Seminar Schedule 2004-2005

NUI Maynooth Economics Department
Seminar Schedule, 2005-2006 Academic Year
 

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FALL TERM ****************

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Date

Presenter

Title

Invited by:

30 September,
Friday
4pm, DEW

Casper de Vries
Erasmus School of Economics

Weak and Stong Financial Fragility” with Geluk and de Haan

Tuvana Pastine

10 October

Monday 1pm

Olive Sweetman

NUIM

'Family Income and College Attendance'

 

14 -16 October

DEW Kenmare Conference

 

 

17 October,

Monday 1pm, DEW

Kevin O'Rourke

TCD

Democracy and Protectionism in the Late Nineteenth Century” with Taylor

Gerda Dewit

24 October

Monday 1pm

Frank O’Connor

Eastern Kentacky Univ.

“The Poverty Rate for Families in Kentucky Counties: An Analysis Using Census 2000”

 

28 October,
Friday
4 pm, DEW

John Aldrich
University of Southampton

"Keynes and R A Fisher on probability and statistical inference"

Denis Conniffe

31 October

Study Week

 

 

7 November,

Monday 1 pm

Laurence Long

NUIM

“Party Loyalty and Campaing Spending Caps”

 

11 November,
Friday
4pm, DEW

Ana Rute Cardoso
IZA

“Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility”

Aedin Doris

14 November

Monday 1pm

Tuvana Pastine
NUI Maynooth and CEPR

Signal Accuracy and Informatational Cascades

 

18 November,
Friday
4 pm, DEW

Rowena Pecchenino
Michigan State University

"Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself:  The Church, Spiritual Capital, and Community Formation in a World with Coordination Failures"

Gerry Boyle

21 November

Monday 1pm

Lisa Farrell

UCD

"A pack a day for twenty years: Smoking and Cigarette Pack Size" with Fry and Har

Tuvana Pastine

28 November,
Monday
1 pm

Margaret Hurley
NUI Maynooth

“On Exchange Rate Volatility”

 

5 December,
Monday 1 pm

Gerda Dewit
NUI Maynooth

"Oligopsonistic Cats and Dogs"

 

 

9 December

Friday 1pm

Michail Koubouros

U. of Peloponesse

“Intertemporal Inflation and Asset Returns” with Malliaropulos

Ekaterini Panopoulou

12 December,
Monday 1 pm

Gerry Boyle
NUI Maynooth

“Relative Income and Well-Being: Some International Survey Evidence” with Greene and Nelson

 

13 January

Friday

1pm

Philip Lane

Trinity College

The Real Effects of EMU

 

 

 

 

 

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SPRING TERM **************

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Date:

Presenter:

Title:

Invited by:

3 February

Friday 1 pm

Jonathan Eaton

NYU

“An Anatomy of International Trade:

Evidence from French Firms”

Gerda

6 February

Monday 1pm

Paul Devereux

UCD

“From the Cradle to the Labour Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes”

 

10 February

Friday 1pm

Stewart Fotheringham

National Centre for Geocomputation, NUI

"Geographically Weighted Regression: An Application to Hedonic Price Modelling"

 

Gerry and Denis

13 February

Monday 1pm

Brenda Gannon

NUIM

“The Influence of Economic Incentives on Reported Disability Status”

 

17 February

Friday 1pm

Olivier Bargain

IZA

"A Theory of Child Targeting"

Tom

20 February

Monday 1pm

Susana Ferreira

UCD

"Quality of life and environmental amenities: a

subjective well-being approach"

Gerry

24 February

Friday 2pm

Mark Schankerman

LSE

“Identifying technology spillovers and product

market rivalry”

 

27 February

Monday 1pm

Conor Keelan

Ashtown Food Research Centre

"Irish Household's Fast Food Expenditure Patterns

1994: 2000"

 

 

3 March

Friday 1pm

Kevin Hasker

Bilkent University

"The Rise of Money: An Evolutionary Analysis of the Origins of Money” joint with Ahmet Tamilci 

 

6 March

Monday 1pm

Kieran McQuinn

CB and Financial Services Authority of Ireland

"Conditional Convergence Re-examined: Taking Solow Very Seriously" with Karl Whelan

Gerry

10 March

Friday 1pm

Martin Pesendorfer

LSE

"Asymptotic Least Squares Estimators for Dynamic Games" with Philipp Schmidt-Dengler

 

13-17 March

Study Week

 

 

24 March

Friday 1pm

Karim Abadir

Imperial College London

The Festivity Effect” with Laura Spierdijk

 

31 March

Friday 1pm

Yunus Aksoy

Birkbeck, Univ. of London

“Exchange Rates and Fundamentals: Is there a Role for Nonlinearities inReal Time?”

 

7 April

Friday 1:10pm

DLSG

Zvi Eckstein

Tel Aviv University

University of Minnesota

"Job and Wage Mobility in a Search Model with Non-Compliance (Exemptions) with the Minimum Wage"

DLSG

14 April, Friday

Good Friday

 

 

17-21 April

Easter

 

 

24 April

Monday 1pm

Kanika Kapur

UCD

“Love or Money? Health Insurance and Retirement among Married Couples”

 

28-30 April

IEA Conference

 

 

1 May, Monday

Bank holiday

 

 

5 May

Friday 1pm

Ronny Razin

LSE

"A Theory of Religion: Linking Individual Beliefs and Social Rituals"

 

8-12 May

Study Week

 

 

9 June

Friday

Andrea Ichino

EUI Florence

 

DLSG