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Research Seminar in International Economics

 

Rajul Mukherjee

E350 - Annual – No Credits

The seminar is devoted to the presentation of research work in international economics by external speakers, as well as faculty and advanced students from the Institute. PhD students in the Economics unit are expected to attend this seminar.

The seminar takes place at 14:15 in Rigot 3, unless otherwise noted.

 

 

Spring 2012

 

  • 21 Februar , Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, African Center for Economic Transformation

"Market Competition in Export Cash Crops and Farm Income" (.pdf)

 

  • 28 Februar,  Gabriel Zucman, PSE

"The Missing Wealth of Nations: are Europe and the U.S. net Debtors or net Creditors?" (abstract)

 

  • 6 March, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Berkeley

Exorbitant Privilege and Exorbitant Duty (.pdf)

 

  • 13 March, Peter Egger, ETH Zurich

"The Causal Impact of Common Language on International Trade: Evidence from a Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design" (abstract)

 

  • 20 March, Mathias Thoenig, University of Lausanne

Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda (.pdf)

 

  • 26 March, Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University 

Trade Liberalizations and Global Current Account Imbalances (.pdf)

 

  • 27 March, Matthias Schündeln, Goethe University Frankfurt

"Multiple Visits and Data Quality in Household Surveys" (abstract)

  

  • 3 April, Alexander Mihailov, University of Reading

The Grand Experiment of Communism: Discovering the Trade-off between Equality and Efficiency (.pdf)

  • 10 April, Spring Break

     
      
  • 17 April, Greg Fischer, LSE

"Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana" (.pdf)

 

  • 24 April, Maitreesh Ghatak, LSE

“Microfinance, For-Profit Lending, and Endogenous Social Capital” (abstract)
 

  • 01 Mai, Labor Day
TBD


 

  • 2 Mai, Jamele Rigolini, World Bank

"Does Electoral Competition Improve Accountability?" (paper)

 

  • 03 Mai, Linda Tesar, University of Michigan

"The Impact of Foreign Liabilities on Small Firms: Firm-Level Evidence from the Korean Crisis" (paper)

 

  • 8 Mai, Beata Javorcik, Oxford

"Do the Biggest Aisles Serve a Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains and Their Implications for Romania" (paper)

  • 15 Mai, Ron Alquist, Bank of Canada

"Forecasting the Price of Oil" (.pdf)

  

  • 22 Mai, Gita Gopinath , Harvard

"Fiscal Devaluations" (link)

  • 29 Mai, Raphael Auer, SNB
    "Market Structure and Exchange Rate Pass-Through" (.pdf)

 

 

Fall 2011

 

  • September 20 , Francois Vaillancourt, Université de Montréal

"The rate of return to university education: methodology and evidence for québec for 2005"
(paper)

 

  • 27 September, Thibault Fally, University of Colorado at Boulder

"On the fragmentation of production in the US"  (paper)

 

  • 11 October, Matthieu Charpe, ILO

"Active labour market policies, search costs and positive fiscal multiplier" (with Slim Bridji from University of Zurich)

 

  • 18 October, Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan

"The Global Welfare Impact of China: Trade Integration and  Technological Change" (.pdf)

 

  • 25 October, Urs Lutherbacher, Graduate Institute

"A Crucial Issue in International Cooperation: Why Developed Countries Should Pay for the Cost of Climate Change" (.pdf)

  • 27 October, Rudiger Ahrend, OECD (in R2)

"Is the structure of international capital flows driving financial fragility? The role of international financial integration, contagion, and safe-asset demand from emerging economies"

 

  • 1 November, Thomas Nitschka, SNB

"Banking sectors’ international interconnectedness: Implications for consumption risk sharing in Europe" (.pdf)

  • 8 November,  Jean Imbs,  PSE

 "The Mechanics of Structural Change" (astract)

  • 10 November, Antoine Martin, NY Fed

"Repo Runs: Evidence from the Tri-Party Repo Market" (.pdf)
       

