Academic Year 2009-2010
(Wednesdays 12:00-1:15 pm)

September 30Andrzej Skrzypacz (Stanford)
 "Selling Information"
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October 7Eric French (Chicago Fed)
The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior (with John Bailey Jones)
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jointly organized by Collegio Carlo Alberto and CeRP
November 4Fernando Broner (CREI)
"Rethinking the effects of financial liberalization" (with Jaume Ventura)
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November 11Ignacio Palacios-Huerta (LSE)
"Psychological Pressure in Competitive Environments: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment" (with Jose Apesteguia)
November 18Rosemarie Nagel (Pompeu Fabra)
 "Measuring Strategic Uncertainty and Risk in Coordination, Entry Games, and Lotteries with fMRI" (with Andrea Brevelli, Giorgio Coricelli and Frank Heinemann)
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November 25Antonio Merlo (U. of Pennsylvania)
"Some Unpleasant Bargaining Arithmetics?" (with Hulya Eraslan)
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December 9Franco Peracchi (Tor Vergata)
"Aging, cognitive abilities and retirement in Europe"
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December 16Fernando Alvarez (U. of Chicago)

"Durable consumption and asset management with transactions and observation costs"
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March 17Joe Altonji (Yale)
"Modeling Earnings Dynamics"
March 24Ted Miguel (Berkeley) - CANCELLED

March 31Guido Lorenzoni (MIT)
"A Rational Theory of Irrational Exuberance"
April 14Alberto Bisin (NYU)

April 21Rosa Matzkin (UCLA) -CANCELLED

April 27 (Tuesday)Costas Meghir (UCL) -CANCELLED

April 27Christopher Flinn (NYU)
"Household Choices and Child Development"
April 28Arvind Krishnamurthy (Northwestern, Kellogg)
"The Aggregate Demand for Treasury Debt"
May 5Bo Honoré (Princeton)
"Estimation of Cross Sectional and Panel Data Models with Two-sided Censoring or Truncation"

Paper 1: Estimation of Panel Data Models with Two-sided Censoring
Paper 2: Estimation of a Transformation Model with Truncation, Interval Observation and Time-Varying Covariates
May 12Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI) - CANCELLED
"Optimal Life Cycle Unemployment Insurance"

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May 19Andrea Ichino (Bologna)
"Don’t spread yourself too thin. The impact of task juggling on workers’ productivity"

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June 1Allan Drazen (Maryland)
"Kosher Pork" (with Ethan Ilzetzki)
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