2008/2009
Seminars are usually held on Tuesdays 1 to 2 pm in IIIS Seminar Room, unless otherwise indicated
Seminar Organiser:
Gaia Narciso – Phone:+353 (0)1 896 1067
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 07 Oct** | Kevin O'Rourke (TCD) | "The structure of protection and growth in the late 19th cen |
| 14 Oct** | Philip Lane (TCD IIIS) | "European Financial Integration" |
| 21 Oct | Randall Akee (IZA) | "Parents' Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-Experimen |
| 28 Oct | Jacco Thijssen (TCD) | "An Evidence Based Approach to Econometrics: A First Step ou |
| 11 Nov | Marc Schiffbauer (ESRI) | "Inflation, financial development and long-run TFP-growth" |
| 18 Nov** | Matt Cole (University of Oregon) | "Optimal Tariffs, Tariff Jumping, and Heterogeneous Firms" |
| 25 Nov** | Karl Whelan (UCD) | "Where do firms export, how much and why?" |
| 02 Dec** | Rocco Macchiavello (Nuffield College, Oxford University) | "Ethnic Violence and Exports: Evidence from Kenyan Flowers" |
| 04 Dec | Peter Egger (Seminar in Room 3071) (Ifo) | "Horizontal firm integration and the taxation of profits" |
| 13 Jan | Peter Kort (Tilburg University) | "Why Do Big Firms Not Innovate?" |
| 20 Jan | Michael Wycherley (TCD) | "Innovation versus Imitation, intellectual property rights i |
| 10 Feb | Ana Fernandes (University of Sussex) | "Intrafirm Trade and Contractibility in Export Processing" |
| 17 Feb** | Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford University) | "Self-Help Groups and Mutual Assistance: Evidence from Kenya |
| 24 Feb | Finn Tarp (University of Copenhagen) | "The Forgotten Property Rights: Restrictions on Land Use in |
| 10 Mar | Sibylle Lehmann (Max Planck Institute) | "German stock market regulation and its effect on initial pu |
| 11 Mar | Christian Ahlin (Michigan State University) | "Matching for Credit: Risk and Diversification in Thai Micro |
| 31 Mar | Vasco Carvalho (CREi/UPF) | "Aggregate Fluctuations and the Network Structure of Interse |
| 7 Apr | Ibrahim Unalmis (University of Ireland-Maynooth) | "Stimulating Economic Growth Using Fiscal Policy in a new-Ke |
| 14 Apr | Patrick Nolen (University of Essex) | "Cell-Phones and Economic Development: Evidence From South A |
| 21 April | Catia Batista | "Testing the ‘Brain Gain’ Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Ca |
| 28 Apr | David Cuberes (Clemson University) | “Democracy, Diversification and Growth Reversals” |
| 30 Apr** | Julian di Giovanni (IMF) 13.00 - 14.30 | "Fluctuations in Granular Economies" The paper is available |
| 5 May** | Beata S. Javorcik (University of Oxford) | "Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Acquisitions and Firm |
| 15 May | Giorgio Valente (University of Leicester) | "Liquidity and Arbitrage in the FX Market" (joint with W.-M. |
| 22 May (Note change of Venue-Room 2026) | Florin Bilbiie (HEC) | "Endogenous entry and product variety: some macroeconomic po |
| 16 June | Ehud Kalai (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Unive | " Large games and markets" |
| 18 June | Vilen Lipatov (Hannover University) | "Coporate Tax Evasion: the Case for Specialists" The paper i |
** = Joint seminar with Department of Economics & IIIS