First term

2 October 2008:

Amil Dasgupta (LSE), The price impact of institutional herding (joint with Andrea Prat and Michela Verardo).

16 October 2008:

Michael Lechner (Universität St. Gallen), Long-run labour market effects of individual sports activities.

13 November 2008:

CANCELLED Per Stromberg (SIFR), Leverage and pricing in buyouts: An empirical analysis.

27 November 2008:

Nicola Pavoni (UCL), Ramsey asset taxation under asymetric information (joint with Piero Gottardi).

9 December 2008:

Antonio Merlo (University of Pennsylvania), The Transition from school to jail: Youth crime and high school completion among black males (joint with Ken Wolpin).

Second term

15 January 2009:

Albert Marcet (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC and CEPR), Autoregressions and priors about the initial growth rates (joint with Marek Jarocinski).

19 February 2009:

Saul Lach (Hebrew University), Asymmetric price effects of competition (joint with José Luis Moraga-González).

26 February 2009:

Jeremy Lise (UCL), Matching, sorting and wages (joint with Costas Meghir and Jean-Marc Robin).

12 March 2009:

Miguel Ferreira (IBS), The pay divide: (why) are U.S. top executives paid more? (joint with Nuno Fernandes, Pedro Matos & Kevin J. Murphy).

Third term

2 April 2009:

Ethan Kaplan (IIES), Coups, corporations and classified information (joint with Arindrajit Dube and Suresh Naidu).

23 April 2009:

Andrea Prat (LSE), Spatial asset pricing: A first step (joint with François Ortalo-Magné).

14 May 2009:

Vincenzo Quadrini (Marshall School of Business), Macroeconomic effects of financial shocks (joint with Urban Jermann).

21 May 2009:

Nittai Bergmann (MIT), Credit traps (joint with Efraim Benmelech).

4 June 2009:

Gianluca Violante (NYU), How much insurance in bewley models?.

18 June 2009:

Esther Duflo (MIT), Marry for what: caste and mate selection in modern India (joint with Abhijit Banerjee, Maitreesh Ghatak and Jeanne Lafortune)
Please note this seminar will take place at 12:00.

First term

4 October 2007:

Morten Ravn (European University Institute), Explaining the effects of government spending shocks on consumption and the real exchange rate (joint with Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé and Martín Uribe).

18 October 2007:

René Garcia (Université de Montréal ), Risk aversion, intertemporal substitution and the term structure of interest rates (joint with Richard Luger).

25 October 2007:

Motty Perry (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Why sex and why only in pairs (joint with Phil Reny and Arthur Robson).

22 November 2007:

Frank Schorfheide (UPenn), Calibration, estimation, and the effects of technology shocks (joint with Jose-Victor Rios Rull, Cristina Fuentes-Albero, Raul Santaeulia-Llopis & Maxym Kryshko).

29 November 2007:

Robert Shimer (University of Chicago), Search and rest unemployment (joint with Fernando Alvarez).

Second term

7 February 2008:

Pierre Dubois (IDEI Toulouse), Non linear contracting and endogenous market power between manufacturers and retailers: Identification and estimation on differentiated products (joint with Céline Bonnet).

21 February 2008:

Patrick Bajari (Minnesota University), A dynamic structural model of housing demand: Estimation and policy implications (joint with Phoebe Chan, Dirk Krueger and Dan Miller).

6 March 2008:

Balazs Szentes (University of Chicago), On the return to venture capital (joint with Boyan Jovanovic).

13 March 2008:

Parag Pathak (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Measuring manipulability (joint with Tayfun Sönmez).

Third term

10 April 2008:

Diego Puga (IMDEA), Ruggedness: The blessing of bad geography in Africa (joint with Nathan Nunn).

24 April 2008:

Christian Julliard (London School of Economics), Can rare events explain the equity premium puzzle? (joint with Anisha Ghosh).

29 May 2008:

Joachim Voth (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Betting on Hitler – The value of political connections in nazi Germany (joint with Thomas Ferguson).

5 June 2008:

Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota), Joint-search theory: New opportunities and new frictions (joint with Bulent Guler and Giovanni Violante).

First term

18 September 2006:

Reuben Gronau (Hebrew University), Home production and the macro economy- some lessons from Pollak and Wachter and from transition Russia.

5 October 2006:

Gilles Saint-Paul (Université de Toulouse), Selection between boundedly rational firms and the allocation of resources.

