Seminars - Michaelmas Term
11 Oct
Kristoffer Nimark (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREi))
'
Man-Bites-Dog
Driven Business Cycles'
Tuesday 11th October 2011 4:00pm Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Macroeconomics Seminars)
12 Oct
John Moore (University of Edinburgh and London School of Economics)
'CANCELLED'
Wednesday 12th October 2011 4:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars) 17 Oct
Thijs van Rens (CREI)
'
Structural Unemployment'
Monday 17th October 2011 4:00pm Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Macroeconomics Seminars)
17 Oct
Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge)
'Social Ontology and Economics'
Monday 17th October 2011 8:00pm
Latimer Room, in the Old Court, Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge (Cambridge Realist Workshop) 18 Oct
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
'
Re-embracing Keynes'
Tuesday 18th October 2011 5:30pm Garden Room, Robinson College (Keynes Seminar)
19 Oct
Sophocles Mavroeidis (University College,Oxford)
'
Learning generates long memory'
Wednesday 19th October 2011 5:00pm Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Econometrics Seminars)
20 Oct
Johannes Horner (Yale Department of Economics)
'Recursive Methods in Dynamic Bayesian Games'
Thursday 20th October 2011 4:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars) 20 Oct
Lisa Cameron (Monash University)
'Little Emperors - Behavioral Impacts of China's One-Child Policy'
Thursday 20th October 2011 1:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar) 24 Oct
Guido Cozzi (Durham Business School)
'Privitization of Knowledge: did the US get it Right'
Monday 24th October 2011 4:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Macroeconomics Seminars) 26 Oct
Vincent Crawford (All Souls College, Oxford)
'Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading'
Wednesday 26th October 2011 4:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars) 31 Oct
Pietro F. Peretto (Duke University)
'Technology, Population and Resources: A Theory of Convergence to Sustained and Sustainable Growth'
Monday 31st October 2011 4:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Macroeconomics Seminars) 31 Oct
Mary Wrenn (University of Cambridge)
'Agency and Neo-Liberalism'
Monday 31st October 2011 8:00pm
Latimer Room, in the Old Court, Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge (Cambridge Realist Workshop) 02 Nov
Sorawoot Srisuma (University of Cambridge)
'Minimum Distance Estimation of Markovian Games'
Wednesday 2nd November 2011 5:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Econometrics Seminars) 09 Nov
Balazs Szentes (London School of Economics)
'POSTPONED'
Wednesday 9th November 2011 4:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars) 14 Nov
Stuart Birks (University of New Zealand)
'Theory, Consistency and Rhetoric'
Monday 14th November 2011 8:00pm
Latimer Room, in the Old Court, Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge (Cambridge Realist Workshop) 16 Nov
Jan Eeckhout (University College London)
'Matching Information'
Wednesday 16th November 2011 4:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars) 22 Nov
David Frankel (Iowa State University)
'Securitization, Signalling, and Interbank Competition'
Tuesday 22nd November 2011 4:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars) 22 Nov
Francisco J. Ruge-Murcia (CIREQ)
'CANCELLED'
Tuesday 22nd November 2011 4:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Macroeconomics Seminars) 24 Nov
Robert Sauer (Bristol University)
'Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?'
Thursday 24th November 2011 1:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar) 28 Nov
Ha-Joon Chang (University of Cambridge)
'Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, History and Policy'
Monday 28th November 2011 8:00pm
Latimer Room, in the Old Court, Clare College, Trinity Lane, Cambridge (Cambridge Realist Workshop) 01 Dec
Panu Poutvaara (University of Munich)
'The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it'
Thursday 1st December 2011 1:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar)
Seminars - Lent Term
18 Jan
Richard Smith (University of Cambridge)
'Neglected Heterogeneity in Moment Condition Models'
Wednesday 18th January 2012 11:30am
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Econometrics Seminars) 19 Jan
Pieter Serneels (University of East Anglia)
'How does conflict affect economic performance. Microevidence from Rwanda.'
Thursday 19th January 2012 1:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar) 02 Feb
Marcin Dziubinski (Cambridge)
'Netweork Defense and Design'
Thursday 2nd February 2012 7:55pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Reading Group on Networks and Theory (CReMic)) 06 Feb
Giammario Impulliti (Faculty of Economics)
'Wage Inequality, Firm Dynamics, and Trade'
Monday 6th February 2012 4:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Macroeconomics Seminars) 09 Feb
Halvor Mehlum (University of Oslo)
'
The Battle of Regimes'
Thursday 9th February 2012 1:00pm Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar)
09 Feb
Quoc-Anh Do (Singapore Management University)
'Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Value of Political Connections in Social Networks'
Thursday 9th February 2012 4:00pm
Keynes room, Austin Robinson Building (Faculty Special Seminar) 13 Feb
Jamie Morgan and Keikki Patomäki (University of Helsinki)
'Is the Future in the Past? What does it mean to Anticipate the Future?'
