Econometrics Seminars Spring 2006

 ECONOMETRICS SPRING SEMINARS 2006
Sponsored by IEP and IGIER
All Seminars are held in ROOM 24, Third Floor
via Sarfatti, 25 at 12.45 unless otherwise indicated

*Frontiers in Labour Economics Series  - jointly organised with the Fondazione Roldofo Debenedetti"

Seminars will take place at 12:45

Tuesday, January 17th
Paolo Giordani (University of New South Wales)
"Efficient Bayesian Inference for Multiple Change-Point and Mixture Innovation Models" joint with Robert Kohn

 See Job Market seminars

Tuesday, March 21st
Giampiero Gallo (Università di Firenze)
"Vector Multiplicative Error Models" joint work with Fabrizio Cipollini and Robert F. Engle

Tuesday, March 28th
*Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia)
Post-secondary Education and Increasing Wage Inequality

Tuesday, April 4th
Franco Peracchi (Univerist di Tor Vergata - Roma)
A sample selection model for unit and item nonresponse in cross-sectional surveys joint with Giuseppe de Luca

Tuesday, April 11th
Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University of London and CEP, LSE)
"Grade Failure, Drop out and Subsequent School Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental
Evidence from Uruguayan Administrative Data"

Tuesday, May 2nd
Enrico Rettore (Università di Padova)
"How Large is the Retirement Consumption Drop in Italy?" Joint with Erich Battistin, Agar Brugiavini, Enrico Rettore and Guglielmo Weber

Tuesday, May 9th
*Manuel Arellano (CEMFI - Madrid)
"Understanding Bias in Nonlinear Panel Models: Some Recent Developments"
joint with Jinyong Hahn

Tuesday, May 30th   Aula: MEC (Via San Mansueto 4)
*David Card (University of California at Berkeley)
Understanding the Dynamic Effects of the SSP Applicant Experiment joint with Dean R. Hyslop

Tuesday, June 6th
Till Von Wachter (Columbia University)
"The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession: Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates"

Monday, June 16th  ROOM: 23
Chiara Scotti (Federal Reserve Board)
"A Bivariate Model of Fed and ECB Main Policy Rates"