CEMFI
 

 

 





 

2008-20092007-20082006-20072005-20062004-20052003-20042002-2003 2001-2002 2000-2001 1999-2000 1998-1999

2008 - 2009

First term

18 September 2008:

William Fuchs (University of Chicago), The market for advice (joint with Luis Garicano).

25 September 2008:

Antonio Díez de Los Ríos (BBVA), McCallum rules, exchange rates and the term structure of interest rates.

6 October 2008:

Philippe Gagnepain (UC3M), Contract choice, incentives, and political capture in public transit.

20 October 2008:

Sofia Bauducco (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Seigniorage and distortionary taxation in a heterogeneous agent model.

   

Second term

12 January 2009:

Santiago Carbó (Universidad de Granada), Exploiting old customers and attracting new ones: the case of bank deposit pricing (joint with Timothy H. Hannan & Francisco Rodriguez-Fernandez).

16 January 2009:

Antonio Miralles (Boston University ), School choice: The case for the Boston mechanism .

19 January 2009:

Athanasios Geromichalos (University of Pennsylvania), Directed search and optimal production.

20 January 2009:

Péter Kondor (Central European University), Fund managers, career concerns and asset price volatility (joint with Veronica Guerrieri).

23 January 2009:

Tamas Papp (Princeton University), Explaining frictional wage dispersion.

26 January 2009:

Matthias Parey (University College London), Vocational schooling versus apprenticeship training -evidence from vacancy data-.

27 January 2009:

Dino Palazzo (New York University), Firm’s cash holdings and the cross–section of equity returns .

28 January 2009:

James Berry (MIT), Control in education decisions: An evaluation of targeted incentives to learn in India.

29 January 2009:

Dante Amengual (Princeton University), The term structure of variance risk premia.

30 January 2009:

Maria Cecilia Bustamante (University of Lausanne), What do frictions mean for Q-theory testing?.

2 February 2009:

Marco González-Navarro (Princeton University), Deterrence and geographical externalities in auto theft.

3 February 2009:

Tor-Erik Bakke (University of Wisconin-Madison), How does finance affect growth? evidence from a natural experiment in Venezuela.

4 February 2009:

Leandro S. Carvalho (Princeton University), Poverty and time preferences.

5 February 2009:

Ken Wilbur (Marshall School of Business, USC), Multiproduct pricing, advertising, and capacity on the high seas: A structural model of cruise supply and demand (joint with Dinesh K. Gauri and Mingyu Joo).

9 February 2009:

Emilio Calvano (Harvard University), Pricing payment cards.

10 February 2009:

Bulent Guler (The University of Texas at Austin), Innovations in information technology and the mortgage market.

12 February 2009:

David Dorn (Boston University), Price and prejudice: The interaction between preferences and incentives in the dynamics of racial segregation.

13 February 2009:

Ufuk Akcigit (MIT), Firm size, innovation dynamics and growth.

25 February 2009:

Jos van Bommel (Said Business School, University of Oxford), Endless leverage certificates (joint with Silvia Rossetto).

3 March 2009:

Diego Puga (IMDEA), The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection (joint with Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon y Sébastien Roux).

11 March 2009:

Hassan Naqvi (NUS), A theory of bank liquidity and risk-taking over the business cycle (joint with Viral Acharya).

   

Third term

21 April 2009:

Jon Danielsson (LSE), Risk appetite and endogenous risk (joint with Hyun Shin and Jean-Pierre Zigrand).

28 April 2009:

Stefano Gagliarducci (CEMFI), Do better-paid politicians perform better? Disentangling incentives from selection (joint with Tommaso Nannicini).

12 May 2009:

Gara M. Afonso (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Liquidity and congestion.

16 June 2009:

Ignacio Esponda (NYU Stern), Information aggregation, learning, and non-strategic behavior in voting environments (joint with Demian Pouzo).

29 June 2009:

Jens Hilscher (Brandeis University), Credit ratings and credit risk (joint with Mungo Wilson).

6 July 2009:

Fernando Zapatero (Marshall School of Business), Rational bias and herding in analysts' recommendations (joint with Min S. King).

2007 - 2008

First term

16 October 2007:

Ricardo Gimeno (Banco de España), Uncertainty and the price of risk in a nominal convergence process.

