Departmental Seminar Programme 2003/04

Semester 1

• 13th October - Livio Stracca (ECB) The cyclical behaviour of real rates in the euro area: 1960-2002
• 23rd October - Rachel Griffiths (UCL) Vertical integration and technology: theory and evidence
• 30th October - Bob Hart (Stirling) Worker-job matches, job mobility, and real wage cyclicality
• 6th November - Olan Henry (Melbourne) Time Variation and Asymmetry in Measures of Country Risk
• 13th November - Christian Dustmann (UCL)
• 20th November - Paul Heidues (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung) Private Monitoring in Auctions
• 27th November - Saqib Jafarey (City University) Trade Intervention and Capital Controls: Strategic Interaction and Commitment
• 4th December - David Neumark (Michigan State University, NBER) The Distributional Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from the U.S. and Brazil
• 11th December - Richard Baillie (Queen Mary) Separating Non Linear and Long Memory Effects in Economic Time Series

Semester 2

• 29 January - Michele Santoni (DEPA, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy) Product market integration and endogenous bargaining structure
• 5 February - Gareth Myles (Exeter) Tax Regimes and Market Structure
• 12 February - Catia Montagna (Dundee) Globalisation and the welfare state
• 19 February - Ed Hopkins (Edinburgh) Tournaments, status and inequality
• 26 February - Patrick Minford (Cardiff, CEPR) Should we target the price level?
• 4 March - Cécile Aubert (Universite Paris IX Dauphine) Contracting under moral hazard with altruistic agents
• 11 March 2004 - Richard Paap (Erasmus University) Modeling Sample Selection resulting from Target Selection
• 18 March - Stijn Claessens (University of Amsterdam) Competition in the Financial Sector and Growth: A Cross-Country Perspective
• 6 May - Jonathan Haskel (Queen Mary, CEPR)
• 20 May - Sanjeev Goyal (Essex) Economics: an emerging small world
• 27 May - Kit Baum (Boston College) The impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on cash holdings for non-financial firms