Fall Term
Monday, September 20: Luis Cabral (IESE Business School and CEPR): "Aftermarket Power and Basic Market Competition"
Monday, October 4: Miguel Leon-Ledesma (University of Kent): "Shocking Stuff: Technology, Hours, and Factor Substitution"
Monday, October 18: Jose Maria O'Kean (U. Pablo de Olavide): "España competitiva"
Monday, October 25: Bas Van der Klaauw (Free University of Amsterdam): "Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance"
Monday, November 8: Juan José Ganuza (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Minimizing errors, maximizing incentives. Optimal Court decisions and the quality of evidence"
Monday, November 15: Luca Gambetti (Universitat Autonoma de barcelona): "Fiscal Foresight and the Effects of Government Spending"
Monday, November 22: Han Bleichrodt (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Seminar cancelled
Monday, November 29: Pablo Brañas (Universidad de Granada): "Organizing effects of Testosterone and economic behavior: not just risk taking"
Monday, December 13: Jesús Crespo Cuaresma (University of Innsbruck): "Spatial Filtering, Model Uncertainty and the Speed of Income Convergence in Europe"
Winter Term
Monday, January 17: Roger Feldman (University of Minnesota) "Show Me the Money: Can Employees Be Paid to Exercise?"
Monday, January 24: Andrea Mattozzi (Caltech & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): "Mediocracy"
Monday, January 31: Ana Guerra Hernandez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide): "Rethinking economy-wide rebound measures: an unbiased proposal"
Monday, February 7: Bart Los (University of Utrecht & University of Groningen): "Measuring Global Value Chains with the World Input-Output Database (WIOD)"
Monday, February 14: Han Bleichrodt (Erasmus University Rotterdam): "An experimental comparison between utility under risk and utility over time"
Monday, February 21, Cátedra BBVA Seminar: Ángel de la Fuente (Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC): "Demografía, estado del bienestar y estado autonómico"
Monday, February 22 (note change of date): Emily Lancsar (University of Newcastle): "A new approach to welfare assessment using choice experiments: direct calculation of welfare measures for single individuals"
Monday, March 07: Giorgio Brunello (Università di Padova): "Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall"
Monday, March 14: Salva Gil (Universitat de València): "Do Nonreciprocal Preference Regimes Increase Exports?"
Monday, March 21: Antonia Díaz (Universidad Carlos III Madrid): "Theory of Energy Use"
Monday, March 28: David Dorn (CEMFI): ""The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States"
Monday, April 4: Guido Ascari (Università di Pavia): "Limited Asset Market Participation: Does it Really Matter for Monetary Policy?"
Monday, April 11: Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge): Seminar Cancelled
Spring Term
Monday, April 25: Fatih Guvenen (University of Minnesota): Seminar Cancelled
Monday, May 09: Peter Egger (ETH Zurich): "Structural Estimation of Gravity Models with Path-Dependent Market Entry"
Monday, May 16: José Villaverde (Universidad de Cantabria): "Globalisation, growth and convergence"
Monday, May 23, Cátedra BBVA Seminar: José María Arranz (Universidad de Alcalá): "The Interplay Of The Unemployment Compensation System,Fixed-Term Contracts And Rehirings"
Monday, May 30: Adam Oliver (London School of Economics): Seminar Cancelled
Monday, June 06: Debraj Ray (NYU): Seminar Cancelled
Monday, June 13: Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick): "Honesty, Voting and Mechansim Design"
Monday, June 27: Octavio Fernández-Amador (Johannes Kepler University Linz): "Modeling interest rate pass-through in Europe. Is linearity enough?
October 2010. Inés Macho-Stadler (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
October 2010. David Pérez-Castrillo (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
November 2010. Shmuel Nitzan (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
November 2010. Andrea Mantovani (Università di Bologna, Italia)
November-Diciember 2010. Ferran Sancho (UAB)
Fall term 2010. Pablo Brañas (Universidad de Granada)
May 2011. Lars Peter Østerdal (University of Copenhagen)
Sessions usually take place from 12:30 to 13:30 in Building 3 ,Board room (first floor).
