Events at CERGE-EI: 2015

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January 

Monday, 19 January, 2015 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Alessandro Galesi (Job Talk) “Can the Productivity Slowdown in Construction Explain US House Prices?”

Wednesday, 21 January, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Jan Bietenbeck (Job Talk): “Learning from Adversity? Short- and Long-Term Spillover Effects from Grade Retention in Kindergarten”

Friday, 23 January, 2015 | 15:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

András Kiss (Job Talk): “Salience and Switching”

Monday, 26 January, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Anne-Katrin Roesler (Job Talk): “Is Ignorance Bliss? Rational Inattention and Optimal Pricing”

Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Attila Lindner (Job Talk): “Who Pays for the Minimum Wage?”

February 

Monday, 2 February, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Sourav Bhattacharya, Ph.D. (U. of Pittsburgh) “A Possibility Theorem on Information Aggregation in Elections”

Wednesday, 4 February, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Hedvig Horváth (Job Talk): “Classroom Assignment Policies and Implications for Teacher Value-Added Estimation”

Wednesday, 4 February, 2015 | 17:00 | Special Event

Coursera Learning Hub at CERGE-EI "R Programming"

Thursday, 5 February, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht U): “Equilibrium and Matching under Price Controls”

Wednesday, 11 February, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Jan Kabátek (Job Talk): “Labour Supply, Fertility and Childcare Decisions – a Structural Analysis of Fiscal Stimuli for Working Mothers”

Thursday, 12 February, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Ivan Balbuzanov (Job Talk): “Short Trading Cycles: Kidney Exchange with Strict Ordinal Preferences”

Thursday, 19 February, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Martin Peitz (U. of Mannheim): “Media See-saws: Winners and Losers on Media Platforms”

Thursday, 26 February, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Péter Hudomiet (Job Talk): “The Role of Occupation Specific Adaptation Costs in Explaining the Educational Gap in Unemployment”

March 

Monday, 9 March, 2015 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Filip Rozsypal (Job Talk) “Schumpeterian Business Cycles”

Monday, 16 March, 2015 | 18:30 | Special Event

The Shadow Economy - Impact on Innovation, East and West

Friday, 20 March, 2015 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Nicos Christodoulakis (Athens U. of Econ. and Bus.) “Precautionary Savings and Debt Stabilization in the Euro Area”

Friday, 27 March, 2015 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Daniel Reck (U. of Michigan) “Preference Identification Under Inconsistent Choice”

Monday, 30 March, 2015 | 09:30 | Special Event

EEAG Report on the European Economy

April 

Friday, 17 April, 2015 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Michele Berardi, Ph.D. (U. of Manchester) “Overparameterization, Learning and Evolutionary Dynamics”

Monday, 20 April, 2015 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Olena Senyuta: “Essays in Industrial Organization”

Monday, 20 April, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Manuel Bagues, Ph.D. (Aalto U.) “Favoritism in Scientific Committees: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Natural Experiment”

Wednesday, 22 April, 2015 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Roman Šustek, Ph.D. (Queen Mary U.) “Mortgages and Monetary Politics”

Thursday, 23 April, 2015 | 16:00 | Public Lecture

Public Lecture with Nobel Laureate Finn Kydland

Friday, 24 April, 2015 | 15:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Sergiu Hart (U. of Jerusalem) “Two (!) Good To Be True”

Monday, 27 April, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

“When Connections Become Hires: Firm-level responses to supply shocks within their workers’ social networks”

May 

Monday, 11 May, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Tymon Tatur (U. of Bonn) “Bargaining with Weak Precommitments”

Wednesday, 13 May, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Mariola Pytliková, Ph.D. (Technical U. of Ostrava) “The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration”

Monday, 18 May, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Hodaka Morita (UNSW) “Compensation and Intrinsic Motivation in Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations”

Tuesday, 19 May, 2015 | 16:00 | Special Event

Lecture "The Global Crisis, Keynes's Solutions, and Small Open Economies"

Wednesday, 20 May, 2015 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Marcel Timmer (U. of Groningen) “Offshoring, Biased Technical Change and the Increasing Capital Share: an Analysis of Global Manufacturing Production”

Thursday, 21 May, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Yannis Katsoulacos (Athens U.) “Optimal Substantive Standards for Competition Authorities”

Friday, 22 May, 2015 | 09:30 | Special Event

Conference "International Comparison of Income, Prices and Production"

Friday, 22 May, 2015 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Facundo Piguillem, Ph.D. (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) “Dynamic Bargaining over Redistribution in Legislatures”

Monday, 25 May, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Mario Pagliero, Ph.D. (U. of Turin) “The Demand for Adoption”

Friday, 29 May, 2015 | 12:00 | Special Event

PhD/MA Graduation Ceremony

Saturday, 30 May, 2015 | 18:00 | Special Event

Graduation Gala 2015

June 

Tuesday, 2 June, 2015 | 14:00 | Special Event

Setting Up an Innovation System: Swiss Model for the Czech Republic?

Friday, 5 June, 2015 | 15:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

William Fuchs, Ph.D. (Berkeley-Haas) “Transparency in Asset Markets with Adverse Selection”

Wednesday, 10 June, 2015 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Emir Kamenica (Chicago Booth) “Information Environments and the Impact of Competition on Information Provision”

Monday, 15 June, 2015 | 16:30 | Public Lecture

Willem H. Buiter (Global Chief Economist, Citi) “What is Driving the Eurozone's Recovery and What Could Derail It?”

