Seminars take place from 5.00pm-6.00pm in AC 017 unless otherwise indicated.

Semester 2 - 2012

• 9 February  Matthew Polisson
• "Testing for Intertemporal Nonseparability" (with Ian Crawford)
• 16 February  Hao Sky Zhou
• "Resampling with Shannon Entropy Test and Resampling Schemes Comparison"
• 23 February  Stephen Pollock
• "Wavelets and Structural Change"
• 1 March  Piercarlo Zanchettin
• "What Causes Over-investment in R&D in Endogenous Growth Models?" (with Vincenzo Denicolo)
• 7 March  Sergey Popov (Higher School of Economics)
• "University Competition, Grading Standards and Grade Inflation" (with Dan Bernhardt)
• 8 March  Javier Rivas
• "Deliberation, Leaders and Preference Divesity" (with Carmelo Rodriguez-Alvarez)
• 29 March  Fabrizio Adriani
• "Oblique Complementarities, Parental Behaviour, and Social Norms" (with Silvia Sonderegger)
• 3 May  Jesse Matheson
• "Does Access to Education Matter for Teen Pregnancy? Evidence from Brazil" (with Martin Koppensteiner)
• 10 May  Qiang Zhang
• "Do We Know Whether Prices are Forward Looking?" (with Taylor Smith and John Conlon)
• 17 May  James Rockey
• "Who Is Left-Wing, and Who Just Thinks They Are?"
• 24 May  Ludovic Renou
• 31 May  Chris Wallace
• 7 June  Amangeldi Kenjegaliev

Semester 1 - 2011

• 5 October  Dario Bouso (University of Palermo)
• "Attainability in Repeated Games with Vector Payoffs" (with Ehud Lehrer and Eilon Solan)
• 13 October  Konstantinos Tatsiramos
• "Friends' Networks and Job Finding Rates" (with Lorenzo Cappellari)
• 20 October  Gianni De Fraja
• "A Theoretical Analysis of Public Funding for Research"
• 27 October  Rafael Moner-Colonques (University of Valencia)
• "Price Differentials among Brands in Retail Distribution: Product Quality and Service Quality" (with Juan Máñez, José Sempere-Monerris and Amparo Urbano).
• 3 November  Stephen Pollock
• "Cycles, Syllogisms and Semantics: Examining the Idea of Spurious Cycles in Macroeconomic Data"
• 10 November  Jesse Matheson
• "Should Income Transfers be Targeted or Universal? Insights from Public Pension Influences on Elderly Mortality in Canada, 1921–1966" (with Herbert Emery)
• 17 November  Miguel Flores
• "R&D and Prominence with Consumer Search"
• 24 November  Andre Rocha
• "Replicator Dynamics and Evolutionary Stable Strategies in Heterogeneous Games" (with Annick Laruelle and Peio Zuazo)
• 1 December  Martin Koppensteiner
• "Automatic Grade Promotion and Student Performance: Evidence from Brazil"
• 8 December  Hao Sky Zhou
• "Parameter Estimation Using Particle Smoothing Methods and the EM Algorithm - Applications to Economics Models"