Fall Term
Monday, September 28: Hervé Moulin (Rice University): "Fair division of an earmarked commodity"
Monday, October 5: Jan C. van Ours (Tilburg University): "Incentive Effects of UI Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile"
Monday, October 19: Enrique Sentana (CEMFI): "Dynamic specification tests for static factor models"
Monday, October 26: Robin M. Hogarth (Universidad Pompeu Fabra): "Under-achievement and the glass ceiling: Evidence from a TV game show"
Tuesday, November 3: (note change of date) Daniel Sturm (London School of Economics): "Political Competition, Policy and Growth: Theory and Evidence from the United States"
Monday, November 9: Natalia Fabra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): "Investment Incentives and Market Design"
Monday, November 16: Francisco Alcalá (Universidad de Murcia): "Time to Consume, Quality, and Growth"
Tuesday, November 24 from 13:00 to 14:00: (note change of date and hour) Rafael Domenech (BBVA Research Department): "On Ricardian Equivalence and Twin Divergence: The Spanish Experience in the 2009 Crisis"
Monday, November 30: Eyal Winter (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Throwing a Party: Contracting with
Type dependent Externalities"
Wednesday, December 9 from 13:00 to 14:00: (note change of date and hour) Albert Ma (Boston University): "Market Conditions and General Practitioners’ Referrals"
Monday, December 14: Susana Peralta (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): "Transfer pricing rules, OECD guidelines, and market distortions"
Winter Term
Monday, January 11: Javier Gardeazabal (Universidad País Vasco): Vote shares in Spanish general elections as a fractional response to the economy and conflict”
Monday, January 18: Pedro Mira (CEMFI): "Caregiving to Elderly Parents and Employment
Status of European Mature Women"
Monday, January 25 from 12:00 to 13:00: (note change of hour): Tullio Jappelli (University of Naples Federico II): "Financial Integration and Consumption Smoothing"
Monday, February 1 from 13:30 to 14:30: (note change of hour): Klaus Desmet (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): "Spatial Development"
Monday, February 8 from 12:00 to 13:00: (UMA-UPO Economics Seminars, note change of hour) Moshe Justman (Ben Gurion University): "University Tuition Subsidies and Student Loans: A Quantitaive Analysis"
Monday, February 15: (UMA-UPO Economics Seminars) Melvyn Coles (Essex University): "Equilibrium Wage/Tenure contracts with on-the-job learning and search"
Monday, February 22: (UMA-UPO Economics Seminars) Szilvia Papai (Concordia University): "Matching With Minimal Priority Rights"
Tuesday, March 2: (note change of date) Ana Montes (Universidad de Murcia): "Modeling the Immigration Shock"
Monday, March 15: Marcos Vera-Hernández (University College London): "High-powered incentives in developing country health insurance: evidence from colombia's régimen subsidiado"
Monday, March 22: Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia): "A few cases to endorse libertarianism" Paper1 Paper2 Paper3
Spring Term
Monday, April 12: Cristopher Flinn (New York University): "Household Choices and Child Development"
Monday, May 3: Evi Pappa (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona): "Fiscal expansions affect unemployment, but they may increase it"
Monday, May 10 from 16:00 to 17:00 (note change of hour): Raquel Carrasco (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): "Estimating the Effect of Female Participation on Household Consumption"
Monday, May 17: Juan F. Jimeno (Banco de España): "Employment fluctuations in a dual labor market"
Monday, May 24: Juan Carlos Conesa (Universidad de Barcelona): "Intergenerational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence"
Monday, May 31 from 12:00 to 13:00 (note change of hour): José Luis Moraga (ICREA, IESE and University of Groningen): "Do Firms Sell Forward for Strategic Reasons? An Application to the Wholesale Market for Natural Gas"
Monday, June 7: Juan Pablo Nicolini (Universidad Torcuato di Tella): "Policy at the Zero Bound"
Monday, June 14 from 13:15 to 14:15 (note change of hour): Javier Andrés (Universidad de Valencia): "Banking competition, collateral constraints and optimal monetary policy"
Sessions usually take place from 12:00 to 13:00 in Building 3 ,Board room (first floor).
Fall Term
Monday, September 29, Walter Trockel (University of Bielefeld): “On Nash implementability of solution-based social choice rules”.
Monday, October 6, Jordi Massó (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona): “Matching markets under (in)complete information”.
Tuesday, October 14 (note change of date), Juan D. Moreno-Ternero (Universidad de Málaga and CORE, Universitè catholique de Louvain): “The political economy of health care finance”.
Monday, October 20, Antonio Montañés (Universidad de Zaragoza): “The effect of oil shocks on the Spanish Economy”.
Monday, October 27, Jesús Crespo Cuaresma (University of Innsbruck): “The role of age-structured education data for economic growth forecasts”.
Monday, November 3, Sjak Smulders (Tilburg University): “GEOENGINEERING; Revisiting the Economics of Climatic Change”.
Monday, November 10, Ignacio Ortuño Ortin (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): “Stability of nations and genetic diversity”
Monday, November 17, Garry Phillips (Cardiff University): “Almost Unbiased Estimation in Simultaneous Equations Models with Strong and / or Weak Instruments”.
Monday, November 27, (note change of date), Bertil Tungodden (Norwegian School of Economics): “Rich meets poor - an international fairness experiment”.
Monday, December 1, Walter Bossert (Université de Montréal): “ Multi-Profile Intergenerational Social Choice ”.