19 October 2006:

Zvika Neeman (Boston University and Tel Aviv University), Markets versus negotiations (joint with Nir Vulkan (Boston University)).

16 November 2006:

CANCELLED Imran Rasul (UCL), Family networks and schooling choices: Evidence from a randomized social experiment.

23 November 2006:

John Fernald (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), Sector-specific technical change (joint with Susanto Basu, Jonas Fisher and Miles Kimball).

Second term

11 January 2007:

Olivier Scaillet (HED Genève), False discoveries in mutual fund performance: Measuring luck in estimated alphas (joint with L. Barras and R. Wermers).

18 January 2007:

Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania), Occupational mobility and wage inequality (joint with Gueorgui Kambourov).

1 February 2007:

Assaf Razin (Tel Aviv University), Systemic liquidity and the composition of foreign investment (joint with Itay Goldstein and Hui Tong).

8 February 2007:

Ernst-Ludwig Von Thadden (University of Mannheim), How does liquidity affect government bond yields? (joint with Carlo Favero and Marco Pagano).

15 March 2007:

Jaap Abbring (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Last-in first-out oligopoly dynamics (joint with Jeffrey Campbell).

Third term

12 April 2007:

CANCELLED Motty Perry (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Why Sex? And why only in pairs? (joint with Philip J. Reny and Arthur J. Robson).

19 April 2007:

Hilary Hoynes (University of California Davis), Consumption responses to in-kind transfers: Evidence from the introduction of the food stamp program (joint with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach).

10 May 2007:

Thomas J. Holmes (University of Minnesota), Economies of density and the diffusion of Wal-Mart.

23 May 2007:

Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), The empirical content of models with multiple equilibria (joint with Alberto Bisin and Andrea Moro).

31 May 2007:

David Thesmar (HEC/CREST, Paris ), The corporate wealth effect: Evidence from real estate shocks (joint with Thomas Chaney and David Sraer).

7 June 2007:

Imran Rasul (UCL), Testing consumer theory in a natural field experiment: The case of charitable giving (joint with Steffen Huck ).

First  Term

6 October 2005:

Pierre-André Chiappori (Columbia University), Abortion and female empowerment: A marriage market analysis (joint with Sonia Oreffice).

27 October 2005:

Francesco Caselli (LSE), Dynastic management (joint with Nicola Gennaioli).

10 November 2005:

Pieter Gautier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Marriage and the city (joint with Michael Svarer and Coen Teulings).

17 November 2005:

Justin Wolfers (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Using markets to inform policy: The case of the Iraq war (joint with Eric Zitzewitz).

1 December 2005:

Antoni Calvó-Armengol (UAB), Like father, Like son: Social networks, human capital investment, and social mobility (joint with Matthew O. Jackson).

Second  Term

12 January 2006:

Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago), Fixed term employment contracts in an equilibrium search model (joint with Marcelo Veracierto).

2 February 2006:

Florencio López-de-Silanes (CEPREMAP, DELTA, CERAS), The law and economics of self-dealing (joint with Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer).

23 February 2006:

Martin Weitzman (Harvard University), Risk, uncertainty, and asset-pricing antipuzzles.

9 March 2006:

Pierre Cahuc (CREST, PARIS I), Civic attitudes and the design of labor market institutions: Which countries can implement the Danish flexicurity model? (joint with Yann Algan).

16 March 2006:

Gian Luca Clementi (NYU Stern), Legal institutions, sectoral heterogeneity, and economic development.

Third Term

20 April 2006:

Christian Bontemps (GREMAQ, Toulouse), Testing distributional assumptions: A GMM approach (joint with Nour Meddahi).

25 May 2006:

Maristella Botticini (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università di Torino and Boston University), Social norms and demographic shocks: Florence, 1250-1450.

8 June 2006:

Denis Gromb (LBS), Financially constrained arbitrage and the cross-section of market liquidity (joint with Dimitri Vayanos).

15 June 2006:

Giovanni Maggi (Princeton University), The GATT/WTO as an incomplete contract.

First  Term

23 September 2004:

Olivier Blanchard (MIT), Reforming labour market institutions: Unemployment insurance and employment protection.

7 October 2004:

Sendhil Mullainathan (MIT), Pricing psychology: A field experiment.

28 October 2004:

Roman Inderst (INSEAD), Executive compensation and industrial change (joint with H. Mueller).

