Ente Einaudi: Seminars schedule (a.y. 2006-2007)

Schedule
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
September	15	5:30 pm	economics	Lionel MARTELLINI EDHEC-Risk	Dynamic Allocation Decisions in Asset and Liability Management
	18	5:30 pm	economics	David THESMAR HEC, Paris	Social Networks in the Boardroom
	20	5:30 pm	economics	Enrico C. PEROTTI University of Amsterdam	The Political Origin of Pension Funding
	28	6:00 pm	econometrics	Jean BOIVIN HEC Montréal	DSGE Models in a Data-Rich Environment
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
October	9	5:30 pm	economics	Jan BOONE Tilburg University	How (not) to measure Competition
	12	6:00 pm	econometrics	Daniele PASERMAN Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
	13	1:10 pm	lunch	Luca DEDOLA European Central Bank	Productivity, External Balance and Exchange Rates: Evidence on the Transmission Mechanism among G7 Countries
	19	6:00 pm	econometrics	Helmut LÜTKEPOHL European University Institute, Florence	Structural Vector Autoregressions with Nonnormal Residuals
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
November	2	6:00 pm	econometrics	Stephen POLLOCK Queen Mary, London	Comparative Economic Cycles
	6	5:30 pm	economics	Umberto CHERUBINI Ente "Luigi Einaudi" University of Bologna	The Dependence Structure of Running Maxima and Minima: Results and Option Pricing Applications
	9	6:00 pm	econometrics	Javier HUALDE University of Navarra	Semiparametric Estimation of Fractional Cointegration
	23	6:00 pm	econometrics	Enrico RETTORE University of Padova	How Large is the Retirement Consumption Drop in Italy?
	30	6:00 pm	econometrics	Jörg BREITUNG University of Bonn	Testing for multistep causality
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
December	7	6:00 pm	econometrics	Massimo FRANCHI University "La Sapienza", Rome	A characterization of polynomial cofractionality in the VAR{d,b} (k) model
	11	5:30 pm	economics	Zeno ENDERS Ente "Luigi Einaudi" EUI, Florence	S-Curve Redux: On the International Transmission of Technology Shocks
	19	5:30 pm	economics	Stefania ALBANESI Columbia University	Optimal Taxation of Entrepreneurial Capital with Private Information
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
January	29	5:30 pm	economics	Gur HUBERMAN Columbia University	Turnover and Volatility
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
February	5	5:30 pm	economics	Francesco MENONCIN University of Brescia	The role of longevity bonds in optimal portfolios
February	15	6:00 pm	econometrics	Andrew HARVEY University of Cambridge	Quantiles, Expectiles and Splines
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
March	1	6:00 pm	econometrics	Amos GOLAN American University	Promotion and Retention Based on Individual Attributes and Environmental Characteristics: The U.S. Navy
	8	6:00 pm	econometrics	Michael LECHNER University of St. Gallen	Sequential Causal Models for the Evaluation of Labor Market Programs
	9	1:10 pm	lunch	Carlo ROSA London School of Economics	The Impact of Central Bank Announcements on Asset Prices in Real Time: Testing the Efficiency of the Euribor Futures Market
	15	6:00 pm	econometrics	Dimitrios CHRISTELIS CSEF, University of Salerno	Expected bequests and wealth of older households
	29	6:00 pm	econometrics	Francis G. VELLA Georgetown University	Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
April	4	6:00 pm	econometrics	Victor Enriquez GOMEZ Ministry of Economics and Finance, Madrid	A State Space Approach to the Problem of Sampling at Different Frequencies
	12	6:00 pm	econometrics	Morten O. RAVN European University Institute, Florence	Labor Market Dynamics and the Business Cycle: Structural Evidence for the United States
	18	5:00 pm	economics	Kaushik BASU Cornell University	Social norms and economic performance
	19	6:00 pm	econometrics	Melvyn WEEKS University of Cambridge	Jointness of Growth Determinants
	27	5:30 pm	economics	Charles ENGEL University of Wisconsin, Madison	Exchange Rate Models Are Not as Bad as You Think
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
May	3	6:00 pm	econometrics	Raffaello SERI University of Insubria, Varese	A Statistical Theory of Estimation in Economic Experiments
	10	6:00 pm	econometrics	Wilbert van der KLAAUW Federal Reserve Bank, New York	The Impact of Social and Economic Policy on the Family Structure Experiences of Children in the United States
	24	6:00 pm	econometrics	Joel L. HOROWITZ Northwestern University	Nonparametric Instrumental Variables Estimation of a Quantile Regression Model
	28	5:30 pm	economics	Pierluigi BALDUZZI Boston College	Asset-pricing Models and Economic Risk Premia: A Decomposition
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
June	4	5:30 pm	economics	Francis E. WARNOCK University of Virginia	Financial Globalization, Governance, and the Evolution of the Home BIAS
	6	6:00 pm	econometrics	Anne C. CASE Princeton University	Stature and status: Height, ability, and labor market outcomes
	7	6:00 pm	econometrics	Angus S. DEATON Princeton University	Aging and wellbeing around the world: evidence from the Gallup World Poll
	14	6:00 pm	econometrics	Christopher J. FLINN New York University	Household Search and Health Insurance Coverage
	18	5:30 pm	economics	Veronica GUERRIERI University of Chicago, GSB	Liquidity and Trading Dynamics
	20	1:10 pm	lunch	Fabiano SCHIVARDI University of Cagliari	Does idiosyncratic risk matter for growth?
	21	5:30 pm	economics	James M. SNYDER, Jr. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Partisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda-Setting Behavior of U.S. Newspapers
	25	1:00 pm	economics	Mattew SHUM Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore	Nonparametric Tests for Common Values in First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions
	26	11:00 am	economics	Federico RAVENNA University of California, Santa Cruz	Vacancies, Unemployment, and the Phillips Curve
	26	6:00 pm	econometrics	Arthur VAN SOEST Tilburg University	Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales
date			type	speaker	paper / argument
July	3	1:10 pm	lunch	Stefania ALBANESI Columbia University	Intertemporal Distortions in the Second Best
July	4	5:30 pm	economics	Paola GIULIANO Harvard University	The Power of the Family



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