Events at CERGE-EI: 2014

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January 

Monday, 13 January, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Mirko Draca: “The Changing Returns to Crime: Product-Level Evidence from the UK”

Wednesday, 15 January, 2014 | 14:30 | Special Event

Prof. Orley Ashenfelter

Friday, 17 January, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Pontus Rendahl: “Fiscal Policy in an Unemployment Crisis”

Monday, 20 January, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Ilke Onur: “The Impact of Private Hospital Insurance on the Utilization of Hospital Care in Australia”

Wednesday, 22 January, 2014 | 16:30 | Special Event

Prof. Jesse M. Fried: “The Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-Term Shareholders”

Friday, 24 January, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Yanos Zylberberg (JOB TALK): “The Inefficient Trickle-Down of Unemployment”

Monday, 27 January, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Christian Fons-Rosen (JOB TALK): “The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Firm Founding on Innovation”

Tuesday, 28 January, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Ana Tur-Prats (JOB TALK): “Family Types and Intimate-Partner Violence: A Historical Perspective”

Friday, 31 January, 2014 | 15:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Santiago Pereda Fernández (JOB TALK): “Social Spillovers in the Classroom: Identification, Estimation and Policy Analysis”

February 

Monday, 3 February, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Alex Armand (JOB TALK): “Who wears the trousers in the family? Intra-household resource control, subjective expectations and human capital”

Friday, 7 February, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Julian Neira: “Recovery Rate, Misallocation of Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences”

Monday, 10 February, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Arkadiusz Szydlowski (JOB TALK): “Endogenous Censoring in the Mixed Proportional Hazard Model with an Application to Optimal Unemployment Insurance”

Wednesday, 12 February, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Nikolaus Robalino (JOB TALK): “The Evolution of “Theory of Mind”: Theory and Experiments”

Friday, 14 February, 2014 | 11:00 | Defense - PhD

Peter Tóth: “Essays on Foreign Capital, External Finance and Trade of European Firms”

Monday, 17 February, 2014 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Kathrin Schlafmann (JOB TALK): “Housing, Mortgages, and Self Control”

Friday, 21 February, 2014 | 11:00 | Defense - PhD

Petar Stankov: “Empirical Essays on Crises, Reforms and Growth”

Friday, 21 February, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Julien Prat: “Dynamic Contracts and Learning by Doing”

March 

Monday, 3 March, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Katrine V. Løken: “Single mothers and their children: evaluating a work-encouraging welfare reform”

Wednesday, 5 March, 2014 | 16:00 | Special Event

Pension Reforms: a Discussion on Current State of the Czech Pension System

Friday, 14 March, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Pierpaolo Benigno: “Safe assets, liquidity and monetary policy”

Monday, 17 March, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Richard Blundell: “Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform”

Thursday, 20 March, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. David K. Levine: “Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State”

Friday, 21 March, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Kamila Sommer: “Implications of the U.S. tax policy for house prices, rents and homeownership”

Tuesday, 25 March, 2014 | 12:00 | Defense - PhD

Nargiza Alimukhamedova: “Measuring the Impact of Microfinance”

Wednesday, 26 March, 2014 | 10:00 | Special Event

The EEAG Report on the European Economy

Thursday, 27 March, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Mathias Thoenig: “Networks and Conflicts: Theory and Evidence from Fighting Groups in Africa”

April 

Thursday, 3 April, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Ed Hopkins: “Inequality and Risk-Taking Behaviour”

Thursday, 24 April, 2014 | 13:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Jacques Crémer: “The value of incumbency in heterogenous networks”

Friday, 25 April, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Kalin Nikolov: “Government Debt and Banking Fragility: The Spreading of Strategic Uncertainty”

Monday, 28 April, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Steven G. Rivkin: “The Evolution of Charter School Quality”

Tuesday, 29 April, 2014 | 16:30 | Public Lecture

Prof. Steven Rivkin "Decentralization, School Leaders, and the Quality of Teaching"

Wednesday, 30 April, 2014 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Pedro Brinca (JOB TALK): “Distortions in the Neoclassical Growth Model: A Cross-Country Analysis”

May 

Monday, 5 May, 2014 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Jan Bena: “Heterogeneous Innovations, Firm Creation and Destruction, and Asset Prices”

Wednesday, 14 May, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Dr. Justin Tumlinson (JOB TALK): “Corporate Provision of Public Goods”

Thursday, 15 May, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Yusufcan Masatlioglu: “Revealed Willpower”

Thursday, 22 May, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Mehmet Ekmekci: “Manipulated Electorates and Information Aggregation”

Friday, 23 May, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Bernardo de Vasconcellos Guimarães: “Coordination with timing frictions and payoff heterogeneity”

Friday, 30 May, 2014 | 12:00 | Special Event

PhD/MA Graduation Ceremony

Saturday, 31 May, 2014 | 18:00 | Special Event

Graduation Gala 2014

June 

Monday, 9 June, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Paula Stephan: “How Economics Shapes Science”

Friday, 13 June, 2014 | 10:00 | Special Event

Conference: Equal Opportunities on the Threshold of Czech Homes

Monday, 16 June, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Jiří Trešl, Ph.D.: “The Impact of Insider Trading Laws on Dividend Payout Policy”

Thursday, 19 June, 2014 | 14:00 | Public Lecture

Prof. Ed Glaeser "Triumph of the City"

