Florencio López-de-Silanes (CEPREMAP, DELTA, CERAS), The law and economics of self-dealing(joint with Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta and Andrei
Shleifer).
Edward Prescott (Arizona State University), Sweat
equity.
2003 - 2004
First Term
2 October 2003:
Robert Sauer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Educational
financing and lifetime earnings.
16 October 2003:
Eric Renault (University of Montreal), A
consumption CAPM with a reference level (joint with Rene Garcia
and Andrei Semenov).
23 October 2003:
Harald Uhlig (Humboldt University), Do productivity shocks
lead to a decline in labor?.
21 November 2003:
Patrick Bolton (Princeton University), Executive
compensation and short-termist behavior in speculative markets (joint with José Scheinkman and Wei Xiong).
27 November 2003:
Frank Verboven (Catholic University of Leuven), Liberalizing
a distribution system 2003: The european car market (joint with
Randy Brenkers).
Second Term
15 January 2004:
Ignacio Palacios-Huerta (Brown University), The
measurement of intellectual influence (joint with Oscar Volij).
29 January 2004:
Marco Ottaviani (London Business School), The
strategy of professional forecasting (joint with Peter Norman
Sorensen).
12 February 2004:
Gur Huberman (Columbia University), Investors equity exposure
and fund allocation.
4 March 2004:
Thierry Magnac (INRA and CREST-INSEE), Identification
and estimation in monotone binary models with discrete regressors
or interval data.
11 March 2004:
Ramón Casadesus-Masanell (Harvard Business School), Dynamic
mixed duopoly: A model motivated by Linux vs. Windows.
Third Term
22 April 2004:
Espen R. Moen (Norwegian School of Management), Equilibrium
incentive contracts and efficiency wages (joint with Csa Rosén).
29 April 2004:
John Moore (London School of Economics), Agreeing Now
to agree later: Contracts that rule out but do not rule in (joint with Oliver Hart).
13 May 2004:
Jordi Caballé (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Inflation,
tax evasion, and the distribution of consumption.
3 June 2004:
Albert Marcet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Overdifferencing
VAR's is OK.
17 June 2004:
Frank Vella (European University Institute), Identification
and estimation of the triangular simultaneous equations model in the
absence of exclusion restrictions through the presence of heteroskedasticity (joint with Roger Klein).
2002 - 2003
First Term
17 October 2002:
Matthew Shum (Johns Hopkins University), Nonparametric
tests for common values in First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions.
31 October 2002:
Luis Viceira (Harvard Business School), Foreign
currency for long-term investors (joint with J. Y. Campbell
and J. White).
14 November 2002:
Paolo Fulghieri (INSEAD & University of North Carolina),
The ownership and financing of innovation in R&D races.
21 November 2002:
Vincenzo Quadrini (Stern School of Business, NYU), Stock
Market Boom and the Productivity Gains of the 1990s (joint with
U. Jermann).
5 December 2002:
Lawrence Kotlikoff (Boston University), The
mismatch between life-insurance holdings and financial vulnerabilities:
Evidence from the health and retirement survey (joint with B.
D. Bernheim, L. Forni and J. Gokhale).
Second Term
16 January 2003:
Xavier Freixas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Interbank
market integration under asymmetric information (joint with
C. Holthausen).
30 January 2003:
Philippe Aghion (University College London), Appropriate
institutions and economic growth (joint with D. Acemoglu and
F. ZiIlibotti).
13 February 2003:
Jaume Ventura (CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and MIT), Bubbles
and capital flows.
27 February 2003:
Chris Phelan (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Opportunity
and social mobility.
20 March 2003:
John Leahy (New York University), The
absentminded consumer.
Third Term
3 April 2002:
Bertil Holmlund (Uppsala University),
Optimal
taxation in search equilibrium with home production (joint with
Per Engström and Ann-Sofie Kolm).
8 May 2002:
Harry J. Paarsch (University of Iowa), An
empirical model of multi-unit, sequential, oral, ascending-price auctions
(joint with Stephen G. Donald and Jacques Robert).
22 May 2002:
Jorgen Weibull (Boston University), Bertrand
competition with intertemporal demand (joint with Prajit Dutta
and Alexander Matros).
5 June 2002:
José Manuel Campa (IESE), Differences
in exchange rate pass-through in the Euro area (joint
with José M. González Mínguez).
19 June 2002:
Kjetil Storesletten (IIES and Stockholm University), The
macroeconomic implications of rising wage inequality in the US
(joint with Jonathan Heathcote and Giovanni Violante).
2001 - 2002
First Term
4 October 2001:
David Pérez-Castrillo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona),
The principal-agent matching market (joint with Kaniska Dam).
23 October 2001:
Eduardo Schwartz (UCLA), Patents and R&D as real options.
