Seminar Series
Research Seminar Series 2016-2017
Seminars are held on Tuesdays 12.30 to 2 pm in TRISS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, unless otherwise indicated
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| *Wednesday 31 August * | Lorenzo Casaburi (Stanford and University of Zurich) | Market Structure in Agricultural Markets: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone |
| 20 September | Patrick Honohan | What Else Can Central Banks Do? |
| 27 September | Hiro Ito (Portland State University) | Re-scaling global imbalances: key currency zones and renminbi management.( joint with Robert McCauley) |
| * Thursday 29 September 5.00 -6.30pm * Neill Lecture Theatre, Long Room Hub | Michael Kremer (Harvard) | There is No Place Like Home: Theory and Evidence on Politician Preferences. (joint with Vivian Hoffmann, Pam Jakiela, and Ryan Sheely) |
| 04 October | Martin Schmitz (ECB) | Reducing large net foreign liabilities ( joint with Michael Fidora and Céline Tcheng) |
| 11 October |
Liam Delaney (University of Stirling/UCD) | Self-control, present bias, and well-being: evidence from day reconstruction studies (joint with Leonhard Lades ) |
| 18 October | Paul Devereux (UCD) | This Is Only a Test? Long-Run and Intergenerational Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout ( joint with Sandra E. Black, Aline Bütikofer and Kjell G. Salvanes) |
| 25 October | Christian Bayer (Bonn) | Taxing Capital Income to Consolidate – An Incomplete Markets Perspective (joint with R. Luetticke) |
| 01 November | Ida Hjortsoe (Bank of England) |
The Shocks Matter: Improving our Estimates of Exchange Rate Pass-Through (joint with Kristin Forbes and Tsvetelina Nenova) |
| 02 November | Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota) |
What Explains Vietnam's Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? An Analysis of the 2012 PISA Data. |
| 08 November | Reading Week | |
| 15 November | Marcos Vera-Hernandez (UCL) | Can Bureaucrats Really Be Paid Like CEOs? School Administrator Incentives for Anemia Reduction in Rural China (joint with Renfu Luo, Grant Miller, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia ) |
| 22 November | Jessica Goldberg (University of Maryland) | When Defaults Matter: Behavioral Economics of Take-up and Utilization of Savings Accounts in Malawi |
| 29 November | Climent Quintana-Domeque (Oxford) | Assortative Mating on Education: A Genetic Assessment ( joint with Nicola Barban,Elisabetta De Cao and Sonia Oreffice.) |
| 06 December | Andrea Guariso (TCD) | Rainfall Inequality, Political Power and Ethnic Conflict in Africa (joint with Thorsten Rogall) |
| 13 December | Dan Bogart (UCLA) | Railways and employment: evidence from 19th century England and Wales (joint with Eduard Alvarez, Max Satchell, Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Xuesheng You) |
| 17 January | Jakob Svensson (IIES) | Lemon Technologies and Adoption: Measurement, Theory and Evidence from Agricultural Markets in Uganda (joint with Tessa Bold, Kayuki C. Kaizzi and David Yanagizawa-Drott) |
24 January |
Tyler Goodspeed (King's College London ) | Skin in the Game: Extended Liability, Contingent Capital, and Financial Stability. |
| 31 January | Jan Grobovsek (University of Edinburgh) | Communal Land and Agricultural Productivity (joint with Charles Gottlieb) |
07 February |
Pramila Krishnan (Oxford) | Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods" (with Jan Willem Gunning and Andualem Telaye) |
| 14 February | Giacomo De Luca (York) | Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics? (joint with Roland Hodler, Paul Anton Raschky and Michele Valsecchi) |
| 21 February | Dave Donaldson (Stanford University) | The More We Die, The More We Sell? A Simple Test of the Home-Market Effect. ( joint with Arnaud Costinot, Margaret Kyle and Heidi Williams) |
28 February |
Markus Goldstein (World Bank) | Can Business Training Work? Evidence on personal initiative training from Togo. |
| 07 March | Jeremiah Dittmar (LSE) | State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Europe (joint with Ralf R. Meisenzahl) |
| 08 March (Wednesday, 2.00 -3.00pm, Room 3020, Arts Building) | Edmund Malesky (Duke University) | Can Political Participation by Firms Increase Government Legitimacy and Regulatory Compliance in Developing Countries? (Joint with Markus Taussig) |
| 10 March (Friday) | David Lagakos (UC San Diego) | Unemployment and Development (joint with Ying Feng and James Rauch) |
| 14 March | Davide Romelli (TCD) | Central Bankers as Supervisors: Do Crises Matter?, co-authored with Donato Masciandaro (Bocconi University). |
| 21 March | Alessandro Riboni (École Polytechnique) | Nationalism, Nation Building and Wars (with A. Alesina and B. Reich) |
| 28 March | Stefan Avdjiev (BIS) | What drives local lending by global banks? (joint with Uluc Aysun and Ralf Hepp) |
| 04 April | Martina Kirchberger (TCD) | In Search of a Spatial Equilibrium in the Developing World ( joint with Doug Gollin (Oxford) and David Lagakos (UC San Diego) |
| 13 June ( Room 4050A, Arts Building) | César Sosa-Padilla ( University of Notre Dame) | Interest Rate Uncertainty and Sovereign Default Risk (joint with Alok Johri and Shahed K. Khan) |
All seminars are joint seminars with Department of Economics & TRISS unless otherwise indicated.