Department of Economics
Weekly programme 10-14 November 2014
Courses
This week the course on Microeconomics (Matthias Sutter) will only take place on Tuesday and the
advanced half-credit course on Nonlinear Solution and Estimation Techniques (Nora Traum) starts.
Macro working group – note different day and time from usual!
Monday 10 November, 14.00, VSP 1
Pedro Brinca, Jean Monnet Fellow, Fiscal Multipliers in the 21st Century
Microeconomics Research Workshop – note two this week!
Tuesday 11 November, 13.30, VSP 1
Arthur Campbell, Yale University
Social Learning with Differentiated Products
Micro working group – note different day and time from usual!
Wednesday 12 November, 12.00, Priests’ room
Andrea Galeotti, University of Essex
Financial linkages and portfolio choices
Microeconomics Research Workshop – note different day and time from usual!
Wednesday 12 November, 17.00, VSP 1
Eduardo Azevedo, The Wharton School
Perfect Competition in Markets with Adverse Selection (with Daniel Gottlieb)
Macroeconomics Research Workshop/Pierre Werner Chair seminar – note different day from usual!
Thursday 13 November, 11.00, Priests’ room
Jean Charles Rochet, Swiss Finance Institute (Professor Rochet will also give a more general seminar on
banking regulation at the RSCAS on Friday 14 November)
A Lucas Model with Financial Frictions
Macro reading group
Thursday 13 November, 13.30, VSP 1
Krzysztof Pytka, Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle
Econometrics Research Workshop
Friday 14 November , 14.30, VSP 1
Francesco Decarolis, Boston University
The Welfare Effects of Supply Side Regulations in Medicare Part D
Conference: Economic Policy after the Financial Crisis Conference
Friday 14 - Saturday 15 November, Villa La Fonte
http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/Economics/SeminarsEvents/Conferences/EconomicPolicyaf
tertheFinancialCrisis.aspx; for information contact [email protected]
Coffee get-together, Tuesdays at 16.00, VSP bar or garden
Time
Monday
8.45 –
10.45
11-13
13 - 15
15-17
17.1519.15
Course on
Macroeconomics
of Uncertainty
Shocks
(Christian Bayer)
VSP 1
14.00
Macro working
group
Pedro Brinca
Fiscal Multipliers in
the 21st Century
VSP 1
Week 10-14 November
Tuesday
Course on
Microeconomics
(Matthias Sutter)
VSP 1
--------------------Expectations and
Learning in
Macroeconomics
and Finance
(Ramon Marimon)
VSP 2
Course on
Macroeconomics
(Arpad Abraham)
VSP 1
--------------Course on
Nonlinear Solution
and Estimation
Techniques
(Nora Traum)
VSP 2
13.30
Microeconomics
Research
Workshop
Arthur Campbell
Social Learning
with Differentiated
Products
VSP 1
15.00-16.00
Course on
Microeconomics
(Matthias Sutter)
VSP 1
------------------Coffee gettogether
VSP bar or garden
Wednesday
Exercise class for
Microeconomics
(Filip Lazaric)
VSP 1
12.00
Micro working
group
Andrea Galeotti
Financial linkages
and portfolio
choices
Priests’ room
Thursday
Course on
Macroeconomics
(Arpad Abraham)
VSP 1
--------------Course on
Nonlinear Solution
and Estimation
Techniques
(Nora Traum)
VSP 2
Macroeconomics
research
workshop/Pierre
Werner Chair
seminar
Jean Charles
Rochet
A Lucas Model
with Financial
Frictions
Priests’ room
Friday
Exercise class for
Macroeconomics
(Pavel Brendler)
VSP 1
13.30
Macro reading
group
Krzysztof Pytka
Efficient Search on
the Job and the
Business Cycle
VSP 1
14.30
Econometrics
Research Workshop
Francesco Decarolis
The Welfare Effects of
Supply Side
Regulations in
Medicare Part D
VSP 1
Econometrics
Research Workshop
(cont’d)
VSP 1
Course on
Statistics and
Econometrics
(Juan Dolado)
VSP 1
---------------------15.30
Short faculty
meeting
VSP 2
Course on
Statistics and
Econometrics
(Juan Dolado)
VSP 1
Microeconomics
Research
Workshop
Eduardo Azevedo
Perfect
Competition in
Markets with
Adverse Selection
VSP 1
Exercise class for
Statistics and
Econometrics
(Gabriel Facchini)
VSP 1
Department of Economics
Weekly programme 17-21 November 2014
Courses
The course on Microeconomics (Matthias Sutter) will not take place this week, while the Wednesday
session of the course on Statistics and Econometrics (Juan Dolado) is moved to Tuesday at 15.0017.00. There will be an extra session of the course on Expectations and Learning in Macroeconomics
and Finance (Ramon Marimon) on Monday 17 November at 9.00.
