Seminars held during 1999

February

Changes in Consumption Behavior: Italy in the Early 1990’s
Guglielmo WEBER, Charles Grant and Raffaele Miniaci (University of Padova),

Group Interactions and Individual Background. Explaining Regional Shirking Differentials in a Large Italian Bank
Andrea ICHINO (European University Institute) and Giovanni Maggi (Princeton University)

Ethnic Groups and Informal Credit Markets
Eliana LA FERRARA (IGIER and University Bocconi)

March

A Theory of Haste with Applications to Construction of Power Plants and Destruction of the Environment.
Juan CARRILLO and Isabelle Brocas (ECARE, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

A Comparison of Stock Market Mechanisms
Giovanni CESPA (GREMAQ, Université de Sciences Sociales de Toulouse)

Saving, Growth and Investment: A macroeconomic analysis using a panel of countries
Lucio PICCI (Università di Bologna), Orazio P. Attanasio (University College London), Antonello Scorcu (Università di Bologna)

Rule-making and Capital Optimal Delegation of Information Acquisition
Giuliana PALUMBO (ECARE, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

In Defence of Usury Laws
Giuseppe COCO (University of Exeter) ) and David de Meza (University of Exeter and London School of Economics)

April

Price cap regulation and information acquisition
Francesca STROFFOLINI (University of Napoli Federico II)

Nonlinear Dynamics in Real Exchange Rates
Lucio SARNO (University of Oxford)

Bookbuilding and Strategic allocation
Francesca CORNELLI (London Business School)

Product Specialization and Capital Structure
Gyongyi LORANTH and Stefan Arping (ECARE, Universite Libre de Bruxelles and IDEA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona).

Stochastic Dominance Amongst Swedish Income Distributions
Almas HESHMATI (Stockolm School of Economics) and Esfandiar Maasoumi (Southern Methodist University of Dallas)

May

Non Parametric FrontierModels: the Statistical Approach
Leopold SIMAR (Université de Louvain)

Learning to play equilibrium strategies in experimental financial markets: does microstructure matter ?
Sebastien POUGET (Université de Toulouse)

Monetary policy in a currency area
Pierpaolo BENIGNO (Princeton University)

General Equilibrium Implications of Fund Managers' Compensation Fees
Domenico CUOCO (Wharton School)

June

Monetary policy misspecification in VAR models
Fabio CANOVA and Joaquim Pina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

September

Spatial Competition in Credit Markets
Heidrun C. HOPPE (Universitaet Hamburg) and Ulrich Lehmann-Grube (Universitaet Hamburg)

Bank Moral Hazard and Market Discipline
Elena CARLETTI (London School of Economics)

October

The Family, Credit Constraints and Economic Growth
Erasmo PAPAGNI (Università d Napoli Federico II)

Advanced Course in Economic Growth
Antonio CICCONE (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Equity Holdings of Banks and Credit Market Competition
Michael TROEGE (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)

November

Bid-Ask price competition with asymmetric information between market makers
Riccardo CALCAGNO (Tilburg University) e S.Lovo

Legal Determinants of the Return on Equity
Marco PAGANO and Davide Lombardo (Stanford University)

An Appraisal of a National Selection Process for Associate Professorship
Daniele CHECCHI (Università Statale di Milano)

Systemic Risk, Interbank Relations and Liquidity Provision by the Central Bank
Xavier Freixas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Bruno PARIGI (Università di Padova), and Jean Charles Rochet (Université de Toulouse)

December

Real Business Cycles or Sticky Prices? The Impact of Technology Shocks on US Manufacturing
Anton MUSCATELLI, Jim Mulley, Ulrich Woitek (University of Glagow)