Research Seminar Series 2015-2016
Seminars are held on Tuesdays 12.30 to 2 pm in TSSR Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, unless otherwise indicated
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 24 September | Kjetil Bjorvatn from NHH (Norwegian School of Economics) | Saving for empowerment: Experimental evidence from Uganda |
29 September |
Gaia Narciso (TCD) | Nutrition and empowerment: evidence from women living with HIV in Uganda |
| 06 October | Tim Eisert (Erasmus University) | Real Effects of the Sovereign Debt Crisis in Europe: Evidence from Syndicated Loans (Joint with Viral V. Acharya, Christian Eufinger, and Christian Hirsch) |
| 13 October |
Alessandro Tarozzi (UPF) | Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption: The case of Insecticide Treated Nets (Joint with Aprajit Mahajan) |
| 20 October | Rema Hanna (Harvard) | The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia ( joint with Abhijit Banerjee,Jordan Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken and Sudarno Sumarto) |
| 21 October | Remco Oostendorp (VU Amsterdam) | Regional Labor Market Integration, Shadow Wages and Poverty in Vietnam ( joint with Le Dang Trung) |
| 27 October | Pablo Selaya (University of Copenhagen) | The Bounty of the Sea and Long Run Development (Joint with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Anne Sofie B. Knudsen) |
| 03 November | Steffen Kalbekken (University of Oslo) |
Public Support for Efficient Environmental Policies |
| 10 November | Reading Week | |
| 17 November | Selim Gulesci (Bocconi) | The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India (Joint with Sonia Bhalotra and Abhishek Chakravarty) |
| 24 November | Gernot Wagner (EDF / Columbia) | Climate Shock: It's not over 'til the fat tail zings ( joint with Martin L. Weitzman) |
| 01 December 13.00 -14.00 | Vahagn Galstyan (TCD) | The Holders and Issuers of International Portfolio Securities (joint with Philip R. Lane, Caroline Mehigan, Rogelio Mercado) |
| 08 December | Miklós Koren (CEU) | Bridges ( joint with Roc Armenter, and Dávid Krisztián Nagy) |
| 15 December | Cancelled | |
| 19 January | Orla Doyle (UCD) | Preparing for Life: Testing the Effectiveness of Early Intervention in an Irish Experimental Trial |
26 January |
Rebecca Stuart (Central Bank) | UK shocks and Irish business cycles, 1922-1979 |
| 02 February | Cedric Tille (Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies) | What drives the funding currency mix of banks? (joint with Signe Krogstrup) |
9 February |
Karen Macours (PSE) | The validity and reliability of skills measurement in rural household surveys. |
| 16 February | Giuseppe Berlingieri (ESSEC and OECD) | |
| 23 February | Jenny Aker (Tufts University) | Call Me Educated: Evidence from a Mobile Monitoring Experiment in Niger (joint with Christopher Ksoll) |
01 March |
Reading Week | |
| 08 March | Vahagn Galstyan | Taxation, Debt and Relative Prices in the Long Run: The Irish Experience (with Adnan Velic) |
| 15 March | Tom Holden ( University of Surrey) | |
| 22 March | Akos Valentinyi (Cardiff) | Endogenous Sector-biased Technical Change and Industrial Policy (joint with Berthold Herrendorf) |
| 29 March | Carolina Villegas-Sanchez | Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe (joint with Gita Gopinath, Sebnem Kalemli- Ozcan and Loukas Karabarbounis) |
| 05 April | Veronica Rappoport (LSE) | Specialization in Bank Lending: Evidence from Exporting Firms (joint with Daniel Paravisini and Philipp Schnabl)
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All seminars are joint seminars with Department of Economics & TSSR unless otherwise indicated.
** Joint seminar Dept of Economics and Department of Political Science