Economics Seminar 2006-2007

• Fall

• Oct. 3. Kjetil BJORVATN (NHH). Resource rents and political outcomes in polarized societies: separation or unity, democracy or dictatorship.
• Oct. 10. Georg KIRCHSTEIGER (ECARES, ULB). On the evolution of market institutions: the platform design paradox.
• Oct. 11. Andrew CLARK (Paris-Jourdan). Deliver us from evil: religion as insurance.
• Oct. 13. 12:45. Scott ROZELLE (UCDavis). Governance reform and public goods investment: the case of China.
• Oct. 17. Axel GAUTIER (FUSL). Efficient access pricing and endogenous market structure.
• Oct. 24. Lucia DALLA PELLEGRINA (Bocconi). The effects of peer monitoring on investment. A comparison between group lending and informal credit.
• Oct. 31. Tessa BOLD (U. of Oxford). Risk-sharing in insurance groups in rural Ethiopia.
• Nov. 9. Special Seminars:

- 12:45. Jean-Paul AZAM (U. of Toulouse 1). Civil wars in Africa : the point of view of an economist.

- 14:30. Maurice SCHIFF World Bank). Migration, trade and investment: substitutes or complements?

• Dec. 5. Hans DEGRYSE (Tilburg U.). Bans on price discrimination by a dominant firm.
• Dec. 15. Andrea GUAZZINI (U. Florence). Opinion dynamics: the role of affinity and social temperature.
• Dec. 19. Raphael SOUBEYRAN (MOISA, INRA). Political cycles: issue ownership and the opposition advantage.

 Winter

• Jan. 31. 12:45. Room 402. Jaime DE MELO (U. of Geneva). Openness, inequality, and poverty: endowments matter.
• Feb. 6. Oriana BANDIERA (LSE). Active and passive waste of public funds: evidence from a procurement policy reform.
• Feb. 20. Estelle CANTILLON (ECARES, ULB). How and when markets tip? Lessons from the Battle of the Bund.
• Feb. 27. Marta REYNAL (U. Pompeu Fabra). The colonial origin of civil wars.
• Mar. 6. Kristian BEHRENS (CORE). Testing the home market effect in a multi-country world. 
• Mar. 13. Jonathan CONNING (CUNY). Social investment: grants, subsidies and loan guarantees in a theory of financial market development.
• Mar. 20. Rohini SOMANATHAN (U. Delhi). Understanding the spatial allocation of public goods in India.

Spring

• Mar. 23. 12:45. Juan Antonio MORALES (Universidad Católica Boliviana). Financial deepening and economic development in Bolivia.
• Mar. 27. Clive BELL (Heidelberg U.) Economic growth, education and AIDS in Kenya: a long-term analysis.
• Apr. 17. 17:00. Günter COENEN (ECB). Taxreform and labour-market performance in the Euro area: a simulation-based analysis using the New Area-Wide Model.
• Apr. 24. Jan Willem GUNNING (Free U. Amsterdam). Is aid effective? Assessing budget support with statistical impact evaluation.
• May. 8. Eric VERHOOGEN (Columbia). Class size and sorting in market equilibrium: theory and evidence.
• May. 15. Rocco MACCHIAVELLO (LSE). Competition, sorting and relational contracts: theory and evidence from Chilean wine exports to UK.
• May. 22. Martina BJORKMAN (Bocconi). Power to the people: evidence from a randomized field experiment of a community based monitoring project in Uganda.
• Jun. 8. Ashok RAI (Williams College). Cosigners help.