DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SPRING 2011

At the department meeting room 12.15-13.15

DATE

NAME

TITLE

20.01

Michael Kirchler

University of Innsbruck

Market microstructure matters when imposing a Tobin tax – Evidence from the lab

27.01

Snorre Lindset

TØH

Credit risk and asymmetric information: A simplified approach

03.02

Guy Michaels

LSE

Do oil windfalls improve living standards? Evidence from Brazil

09.02

Note day!

Luca Fanelli

University of Bologna

Determinacy, indeterminacy and dynamic misspecification in linear rational expectations models

11.02

Note day!

Patrick Leoni

EUROMED Management

Growth forecasts, belief manipulation and capital markets

17.02

Katrine Løken

Universitetet i Bergen

Does money matter? The effect of child care subsidies on academic performance

18.02

Note day!

Eric Nævdal

Frischsenteret

Biologi vs. Samfunnsvitenskap – The return of the Jedi

24.02

Winter break. No seminar

 

03.03

Drago Bergholt

Handelshøyskolen BI

Natural disasters, economic growth, and armed civil conflict

10.03

Lu Liang

TBA

17.03

Stein Ivar Steinshamn

SNF

Generalization of age-structured bioeconomic models in theory and practice

24.03

Johannes A. Skjeltorp

Norges Bank

TBA

30.03

Note day!

Christa Brunnschweiler

ETH Zurich

Domestic ownership, foreign control and income levels: Theory and evidence

31.03

Simone Valente

ETH Zurich

Resource wealth, innovation and growth in the global economy

07.04

Kyrre Svarva

Innleder allmøte om eksamensformer

14.04

Magne Mogstad

SSB

Broadband internet: An information superhighway to sex crime?

21.04

Easter vacation. No Seminar

 

28.04

Juan Vargas

Universidad del Rosario, Colombia

Words versus Bullets: Media and Democracy with Coercion

05.05

Asle Gauteplass

TBA

12.05

Torberg Falch, Paivi Lujala and Bjarne Strøm

Geographical constraints and educational attainment

19.05

Todd Sorensen

University of California, Riverside

TBA

26.05

Roberto Iacono

TBA

31.05

Note day!

David Figlio,

Northwestern University

TBA