18 November 2004:

Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics), Credit rationing, wealth inequality, and allocation of talent.

1 December 2004:

Jean-Charles Rochet (GREMAQ and IDEI) , Dynamic security design (joint with B. Biais, G. Plantin and T. Mariotti).

Second  Term

3 February 2005:

Tim Besley (LSE), Electoral bias and economic policy (joint with Ian Preston).

10 February 2005:

Estelle Cantillon (HBS and ECARES), Multi-attribute auctions (joint with John Asker).

24 February 2005:

Dirk Krueger (Goethe University Frankfurt), Does income inequality lead to consumption inequality? Evidence and theory (joint with Fabrizio Perri).

10 March 2005:

Ramon Marimon (UPF), Competition, innovation and growth with limited commitment, (joint with Vincenzo Quadrini).

Third Term

14 April 2005:

Costas Meghir (UCL) , Wage risk and employment risk over the life cycle.

28 April 2005:

Chaim Fershtman (Tel Aviv University), Finite state dynamic games with asymmetric information: A framework for applied work , (joint with Ariel Pakes).

26 May 2005:

Ted Temzelides (University of Pittsburgh) , Mechanism design and payments , (joint with Thorsten Koeppl and Cyril Monnet).

9 June 2005:

María Angeles de Frutos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Efficient partnership dissolution under buy-sell clauses.

28 June 2005:

Edward Prescott (Arizona State University), Sweat equity.

First  Term

2 October 2003:

Robert Sauer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Educational financing and lifetime earnings.

16 October 2003:

Eric Renault (University of Montreal), A consumption CAPM with a reference level (joint with Rene Garcia and Andrei Semenov).

23 October 2003:

Harald Uhlig (Humboldt University), Do productivity shocks lead to a decline in labor?.

21 November 2003:

Patrick Bolton (Princeton University), Executive compensation and short-termist behavior in speculative markets (joint with José Scheinkman and Wei Xiong).

27 November 2003:

Frank Verboven (Catholic University of Leuven), Liberalizing a distribution system 2003: The european car market (joint with Randy Brenkers).

Second  Term

15 January 2004:

Ignacio Palacios-Huerta (Brown University), The measurement of intellectual influence (joint with Oscar Volij).

29 January 2004:

Marco Ottaviani (London Business School), The strategy of professional forecasting (joint with Peter Norman Sorensen).

12 February 2004:

Gur Huberman (Columbia University), Investors equity exposure and fund allocation.

4 March 2004:

Thierry Magnac (INRA and CREST-INSEE), Identification and estimation in monotone binary models with discrete regressors or interval data.

11 March 2004:

Ramón Casadesus-Masanell (Harvard Business School), Dynamic mixed duopoly: A model motivated by Linux vs. Windows.

Third Term

22 April 2004:

Espen R. Moen (Norwegian School of Management), Equilibrium incentive contracts and efficiency wages (joint with Csa Rosén).

29 April 2004:

John Moore (London School of Economics), Agreeing Now to agree later: Contracts that rule out but do not rule in (joint with Oliver Hart).

13 May 2004:

Jordi Caballé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Inflation, tax evasion, and the distribution of consumption.

3 June 2004:

Albert Marcet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Overdifferencing VAR's is OK.

17 June 2004:

Frank Vella (European University Institute), Identification and estimation of the triangular simultaneous equations model in the absence of exclusion restrictions through the presence of heteroskedasticity (joint with Roger Klein).

First  Term

17 October 2002:

Matthew Shum (Johns Hopkins University), Nonparametric tests for common values in First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions.

31 October 2002:

Luis Viceira (Harvard Business School), Foreign currency for long-term investors (joint with J. Y. Campbell and J. White).

14 November 2002:

Paolo Fulghieri (INSEAD & University of North Carolina), The ownership and financing of innovation in R&D races.

21 November 2002:

Vincenzo Quadrini (Stern School of Business, NYU), Stock Market Boom and the Productivity Gains of the 1990s (joint with U. Jermann).

5 December 2002:

Lawrence Kotlikoff (Boston University), The mismatch between life-insurance holdings and financial vulnerabilities: Evidence from the health and retirement survey (joint with B. D. Bernheim, L. Forni and J. Gokhale).

Second  Term

16 January 2003:

Xavier Freixas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Interbank market integration under asymmetric information (joint with C. Holthausen).

