Departmental Seminar 2010-2011

Academic Year
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
13/06/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Karine van der Beek, Ben Gurion University TBA
06/06/2011 - 11:30 - 10:00 No seminar כנס האגודה הישראלית לכלכלה
31/05/2011 - 12:00 - 10:00 Elias L. Khalil, Monash University The One who Gives Too Early, Gives Twice: Cooperation, Blood Feuds and Third-Party Institutions
30/05/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Sam Peltzman, University of Chicago Mortality Inequality
23/05/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Naomi Feldman, Ben Gurion University Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball
16/05/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Iddo Kan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Agricultural Economics and Management Are Two Economic Instruments Better Than One? Combining Taxes and Quotas under Political Lobbying
09/05/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 No seminar יום הזיכרון- no seminar
02/05/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 No seminar ום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה- no seminar
11/04/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Moshe Koppel, Bar Ilan University, Dept of Computer Science Beyond Condorcet: Optimal Aggregation Rules Using Voting Records
04/04/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Ronel Elul, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Bankruptcy: Is It Enough to Forgive or Must We Also Forget ?
28/03/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Jonathan Kaminski, Hebrew University - Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Management Agricultural Policies and Agri·Environmental Regulation: Efficiency versus Political Perspectives
21/03/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 No Seminar No Seminar - Purim
14/03/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Gili Greenberg Università Bocconi Small Firms, Big Patents? Estimating Patent Value Using Data on Israeli Start-Up Firms' Financing Rounds
07/03/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Orly Sade Hebrew University of Jerusalem A LEOPARD DOES NOT CHANGE HIS SPOTS– EVIDENCE OF ACTIVISM PERSISTENCE IN THE HEDGE FUND INDUSTRY
28/02/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Dan Simundza U Michigan Criminal Registries, Community Notification and Optimal Avoidance
22/02/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Carlo Coen Castellino Universita di Torino Assessing the Fed’s Performance through the Effect of Technology Shocks: New Evidence.
10/01/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Asher Tishler Tel Aviv University Intermittently renewable energy, optimal capacity mix and prices in a deregulated electricity market
03/01/2011 - 12:30 - 11:00 Ayala Mashiah-Yaakovi Tel Aviv University Subgame Perfect Equilibria in Stopping Games
29/12/2010 - 12:00 - 10:00 Babak Somekh University of Oxford Commuting and Shopping: Determinants of City Income Structure
28/12/2010 - 12:00 - 10:00 Gabi Gayer Haifa University Imprecise Datasets as a Source for Ambiguity: A Model and Experimental Evidence
27/12/2010 - 12:30 - 11:00 Shiran Rachmilevitch Northwestern University Bribing and Signaling in Auctions
22/12/2010 - 12:00 - 10:00 Naomi Hausman Harvard University Effects of University Innovation on Local Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship
20/12/2010 - 14:00 - 12:00 Peter Temin The Great Recession in Historical Context
15/12/2010 - 12:00 - 10:00 Ity Shurtz The Impact of Malpractice Litigation on Physician Behavior: The Case of Childbirth
14/12/2010 - 12:00 - 10:00 Francois Facchini Economie Freedom in Muslim Countries
13/12/2010 - 14:00 - 12:00 Yaniv Reigenwertz Do Municipal Amalgamations Work? Evidence from Municipalities in Israel
07/12/2010 - 10:00 Roee Teper Probabilistic Dominance and Status Quo Bias
06/12/2010 - 14:00 - 12:00 Sivan Frenkel Repeated interaction and rating inflation: A model of double reputation
29/11/2010 - 14:00 - 12:00 Analia Schlosser Does Sex-Selective Abortion Improve Girls' Well-Being? Evidence from India
22/11/2010 - 14:00 - 12:00 Nicolaus Tideman Modeling the outcomes of vote-casting in actual elections
15/11/2010 - 12:00 Yaron Yehezkel Motivating a supplier to test product quality
08/11/2010 - 12:00 Itzahk Gilboa "Dynamics of Inductive Inference in a Unified framework"
01/11/2010 - 13:00 - 11:00 Ayala Arad Depth of Strategic Reasoning in the Tennis Coach Problem and the Colonel Blotto Game
25/10/2010 - 13:00 - 11:00 Offer Lieberman "A similarity based approach to nonstationary autoregression"
18/10/2010 - 13:00 - 11:00 Yuval Heller "Overconfidence and dispersing risk"
12/10/2010 - 14:00 - 12:00 Martin Altemeyer-Bartscher The Private Provision of International Impure Public Goods: the Case of Climate Policy
11/10/2010 - 14:00 - 12:00 Jacques Silber Seminar in memory of Tikva Leker, z''l