7 November 2001:
John Rust (University of Maryland), Middle men vs. market
makers: A theory of competitive exchange (joint with George Hall).
22 November 2001:
Richard Blundell (University College London), Semiparametric
Engel curves and revealed preference (joint with Martin Browning
and Ian Crawford).
28 November 2001:
Michael Reiter (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Stabilization
versus insurance (joint with Jim Costain).
Second Term
7 February 2002:
Olympia Bover (Banco de España), Are there economies of
scale in the demand for money by firms? Some panel data estimates
(joint with N. Watson)
21 February 2002:
John Ermisch (University of Essex), Single mothers
(joint with K. Burdett)
7 March 2002:
Adriana Kugler (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Protective or
counter-productive? Labor market institutions and the effect of immigration
on EU natives (joint with J. Angrist).
14 March 2002:
Eliana la Ferrara (IGIER, Università Bocconi), Preferences
for redistribution in the land of opportunities (joint with A.
Alesina).
Third Term
11 April 2002:
Isabel Horta Correia (Bank of Portugal and Catholic University
of Portugal), Consumption taxes and redistribution.
25 April 2002:
Andrés Erosa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona),
Fertility decisions and gender differences in labor turnover, employment,
and wages.
23 May 2002:
Chenggang Xu (London School of Economics), Law enforcement
under incomplete law: Theory and evidence from financial market regulation
(joint with K. Pistor).
30 May 2002:
Kenneth Singleton (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University),
Term structure dynamics in theory and reality.
10 September 2002:
Robert Townsend (University of Chicago), Evaluation of
financial systems .
2000 - 2001
First Term
18 September 2000:
Robert Townsend (University of Chicago), Firms as clubs
in WALRASIAN markets with private information.
5 October 2000:
Guido Cozzi (Cornell University and University of Rome "La
Sapienza"), Inventing or spying? Implications for Growth.
19 October 2000:
Sandro Brusco (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Collusion
via signalling in open ascending auctions with multiple objects and
complementarities (joint with Giuseppe Lopomo).
26 October 2000:
Diego Puga (University of Toronto), Nursery Cities: Urban
Diversity, Process Innovation, and the Life-Cycle of Products
(joint with Gilles Duranton).
16 November 2000:
Steve Pischke (London School of Economics), Unions and
the labor market for managers.
29 November 2000:
Etienne Wasmer (ECARE), Between group competition and the
rise in returns to skill: USA-France 1964-1997.
Second Term
17 January 2001:
Neil Shephard (Nuffield College), Econometric analysis
of realised volatility and its use in estimating Lévy based non-Gaussian
OU type stochastic volatility models (joint with Ole Barndorff-Nielsen).
1 February: 2001:
Steve Bond (Nuffield College and IFS), The dynamics of
investment under uncertainty (joint with Nick Bloom and John
Van Reenen).
22 February: 2001:
Luigi Guiso (Ente Luigi Einaudi), The role of social capital
in financial development (joint with Luigi Zingales and Paola
Sapienza).
13 March 2001:
Torsten Persson (Institute for Internatrional Economic Studies,
Stockholm), Do political institutions shape economic policy?.
Third Term
19 April 2001:
John Y. Campbell (Harvard University), A multivariate model
of strategic asset location (joint with Yeung Lewis Chan and
Luis Viceira).
3 May 2001:
Costas Meghir (University College London), Changes in
the distribution of male and female wages accounting for employment
composition.
10 May 2001:
Nour Meddahi (University of Montreal), Testing distributional
approach: A GMM approach (joint with Christian Bontemps).
31 May 2001:
Jerome Adda (University College London), Smoking and life
expectancy: Why are there gender and education differences.
7 June 2001:
Joel Horowitz (University of Iowa), Identification and
estimation with incomplete data (joint with Charles F. Manski).
20 June 2001:
Joshua Angrist (MIT), Vouchers for private schooling in
Colombia: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment.
1999 - 2000
First Term
:14 October 1999:
Fabio Canova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Monetary policy
misspecification in VAR models.
28 October 1999:
Gérard Roland (ECARE), An incomplete contracts approach
to corporate bankruptcy (joint with E. Berglof and E-Lu. von Thadden).
11 November 1999:
David de Meza (London School of Economics), Too many capitalists?.
Antonio Cabrales (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Estimating
learning models with experimental data (joint with Walter Garcia-Fontes).
Second Term
17 February 2000:
Ulrich Hege (Tilburg University), Trade credit chains and
liquidity supply (joint with Lorand Ambrus-Lakatos).
24 February 2000:
Thomas Bauer (IZA), Employer learning and the returns to
schooling.
2 March 2000:
Randam Dridi (London School of Economics), Simulated asymptotic
least squares theory.
