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January 

Wednesday

25 Jan 2012

12:00

Defenses     

Maksim Yemelyanau: “Essays on Income and Consumption of the Belarusian Population”

Thursday

26 Jan 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Dr. Debrah Meloso: “Dynamically Complete Experimental Asset Markets”

Friday

27 Jan 2012

15:00

Macro     

Prof. Guglielmo Caporale: “Volatility Spillovers and Contagion from Mature to Emerging Stock Markets”

Monday

30 Jan 2012

16:30

Macro     

Carlo Cottarelli: “Fiscal Challenges in an Era of Declining Demand and Sustainability Concerns”
February 

Friday

03 Feb 2012

15:00

Micro Theory     

José Azar JOB TALK

Monday

06 Feb 2012

15:00

Macro     

Prof. Dr. Peter Egger: “Trade Preferences and Bilateral Trade in Goods and Services: A Structural Approach”

Monday

06 Feb 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Prof. Cary A. Deck: “Affecting Policy by Manipulating Prediction Markets: Experimental Evidence”

Tuesday

07 Feb 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Jan Zápal: JOB TALK

Friday

10 Feb 2012

15:00

Macro     

Dr. Jean-Paul L’Huillier: “Consumers' Imperfect Information and Price Rigidities”

Friday

10 Feb 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Andrea Tesei JOB TALK

Friday

17 Feb 2012

15:00

Applied Micro     

Evgeny Yakovlev JOB TALK

Friday

24 Feb 2012

15:00

Macro     

Prof. Per Krusell: “Asset Trading and Valuation with Uncertain Exposure”

Monday

27 Feb 2012

10:00

Defenses     

Jan Novotný: “Essays on the Effective Market Dynamics”
March 

Monday

05 Mar 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Prof. François Bourguignon: “Aid Effectiveness Revisited: The Trade-Off Between Needs and Governance”

Thursday

08 Mar 2012

14:00

Defenses     

Anastasiya Shamshur: “Essays on Capital Structure Stability”

Thursday

08 Mar 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Mehdi Karoui JOB TALK

Friday

09 Mar 2012

15:00

Macro     

Dr. Jiří Slačálek: “Dissecting Saving Dynamics: Measuring Credit, Wealth and Precautionary Effects”

Friday

09 Mar 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Dr. Tymofiy Mylovanov: “Mechanism design by an informed principal: the quasi-linear private-values case”

Monday

12 Mar 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Prof. Erwin Bulte: “Corruption, Investments and Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from Rural Liberia”

Friday

16 Mar 2012

15:00

Macro     

Prof. Stanley Zin: “Sources of entropy in representative agent models”

Monday

26 Mar 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Prof. Mathias Sutter: “Strategic sophistication of adolescents – Evidence from experimental normal-form games”
April 

Monday

02 Apr 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Adam Pellillo: “Conflict and Development: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo”

Thursday

05 Apr 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Prof. Luigi Luini: “Social influence in trustors’ neighborhoods”

Tuesday

17 Apr 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Dr. Jacopo Mazza: “Does Risk Matter? A Semiparametric Model for Educational Choices in the Presence of Uncertainty”

Monday

23 Apr 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Prof. Kevin Lang: “The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results”

Thursday

26 Apr 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Prof. Ran Spiegler: “Reference Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations”
May 

Wednesday

02 May 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

H. Yoshimoto JOB TALK

Thursday

03 May 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Dr. Jernej Čopič: “Auctioning off the Agenda: Bargaining in Legislatures with Endogenous Scheduling”

Friday

04 May 2012

15:00

Applied Micro     

Dr. Patrick Gaulé JOB TALK

Monday

07 May 2012

13:00

Special Events     

HE Maja Mitrović, Ambassador of Serbia to the Czech Republic

Wednesday

09 May 2012

09:00

Defenses     

Philipp Kraft: “The Role of Beauty in the Labor Market”