  • 15 November, Harald Hau, University of Geneva 14h45-16h15

"Real Effects of Stock Underpricing" (.pdf)
   

  • 22 November, Nathan Fiala, DIW Berlin

"Can Employment Programs Reduce Poverty and Social Instability? Experimental evidence from a Ugandan aid program" (.pdf)
   

  • 29 November, Harris Dellas, University of Bern

"Fiscal Multipliers in Recessions" (.pdf)
     

  •  6 December, Sergei Guriev, New Economic School in Moscow

"Duration and term structure of trade agreements" (.pdf)
       

  • 13 December, Brian McCaig , Australian National University

"Export markets, employment, and formal jobs: Evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement" (.pdf)

 

  • 19 December, Rex Ghosh, IMF

"To Have and to Hold: Explaining Reserve Accumulation In EMEs" (.pptx) (.pdf)


20 December, William Pariente, UC Louvain

TBD

 

 

 

 

Last year's participants

Spring 2011

March 1 2011, Paola Conconi, Université libre de Bruxelles
Policymakers' Horizon and Trade Reforms with Giovanni Facchini and Maurizio Zanardi (paper)

March 16 2011, Sebastian Weber, IMF (Wednesday 12:15, Rigot 2).
Growth Spillover Accounting from Crisis to Recovery: Any Role for Germany? with Hélène Poirson.

March 25 2011, Tamon Asonuma, IMF (Friday 14:15, Rigot 3).
Serial Default and Debt Renegotiation (paper)

March 29 2011, Thomas Laubach, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Fiscal Policy, Default Risk and Euro Area Sovereign Bond Spreads with Vladimir Borgy, Jean-Stéphane Mesonnier and Jean-Paul Renne.

April 5 2011, Romain Rancière, Paris School of Economics.
Inequality, Leverage and Crises with Michael Kumhof (paper)

April 19 2011, Alan Sutherland, University of St Andrews.
Nominal Stability and Financial Globalisation: Theory and Evidence with Ozge Senay and Mick Devereux

May 17 2011, Murat Kirdar, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
tbd

May 27, Edwin Lai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Friday 14:15, Rigot 2)
A Model of Trade with Ricardian Comparative Advantage and Intra-sectoral Firm Heterogeneity

 

Fall 2010

September 23, Marcel Fratzscher, European Central Bank (Thursday 14:15, Rigot 3).
Macroprudential policy and central bank communication (paper [pdf])

October 5, Isabelle Méjean, Polytechnique.
Reallocation across Firms and Aggregate Quality Upgrading (with Julien Martin; paper) 

October 12, Refet Gurkaynak, Bilkent University
How Useful are Estimated DSGE Model Forecasts for Central Bankers? (with Rochelle Edge, paper) 

October 21, Akito Matsumoto, IMF (Thursday 14:15, Rigot 3).
International Risk Sharing During the Globalization Era (with Robert Flood and Nancy Marion, paper) 

October 26, Florian Mayneris, Université Louvain la Neuve.
Entry on Export Markets, Heterogeneous Credit Constraints and Firm-Level Performance Growth (paper)  

November 9, Ruben Durante, Sciences Po.
Risk, Cooperation and the Economic Origins of Social Trust: An Empirical Investigation (paper) 

November 16, Cédric Tille, HEID
Self-Fulfilling Risk Panics (with Philippe Bacchetta and Eric van Wincoop, paper). 

November 24, Erwing Bulte, Tilburg University (Wednesday 16:15, Rigot 3, joint with the environment chair)
Violent Conflict and Behavior: a Field Experiment in Burundi (paper) 

November 25, Isaac Mbiti, Southern Methodist University (Thursday 14:15, Rigot 3)
Elite Secondary Schools and Student Achievement: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Kenya 

December 7, Nicolas Coeurdacier, PSE
Credit Constraints and Growth in a Global Economy (with Keyu Jin and Stephane Guibaud)