Research Seminar Series 2009-2010

Seminars are held on Tuesdays 12.30 to 2 pm in IIIS Seminar Room, unless otherwise indicated

Seminar Organisers:

Catia Batista - Phone: +353 (0)1 896 1041
Gaia Narciso - Phone:+353 (0)1 896 1067

Date	Speaker	Title
29 Sep	Kevin O'Rourke (TCD)	The Great Depression and the 2008 Credit Crisis: Lessons of the 1930's for Today
6 Oct Geary Institute Seminar Room UCD	Dublin Economics Seminar (Joint TCD / UCD Seminar)
13 Oct	Gerard Caprio (Williams College)	'Anatomy of a Crisis: Murder, Suicide, or Accidental Death?'
20 Oct	Alan Barrett (ESRI)	'Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland'
27 Oct	Christopher Ksoll (Oxford)	'Selecting Good Caretakers: The Impact of Family Networks in Tanzania on Orphans' Education'
3 Nov	Peter Dunne (Central Bank of Ireland)	'The Intrinsic Value of the DOW: This Time with Feeling'
17 Nov	Keyu Jin (LSE)	'Industrial structure and financial capital flows'
24 Nov Postponed to a Later Date	Philip Lane (TCD)	'Capital flows and the crisis'
26 Nov Note: Special Time 14.00 - 15.30	Todd Sorensen (UC Riverside)	'The Effect of Immigration on Ethnic Composition and Occupational Reallocation '
1 Dec	Pedro Teles (Bank of Portugal and UCP)	'Monetary policy and the financing of firms'
8 Dec	Gerald Willman (KU Leuven)	'Trade, education, and the shrinking middle class'
15 Dec	Colm Harmon (UCD)	'The Impact of Parental Income and Parental Education on the Schooling of Children'
21 Jan	Hylke Vandenbussche (UC Louvain)	'Anti-dumping protection hurts exporters: firm-level evidence from France'
26 Jan	Sarah Parlane (UCD)	'Optimal initial public offering design with aftermarket trading'
29 Jan Note: Special Time 13.00 - 14.30	Pasquale Tridico (Università degli Studi di Roma 3)	"Trajectories of socio-economic models and development in transition economies in the 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall"
2 Feb	Stephan Litschig (UPF)	'The effect of fiscal transfers on local public services and living standards: quasi-experimental evidence from Brazilian municipalities'
5 Feb Note: Special Time 15.00	Peyton Young (Nuffield College, Oxford University)	Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning
9 Feb	Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht University)	'Non-cooperative Support for the Asymmetric Nash Bargaining Solution'
16 Feb	Ethan Ilzetzki (LSE)	'How big are fiscal multipliers?'
23 Feb	Paola Conconi (ECARES, ULB)	Policymakers' Horizon and Economic Reforms
9 March	Tobias Broer (IIES, Stockholm University)	'Domestic or global imbalances? Rising inequality and the fall in the US current account'
23 March	Andrew Oswald (University of Warwick)	'Emotional Prosperity: Biomarkers, Economic Markers, and the Stiglitz Commission on Human Progress'
30 March	Gerard Padro i Miguel (LSE) Joint seminar Economics/Political Science	'The Political Economy of Indirect Control'.
6 April CANCELLED	Martina Bjorkman (Bocconi)
3 May	Pedro Carneiro (University College London)	TBC
11 May	Filipa Sá (Trinity College - University of Cambridge)	TBC
2 June	Frederico Finan (UCLA)	“Political Persistence and Economic Development Evidence from Brazil's Transition to Democracy'.
8 June CANCELLED	Christopher Bowdler (University of Oxford)	TBC
15 Jun	Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes (San Diego State)	'Remittance income volatility and labor supply in Mexico'