Tuesday, December 9, (note change of date), Juan González Alegre (Universidad Pablo de Olavide): "An Evaluation of EU regional policy. Do Structural Actions crowd out Public Spending?"
Monday, December 15, Guiomar Martín Herrán (Universidad de Valladolid): “Non-renewable resources and the sustainability of economic growth under bilateral trade”.
Winter Term
Monday, January 12, Francis Bloch (Ecole Polytechnique): “Markovian Assignment Rules”
Monday, January 19, José Luis Torres (Universidad de Málaga): “Fiscal harmonization in the European
Union with public inputs”
Monday, January 26, Pedro Rey Biel (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona): “The Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action in a Real Effort Experiment”
Monday, February 2, Inés Macho Stadler (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona): ***CANCELLED***
Monday, February 9, Santiago Carbó (Universidad de Granada): Exploiting Old Customers and Attracting New Ones: The Case of Bank Deposit Pricing
Monday, February 16, Ted Bergstrom (University of California at Santa Barbara): “One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry”
Monday, February 23, Alain Trannoy (EHESS, GREQAM-IDEP): “Equality of Opportunity: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France”
Monday, March 2, Miguel A. Ballester (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona): “Rationalizability of Choice by Sequential Procedures”
Monday, March 9, Robert E. Wright (University of Strathclyde): “The Macroeconomic Impacts of Demographic Change in Scotland: Evidence from a Computable General Equilibrium Model”
Monday, March 16, Joaquín Maudos (Universidad de Valencia): “TBA”
Monday, March 23, Renan Goetz (Universidad de Gerona): “Forest Management and Carbon Sequestration in Size-Structured Forests: The Case of Pinus Sylvestris in Spain”
Tuesday, March 31 (note change of date), François Maniquet (CORE, Universitè catholique de Louvain): “A Fairness Case for Linear Income Taxation”
Spring Term
Monday, April 13, Simon Wren Lewis (Oxford University): “Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction: The Current Consensus Assignment in the light of Recent Developments”
Monday, April 20, Pedro Pita Barros (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): “The simple economics of risk-sharing agreements between the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry”
Tuesday, May 5 (note change of date), Marc Fleurbaey (Universitè Paris V): “Equivalent income and the economic evaluation of health care”
Monday, May 11, Josep Pijoan (CEMFI): “Spain is Different: Falling Trends of Inequality”
Monday, May 18, Antonio Cabrales (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): Implementation in Adaptive Better-Response Dynamics
Tuesday, May 26 (note change of date), Gilat Levy (London School of Economics): “A dynamic model of agenda formation”
Wednesday, June 3 (note change of date) John Roemer (Yale University): A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet
Monday, June 8 , Shlomo Weber (Southern Methodist University): “Existence of Pure Strategies Nash Equilibria in Social Interaction Games with Dyadic Externalities”
Monday, June 15, Fernando Vega-Redondo (European University Institute): “Networks emerging in a volatile world”
Sessions usually take place from 12:00 to 13:00 in Building 3 ,Board room (first floor).
Fall Term
Tuesday, November 11: José Luis Pinto (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, November 25: Antonio Villar (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Winter Term
Tuesday, January 20: A. Jesús Sánchez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, January 27: Jesús Rodríguez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, February 3: Benedetto Molinari (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, February 10: Dunia López Pintado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, February 17: M. Alejandro Cardenete (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, February 24: Eduard Alonso (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, March 3: Diego Romero-Ávila (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, March 10: Carlos Usabiaga (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, March 17: Francisco J. André (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, March 24: Marisa Hidalgo (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Spring Term
Tuesday, April 14: Miguel Ángel Hinojosa (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, April 21: Marta Felis (London School of Economics & Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, May 12: Yolanda Rebollo (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Tuesday, May 19: Nacho García (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Monday, May 25 (note change of date): Juan D. Moreno-Ternero (Universidad Pablo de Olavide)
Fall Term
During the fall term there is a seminar on Economic Analysis that takes place, unless otherwise stated, on Mondays at 15:00h in lecture-room 6 of building 8.
October 8th 2007, Marisa Hidalgo (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), "The Nature of University Prestige: Research, Teaching and Money" (jointly with Guadalupe Valera).
October 15th 2007, Sara López Pintado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), "Nonparametric tools for analyzing curves".
November 5th 2007, Nicolás Porteiro (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), "Strategic Quality Competition and the Porter Hypothesis" (jointly with Francisco J. André and Paula González).
November 12th 2007, Thijs Ten Raa (Tilburg University), "Benchmarking and Industry Performance".
November 19th 2007, Paulo Rodrigues (Universidade do Algarve), "On the Finite-Sample Biases in Nonparametric Testing for Variance Constancy" (jointly with Antonio Rubia).
