Departmental Seminar 2008-2009

Academic Year
Organizer(s)
Usual Time
Seminar meetings take place on Monday, 11:00am-12:30pm
Place
Economics and Business Administration building (No. 504), Room 011

Previous Lectures

Date Speaker Title
22/06/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Dotan Persitz Power and Core-Periphery Networks
15/06/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Michael Lechner Long-run labour market and health effects of individual sports activities
08/06/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Robert Barsky The Japanese Bubble: a Heterogeneous Approach
01/06/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Itzhak Aharon Is Neuroeconomics a New Field or Just a New Trend
25/05/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Itzhak Zilcha Private Investment in Higher Education: Comparing Alternative Funding Schemes
18/05/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Oscar Volij An Axiomatic Characterization of the Theil Inequality Ordering
11/05/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Elena Pesavento Sensitivity of Impulse Responses to Small Low Frequency Co-movements: Reconciling the Evidence on the Effects of Technology Shocks
04/05/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Konrad Stahl Ownership and Control in Differentiated Product Markets
27/04/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Neil Gandal R&D Spillovers: The social network of Open Source Software (joint with Chaim Fershtman)
20/04/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Pierre Kopp Urban Tolls: Price and congestion Some lessons for a better urban public policy
30/03/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 François Bourguignon The political economy of redistribution and institution building in elite-dominated economies (Joint with Thierry Verdier )
23/03/2009 - 11:30 - 10:00 Heinrich Ursprung Economics of Economic Research
16/03/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 P.V. VISWANATH More on Land Markets in Roman Palestine
28/01/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Job Candidate, Alex R. Horenstein Approximate Factor Models: New Estimation Method and Applications.
27/01/2009 - 11:30 - 10:00 Job Candidate, Ellerie Weber Measuring Welfare from Ambulatory Surgery Centers: A Spatial Analysis of Demand for Healthcare Facilities
26/01/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Job Candidate, Avraham Y. Ebenstein Water Pollution and Digestive Cancers in China
20/01/2009 - 11:30 - 10:00 Job Candidate, Evgenia Dechter After Motherhood: Effects of Maternity Leave and E₪ort Reallocation on Earnings
19/01/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Bradley Ruffle TBA
13/01/2009 - 11:30 - 10:00 Job Candidate, Alon Eizenberg Upstream Innovation and Product Variety in the U.S. Home PC Market
12/01/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Simon Gächter Performance Incentives and the Dynamics of Voluntary Cooperation
11/01/2009 - 17:30 - 16:00 Job Candidate, Ethan Ilzetzki Rent-Seeking Distortions and Fiscal Procyclicality
05/01/2009 - 12:30 - 11:00 Mark Gradstein Endogenoous Political Accountability
29/12/2008 - 12:30 - 11:00 Job Candidate, Oren Rigbi The Effects of Usury Laws: Evidence from the Online Loan Market
23/12/2008 - 13:30 - 12:00 Job Candidate, Guy Mayraz Priors and Desires: A Model of Payoff-Dependent Beliefs
22/12/2008 - 12:30 - 11:00 Omer Moav Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital, and Poverty (with Zvika Neeman)
16/12/2008 - 13:30 - 12:00 Job Candidate, Alan Miller A Model of Community Standards
15/12/2008 - 12:30 - 11:00 Stanislav Anatolyev Sequential Testing with Uniformly Distributed Size
08/12/2008 - 12:30 - 10:00 Samuel Bowles Persistent Institutions (with Suresh Naidu)
01/12/2008 - 12:30 - 11:00 Ady Pauzner Optimal Bilateral Trade of Multiple Objects
24/11/2008 - 12:30 - 11:00 Yaron Zelicha מה בין שחיתות למדיניות כלכלית
17/11/2008 - 12:30 - 11:00 Yishay Yaffe DO CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CONTRACTING PARTIES MATTER? EVIDENCE FROM SYNDICATED BANK LOANS
10/11/2008 - 12:30 - 11:00 Avi Simhon The Transmission of Longevity across Generations with Saul Lach and Yaacov Ritov
02/11/2008 - 14:00 - 12:00 Paul Wachtel Syndicated loans, foreign banking and capital market development