Department of Economics
Weekly programme 23-27 February 2015
Courses
Advanced Block 1 starts this week, while the Compulsory Macroeconomics 3 course will start next week. The
Monday 11.00 session of the advanced course by Arpad Abraham is moved to Thursday at 11.00, while the
Wednesday session will start at 10.00 instead of 11. The Monday 15.00 session of the advanced course by
Peter Hansen is moved to Tuesday at 15.00.
Faculty presentation
Tuesday 23 February, 14.30, VSP 1
Arpad Abraham
Microeconometrics working group
Monday 23 February, 13.00, VSP 1
Ricardo Estrada, Benefits to Elite Schools and the Formation of Expected Returns to Education: Evidence from
Mexico City
Macro reading group
Monday 23 February, 16.00, VSP 1
Gabriela Galassi (discussing Optimal Taxation in a Life-Cycle Economy with Endogenous Human Capital
Formation)
Workshop on experimental economics and social sciences
Wednesday 25 February, 17.00, Max Weber common room, Badia Fiesolana
Johann Lambsdorff, University of Passau
Team Spirit – Experimental Evidence from the 2014 FIFA World Soccer Cup
Nava Ashraf, Harvard Business School
Do-gooders and Go-getters: Career Incentives, Incentives and Selection in Performance in Public Service
Delivery
Macro working group
Thursday 26 February, 13.30, VSP 1
Christoph Große Steffen (DIW), tba
Macroeconomics Research Workshop
Friday 27 February, 11.00, Priests’ room
Sevi Rodriguez-Mora, University of Edinburgh,
Meritocracy and the Inheritance of Advantage (with Michael J. Watts)
Econometrics Research Workshop
Friday 27 February, 14.30, VSP 1
Mirko Draca, University of Warwick
The Changing Returns to Crime: Do Criminals Respond to Prices?
Thesis defence
Jan Witajewski will defend his thesis entitled “Mobilization of low skilled labor and wage inequality” on Friday
27 February at 16.00 in VSP 2. The thesis committee is composed of Profs. Arpad Abraham, EUI, supervisor;
Miklós Koren, Central European University; Ramon Marimon, EUI and José Vicente Rodríguez Mora, University
of Edinburgh
Coffee get-together, Tuesdays at 16.00 in the VSP garden or bar
Time
Monday
8.45 –
10.45
15-17
17.1519.15
Tuesday
Course on
The Economics of
Networks
(Andrea Galeotti)
VSP 1
Course on
Topics in Applied
Macro and
Labour
(Juan Dolado)
VSP 1
11-13
13 - 15
Week 23-27 February
Microeconometrics working
group
Ricardo Estrada
Benefits to Elite
Schools and the
Formation of
Expected Returns
to Education:
Evidence from
Mexico City
VSP 1
16.00
Macro reading
group
Gabriela Galassi
(discussing
Optimal Taxation
in a Life-Cycle
Economy with
Endogenous
Human Capital
Formation)
VSP 1
Wednesday
10.00-12.00
Course on
Optimal Taxation
and Private
Information
(Arpad Abraham)
VSP 1
Course on
Optimal Taxation
and Private
Information
(cont’d)
VSP 1
14.30
Faculty
presentation
Arpad Abraham
VSP 1
Thursday
Friday
Course on Inequality,
poverty and welfare
(Antonio Villar)
VSP 1
Course on
Optimal Taxation
and Private
Information
(Arpad Abraham)
VSP 1
Macroeconomics
research workshop
Sevi Rodriguez-Mora
Meritocracy and the
Inheritance of
Advantage
Priests’ room
14.30
Econometrics
Research Workshop
Mirko Draca
The Changing
Returns to Crime: Do
Criminals Respond to
Prices?
VSP 1
13.30
Macro working
group
Christoph Große
Steffen
tba
VSP 1
Course on
Model Selection
and Multiple
Testing
(Peter Hansen)
VSP 1
--------------------16.00
coffee gettogether, VSP bar
Course on
Model Selection
and Multiple
Testing
(Peter Hansen)
VSP 1
Exercise class for
Macro 3
(Andrea Gazzani/
Alejandro
Vicondoa)
VSP 1
Course on
International
Trade
(Aranzazu Crespo)
VSP 1
Workshop on
experimental
economics and
social sciences
Johann
Lambsdorff,
Nava Ashraf
MW common
room, Badia
Fiesolana
Course on
Topics in Applied
Macro and
Labour
(Juan Dolado)
VSP 1
Econometrics
Research Workshop
(cont’d)
VSP 1
----------------16.00
Thesis defence
Jan Witajewski
VSP 2
-------------------16.00-18.00
TA session for
Optimal Taxation
and Private
Information
(Pawel Doligalski)
VSP 1
16.00-18.00
TA session for
Optimal Taxation
and Private
Information
(cont’d)
VSP 1