Friday

11 May 2012

15:00

Applied Micro     

Ola Vestad JOB TALK

Monday

14 May 2012

16:00 - 17:00

Special Events     

Reasons for Confidence in the US Economy

Thursday

17 May 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Prof. Jacob Goeree: “A Geometric Approach to Mechanism Design”

Monday

21 May 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Dr. Martin Burda: “A Bayesian Semiparametric Duration and Competing Risk Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity”
June 

Sunday

03 Jun 2012

09:00

Special Events     

Conference on Rational Inattention and Related Theories

Tuesday

05 Jun 2012

17:00 - 18:00

Special Events     

Current Macroeconomics and Reality

Friday

08 Jun 2012

13:00

Special Events     

PhD/MA Graduation Ceremony

Monday

11 Jun 2012

17:00 - 18:00

Special Events     

Prof. Philippe Aghion, Harvard University:
July 

Wednesday

11 Jul 2012

12:00

Defenses     

Viliam Druska: “Essays on Efficiency Measurements”
August 

Monday

06 Aug 2012

09:00

Defenses     

František Kopřiva: “Essays on the Behavior of Agents in Financial Markets”

Thursday

23 Aug 2012

15:00

Defenses     

Katarína Kálovcová: “Essays on Prediction and Betting Markets”

Friday

24 Aug 2012

14:00

Defenses     

Fusako Tsuchimoto Menkyna: “Essays on Social Institutions and Economics”
September 

Monday

24 Sep 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Prof. Aleš Černý: “Optimal Hedging with Higher Moments”

Thursday

27 Sep 2012

12:00

Micro Theory     

12:00 !!! Prof. B. Kőszegi: “The Market for Deceptive Products”
October 

Monday

01 Oct 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Dr. Nathan Fiala: “Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda”

Friday

05 Oct 2012

15:00

Macro     

Dr. Kristoffer Nimark: “Man-bites-dog Business Cycles”

Monday

08 Oct 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Prof. Ronald Oaxaca: “Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You are a Woman or a White? An Economic Analysis of the Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines”

Thursday

11 Oct 2012

16:30 - 18:30

Special Events     

Prof. Paul Milgrom: The US Incentive Auctions

Monday

15 Oct 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Dr. Jaromír Kovářík: “Learning in Network Games”

Thursday

18 Oct 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Prof. Fernando Vega-Redondo: “Globalization and social networks”

Friday

19 Oct 2012

15:00

Macro     

Dr. Byeongju Jeong: “Bargaining with Wealth”

Monday

22 Oct 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Prof. Dirk Engelmann: “Choosing how to choose: efficiency concerns and constitutional choice”

Wednesday

24 Oct 2012

13:30

Defenses     

Olga Popova: “Essays on Individual Perceptions of Economic Reforms”

Thursday

25 Oct 2012

16:30

Macro     

Prof. Dilip Bhattacharyya: “Predicting 2008 Financial Crisis from the Hidden Economy Estimates”
November 

Monday

05 Nov 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Prof. Bertil Tungodden: “Edutainment for education: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania”

Thursday

08 Nov 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Prof. Andreas Ortmann: “Understanding Social Impact Bonds: An Experimental Investigation”

Friday

09 Nov 2012

15:00

Macro     

Dr. Ferre De Graeve: “Fiscal Policy in Contemporary DSGE Models”

Monday

12 Nov 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Dr. Shiko Maruyama: “Externality and Strategic Interaction in the Location Choice of Siblings under Altruism toward Parents”

Thursday

22 Nov 2012

16:30

Micro Theory     

Jana Friedrichsen: “Image concerns and the provision of quality”

Friday

30 Nov 2012

15:00

Macro     

Dr. Petr Sedláček: “Firm age, business cycles and aggregate labor market dynamics”
December 

Monday

03 Dec 2012

16:30

Special Events     

Dr. Milan Svolík

Friday

07 Dec 2012

15:00

Macro     

Dr. Martí Mestieri

Monday

10 Dec 2012

16:30

Applied Micro     

Dr. Ina Ganguli

Friday

14 Dec 2012

15:00

Macro     

Prof. Jaume Ventura
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