26 November 2007:

Doh-Shin Jeon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Interconnection among academic journal platforms: Multilateral versus bilateral interconnection (joint with Domenico Menicucci).

27 November 2007:

Alicia Menendez (University of Chicago), Sex differences in obesity rates in poor countries: Evidence from South Africa.

   

Second term

16 January 2008:

Ander Perez (London School of Economics), Firms’ self-insurance and the financial accelerator.

22 January 2008:

Blaise Melly (University of St. Gallen), Unconditional quantile treatment effects under endogeneity.

23 January 2008:

Doriana Ruffino (Boston University), On the effects of individual labor-flexibility on rational portfolio allocation: Making a case for businessman risk and employer stock ownership .

25 January 2008:

Christoph Winter (European University Institute), Accounting for the changing role of family income in determining college entry .

28 January 2008:

Nico Voigtlaender (University of California, Berkeley), Many sectors meet more skills: Intersectoral linkages and the skill bias of technology.

4 February 2008:

Pablo D'Erasmo (University of Texas at Austin), Government reputation and debt repayment in emerging economies .

6 February 2008:

CANCELLED Juan Pantano (University of California, Los Angeles), On Scarlet letters and clean slates: Criminal records policy in a dynamic model of human capital accumulation and criminal behavior .

8 February 2008:

Georg Strasser (University of Pennsylvania), The efficiency of the global market for consumption goods and productive capability .

12 March 2008:

CANCELLED Marc Möller (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ), Competition amongst contests (joint with Ghazala Azmat).

   

Third term

3 April 2008:

Ghazala Azmat (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), The incidence of an earned income tax credit: Evaluating the impact on wages in the UK.

7 May 2008:

Daniele Paserman (Boston University), Gender differences in cooperative environments: Evidence from the duration in office of Italian Mayors (joint with Stefano Gagliarducci).

12 May 2008:

Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton University), Strategic redistricting (joint with Faruk Gul).

26 May 2008:

Silvio Rendon (Stony Brook University), International job search: Mexicans in and out of the U.S. (joint with Alfredo Cuecuecha).

12 June 2008:

Francisco Peñaranda (UPF), Understanding portfolio efficiency with conditioning information.

24 July 2008:

Javier Mencía (Banco de España), Assessing the risk, return and efficiency of banks’ loans portfolios.

2006 - 2007

First term

12 September 2006:

Michael Burda (Humboldt University of Berlin), Blue laws.

19 September 2006:

Larry Wall (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), When target CEOs contract with acquirers: Evidence from bank M&A.

23 October 2006:

Rubén Hernández-Murillo (Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis), Asymmetric effects of the beige book language (joint with Michelle T. Armesto, Michael T. Owyang and Jeremy Piger).

25 October 2006:

Oscar Jordá (Universirty of California, Davis ), Projection minimum distance: An estimator for dynamic macroeconomic models (joint with Sharon Kozicki).

27 November 2006:

Juan Francisco Jimeno (Banco de España), House prices and employment reallocation: International evidence (joint with Olympia Bover).

14 December 2006:

Alfredo Martín-Oliver (Banco de España), The contribution of material and inmaterial assets to output and value of bank services (joint with Vicente Salas Fumás).

   

Second term

30 January 2007:

Stefano Gagliarducci (CEMFI/Boston University), Outside income and moral hazard: the elusive quest for good politicians (joint with Tommaso Nannicini and Paolo Naticchioni).

20 February 2007:

José Manuel Peres Jorge (Faculdade de Economia do Porto), The role of interbank markets in monetary policy: A model with rationing (joint with Xavier Freixas).

21 February 2007:

Marco Manacorda (CEP), Grade failure, drop out and subsequent school outcomes: Quasi-experimental evidence from Uruguayan administrative data.

12 March 2007:

Zacharias Sautner (University of Amsterdam), Corporate governance and the design of stock option programs (joint with Martin Weber).

   

Third term

3 May 2007:

Roberto Serrano (Brown University), An economic index of riskiness (joint with Robert J. Aumann).

14 May 2007:

Nour Meddahi (Imperial College), Generalized affine models (joint with Bruno Feunon ).

15 June 2007:

Iván Fernández-Val (Boston University), Quantile regression without crossing (joint with Victor Chernozhukov and Alfred Galichon).