Spring Term
During the spring term there is a seminar on Economic Analysis that takes place, unless otherwise stated, on Mondays at 15:00h in lecture-room 9 of building 13.
November 2007. Virginia Sánchez (Universidad de Cantabria) visits the Department to work with Alfonso Sánchez.
February 2008-May 2008. Pura Granero (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) visits the Department to work with Francisco J. André.
February 2008-June 2008. Aitor Calo Blanco (Universidad de Alicante) visits the Department to work with Antonio Villar.
March 2008. Eloisa Campioni (LUISS University of Rome) visits the Department to work with Nicolás Porteiro.
March 2008-April 2008. Carmen Herrero (Universidad de Alicante) visits the Department.
Universidad Pablo de Olavide in association with the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, European Commission, are proud to invite you to the 107th seminar of the EAAE, “Modelling Agricultural and Rural Development Policies”, that will be held in Sevilla, Spain in January 30 – February 1, 2008. For more information, please visit: http://www.eaaeseminar.es/
October 23rd 2006, Antonio Villar (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) "Equality of Opportunity in the Labour Market" (joint with J. Ignacio García Pérez).
November 6th 2006, Manolo Hidalgo (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) “Analysis of Skill-Premium in Spain: a regional perspective”.
November 13th 2006, Francisco Álvarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), "Multi-unit auctions with private information: an indivisible-unit continuous-price model" (joint with Cristina Mazón).
November 20th 2006, Philippe De Donder (University of Toulouse), “Voting over type and generosity of a pension system when some individuals are myopic” (joint with H. Cremer, D. Maldonado and P. Pestieau).
December 4th 2006, Laura Crespo (CEMFI) "Caring for Parents and Employment Status of European Mid-Life Women".
December 11th 2006, Alfonso Sánchez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), “Social Security and the Search Behavior of Workers Approaching Retirement” (joint with J. Ignacio García).
December 18th 2006, José Luis Pinto (Universidad Pablo de Olavide): “The value of a statistical life in Spain: consistency of the Contingent Valuation - Standard Gamble Approach”.
January 8th 2007, Ricardo Martínez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) "Strategy-composition down. A characterization of the backbone family".
January 10th 2007, JOB MARKET SEMINAR: Ana I. Gil (Cornell University) "A cross-sectional analysis of social pressure in the consumption of addictive goods".
January 12th 2007, JOB MARKET SEMINAR: Giuseppe Attanasi (Bocconi University, Milan) "Actions, Beliefs and Feelings: An Experimental Study on Dynamic Psychological Games" (joint with R. Nagel).
January 15th 2007, JOB MARKET SEMINAR: Laura Hospido (CEMFI) "Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages".
January 29th 2007, JOB MARKET SEMINAR: Fabio Waltenberg (IRES, Université catholique de Louvain). "Educational justice as equality of opportunity for achieving essential educational outcomes".
January 31st 2007. JOB MARKET SEMINAR: Miguel Sánchez (LSE) "Anti-Evasion Auditing Policy in the Presence of Common Income Shocks".
February 2nd 2007. JOB MARKET SEMINAR: Isabel Rodríguez Tejedo (University of Maryland at College Park): "The determinants of the structure of Rainy Day Funds".
February 19th 2007. Ricardo Martínez (with Antonio Villar and Carmen Herrero): "A Multiplicative Human Development Index".
February 23rd 2007, JOB MARKET SEMINAR: Santiago Budría (Universidad de Madeira) “Overeducation and Wages in Europe: Evidence from Quantile Regression” (with Ana Moro-Egido, Universidad de Granada).
March 5th 2007. Javier Pérez García (European Central Bank) "The cyclicality of public consumption, wages and employment in the euro area".
March 19th 2007, Humberto Llavador (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), "Voting with preferences over margins of victory".
May 7th 2007. Axel Tonini (IPTS-JRC), "Modelling the dairy farm size distribution in Poland using an instrumental variable generalized cross entropy approach".
June 11th 2007. Pat Kehoe (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), "Sales and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy" (joint with Virgiliu Midrigan).
October 30th and 31st: The Department hosted the Second Workshop on Policy Evaluation (jointly organized with the Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía). Click here for the program.
March 15th to 17th. Professors from the Department, together with researchers from U. de Sevilla have organized the "I Workshop en Economía Ecológica" that will take place in Carmona. Click here for the program and contact Prof. Esther Velázquez or Prof. Miguel A. Gual for further information.
July 16th to 20th. The professor from the Department M. A. Cardenete (together with Prof. F.J. de Miguel from UNEX) has organized a summer course on input-output analysis named: "Nuevas Perspectivas en el uso de Tablas Input-Output, Matrices de Contabilidad Social y Modelos de Equilibrio General Aplicado", with financial support from the Instituto de Estadistica de Andalucia. Click here for the program.