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Winter 2013

Our seminars are joint with CIREQ

Activities this week: Announcements by CIREQ

Montreal Econometrics Seminars take place at the organizer's institution.

MARCH
Friday, March 1
3:30, L429
Peter Howitt (Brown)
"How Inflation Affects Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Investigation"
Cireq macro seminar
organizer: F. Alvarez-Cuadrado
Friday, March 15
3:30, L429
Dilip Abreu (Princeton)
"One-sided Uncertainty and Delay in Reputational Bargaining"
Montreal Economic Theory Seminar
organizer: R. Dutta
Friday, March 22
3:30, L429
Huntley Schaller (Carleton)
"Corporate Savings, the Marginal Value of Cash, and the Discount Rate: Can Persistent Financial Constraints Be Detected in Aggregate Data?"
organizer: J. Handa
APRIL
Friday, April 5
10:30, L429
Remi Jedwab (George Washington University)
"Urbanization with and without Structural Transformation"
organizer: M. Chemin
Friday, April 12
3:30, L429
Mark Weder (Adelaide)
"Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles"
organizer: N. V. Long
Friday, April 19
3:30, L429
Takao Kato (Colgate)
"Dynamics of the Gender Gap in the Workplace: An Econometric Case Study of a Large Japanese Firm"
organizer: F. Lange
Friday, April 26
3:30, L429
Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton)
"Behavioral Competitive Equilibrium and Extreme Prices"
Montreal Economic Theory Seminar
organizer: J. Li
Monday, April 29
3:30, L429
Jess Benhabib (NYU)
"Uncertainty and Sentiment-Driven Equilibria"
organizer: D. Barczyk
MAY
Friday, May 3
3:30, L429
Guiomar Martin-Herran
"Non-Linear Strategies in Differential Games: A Numerical Investigation"
organizer: H. Benchekroun
Tuesday, May 21
3:30, Bronfman 178
Thierry Magnac (Univ Toulouse Capitole)
"Post schooling human capital investments and the life cycle variance of earnings"
Montreal Econometrics Seminar
organizer: tba
Tuesday, May 28
12:00, L429
Javier Escobal
"Polarización y segregación en la distribución del ingreso en el Perú: Trayectorias desiguales"
Cireq seminar
organizer: F. Alvarez-Cuadrado

Summer 2012

Our seminars are joint with CIREQ

Activities this week: Announcements by CIREQ

Montreal Econometrics Seminars take place at the organizer's institution.

JULY
Thursday, July 12
3:30, L429
Omar Licandro (IAE-CSIC and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)
"The Mean Life of Famous People from Hammurabi to Einstein"
organizer: M. Poschke

Fall 2012

Our seminars are joint with CIREQ

Activities this week: Announcements by CIREQ

Montreal Econometrics Seminars take place at the organizer's institution.

SEPTEMBER
Friday, Sept. 14
1:30, L429
Ghazala Azmat (Queen Mary)
"The Distribution of Talent across Contests"
organizer: M. Poschke
Friday, Sept. 21
3:30, L429
Dave Donaldson (MIT)
"Who’s Getting Globalized? The Size and Nature of Intranational Trade Costs"
organizer: M. Chemin
Friday, Sept. 28
3:30, L429
Daniel Leonard (Flinders)
"Technology Transfers and Industry Closures"
organizer: N. V. Long
OCTOBER
Friday, Oct. 12
3:00, L429
John Haltiwanger (Maryland)
"The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning About Demand"
Cireq macro seminar
organizer: M. Poschke
Monday, Oct. 15
10:00, L429
David Albouy (Michigan)
"Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity"
organizer: J. Galbraith
Friday, Oct. 26
3:30, L429
Carmen Ponce (GRADE)
"Rural-urban contrasts: effects of child work on verbal and numeracy skills in late childhood".
joint with ISID
organizer: tba
NOVEMBER
Friday, Nov. 9
3:30, L429
Rahul Deb (Toronto)
"Dynamic Screening with Limited Commitment"
organizer: R. Dutta
Friday, Nov. 23
1:30, L429
Jonathan Newton (Sydney)
"Tipping Points: Coalitions and Speed of Convergence to Efficient Equilibrium"
organizer: L. Xue
Monday, Nov. 26
1:00, L429
Soo Hong Chew (National U of Singapore)
"Partial Ambiguity"
organizer: tba
Friday, Nov. 30
3:30, L429
Vikram Manjunath (UdeM)
"Fractional Matching Markets"
organizer: tba
DECEMBER
Friday, Dec. 7
3:30, L429
Keith Chen (Yale)
"The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Evidence from Savings Rates, Health Behaviors, and Retirement Assets"
organizer: F. Lange