20 June 2007:

Beatriz Mariano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), A model of the rating agencies industry.

28 June 2007:

Tommaso Nannicini (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ), Electoral rules and politicians' behavior: A micro test (joint with Stefano Gagliarducci).

23 July 2007:

Fernando Zapatero (Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California), Optimal risk taking with flexible income (joint with Jaksa Cvitanic and Levon Goukasian).

2005 - 2006

First  Term

 

4 October 2005:

Luis J. Álvarez and Ignacio Hernando (Banco de España), Price setting behaviour in the euro area: New evidence from micro data.

23 November 2005:

David P. Brown (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Idionsyncratic volatility of small public firms and entrepreneurial risk (joint with Miguel A. Ferreira).

24 November 2005:

Antonio Díez de los Ríos (Bank of Canada), Assessing and valuing the nonlinear structure of hedge funds returns (joint with René García ).

30 November 2005:

Carlos Maravall (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), A spatial election with common values.

5 December 2005:

Javier Díaz-Giménez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Flat tax reforms in the U.S.: A Boon for the income poor (joint with Josep Pijoan-Mas).

   

Second  Term

 

6 February 2006:

Genaro Sucarrat (CORE-UCL), General to specific modelling of exchange rate volatility: A forecast evaluation (joint with Luc Bauwens).

28 March 2006:

Martin Browning (University of Copenhagen), Revealed preference analysis of characteristics models.

30 March 2006:

Marco Da Rin (Università di Torino), The importance of trust for investment: Evidence from centure capital.

   

Third  Term

 

25 April 2006:

Edward S. Prescott (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Government supervision of banks using market prices.

26 April 2006:

Ignacio Lobato (ITAM y Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Inference in nonlinear econometric models.

22 May 2006:

Heski Bar-Isaac (New York University), Human capital and information management.

23 May 2006:

María Guadalupe (Columbia University), The impact of product market competition on private benefits of control (joint with Francisco Pérez-González).

1 June 2006:

George Tauchen (University of Duke), A discrete-time model for daily S&P500 returns and realized ariations: Jumps and leverage effects.

5 June 2006:

Stefano Gagliarducci (Boston University), The dynamics of repeated temporary jobs.

7 June 2006:

Tommaso Nannicini (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), From temporary help jobs to permanent employment: What can we learn from matching estimators and their sensitivity?

21 June 2006:

Francisco Peñaranda (Universidad de Alicante), Quantitative analysis of return dynamics under coordination risk.

26 June 2006:

Liran Einav (Stanford University), Estimating risk preferences from deductible choice (joint with Alma Cohen).

14 July 2006:

Fernando Zapatero (Marshall School of Business University of Southern California ), Analytic pricing of employee stock options.

2004 - 2005

First  Term

 

20 October 2004:

David Dowe (Monash University), Minimum message length (MML) as a universal inference method.

25 October 2004:        

Edward Altman (New York University), Current credit conditions and the informational efficiency of loans versus bond prices.

27 October 2004:

Luis Garicano (University of Chicago), Outsourcing in a knowledge economy (joint with Pol Antras and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg).

10 November 2004:

Juanjo Ganuza (UPF), Allocating ideas: Horizontal competition in tournaments (joint with Esther Hauk).

24 november 2004:

Pedro Rey (UCL), Inequety aversion and team incentives.

25 november 2004:

Manuel Arellano (CEMFI), Robust likelihood estimation of dynamic panel data models (joint with Javier Alvárez).

   

Second  Term

 

11 January 2005:

Stéphane Bonhomme (Université de Paris I), The pervasive absence of compensating differentials (joint with Gregory Jolivet).

18 January 2005:

Max Bruche (London School of Economics), Estimating structural models of corporate bond prices.

24 January 2005:

Áureo de Paula (Princeton University), Inference in a synchronization game with social interactions.

31 January 2005:

Paola Zerilli (Boston College), Option pricing when the underlying stock price belongs to the class of exponential levy processes: Theoretical and empirical analysis.

2 February 2005:

Elena Martínez-Sanchís (UCL), Identification and estimation of GMM models by a combination of two data sets (joint with Hidehiko Ichimura).

