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Seminars: a.y. 2005-2006

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Schedule

date type speaker paper / argument

September

12

2:45 pm

economics

Helyette GEMAN
University Paris Dauphine
Commodity derivatives: models and trading strategies

16

5:30 pm

economics

Ales CERNY
City University London
Performance of Dynamic Hedging Strategies: The Tale of Two Trading Desks

26

5:00 pm

economics

lecturer:
Rajnish MEHRA (University of California, Santa Barbara)
discussant:
Alberto GIOVANNINI (Unifortune Asset Management)
THE EQUITY PREMIUM: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 20 YEARS?
by:
Ente "Luigi Einaudi"
Italian Banking Association (ABI)

30

1:00 pm

economics

Matteo IACOVIELLO
Boston College
Private Debt and Income Inequality: A Business Cycle Analysis
date type speaker paper / argument

October

10

5:30 pm

economics

George SKIADOPOULOS
University of Piraeus
Implied Volatility Processes: Evidence from the Volatility Derivatives Markets

13

6:00 pm

econometrics

Dimitris N. POLITIS
University of California, San Diego
Model-Free Volatility Prediction

17

5:30 pm

economics

J. Rupert J. GATTI
University of Cambridge
Estimating Firm-Level Demand at a Price Comparison Site: Accounting for Shoppers and the Number of Competitors

20

6:00 pm

econometrics

Richard H. SPADY
Nuffield College, Oxford
Identification and estimation of latent attitudes and their behavorial implications

24

5:30 pm

economics

Luca FLABBI
Georgetown University
Gender Discrimination Estimation in a Search Model with Matching and Bargaining

27

6:00 pm

econometrics

Jesper LINDÉ
Sveriges Riksbank
Bayesian Estimation of an Open Economy DSGE Model with Incomplete Pass-Through

31

5:30 pm

economics

Emanuela SCIUBBA
Birkbeck College, London
Links and Architecture in Village Networks
date type speaker paper / argument

November

7

5:30 pm

economics

Paolo COLLA
Bocconi University, Milan
Information Linkages and Correlated Trading

10

6:00 pm

econometrics

Mark W. WATSON
Princeton University
Implications of Dynamic Factor Models for VAR Analysis

14

9:45 am

economics

The Motivations for Bank Takeovers: Some Empirical Evidence from Italy (Alessio DE VINCENZO, Claudio DORIA e Carmelo SALLEO)
Italy's Decline: Getting the Facts Right (Francesco DAVERI e Cecilia JONA-LASINIO)
Winners and Losers in the Italian Welfare State: A Microsimulation Analysis of Income Redistribution Considering In-Kind Transfers (Daniela SONEDDA e Gilberto TURATI)
Cross Country Differences in Patent Propensity: A Firm-Level Investigation (Francesca LOTTI e Fabiano SCHIVARDI)
NUOVI TEMI PER LA POLITICA ECONOMICA
by:
Michele POLO (Giornale degli Economisti and Bocconi University, Milan)
Daniele TERLIZZESE (Ente Luigi Einaudi and Bank of Italy)

17

6:00 pm

econometrics

Michael D. HURD
RAND Corporation
The Effect of Large Capital Gains or Losses on Retirement

21

5:30 pm

economics

Alberto BENNARDO
University of Salerno
Competitive Markets with Endogenous Health Risks

24

6:00 pm

econometrics

Carlos VELASCO GÓMEZ
Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
Distribution-free tests of fractional cointegration

28

5:30 pm

economics

Javier DIAZ-GIMENEZ
Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
Flat Tax Reforms in the U.S.: A Boon for the Income Poor
date type speaker paper / argument

December

1

6:00 pm

econometrics

José María LABEAGA AZCONA
UNED, Madrid
Children and demand patterns: evidence from panel data

5

4:00 pm

econometrics

Raffaella GIACOMINI
University of California, Los Angeles
Detecting and Predicting Forecast Breakdowns

5

5:30 pm

economics

Ramon MARIMON
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Competition, Innovation and Growth with Limited Commitment

12

5:30 pm

economics

Sudipto BHATTACHARYA
London School of Economics
Patents vs Trade Secrets: Knowledge Licensing and Spillover

16

5:30 pm

economics

Enrichetta RAVINA
New York University
Habit Persistence and Keeping Up with the Joneses: Evidence from Micro Data

19

9:00 am

economics

Questioni di economia monetaria internazionale (chairman: Marcello DE CECCO)
Carlo COTTARELLI (IMF): Efficiency and Legitimacy: Trade-Offs in IMF Governance
Gabriele GALATI (BIS): Current Account Adjustment and Capital Flows
Paolo MANASSE (Università di Bologna and IMF): "Rules of Thumb" for Sovereign Debt Crises

Teoria e politica monetaria (chairman: Daniele TERLIZZESE)
Giorgio DI GIORGIO (LUISS): Monetary Policy and Stock Prices in an Open Economy
Giancarlo CORSETTI (EUI): Monetary Policy in Heterogeneous Currency Unions: Reflections Based on a Micro-Founded Model of Optimum Currency Areas
Ester FAIA (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): Optimal Monetary Policy Rules, Asset Prices and Credit Frictions

Mercati finanziari, diversificazione dei rischi e liquidità (chairman: Luigi GUISO)
Giovanna NICODANO (University of Turin): Small Caps in International Equity Portfolios: The Effects of Variance Risk
Emanuela SCIUBBA (Birkbeck College, London): Belief Heterogeneity and Survival in Incomplete Markets

