patrick Legros (ECARES and CEPR)

Tuesday, May 18     Econometrics
Jonathan Skinner (University of Dartmouth)
"The Diffusion of Health Care Technology" joint with Doug Staiger (Dartmouth)

Tuesday, May 25      Micro               
Paola Manzini (Queen Mary, University of London)
"A Vague Theory of Choice Over Time" joint with Marco Mariotti (Queen Mary, London)

 June 

Tuesday, June 1      Econometrics
Yiannis Bilias (University of Cyprus)
"The Distribution of Gains from Access to Stocks" joint with Michael Maliassos (University of Cyprus)

Tuesday, June 8       Micro
Mattias Polborn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"A Rational Choice Model of Informative Positive and Negative Campaigning" joint with David T.Yi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Tuesday, June 15       Micro/Econometrics
Frank Furstenberg, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania)
Subjective Perceptions of Adulthood among Urban Youth:
Are Demographic Transitions Still Relevant?

Tuesday, June 22     Micro
Erio Castagnoli (IMQ, Università Bocconi)
"Expected Utility without Utility and without Expectations"

Tuesday, June 29     Micro
Ulrike Malmendier (Stanford University)
"CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Decision-Making"
The talk will mainly cover the paper "Who Does Mergers? CEO Overconfidence and the Market's Reaction" (joint with G. Tate) and will also refer to "CEO Overconfidence and Corporate Investment" (joint with G. Tate)