3 February 2005:

Davide Pettenuzzo (Università Bocconi), Optimal asset allocation under structural breaks (joint with Allan Timmermann).

4 February 2005:

Yuriy Kitsul (University of Carolina del Norte - Chapel Hill), A semi-nonparametric model of the pricing KERNEL and term structure of interest rates.

8 February 2005:

William Fuchs (Stanford Graduate School of Business), Contracting with repeated moral hazard and private evaluations.

10 February 2005:

Elena Pastorino (University of Pennsylvania), Career dynamics under uncertainty: Estimating the value of firm experimentation.

14 February 2005:

Iván Fernández-Val (MIT), Estimation of structural parameters and marginal effects in binary choice panel data models with fixed effects.

17 February 2005:

Roberto Serrano (Brown University), Market power and information revelation in dynamic trading.

   

Third  Term

 

5 April 2005:

Jinyong Hahn (UCLA), Bias reduction for dynamic nonlinear panel models with fixed effects (joint with Guido M. Kuersteiner) .

7 April 2005:

Juanjo Ganuza (UPF) , Optimal realistic standards: The hidden cost of regulatory harmonization (joint with Fernando Gomez) .

5 May 2005:

Martin K. Perry (Rutgers University), Pricing of free unit plans.

6 May 2005:

Federico Ravenna (Banco de España), VAR representation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models.

31 May 2005:

Jesús Carro (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Heterogeneity in dynamic discrete choice models (joint with Martin Browning).

8 June 2005:

Raquel Lago (Banco de España), Market power and bank interest rate adjustments (joint with Vicente Salas).

15 July 2005:

Fernando Zapatero (Marshall School of Business), Stock options with unknown executive type (joint with Abel Cadenillas and Jaksa Cvitanic).

2003 - 2004

First  Term

 

1 October 2003:

Robert Sauer (Hebrew University), A computationally practical simulation estimation algorithm for dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables.

9 October 2003:

Vicente Cuñat (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Executive compensation and product market competition.

22 October 2003:

Jesús Saurina (Banco de España), Determinants of collateral.

26 November 2003:

Eduardo Ley (International Monetary Fund), Statistical inference as a bargaining game.

17 December 2003:

Jesús Santos (Columbia Business School), The demand for coordination.

18 December 2003:

Luis Rayo (University of Chicago), On the foundations of happiness.

   

Second  Term

 

7 January 2004:  

Diego Puga (University of Toronto), Knowledge creation and control in organizations, (joint with Daniel Trefler).

16 January 2004:  

Paul Ehling (University of Lausanne and FAME), Explaining the persistence of portfolio flows.

19 January 2004:  

Richard Luger (Bank of Canada), Pricing and hedging options with implied asset prices and volatilities, (joint with René García and Eric Renault).

20 January 2004:  

Alfredo Ibáñez (ITAM), Option pricing in incomplete markets: A hedging portfolio plus a risk premium-based recursive approach.

22 January 2004:  

Francisco Javier Buera (University of Chicago), A dynamic model of entrepreneurship with borrowing constraints.

23 January 2004:  

Juan Pedro Gómez (Norvegian School of Management and Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Keeping up with the Joneses: An international asset pricing model, (joint with Richard Priestly and Fernando Zapatero).

30 January 2004:  

Günter Strobl (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Infomation asymmetry, price momentum, and the disposition effect.

9 February 2004:

Pierre-Olivier Weill (Stanford University), Leaning against the Wind.
CANCELLED

10 February 2004:

Edward S. Prescott (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), State-contingent bank regulation with unobserved action and unobserved characteristics.

2 March 2004:

Michael Manove (Boston University), Labor market discrimination with a continuum of types: Will ugly workers earn less?

10 March 2004:

Antonio Mello (School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison), Hedging and product market decisions.

23 March 2004:

Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), Estimating nonlinear dynamic equilibrium economies: A likelihood approach, (joint with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde).

   

Third  Term

 

6 May 2004:  

Alfredo Martín Oliver (Banco de Espańa), Interest rate dispersion in deposit and loan markets, (joint with Vicente Salas and Jesús Saurina).

14 May 2004:

Ángel Hernando-Veciana (Universidad de Alicante and ELSE-UCL, London), The insider's curse, (joint with Michael Tröge).