30 January 2003:

Philippe Aghion (University College London), Appropriate institutions and economic growth (joint with D. Acemoglu and F. ZiIlibotti).

13 February 2003:

Jaume Ventura (CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and MIT), Bubbles and capital flows.

27 February 2003:

Chris Phelan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Opportunity and social mobility.

20 March 2003:

John Leahy (New York University), The absentminded consumer .

Third  Term

3 April 2002:

Bertil Holmlund (Uppsala University), Optimal taxation in search equilibrium with home production (joint with Per Engström and Ann-Sofie Kolm).

8 May 2002:

Harry J. Paarsch (University of Iowa), An empirical model of multi-unit, sequential, oral, ascending-price auctions (joint with Stephen G. Donald and Jacques Robert).

22 May 2002:

Jorgen Weibull (Boston University), Bertrand competition with intertemporal demand (joint with Prajit Dutta and Alexander Matros).

5 June 2002:

José Manuel Campa (IESE), Differences in exchange rate pass-through in the Euro area (joint with José M. González Mínguez).

19 June 2002:

Kjetil Storesletten (IIES and Stockholm University), The macroeconomic implications of rising wage inequality in the US (joint with Jonathan Heathcote and Giovanni Violante).

First  Term

4 October 2001:

David Pérez-Castrillo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), The principal-agent matching market (joint with Kaniska Dam).

23 October 2001:

Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA), Patents and R&D as real options.

7 November 2001:

John Rust (University of Maryland), Middle men vs. market makers: A theory of competitive exchange (joint with George Hall).

22 November 2001:

Richard Blundell (University College London), Semiparametric Engel curves and revealed preference (joint with Martin Browning and Ian Crawford).

28 November 2001:

Michael Reiter (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Stabilization versus insurance (joint with Jim Costain).

Second  Term

7 February 2002:

Olympia Bover (Banco de España), Are there economies of scale in the demand for money by firms? Some panel data estimates (joint with N. Watson)

21 February 2002:

John Ermisch (University of Essex), Single mothers (joint with K. Burdett)

7 March 2002:

Adriana Kugler (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Protective or counter-productive? Labor market institutions and the effect of immigration on EU natives (joint with J. Angrist).

14 March 2002:

Eliana la Ferrara (IGIER, Università Bocconi), Preferences for redistribution in the land of opportunities (joint with A. Alesina).

Third  Term

11 April 2002:

Isabel Horta Correia (Bank of Portugal and Catholic University of Portugal), Consumption taxes and redistribution.

25 April 2002:

Andrés Erosa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Fertility decisions and gender differences in labor turnover, employment, and wages.

23 May 2002:

Chenggang Xu (London School of Economics), Law enforcement under incomplete law: Theory and evidence from financial market regulation (joint with K. Pistor).

30 May 2002:

Kenneth Singleton (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University), Term structure dynamics in theory and reality.

10 September 2002:

Robert Townsend (University of Chicago), Evaluation of financial systems .

First  Term

18 September 2000:

Robert Townsend (University of Chicago), Firms as clubs in WALRASIAN markets with private information.

5 October 2000:

Guido Cozzi (Cornell University and University of Rome "La Sapienza"), Inventing or spying? Implications for Growth.

19 October 2000:

Sandro Brusco (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Collusion via signalling in open ascending auctions with multiple objects and complementarities (joint with Giuseppe Lopomo).

26 October 2000:

Diego Puga (University of Toronto), Nursery Cities: Urban Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life-Cycle of Products (joint with Gilles Duranton).

16 November 2000:

Steve Pischke (London School of Economics), Unions and the labor market for managers.

29 November 2000:

Etienne Wasmer (ECARE), Between group competition and the rise in returns to skill: USA-France 1964-1997.

Second  Term

17 January 2001:

Neil Shephard (Nuffield College), Econometric analysis of realised volatility and its use in estimating Lévy based non-Gaussian OU type stochastic volatility models (joint with Ole Barndorff-Nielsen).

1 February: 2001:

Steve Bond (Nuffield College and IFS), The dynamics of investment under uncertainty (joint with Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen).

22 February: 2001:

Luigi Guiso (Ente Luigi Einaudi), The role of social capital in financial development (joint with Luigi Zingales and Paola Sapienza).

13 March 2001:

Torsten Persson (Institute for Internatrional Economic Studies, Stockholm), Do political institutions shape economic policy?.