Monday 13th February 2012 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Clare College (Cambridge Realist Workshop) 15 Feb
Ron Siegel (Northwestern University)
'Efficient Asset Division with Reallocation Costs'
Wednesday 15th February 2012 4:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars) 15 Feb
Oliver Linton (University of Cambridge)
'Inference about Risk Measures under Heavy Tails'
Wednesday 15th February 2012 11:30am
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Econometrics Seminars) 16 Feb
Oystein Strom (Oslo and Akershus University College
of Applied Sciences)
'
What drives the microfinance lending rate?'
Thursday 16th February 2012 1:00pm Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar)
22 Feb
Simon Lee (Seoul National University)
'Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of a Transformation Model'
Wednesday 22nd February 2012 11:30am
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Econometrics Seminars) 23 Feb
Simon Burgess (University of Bristol)
'How should we treat under-performing schools? A regression discontinuity analysis of school inspections in England'
Thursday 23rd February 2012 1:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar) 27 Feb
Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge)
'Mathematical Modelling and Ideology in the Economics Academy: competing explanations of the failings of the modern discipline?'
Monday 27th February 2012 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Clare College (Cambridge Realist Workshop) 01 Mar
Anandi Mani (Warwick)
'
This seminar has been cancelled'
Thursday 1st March 2012 1:00pm Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar)
01 Mar
Thijs van Rens ((CREI) Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
'
Structural Unemployment'
Thursday 1st March 2012 4:00pm Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Faculty Special Seminar)
12 Mar
Winfried Koeniger (London School of Economics)
'Collateral Constraints and Macroeconomic Volatility'
Monday 12th March 2012 4:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Macroeconomics Seminars) 12 Mar
John Mulberg (Open University)
'Towards an Institutionalist Political Economy of Allocation'
Monday 12th March 2012 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Clare College (Cambridge Realist Workshop) 14 Mar
Zaifu Yang (University of York)
'An Efficient and Incentive Compatible Dynamic Auction for Multiple Compliments'
Wednesday 14th March 2012 4:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars)
Seminars - Easter Term
02 May
Nageeb Ali (UCSD)
'
Ostracism'
Wednesday 2nd May 2012 4:00pm Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars)
02 May
Dennis Kristensen (UCL)
'Implementation and Estimation of Discrete Markov Decision Models by Sieve Approximations'
Wednesday 2nd May 2012 5:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Econometrics Seminars) 08 May
Kaivan Munshi (Brown University)
'Black Networks After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration'
Tuesday 8th May 2012 11:00am
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Faculty Special Seminar) 09 May
David Parkes (Harvard University)
'
Robust Peer Prediction Methods'
Wednesday 9th May 2012 4:00pm Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars)
10 May
Wouter Den Haan (LSE)
'The Interaction Between Demand for Labour and Consumption Over the Business Cycle'
Thursday 10th May 2012 3:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Macroeconomics Seminars) 10 May
Susan Athey (Harvard University and Microsoft Corporation)
'Online Markets Using Theory, Structural Models, and Field Experiments'
Thursday 10th May 2012 5:00pm
The Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College (CReMic) 14 May
Michelle Baddeley (EPRG)
'Social Influence and Behavioural Bias in Environmental Decision-Making'
Monday 14th May 2012 12:30pm
Castle Teaching Room, Judge Business School (Energy and Environment Seminars) 16 May
Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE)
'Microfinance, For-Profit Lending, and Endogenous Social Capital'
Wednesday 16th May 2012 1:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar) 16 May
Manuel Arellano (CEMFI)
'Quantile Selection Models With an Application to Understanding Changes in Wage Inequality'
Wednesday 16th May 2012 5:00pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building (Econometrics Seminars) 17 May
Imran Rasul (UCL)
'Leaders and Followers: A Case Study of Papal Influences on Fertility
Preferences and Behaviour'
Thursday 17th May 2012 1:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar) 21 May
Francisco Costa (LSE)
'Just Do It: Temporary Restrictions and New Consumption Habits'
Monday 21st May 2012 12:30pm
Meade Room, Austin Robinson Building, Faculty of Economics (Energy and Environment Seminars) 24 May
Vivek Chaudhri (Monash Business School)
'Herding to Mediocrity: Innovation Strategy in the Knowledge Economy'
Thursday 24th May 2012 1:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar) 30 May
Marzena Rostek (Wisconsin)
'
Price Inference in Small Markets'
Wednesday 30th May 2012 4:00pm Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Microeconomics Seminars)
07 Jun
Rohini Pande (Harvard)
'Truth-Telling by Third-Party Auditors: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in India'
Thursday 7th June 2012 4:00pm
Keynes Room, Austin Robinson Building (Faculty Special Seminar)