Tuesday, 16 June, 2015 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Dmytro Vikhrov: “Essays on the Economics of Labor Migration”

July 

Thursday, 23 July, 2015 | 11:00 | Special Event

MA in Applied Economics Graduation Ceremony

Friday, 24 July, 2015 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Ruslan Aliyev: “Essays on Monetary Policy”

August 

Friday, 7 August, 2015 | 08:00 | Special Event

CERGE-EI Graduate Teaching Fellows “Teaching Principles and Practices for Economics Course”

Thursday, 13 August, 2015 | 15:00 | Defense - PhD

Lasha Lanchava: “Essays in Behavioral Economics”

Monday, 24 August, 2015 | 10:00 | Defense - PhD

Dorota Kowalczyk: “Essays on Finance and Risk”

Monday, 24 August, 2015 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Gabriela Kuvíková: “Essays on Credit Risk”

Monday, 31 August, 2015 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Beka Lamazoshvili: “Essays on the International Transmission of Business Cycles”

September 

Tuesday, 8 September, 2015 | 11:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Ctirad Slavík, Ph.D. (Job Talk): “Asset Prices and Business Cycles with Financial Shocks”

Monday, 14 September, 2015 | 14:00 | Special Event

Forum 2000: "What Role for Economic Literacy in Democratic Reform? "

October 

Thursday, 1 October, 2015 | 14:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Stanislav Anatolyev (NES) “Many Instruments and/or Regressors”

Thursday, 1 October, 2015 | 16:30 | Public Lecture

Fiscal Policy in Practice. The Case of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and Implications for the Czech Republic

Friday, 2 October, 2015 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. John Hassler (IIES) “Climate Policy”

Monday, 5 October, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Gábor Kézdi (CEU) “Interethnic Friendship, Hostility and Academic Achievement – Evidence from Roma Students in Hungarian Schools”

Wednesday, 7 October, 2015 | 19:45 | Economics Discovery Hub

Jindřich Gallo “Corporate Finance by Aswath Damodaran”

Monday, 12 October, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi U.) “Interaction, Stereotypes and Performance. Evidence from South Africa”

Thursday, 15 October, 2015 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Can Tian, Ph.D. “Riskiness, Endogenous Productivity Dispersion and Business Cycles”

Friday, 16 October, 2015 | 10:00 | Defense - PhD

Klára Kalíšková: “Essays on Public Policies and Female Labor Supply”

Friday, 16 October, 2015 | 15:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Fei Li, Ph.D. “Revenue Management Without Commitment: Dynamic Pricing and Periodic Fire Sales”

Monday, 19 October, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Vardges Levonyan, Ph.D. (ETH Zurich) “What Led to the Ban on Same-Sex Marriage in California?: Structural Estimation of Voting Data on Proposition 8”

Thursday, 22 October, 2015 | 13:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Michael Hagan, DrPH., "Decision Making Under Uncertainty"

Thursday, 22 October, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Sarah Auster, Ph.D. (Bocconi U.) “Competing Mechanisms in Markets for Lemons”

Monday, 26 October, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Eva Gavrilova, Ph.D. (NHH) “Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime”

Monday, 26 October, 2015 | 19:45 | Special Event

Jiří Trešl, Ph.D."Ferrari IPO Valuation: Back of the Envelope Calculation"

Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Levent Çelik, Ph.D. (HSE Moscow) “Product Line Design”

Thursday, 29 October, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Christoph Kuzmics (U. of Graz) “Cognitive Empathy in Conflict Situations”

November 

Monday, 2 November, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Johannes Haushofer, Ph.D. (Princeton) “The Cost of Keeping Track”

Thursday, 5 November, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Pedro Bordalo, Ph.D. (Royal Holloway U. London) “Investor Psychology and Credit Cycles”

Thursday, 5 November, 2015 | 19:00 | Special Event

Presentation of Student Projects in Applied Economics

Monday, 9 November, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Nabanita Datta Gupta (Aaarhus U.) “Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care”

Wednesday, 11 November, 2015 | 09:00 | Special Event

MA in Applied Economics Discovery Day

Thursday, 12 November, 2015 | 08:00 | Special Event

MA in Applied Economics Discovery Day

Thursday, 12 November, 2015 | 16:30 | Public Lecture

Public Lecture “Ukraine: A Tragedy of Errors”

Friday, 13 November, 2015 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Andrei Kirilenko (The Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis at the Imperial College Business School, United Kingdom) “Latency and Asset Prices”

Thursday, 19 November, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Vasiliki Skreta (UCL) “Informed Seller with Taste Heterogeneity”

Saturday, 21 November, 2015 | 13:30 | Special Event

Conference “Labor Economics and Its Public Policy Impact on Economic Growth”

Monday, 30 November, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Alexander Cappelen (NHH Bergen) “False Positives and False Negatives in Distributive Choices”

Monday, 30 November, 2015 | 23:59 | Special Event

Application Deadline for MA in Applied Economics

December 

Thursday, 3 December, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Stefan Behringer, Ph.D. (U. of Duisburg-Essen) “Price Wars in Two-Sided Markets: The Case of the UK Quality Newspaper Industry”

Thursday, 10 December, 2015 | 09:00 | Special Event

Conference SEEDEC 2015

Thursday, 10 December, 2015 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. David Storch (Charles University in Prague) “Economy of Nature: Biological Diversity and the Life-Histories”

Tuesday, 15 December, 2015 | 12:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Anja Prummer, Ph.D. (Job Talk): “Spatial Advertisement in Political Campaigns”

Tuesday, 15 December, 2015 | 19:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Free Consultation for Thesis Methodology

Thursday, 17 December, 2015 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Damian Kozbur, Ph.D. (Job Talk): “Testing-Based Forward Model Selection”

Friday, 18 December, 2015 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dávid Krisztián Nagy (Job Talk): “City Location and Economic Development”

Monday, 21 December, 2015 | 14:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Jan Bena, Ph.D. (Sauder, U. of British Columbia) “Labor-induced Technological Change: Evidence from Doing Business in China”