19 May 2004:

Silvio Rendón (The University of Western Ontario), Family Job Search and Consumption.

24 May 2004:

Matilde Machado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Market power and vertical integration in the Spanish electricity market, (joint with Kai-Uwe Kühn).

28 May 2004:

Peter Carr (New York University), Static hedging of standard options, (joint with Liuren Wu).

31 May 2004:

Daniel Ackerberg (University of Arizona), Structural identification of production functions, (joint with Kevin Caves).

5 July 2004:

Eugenio J. Miravete (University of Pennsylvania), Are all those calling plans really necessary? The limited gains from complex tariffs.

12 July 2004:

Fernando Zapatero (Marshall School of Business), Optimal active management fees, (joint with Jaksa Cvitani and Lionel Martellini).

13 July 2004:

Paloma López (Banco de España), Labour market performance and start-up costs: OECD evidence.

 

 

 

2002 - 2003

First  Term

 

23 October 2002:

Steve Satchell (University of Cambridge), The asset allocation decision in a loss aversion world.

27 November2002:

Alejandro Cuñat (London School of Economics), Neoclassical growth and commodity trade, )joint with Marco Maffezzoli).

16 December 2002:

Eva Cárceles-Poveda (Stony Brook University), Capital ownership under market incompleteness: Does it matter?

   

Second  Term

 

12 February 2003:

Ana Lozano-Vivas (Universidad de Málaga), Multistrategic spatial competition with application to banking, (joint with Moshe Kim and Antonio Morales).

6 March 2003:

Edward S. Prescott (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Mechanism design and assignment models, (joint with Robert M. Townsend).

14 March 2003:

Diego Comín (New York University), Medium term business cycles, (joint with Mark Gertler).

18 March 2003:

John C. Ham (Ohio State University), Matching and selection estimates of the effect of migration on wages for young men, (joint with Xianghong Li and Patricia B. Reagan).

   

Third  Term

 

8 April 2003:

Céline Nauges (LEERNA-INRA, University of Toulouse), Unit roots and identification in autoregressive panel data models: A comparison of alternative tests, (joint with Stephen Bond and Frank Windmeijer).

9 April 2003:

Alban Thomas (LEERNA-INRA, University of Toulouse), Threshold effects for linear panel data models with measurement errors, (joint with Céline Nauges).

5 May 2003:

Guillaume Plantin (FMG, London School of Economics), Self-fulfilling liquidity and the coordination premium.

20 June 2003:

Arantxa Jarque (University of Rochester), Repeated moral hazard with effort persistence.

25 June 2003:

Liran Einav (Stanford University), Not all rivals look alike: Estimaitng an equilibrium modle of the release date timing game.

16 July 2003:

Fernando Zapatero (Marshall School of Business, USC), Optimal dividend policy with mean-reverting cash reservoir, (joint with Abel Cadenillas and Sudipto Sarkar).

3 September 2003:

Andrés Almazán (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas), A theory of location choice and the creation and utilization of human capital.

25 September 2003:

Eric Ghysels (University of North Carolina), Predicting volatility: Getting the most out of return data sampled at different frequencies.

30 September 2003:

Martín González-Eiras (Universidad de San Andrés and IIES), Banks' liquidity demand in the presence of a lender of last resort.

 

 

2001 - 2002

First  Term

 

11 October 2001:

Manuel Arellano (CEMFI), Modelling optimal instrumental variables for panel data models.

8 November 2001:

Deborah Minehart (University of Maryland), Specific investments and vertical foreclosure (joint with Rachel Kranton).

20 November 2001:

Tiemen Woutersen (University of Western Ontario), Estimating discrete choice models with fixed effects and general predetermined variables.

12 December 2001:

Erik Heitfield (Federal Reserve Board), Monitoring, moral hazard, and market power: A model of bank lending (joint with Daniel Covitz).

17 December 2001:

Elena Zoido (Harvard University), Building local empires? Managerial discretion in the supermarket industry.

18 December 2001:

Guillermo Caruana (Boston University), A theory of endogenous commitment (joint with Liran Einav).

   

Second  Term

 

9 January 2002:

Esther Ruiz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Why is GARCH more persistent and conditionally leptokurtic than stochastic volatility? (joint with M. A. Carnero and D. Peña).