16 March 2000:
Jan Van Ours (Tilburg University), Do active labor market
policies help unemployed workers to find and keep regular jobs?.
Third Term
13 April 2000:
Albert Ma (Boston University), Risk selection and matching
under performance-based contracting (joint with Mingshan Lu and
Lasheng Yuan).
27 April 2000:
Jean Marc Robin (INRA-LEA, Paris), An equilibrium job search
model for matched employer-employee data (joint with Fabien Postel-Vinay).
4 May 2000:
Francisco González (University of British Columbia),
An equilibrium explanation to large allocative errors in investment
markets (joint with Paul Beaudry).
1 June 2000:
Ian Domowitz (Pennsylvania State University), Screen information,
trader activity, and bid-ask spreads in a limit order market (joint
with Mark Coppejans).
8 June 2000:
Peter Schmidt (Michigan State University), A review and
empirical comparison of Bayesian and classical approaches to inference
on efficiency levels in stochastic frontier models with panel data
(joint with Yangseon Kim).
22 June 2000:
Lars Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics), How do
layoff costs affect employment?
1998 - 1999
First Term
8 October 1998:
Gilles Saint-Paul (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), The political
economy of firing costs.
22 october 1998:
Adrian Pagan (Australian National University), Knowing
the cycle.
12 November 1998:
Michael Keane (New York University), Consumption and income
inequality in Poland during the economic transition.
24 November 1998:
Juan Carrillo (ECARE, Brussels), Self control, moderate
consumption and craving.
3 December 1998:
Klaus Schmidt (University of Munich), Sequential investments
and options to own.
Second Term
13 January 1999:
Oved Yosha (Berglas School of Economics), Risk sharing
and industrial specialization: Regional and international evidence.
18 February 1999:
Arnoud Boot (Amsterdam University), Expansion of banking
scale and scope: Don't banks know the value of focus?
25 February 1999:
François Ortalo-Magné (LSE), Housing-market
fluctuations in a life-cycle economy with credit constraints.
23 March 1999:
Guillermo Calvo (University of Maryland), El debate sobre
la dolarización.
Third Term
15 April 1999:
Jan Eeckhout (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Inequality.
28 April 1999:
Antonio Ciccone (UCB and UPF), Capital and growth: Theory
and evidence from US cities.
20 May 1999:
Miquel Faig (University of Toronto), The portfolio of quasi-moneys.
27 May 1999:
Andrea Ichino (EUI, Florencia), Group interactions
and individual background. Explaining regional shirking differentials
in a large Italian firm.
3 June 1999:
Mark Armstrong (Nuffield College, Oxford), Competitive
price discrimination (joint with John Vickers).
9 June 1999:
Richard Kihlstrom (Wharton University), Monopoly power
in dynamic securities markets.
1997 - 1998
First Term
16 October 1997:
Jeffrey Miron (Boston University and IDEI, Toulouse), The
effect of alcohol prohibition on alcohol consumption.
23 October 1997:
Neil Shephard (Oxford University), Filtering via simulation
based on auxiliary particle filters.
6 November 1997:
Hyun Song Shin (Oxford University), Asset pricing with
disclosures.
13 November 1997:
Bo Honoré (Princeton University and University of Copenhangen),
Pairwise difference estimators for non-linear models.
4 December 1997:
Martin Cripps (University of Warwick), Repeated extensive
form games with incomplete information.
Second Term
15 January 1998:
Ana Isabel Fernández (Universidad de Oviedo), El
papel supervisor del consejo de administración sobre la actuación
gerencial.
29 January 1998:
Harry Huizinga (Tilburg University), The taxation of domestic
and foreign banking.
12 February 1998:
Tullio Jappelli (Princeton University), Money demand,
financial innovation and the welfare cost of inflation.
26 February 1998:
Jean-Marc Robin (INRA and CREST), Equilibrium search with
decreasing returns to scale, hiring costs and endogenous firm's capital
heterogeneity.
12 March 1998:
Martin Peitz (Universidad de Alicante), Intermediation
can replace certification.
Third Term
16 April 1998:
Isabelle Brocas (ECARE, Bruselas), Designing auctions in
R&D: Optimallicensing of an innovation.
30 April 1998:
Pierre Regibeau (IAE, Barcelona), A multi-task principal
agent approach toorganizational form.
14 May 1998:
Jean Charles Rochet (IDEI, Toulouse), Competing mechanisms
in a commonvalue environment.
21 May 1998:
Santiago Carrillo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Métodos de replicación estática para valoración y cobertura de opciones barrera.
4 June 1998:
Russell Cooper (Boston University), On the gains to monetary
union.
11 June 1998:
Jaume Ventura (MIT, Boston), Business cycles in three models
of internationaltrade.
