Past Activities

 

 

 

(Academic Year 2010-2011)

 

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Weekly Seminars 2010-2011:

 

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?

 

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(Academic Year 2009-2010)

 

[Seminars] [Internal Workshops][Visits] [Conferences] [Other Activities]

 

Weekly Seminars 2009-2010:

 

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"

 

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(Academic Year 2008-2009)

 

[Seminars] [Internal Workshops][Visits] [Conferences] [Other Activities]

 

Weekly Seminars 2008-2009:

 

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

 

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Internal Workshops 2008-2009:

 

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)

 

 

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(Academic Year 2007-2008)

 

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Seminars 2007-2008:

 

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.

 

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.

 

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Visits 2007-2008:

 

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.

 

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(Academic Year 2006-2007)

 

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