17 January 2002:

Clara Vega (University of Pennsylvania), Private information trading and stock market's reaction to earnings announcements.

18 January 2002:

Josep Pijoan-Mas (University College London), Pricing risk in economies with heterogenous agents and incomplete markets.

21 January 2002:

Enrique Schroth (New York University), Innovation, first-mover advantages and differentiation in the market for corporate underwriting: Evidence in new issues of equity linked securities.

25 January 2002:

Branco Urosevic (Haas School of Business), Optimal trading by “Large Shareholders”.

31 January 2002:

Steffen Reichold (Columbia University), New economy and productivity slowdown: Can learning about rate regime shifts explain aggregate stock market behavior?

11 March 2002:

Juan Francisco Jimeno (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares and FEDEA), Incentivos y desigualdad en el sistema español de pensiones contributivas de jubilación.

   

Third  Term

 

5 April 2002:

Joseph G. Altonji (Northwestern University), Panel data estimators for nonseparable models with endofenous regressors.

8 April 2002:

Rafael Repullo (CEMFI), Capital requirements, market power, and risk-taking in banking.

23 April 2002:

Luca Deidda (SOAS), Financial expertise and growth effects of financial liberalisation.

24 April 2002:

Carlos Trucharte (Banco de España), Pro-cyclical effects on capital requirements: Empirical evidence from a rating system (joint with A. Marcelo).

22 May 2002:

Eugenio Miravete (University of Pennsylvania), A structural model of nonlinear pricing competition: The early US cellular telephone industry (joint with Lars-Hendrik Roller).

27 May 2002:

Eugenio Miravete (University of Pennsylvania), The formation of time consistent preferences (joint with Ignacio Palacios Huerta).

3 June 2002:

John Krizan (Bureau of the Census), The link between aggregate and micro productivity growth: Evidence from retail trade (joint with Lucia Foster and John Haltiwanger).

12 June 2002:

Luca Deidda (CRENOS), Welfare effects of financial innovation (joint with Michael Manove).

14 June 2002:

Gabriel Jiménez (Banco de España), Modelización de la probabilidad de incumplimiento (PD) de las operaciones crediticias utilizando información exclusivamente de la Central de Información de Riesgos (joint with Jesús Saurina) .

19 June 2002:

Eric Renault (Université de Montreal), Minimum chi-square estimation with conditional moment restrictions (joint with Hélène Bonnal).

25 June 2002:

Paolo Marullo (Banca d'Italia), The new capital accord and the financing of the corporate sector in Italy.

16 July 2002:

Fernando Zapatero (University of Southern California), Revisiting Treynor and Black: An intertemporal model of active portfolio management (joint Jaksa Civitanic, Ali Lazrak and Lionel Martellini).

 

 

2000 - 2001

First  Term

 

 26 September 2000:

Pedro Pereira (Universidad Complutense), Electronic commerce, consumer search and cost reduction, (joint with Cristina Mazón).

16 October 2000:

Frank Windmeijer (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Finite sample inference for GMM in linear panel data models.

2 November 2000:

Hidehiko Ichimura (University College London), Direct estimation of policy impacts (joint with Christopher Taber).

23 November 2000:

Myoung-jae Lee (University of Tsukuba), Orthant dependence to bound regression functions in sample-selection models: Could Dole have won?

   

Second  Term

 

8 January 2001:

Sergio Rebelo (Kellogg Graduate School of Management), Distribution costs and real exchange rate dynamics during exchange-rate-based stabilizations.

16 January 2001:

Ane Tamayo (University of Rochester), Stock return predictability, conditional asset pricing models and portfolio selection.

18 January 2001:

Andrea Caggese (London School of Economics), Financing constraints, irreversibility, and firm dynamics: Theory and empirical evidence.

22 January 2001:

Evi Pappa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Should the ECB and the FED cooperate? Optimal monetary policy in a two-country world.

29 January 2001:

Andrew Ellul (London School of Economics), The market maker rides again: Volatility and order flow dynamics in a hybrid market.

12 February 2001:

Claudia Olivetti (University of Pennsylvania), Changes in women's hours of market work: The effect of changing returns to experience.

