ECONOMIC SEMINAR SERIES 2011 - 2012

Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Department of Economics

THE ONLY SEMINAR WITH A VIEW ON THE VENETIAN LAGUNE

Regular seminars take place at 14:30 in Room E of the S. Giobbe headquarters of the Dept. of Economics, 30121, Cannaregio 873 (free entry - coordinator: Prof. Federico Etro). Topics cover microeconomics, macroeconomics, public economics and economic policy, industrial organization and innovation, finance, law & economics and econometric research. 2012 - 2013 Season: Elhanan Helpman and Julio Rotemberg (University of Harvard), Gene Grossman (Princeton University), Paul Milgrom (Stanford University), Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University), Hashem Pesaran (University of Cambridge)... Click here for the picture gallery.

Next Seminar: May 14, 2012: Andrè de Palma (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France), Multiplayer, Multiprize, Imperfectly Discriminating Contests

July 2, 2012: Efraim Benmelech (Harvard University, U.S.A.)

June 28-29, 2012: Axel Börsch-Supan (Max Planck Institute, Germany) and Alberto Holly (Université de Lausanne, CH) - Italian Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe Users’ Conference

June 11, 2012: Lucrezia Reichlin (London Business School, U.K)

June 4, 2012: Rene' Stulz (Ohio State University, U.S.A.)

May 28, 2012: Jonathan Eaton (Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.), International Trade: Linking Micro and Macro

May 25, 2012: Olivier Blanchard (I.M.F. & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.)

May 21, 2012: Gilles Saint Paul (Toulouse School od Economics, France)

May 14, 2012: Andrè de Palma (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France), Multiplayer, Multiprize, Imperfectly Discriminating Contests

May 7, 2012: Paul Segerstrom (Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden), In Support of the TRIPs Agreement

April 26, 2012: John Vickers (Oxford University, U.K.), Stability and Competition in UK Banking, Ca' Foscari International Lecture

April 23, 2012: Jacques François Thisse (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Monopolistic Competition in General Equilibrium

April 16, 2012: Giovanni Ponti (University of Alicante, Spain), Social Preferences, Risk Preferences and the Hexagon Condition

April 2, 2012: Peter Nijkamp (V.U. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Migration Impact Assesment: A State of the Art

March 26, 2012: Johannes Abeler (Oxford University, U.K.), Preferences for Truth-telling

March 20, 2012: Roberto Rigobon (Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy, U.S.A.), Distance and Political Boundaries: Estimating Border Effect under Inequality Constraints

March 19, 2012: Ben Lockwood (University of Warwick, United Kingdom), Incentive Schemes for Local Government: Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England

March 9, 2012: Utpal Bhattacharya (Indiana University, U.S.A.), Family Conflicts in Mutual Fund Families

March 5, 2012: Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes (EDHEC, Paris, France), Human Capital and Regional Development

February 27, 2012: Pierre Pestieau (University of Liege, Belgium), The Economics of Increasing Longevity

February 20, 2012: Bruno Frey (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Recent Advances in the Economics of
Individual Subjective Well-Being

February 16, 2012: Michael Spence (New York University, U.S.A.), The Next Convergence: Developing Country Growth and the Changing Structure of the Global Econom, Ca' Foscari International Lecture

February 13, 2012: Francis Kramarz (Ecole Politechnique, Paris), When Strong Ties are Strong: Networks and Youth Labor Market Entry

February 6, 2012: Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford University, U.S.A.), Consumption Smoothing and Family Labor Supply

January 30, 2012: Daniele Franco (Bank of Italy), High Debt and Low Growth

January 23, 2012: John Hey (University of York, U.K.), Assessing Multiple Prior Models of Behaviour Under Ambiguity

January 17, 2012: Tim Crossley (University of Cambridge, U.K.), Cash by any Other Name? Evidence on labelling from the UK Winter Fuel

January 9, 2012: Francesco Giavazzi (Bocconi University), The Household Effects of Government Spending

December 19, 2011: Annamaria Lusardi (George Washington University, U.S.A.), Financial Literacy and the Financial Crisis

December 12, 2011: Silvia Marchesi (University of Milan, Bicocca), The Labor Market in the XVII Century Italian Art Sector

December 5, 2011: Mark Armstrong (Oxford University, U.K.), Exploding Offers and Buy-Now Discount

November 29, 2011: Marcella Lucchetta (UV), Bank Competition and Systemic Risk: A General Equilibrium Exposition (WISE Seminar)

November 22, 2011: Chiara Orsini (Aahrus University, Denmark), The Miracle Drugs (WISE Seminar)

November 14, 2011: Sergio Currarini (UV), Homophily and Segregation in Social Networks

November 7, 2011: Pierpaolo Benigno (Luiss University), Unemployment and Productivity in The Long Run: The Role of Macroeconomic Volatility

October 24, 2011: Mario Forni (Università di Modena and Reggio Emilia), Sufficient information in structural VARs

October 17, 2011: Ed Nosal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, U.S.A.), Equilibrium Bank Runs Revisited

October 11, 2011: Xavier Vives (Iese BusinessSchool, Barcelona, Spain), Innovation and Competitive Pressure, Intertic Lecture

October 11, 2011: Emilio Calvano (Bocconi University), The Impact of the Internet on Advertising Markets for News Media

October 3, 2011: Helmut Luetkepohl (European University Institute), Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market

For information on seminars and for unsolicited seminar proposals at the University of Venice email: federico.etro@unive.it. For administrative information email: vania.levorato@unive.it

Administrative rules for the foreign speakers: 1) An email sent after the seminar will provide the speakers with the form to be filled for reimbursement. 2) Any reimbursement for travel expenditures requires the original receipts of the hotel and the boarding cards of the flights. 3) We do not book hotel rooms, because we leave the choice to the speakers according to their necessities; however, only hotels up to four stars and for two nights are accepted for reimbursement. 4) Only economy flights can be reimbursed. 5) Ordinary reimbursement is limited to three hundred Euros for travel expenditures; any exception must be agreed before. 6) Unsolicited seminars are without reimbursement. Recommended hotel: Hotel Trearchi

Forms to be signed and filled for the reimbursment (click to download): FORM 1, FORM 2 (only for online flights), BANK DETAILS