Concorrenza bancaria, stabilità finanziaria e credito alle imprese (chairman: Roberto VIOLI)
Elena CARLETTI (Center for Financial Studies): Credit Market Competition and Capital Regulation
Matteo IACOVIELLO (Boston College) and Raoul MINETTI (Michigan State University): Liquidity Cycles
GIORNATA DI STUDIO SU MONETA, BANCA E FINANZA per i 40 anni di attività dell'Ente Einaudi
Maurizio SELLA
(ABI)
Giancarlo MORCALDO (Bank of Italy)

20

5:30 pm

economics

Fernando ALVAREZ
University of Chicago
Fixed Term Employment Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model
date type speaker paper / argument

January

19

6:00 pm

econometrics

Marc HALLIN
Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Generalized Dynamic Factor Model Determining the Number of Factors
date type speaker paper / argument

February

6

5:30 pm

economics

Mario ANOLLI
Catholic University, Milan
A Two-Stage Non Discretionary Trading Suspension Mechanism: Effects on Market Quality

9

6:00 pm

econometrics

Cheti NICOLETTI
ISER, Essex
Intergenerational earnings mobility: Changes across cohorts in Britain

16

6:00 pm

econometrics

Eric RENAULT
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Efficient Derivative Pricing by Extended Method of Moments

20

5:30 pm

economics

Philip LANE
Trinity College, Dublin
The Dynamics of External Positions

27

5:30 pm

economics

Joseph ZEIRA
Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Machines as Engines of Growth
date type speaker paper / argument

March

6

5:30 pm

economics

Kjetil STORESLETTEN
University of Oslo
Insurance and Opportunities: The Welfare Implications of Rising Wage Dispersion

9

6:00 pm

econometrics

Francis G. VELLA
Georgetown University
Estimating a Class of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models without Exclusion Restrictions

10

5:30 pm

economics

Michele CAVALLO
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
Could capital gains smooth a current account rebalancing?

13

5:30 pm

economics

Fabrizio MATTESINI
"Tor Vergata" University, Rome
Structural Breaks and Optimal Monetary Policy

16

6:00 pm

econometrics

Mauro COSTANTINI
ISAE
University "La Sapienza", Rome
Simple Panel Unit Root Tests to Detect Changes in Persistence

20

5:30 pm

economics

Dirk KRUEGER
Goethe University, Frankfurt
On the Consequences of Demographic Change for Rates of Returns to Capital, and the Distribution of Wealth and Welfare

23

6:00 pm

econometrics

Nicola LOPERFIDO
University "Carlo Bo", Urbino
A Multivariate Skew-GARCH Model

27

5:30 pm

economics

Giovanna NICODANO
CeRP
University of Turin
Investing for the Long-Run in European Real Estate

30

6:00 pm

econometrics

Karim M. ABADIR
Imperial College London
Distilling co-movements from persistent macro and financial series
date type speaker paper / argument

April

3

5:30 pm

economics

Philippe MARTIN
University of Paris I
Make Trade not War?

6

6:00 pm

econometrics

Alain HECQ
University of Maastricht
Small sample issues in common cyclical features modelling

20

6:00 pm

econometrics

Jean-Marc ROBIN
EUREQua, Paris 1
Using High-Order Moments to Estimate Linear Independent Factor Models
date type speaker paper / argument

May

4

6:00 pm

econometrics

Michael WOLF
University of Zurich
Stepwise Multiple Testing as Formalized Data Snooping

8

5:30 pm

economics

Steven THORLEY
Marriott School, Brigham Young University
The Fundamental Law of Active Portfolio Management with Full Covariance Matrix

15

5:30 pm

economics

Bronwyn Hughes HALL
University of California, Berkeley
R&D Tax Credits in France and the US: Design and Effectiveness

18

1:10 pm

lunch

John S. EARLE
Upjohn Institute
Central European University
Ownership and Wages: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2003

18

6:00 pm

econometrics

Andrew HARVEY
University of Cambridge
Time-Varying Quantiles

22

5:30 pm

economics

Jean IMBS
HEC, Université de Lausanne
The Efficiency of Capital Allocation: Do Bank Regulations Matter?

29

5:30 pm

economics

Andrea BURASCHI
Imperial College London
Term Structure of Interest Rates Implications of Habit Persistence
date type speaker paper / argument

June

5

5:30 pm

economics

Mike GOLOSOV
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Markets Versus Governments: Political Economy of Mechanisms

8

6:00 pm

econometrics

Giovanni PETRIS
University of Arkansas
Transdimensional Markov Chain Monte Carlo Using Hyperplane Inflation in Locally Nested Spaces

9

9:30 am

economics

Attilio MEUCCI
Lehman Brothers
Beyond Black-Litterman: views on non-normal markets

14

5:30 pm

economics

Christian BRODA
University of Chicago
From Groundnuts to Globalization: A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth

15

6:00 pm

econometrics

Barbara ROSSI
Duke University
Non-nested model selection in unstable environments

19

5:30 pm

economics

Andrea PESCATORI
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Incomplete Markets, Idiosyncratic Income Shocks and Optimal Monetary Policy

20

1:10 pm

lunch

Anna Maria MAYDA
Georgetown University
Do Countries Free Ride on MFN? A cross-country evidence

22

1:00 pm

economics

Pietro F. PERETTO
Duke University
A Schumpeterian Analysis of Deficit-Financed Dividend Tax Cuts
date type speaker paper / argument

July

18

1:10 pm

lunch

Giovanni MAGGI
Princeton University
The GATT-WTO as an Incomplete Contract

20

1:10 pm

lunch

Nicola CETORELLI
Federal Reserve Bank, New York
Exploring conflicts of interests in financial conglomerates

25

1:10 pm

lunch

Uday RAJAN
University of Michigan
Welfare Properties of Nonexclusive Contracts



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