13 February 2001:

Jean-Etienne de Betignies (Chicago University), Product market competition and the allocation of property rights between investors and entrepreneurs.

14 February 2001:

Davide Lombardo (Stanford University), Is there a cost to poor institutions?

16 February 2001:

Alexander Mürmann (London School of Economics), Pricing catastrophe insurance derivates.

21 February 2001:

Rafael Repullo (CEMFI), Why did banks overbid? An empirical model of the fixed rate tenders of the eEropean Central Bank (joint with Juan Ayuso).

26 February 2001:

Javier Álvarez (Universidad de Alicante), Modelling income processes with lots of heterogenity (joint with Martin Browning and Mette Ejrnaes).

14 March 2001:

Giorgio Topa (New York University), An empirical analysis of religious homogamy and socialization in the US (joint with Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier).

   

Third  Term

 

17 April 2001:

Hsueh-Ling Huynh (Boston University), How to take an exam if you must: Decision under deadline (joint with Sumon Majumdar).

23 April 2001:

Matilde Machado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), A consistent estimator for the binomial distribution in the presence of “Incidental Parameters”.

8 May 2001:

Tuomas Valimaki (Bank of Finland), Fixed rate tenders and the overnight money market equilibrium.

9 May 2001:

Juan M. Rodríguez Poo (Universidad de Cantabria), Intraday seasonality and news impact on ultra high frequency data (joint with Antoni Espasa and David Veredas).

14 May 2001:

Jesús Santos (University of Chicago), Referrals (joint with Luis Garicano).

15 May 2001:

Kenneth Binmore (University College London), How and why did fairness norms evolve.

23 May 2001:

José Víctor Ríos-Rull (University of Pennsylvania), Why the US taxes capital more than Europe? (joint with Paul Klein and Vincenzo Quadrini).

4 June 2001:

Charu G. Raheja (Stern School - NYU), The interaction of insiders and outsiders in monitoring: A theory of corporate boards.

5 June 2001:

Bob Rosenthal (Boston University), Three-object two-bidder simultaneous auctions: Chopsticks and tetrahedra (joint with Balazs Szentes).

13 June 2001:

Issam Hallak (University of Oxford), The determinants of up-front fees on bank loans to LDC sovereigns.

22 June 2001:

Víctor Aguirregabiria (Boston University), Sequential estimation of dynamic discrete games: A model of banks' entry and location decisions.

10 July 2001:

Ildefonso Méndez (Universidad de Murcia), Labour supply, sample selection and wage discrimination.

17 July 2001:

Fernando Zapatero (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), Executive stock options with effort disutility and choice of volatility (joint with Abel Cadenillas and Jaksa Cvitanic).

6 September 2001:

Tano Santos (University of Chicago), Labor income and predictable stock returns.

11 September 2001:

Francisco Villarreal (University of Warwick), On the coexistence of gross and net payment systems.

   

 

1999 - 2000

First  Term

 

21 September 1999:

Pierre-André Chiappori (University of Chicago), Testing for asymmetric information in insurance markets (joint with Bernard Salanié).

18 October 1999:

Rebeca de Juan (Fundación Empresa Pública), The independent submarkets model: An application to the Spanish retail banking market.

21 October 1999:

Roger E.A. Farmer (European University Institute), The monetary transmission mechanism (joint with Jess Benhabib).

26 October 1999:

Mette Ejrnaes (Institute of Economics, University of Copenhagen), Consumption and children (joint with Martin Browning).

27 October 1999:

Diego Moreno (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Prices, delay and the dynamics of trade (joint with John Wooders).

4 November 1999:

Javier Mato (Universidad de Oviedo), La estimación de los efectos sobre el empleo de los programas de formación de desempleados: Un ejercicio cuasi-experimental.

10 November 1999:

Javier Suárez (CEMFI), Business creation, the stock market, and the recycling of informed capital (joint with Claudio Michelacci).

23 November 1999:

Enrique Sentana (CEMFI), Factor representing portfolios in large asset markets.

10 December 1999:

Samuel Bentolila (CEMFI), Will EMU increase eurosclerosis?

13 December 1999:

Timothy Van Zandt (INSEAD), Robustness of adaptive expectations as an equilibrium selection device (joint with Martin Lettau).