Microeconometrics working group
Monday 17 November, 13.00, VSP 1
Ada Gonzelez-Torres, Nonlinear pricing of regulated utilities to address the tradeoff between a
universal service and an environmental externality
Macro working group – note two this week! note different day and time from usual!
Tuesday 18 November, 9.45-10.45, VSP 2
Michalis Rousakis, University of Oxford, The Length of Patents and the Timing of Innovation
Micro working group
Tuesday 18 November, 11.30, Priests’ room
Matteo Fiorini
The political economy of service trade agreements (with Mathilde Lebrand)
Econometrics & beyond working group
Tuesday 18 November, 13.00, VSP 2
Microeconomics Research Workshop
Tuesday 18 November, 13.30, VSP 1
Matt Elliott, Caltech
Social Investments, Informal Risk Sharing and Inequality (with Attila Ambrus and Arun G.
Chandrasekhar)
Macro working group
Thursday 20 November, 13.30, VSP 1
Aranzazu Crespo, tba
MWP Thematic Group Seminar: The Design, Regulation and Governance of Fiscal and Monetary
Policies in the European Union
Thursday 20 November, 15.00, Priests’ room
Macroeconomics Research Workshop
Friday 21 November, 11.00, Priests’ room
Lian Allub, Max Weber Fellow
Asymmetric Effects of Trade and FDI: South America versus Europe
Econometrics Research Workshop
Friday 21 November, 14.30, VSP 1
Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol [Seminar for the Preparation of Researchers on the Academic
Job Market]
The Inefficient Trickle-Down of Unemployment (with Regis Barnichon)
Eurozone and EU Statistical Data Resources for Economists (Thomas Bourke: Library)
Friday 21 November, 16.00-17.00, VSP 2
Thesis defence
Rodrigo Ceni Gonzalez will defend his thesis entitled “Three essays about enforcement, labor
markets and education” on Saturday 22 November at 11.30 in VSP 2. The Examining Board is
composed of the following members: Profs. Russell Cooper, Penn State University, Supervisor;
Jérôme Adda, Bocconi University & EUI; Giovanni Pica, University of Salerno and Marco Manacorda,
London School of Economics
Staff meeting
There will be a staff meeting on Wednesday 19 November at 9.00 in VSP 1
Coffee get-together, Tuesdays at 16.00, VSP bar or garden
Time
8.45 –
10.45
11-13
13 15
15-17
17.15
19.15
Monday
9.00
Expectations and
Learning in
Macroeconomics
and Finance
(Ramon
Marimon)
VSP 1
Course on
Macroeconomics
of Uncertainty
Shocks
(Christian Bayer)
VSP 1
Microeconometri
cs working group
Ada GonzelezTorres
VSP 1
Week 17-21 November
Tuesday
9.45
Macro w. g.
Michalis Rousakis
The Length of Patents
and the Timing of
Innovation
VSP 2
Course on
Macroeconomics
(Arpad Abraham)
VSP 1
--------------Course on Nonlinear
Solution and
Estimation ...
(Nora Traum)
VSP 2
-----------------Micro w. g.
Matteo Fiorini
Priests’ room
Econometrics &
beyond w. g.
VSP 2
-----------------------13.30
Microeconomics
Research W’shop
Matt Elliott
Social Investments,
Informal Risk Sharing
and Inequality
VSP1
Course on Statistics
and Econometrics
(Juan Dolado)
VSP 1
--------------------Coffee get-together
VSP bar or garden
Wednesday
Staff meeting
VSP 1
Exercise class for
Microeconomics
(Filip Lazaric)
VSP 1
Thursday
Friday
Exercise class for
Macroeconomics
(Pavel Brendler)
VSP 1
Course on
Macroeconomics
(Arpad Abraham)
VSP 1
--------------Course on Nonlinear
Solution and
Estimation ...
(Nora Traum)
VSP 2
Macroeconomics
research workshop
Lian Allub
Asymmetric Effects
of Trade and FDI:
South America
versus Europe
Priests’ room
Macro working group
13.30
Aranzazu Crespo
tba
VSP 1
14.30
Econometrics
Research W’shop
Yanos Zylberberg
The Inefficient
Trickle-Down of
Unemplomyment
VSP 1
Course on Statistics
and Econometrics
(Juan Dolado)
VSP 1
-------------------MWP Thematic
Group Seminar : The
Design, Regulation
and Governance of
Fiscal and Monetary
Policies in the EU
Priests’ room
Econometrics
Research W’shop
(cont’d)
VSP 1
-------------------16.00-18.00
Course on Methods
for Writing a PhD
(Jérôme Adda)
VSP 1
------------------Eurozone and EU
Statistical Data
Resources
VSP 2
16.00-18.00
Course on Methods
for Writing a PhD
(Jérôme Adda)
VSP 1
Exercise class for
Statistics and
Econometrics
(Gabriel Facchini)
VSP 1