Departmental Seminar 2014-2015
Meetings take place on Tuesday,14:15-15:45, Berglas Building, room 101
►4.11.14
Kurt Mitman (Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University) ♦♦♦ "Macroeconomic Effects of Bankruptcy and Foreclosure Policies"
►18.11.14
Zvi Eckstein, IDC ♦♦♦ " Why do Married Females Wage Increased?" (joint with Michael Keane & Osnat Lifshitz)
►9.12.14
Avraham Ebenstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Patrilocality and Missing Women"
►16.12.14
Sarah Moshary, MIT ♦♦♦ "Price Discrimination across PACs and the Consequences of Political Advertising Regulation"
►23.12.14
Ran Shorrer, Harvard University ♦♦♦ "Consistent Indices"
►30.12.14
Assaf Romm, Harvard University ♦♦♦ "An Approximate Law of One Price in Random Assignment Games" (joint with Avinatan Hassidim Bar-Ilan University)
►8.01.15
Itzik Fadlon ♦♦♦ "Household Responses To Severe Health Shocks And The Design Of Social Insurance"
►13.01.15
Bob Pindyck ,Massachusetts Institute of Technology ♦♦♦ "Averting Catastrophes: The Strange Economics of Scylla and Charybdis"
►10.03.15
Sergiu Hart ,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ♦♦♦ Evidence Games: Right to Remain Silent, Left to Disclose
►24.03.15
Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz , College of Europe ♦♦♦ Global financial crisis
►14.04.15
Steve Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley ♦♦♦ "Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation"
►21.04.15
Joel Mokyr ,Northwestern University ♦♦♦
►28.04.15
Martin Eichenbaum , Northwestern University ♦♦♦
►5.05.15 - cancelled
Justin Rao ,Microsoft Research ♦♦♦
►12.05.15
Daniel Shoag ,Harvard Kennedy School ♦♦♦ "Shops and the City: Evidence on Local Externalities and Local Government Policy from Big-Box Bankruptcies"
►16.06.15
Jesus Fernandez Villaverde (Upenn) ♦♦♦ "The Macroeconomics of Volatility Shocks"