14 December 1999:

Rafael Repullo (CEMFI), Foreign bank ownership: A supervisory perspective.

21 December:1999

Ana Fernandes (CEMFI), Altruism with edogenous labor supply.

 

 

Second  Term

 

18 January 2000:

Diego García (University of California, Berkeley), Incomplete contracts in investment models.

21 January 2000:

Laura Valderrama (London School of Economics), Cooperatives versus outside ownership in a model of dynamic voting.

24 January 2000:

Massimo Guidolin (University of California, San Diego), Implied learning paths from option prices.

3 February 2000:

Gerard Llobet (University of Rochester), Rewarding sequential innovators: Prizes, patents and buyouts (joint with Hugo Hopenhayn and Mathew Mitchell).

16 February 2000:

Juan J. Dolado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Long range dependence in Spanish political opinion poll series.

22 February 2000:

Giovanna Nicodano (Universita degli Studi di Torino), Internal capital markets in business groups.

27 March 2000:

Jens Larsen (Bank of England), Efficiency wages, matching and unemployment - An analysis for four OECD countries.

30 March 2000:

Narayana Kocherlakota (University of Minnesota and Federal Bank of Minneapolis), Endogenous illiquidity: Optimal co-existence of money and nominal bonds.

   

Third  Term

 

17 May 2000:

Antonio J. Morales (Universidad de Málaga), Equilibrium properties of reinforcement learning by imitation.

22 May 2000:

Masako Ueda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Optimal project rejection and new firm start up.

7 June 2000:

Robert Marquez (University of Maryland), Flight to quality or to captivity? Information and credit allocation (joint with Giovanni Dell'Ariccia).

11 June 2000:

Margarida Catalão (Banco de Portugal), Stable mergers and cartels involving asymmetric firms.

21 July 2000:

Fernando Zapatero (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), Monte Carlo computation of optimal portfolios in complete markets (joint with Jaksa Cvitanic and Levon Goukasian).

   

1998 - 1999

First  Term

 

30 October 1998:

Ricardo Lagos (London School of Economics), What shifts the beveridge curve?

19 November 1998:

Isabelle Broccas (ECARE), A theory of haste with applications to construction of nuclear power plants and extinction of endangered species.

20 November 1998:

Namkee Ahn (FEDEA), Job bust, baby bust: The Spanish case.

2 December 1998:

Jesús Saurina (Banco de España), ¿Existe alisamiento del beneficio en las cajas de ahorro españolas?

10 December 1998:

Paolo Zaffaroni  (Banca D'Italia), Gaussian inference on certain long-range dependent volatility models.

15 December 1998:

Jean Imbs (New York University & University of Lausanne), Co-fluctuations.

17 December 1998:

Anton Braun (International University of Japan), A Markov analysis of convergence and cycles in Japanese prefectures.

 

 

Second  Term

 

11 January 1999:

Ernesto Villanueva (Northwestern University), Intergenerational transfers: How do parents tax their kid's income?

19 January 1999:

Oren Sussman (Ben Gurion University), Financial innovations and corporate insolvency.

2 February 1999:

Dolores Collado (Universidad de Alicante), Income and expenditures: Panel data estimates.

24 February 1999:

Michael Manove (Boston University), Racial discrimination in labor markets with announced wages.

24 March 1999:

Martin Browning (University of Copenhagen), Modelling demands and labour supply using m-demands.

   

Third  Term

 

8 April 1999:

Enrique Sentana (CEMFI), Constrained EMM estimation.

19 April 1999:

Luis M. Viceira (Harvard Business School), Dynamic consumption and portfolio choice with stochastic volatility.

29 April 1999:

Jon Danielsson (London School of Economics), Real trading patterns and prices in spot foreign exchange markets (joint with Richard Payne).

31 May 1999:

Russell Davidson (GREQAM and Université de Marseille), Statistical inference for stochastic dominance and for the measurement of poverty and inequality.

7 June 1999:

Andrés Almazán (University of Texas), Optimal corporate governance structures.

7 July 1999:

Fernando Zapatero (University of Southern California), Optimal central bank intervention in the foreign exchange market (joint with Abel Cadenillas).

12 July 1999:

Manuel Arellano (CEMFI), Underidentification? (joint with Lars Hansen and Enrique Sentana).