Third  Term

19 April 2001:

John Y. Campbell (Harvard University), A multivariate model of strategic asset location (joint with Yeung Lewis Chan and Luis Viceira).

3 May 2001:

Costas Meghir (University College London), Changes in the distribution of male and female wages accounting for employment composition.

10 May 2001:

Nour Meddahi (University of Montreal), Testing distributional approach: A GMM approach (joint with Christian Bontemps).

31 May 2001:

Jerome Adda (University College London), Smoking and life expectancy: Why are there gender and education differences.

7 June 2001:

Joel Horowitz (University of Iowa), Identification and estimation with incomplete data (joint with Charles F. Manski).

20 June 2001:

Joshua Angrist (MIT), Vouchers for private schooling in Colombia: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment.

First  Term

8 October 1998:

Gilles Saint-Paul (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), The political economy of firing costs.

22 october 1998:

Adrian Pagan (Australian National University), Knowing the cycle.

12 November 1998:

Michael Keane (New York University), Consumption and income inequality in Poland during the economic transition.

24 November 1998:

Juan Carrillo (ECARE, Brussels), Self control, moderate consumption and craving.

3 December 1998:

Klaus Schmidt (University of Munich), Sequential investments and options to own.

Second  Term

13 January 1999:

Oved Yosha (Berglas School of Economics), Risk sharing and industrial specialization: Regional and international evidence.

18 February 1999:

Arnoud Boot (Amsterdam University), Expansion of banking scale and scope: Don't banks know the value of focus?

25 February 1999:

François Ortalo-Magné (LSE), Housing-market fluctuations in a life-cycle economy with credit constraints.

23 March 1999:

Guillermo Calvo (University of Maryland), El debate sobre la dolarización.

Third  Term

15 April 1999:

Jan Eeckhout (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Inequality.

28 April 1999:

Antonio Ciccone (UCB and UPF), Capital and growth: Theory and evidence from US cities.

20 May 1999:

Miquel Faig (University of Toronto), The portfolio of quasi-moneys.

27 May 1999:

Andrea Ichino (EUI, Florencia),  Group interactions and individual background. Explaining regional shirking differentials in a large Italian firm.

3 June 1999:

Mark Armstrong (Nuffield College, Oxford), Competitive price discrimination (joint with John Vickers).

9 June 1999:

Richard Kihlstrom (Wharton University), Monopoly power in dynamic securities markets.

First  Term

16 October 1997:

Jeffrey Miron (Boston University and IDEI, Toulouse), The effect of alcohol prohibition on alcohol consumption.

23 October 1997:

Neil Shephard (Oxford University), Filtering via simulation based on auxiliary particle filters.

6 November 1997:

Hyun Song Shin (Oxford University), Asset pricing with disclosures.

13 November 1997:

Bo Honoré (Princeton University and University of Copenhangen), Pairwise difference estimators for non-linear models.

4 December 1997:

Martin Cripps (University of Warwick), Repeated extensive form games with incomplete information.

Second  Term

15 January 1998:

Ana Isabel Fernández (Universidad de Oviedo), El papel supervisor del consejo de administración sobre la actuación gerencial.

29 January 1998:

Harry Huizinga (Tilburg University), The taxation of domestic and foreign banking.

12 February 1998:

Tullio Jappelli (Princeton University), Money demand, financial innovation and the welfare cost of inflation.

26 February 1998:

Jean-Marc Robin (INRA and CREST), Equilibrium search with decreasing returns to scale, hiring costs and endogenous firm's capital heterogeneity.

12 March 1998:

Martin Peitz (Universidad de Alicante), Intermediation can replace certification.

Third  Term

16 April 1998:

Isabelle Brocas (ECARE, Bruselas), Designing auctions in R&D: Optimal licensing of an innovation.

30 April 1998:

Pierre Regibeau (IAE, Barcelona), A multi-task principal agent approach to organizational form.

14 May 1998:

Jean Charles Rochet (IDEI, Toulouse), Competing mechanisms in a common value environment.

21 May 1998:

Santiago Carrillo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Métodos de replicación estática para valoración y cobertura de opciones barrera.

4 June 1998:

Russell Cooper (Boston University), On the gains to monetary union.

11 June 1998:

Jaume Ventura (MIT, Boston), Business cycles in three models of international trade.