Tuesday, 24 June, 2014 | 14:00 | Defense - PhD

Sherzod Tashpulatov: “Network Industry Liberalization: The Case of the England and Wales Electricity Market”

July 

Thursday, 10 July, 2014 | 14:00 | Defense - PhD

Anna Bogomolova: “Essays in Heterogeneous Learning”

Wednesday, 23 July, 2014 | 11:00 | Special Event

MA in Applied Economics Graduation Ceremony

August 

Friday, 8 August, 2014 | 10:00 | Defense - PhD

Pavla Nikolovová: “Essays on International Economics”

Friday, 8 August, 2014 | 13:00 | Special Event

Teaching Fellows Training Starts

Monday, 11 August, 2014 | 12:00 | Special Event

Career Integration Fellows Training Starts

Thursday, 14 August, 2014 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Gurgen Aslanyan: “Essays in Public Policies and Immigration Control”

Friday, 15 August, 2014 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Martin Kuncl: “Essays on Shadow Banking and Asset Pricing”

Sunday, 17 August, 2014 | 08:00 | Special Event

14th GDN/CERGE-EI Regional Research Workshop

Monday, 18 August, 2014 | 08:00 | Special Event

14th GDN/CERGE-EI Regional Research Workshop

September 

Tuesday, 2 September, 2014 | 14:00 | Defense - PhD

Renata Ivanova: “Essays on Return Migration and Economic Growth”

Thursday, 18 September, 2014 | 10:00 | Public Lecture

Prof. Eric Hanushek “The Economic Returns to a Good Teacher”

Monday, 22 September, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Andrew Oswald: “Human Well-Being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial”

Tuesday, 23 September, 2014 | 10:00 | Public Lecture

Prof. Andrew Oswald “Does Home Ownership Drive Unemployment? Empirical Evidence and Policy Consequences"

Wednesday, 24 September, 2014 | 15:00 | Defense - PhD

Batlome Janjgava: “Essays on Economics of Adaptive Learning and Imperfect Monitoring”

Thursday, 25 September, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Botond Kőszegi “Unrealistic Expectations and Misguided Learning”

Monday, 29 September, 2014 | 08:00 | Special Event

Reframing the Dialogue from Quotas to Complementarity

Monday, 29 September, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln “Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education”

October 

Monday, 6 October, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

P. Parrotta (Maastricht U.) “Ethnic Diversity and Firms’ Export Behavior”

Friday, 10 October, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Á. Ábrahám (EUI Florence) “The Effects of Moral Hazard on Wage Inequality in a Frictional Labor Market”

Wednesday, 15 October, 2014 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

F. M. Martin (St. Louis Fed) “The Value of Constraints on Discretionary Government Policy”

Monday, 20 October, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

P. Čížek (Tilburg U.) “Semiparametric Transition Models”

Friday, 24 October, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

A. Karantounias (Atlanta Fed) “Optimal fiscal policy with recursive preferences”

Friday, 31 October, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

T. Willems (Oxford) “What shall we do with the bad dictator? Time-consistency in the presence of strategic agents”

November 

Monday, 3 November, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

M. Piopiunik (CESifo Group Munich) “Smart Teachers, Smart Students: Teacher Skills and Student Performance across Developed Countries”

Tuesday, 4 November, 2014 | 10:00 | Public Lecture

Prof. George Psacharopoulos "Sixty years of returns to education: Where do we stand?"

Thursday, 6 November, 2014 | 09:00 | Special Event

Economic Experiment for Public

Thursday, 6 November, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

M. Morelli (Columbia U.) “A Theory of Power Wars”

Monday, 10 November, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

J. Slemrod (U. of Michigan) “Does Credit-Card Information Reporting Improve Small-Business Tax Compliance?”

Thursday, 13 November, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

B. Szentes (LSE) “Dynamic Contracting: An Irrelevance Result”

Friday, 14 November, 2014 | 09:00 | Special Event

Open House

Wednesday, 19 November, 2014 | 16:30 | Special Event

Andrés Solimano "Economic Elites, Crises and Democracy"

Thursday, 20 November, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

J. G. Forand (U. of Waterloo) “Dynamic Elections and the Limits of Accountability”

Friday, 21 November, 2014 | 10:00 | Special Event

Panel Discussion “Lessons from Anticorruption”

Friday, 21 November, 2014 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

M. Wiederholt (Goethe U. Frankfurt) “Empirical Properties of Inflation Expectations and the Zero Lower Bound”

December 

Monday, 8 December, 2014 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

J. de Quidt (Stockholm U.) “Your Loss Is My Gain: A Recruitment Experiment with Framed Incentives”

Thursday, 11 December, 2014 | 13:00 | Special Event

Public Seminar “Czech Financial Constitution and National Budget Council”

Thursday, 11 December, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

C. Prato (Georgetown U.) “Crises and the Puzzle of Reforms”

Monday, 15 December, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

W. Kets (Northwestern U.) “A Belief-Based Theory of Homophily”

Monday, 15 December, 2014 | 17:00 | Public Lecture

Global Economic Development – Europe and the Czech Republic

Thursday, 18 December, 2014 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

A. Pavan (Northwestern U.) “Taxation under Learning by Doing: Incentives for Endogenous Types”

Friday, 19 December, 2014 | 15:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

M. Fabinger (U. of Tokyo) “A Tractable Approach to Pass-Through Patterns”