Seminars 2008

December

• 17/12/2008 (16:30)  (Hemiciclo II Conference Room): Extraordinary session of the economic research seminar. Roundtable: “Financial Crisis: Dynamics, Causes, Consequences and Future Challenges”
• 17/12/2008 (12:30)  Salvador Ortigueira (European University Institute): Markov-perfect optimal fiscal policy: The case of unbalanced budgets (379 KB)
• 10/12/2008 Roc Armenter (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia): The Economies of Scale and the Size of Exporters (376 KB)
• 10/12/2008 Francesc Ortega (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Revised Estimates of the Returns to Schooling in Spain in 2001-2006. Rescheduled to February 11th, 2009
• 03/12/2008 Omar Licandro (European University Institute): The Child is Father of the Man: Implications for the Demographic Transition (350 KB) (349 KB)

November

• 26/11/2008 Alberto Martin (CREI): Adverse Selection, Credit, and Efficiency: the Case of the Missing Market
• 19/11/2008 Antonia Díaz (Universidad Carlos III): House Prices, Sales, and Time on the Market with Competitive Search (344 KB)
• 12/11/2008 Nicolas Coeurdacier (London Business School): When Bonds Matter: Home Bias in Goods and Assets (649 KB)
• 05/11/2008 Christoph Trebesch (Hertie School of Governance): Varieties of Sovereign Default

October

• 29/10/2008 Christian Haefke (Institute for Advanced Studies): Wage Rigidity and Job Creation (349 KB)
• 22/10/2008 Angel León (Universidad de Alicante): Jumps in Interest Rates: To What Extent Do News Surprises Matter? (1 MB)
• 15/10/2008 Pau Rabanal (La Caixa): Cointegrated TFP Processes and International Business Cycles (305 KB)
• 08/10/2008 Juan Carlos Conesa (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona): Generational Policy and the Measurement of Tax Incidence (87 KB)
• 01/10/2008 Luis Jacome (International Monetary Fund): Central Bank Involvement in Banking Crises in Latin America (760 KB)

September

• 24/09/2008 Antonella Trigari (Bocconi): An Estimated MoDSGE Model with Unemployment and Staggered Nominal Wage Bargaining (736 B)
• 19/09/2008 (12:30)  David Findley (U.S. Census Bureau): Modeling Stock Trading Day Effects Under Flow Day-of-Week Effect Constraints (167 KB)
• 17/09/2008 Luca Gambetti (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona): Forecasting Inflation in Real Time with Time Varying Vector Autoregressions (258 KB)
• 10/09/2008 Jan Eekhout (University of Pennsylvania): Occupational Choice and Development (460 KB)

July

• 09/07/2008 (12:30)  Ivan Vidangos (Federal Reserve Board): Modelling Earnings Dynamics (1 MB)

June

• 25/06/2008 Kevin James (Bank of England): Measuring Financial Market Efficiency: The Proof of the Pudding Is In the Eating (1 MB)
• 19/06/2008 Rakesh Mohan (Banco Central de India): Indian Monetary Policy
• 16/06/2008 (12:00)  Catalina Amuedo Dorantes (San Diego University): Remittance Volatility and Asset Accumulation (103 KB)
• 11/06/2008 Ed Green (Penn State University): Optimal Intermediated Investment in a Liquidity-Driven Business Cycle (229 KB)

May

• 28/05/2008 Tom Crossley (University of Cambridge): Is the elasticity of intertemporal substitution constant? (180 KB)
• 26/05/2008 (12:30)  David López-Salido (Federal Reserve Board): The Fed's Response to Financial Turmoil
• 19/05/2008 Pol Antràs (Harvard University): Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective (339 KB)
• 14/05/2008 Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bologna): The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's (401 KB)
• 13/05/2008 Geoff Wood (Cass Business School): Shattered on the Rock? (209 KB)
• 07/05/2008 Michael Krause (Bundesbank): Aggregate Hours Adjustment in Frictional Labour Markets

April

• 30/04/2008 (12:30)  Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto): Labor Supply Effects of the Recent Social Security Benefit Cuts: Empirical Estimates Using Cohort Discontinuities (266 KB)
• 23/04/2008 Matteo Ciccarelli (ECB): Information combination and forecast (st)ability: evidence from vintages of time-series data (1 MB) (Jointly submitted with Carlo Altavilla)
• 17/04/2008 (12:30)  Görgy Kopits (Magyar Nemzeti Bank, Central Bank of Hungary): Monetary Policy on the Road to the Euro (80 KB)
• 16/04/2008 Martin Summer (Oesterreichische Nationalbank): Macro Stress and Worst Case Analysis of Loan Portfolios (602 KB)
• 09/04/2008 (12:30)  Jean Imbs (HEC Lausanne):: Risk Sharing, Finance and Institutions in International Portfolios (422 KB)
• 02/04/2008 Hervé le Bihan (Banque de France): Sticky Wages. Evidence from Quarterly Microeconomic Data (568 KB)

March

• 26/03/2008 David Weinstein (Columbia University): Understanding International Price Differences Using Barcode Data (273 KB)
• 10/03/2008 Don Harding (University of Melbourne): The Econometric Analysis of Some Constructed Binary Time Series (234 KB)

January

• 16/01/2008 Ricardo Reis (Princeton University): A Few Model-Based Answers to Monetary Policy Questions in the United States and the Euro-Area (485 KB)