Economics seminars 2008-2009
Winter
- Feb 10 - Flore Gubert (DIAL – Paris) - Migration, Self-selection and Returns to Education in the WAEMU
- Feb 17 - Paul Belleflamme (CORE - UCL) - Intermediation and Invesment Incentives
- Feb. 24 - Kurt Schmidheiny (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials?
- March 9, 2009 (14h00 - 18h00) PAI-UAP Workshop on Public Economics : Political Economy of Reforms and Labor Market Institutions ?
14h00 - 15h00 - Gille Saint Paul (Toulouse School of Economics) - The Role of Beliefs and Ideologies in the Political Economy of Reforms
15h00 - 16h00 - Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi University) - The Euro and Structural Reforms ? (Joint with Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna)
16h00 - 16h30 - Coffee break
16h30-17h30 - Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics) - Public Employment and Political Pressure: The Case of French Hospitals ? (Joint with Carine Milcent)
- March 10 - Nelly Exbrayat (WZB - Berlin) - How Labour market rigidities shape business taxation ?
- March 17 - Elise Huillery (Paris School of Economics) - The Impact of European Settlement within French West Africa : Did pre-colonial prosperous areas fall behind ?
- March 24 - Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto - Turin) - Everybody Stay Cool, This Is a Robbery ! Evidence on Deterrence Effects from Instantaneous Tradeoffs During Bank Robberies
Spring
- April 21 - Esteban Jaimovich (Collegio Carlo Alberto - Turin) - Private Sector Growding out Through Excessive Public Sector Employment
- April 28 - Paul De Grauwe (KU Leuven) - Animal Spirits and Monetary Policy
- May 5 - Stephane Straub (Université de Toulouse) - "La Patria Contratista": Public procurement and Rent-Seeking in Paraguay
- May 12 - Milo Bianchi (Paris School of Economics) - Financial Development, Enterpreneurship, and Job Satisfaction
- June, 15: 16:30-18:00 - Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School) - "Measuring Discrimination in Education ?"
- June, 16 : 17:00-18:30 - Berk Özler (World Bank) - "Designing cost-effective cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa?"
Fall
- Oct. 7 - 16h30 - Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University) - The consequence of going to a better school
- Oct. 7 - 12h45 - John Wallis (University of Maryland) - Violence and Social Order"
- Oct. 21 - Klaus Desmet (Universidad Carlos III) - The Evolution of Markets and the Revolution of Industry
- Oct. 28 - Carlo Rosa - (CORE - UCL) - Talking Less and Moving the Market More: Is this the Recipe for Monetary Policy Effectiveness? Evidence from the ECB and the Fed
- Nov. 4 - Hanan Jacoby (The World Bank) - Bride Exchange and Women's Welfare in Rural Pakistan?
- Nov. 18 - David McKenzie (The World Bank) - Are Women More Credit Constrained ? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns
- Nov. 25 - Olivier Gergaud (Université de Paris 1 et Université de Reims) - "Strategic Forecasting in Rank-Order Tournaments: Evidence from Horse-Racing Tipsters"
- Dec. 09 - Johannes Muenster (WZB in Berlin) - Long Live the King? On Dictatorship and Development
- Dec. 16 - Catherine Dehon (ULB - ECARES - CKE) - Quantifying Academic Excellence, What do the Shanghai Ranking Measure? (Paper : joint with Alice McCathie and Vincenzo Verardi)
