• Spring Term 2007
   

• Winter term 2007

Tuesday 23 January 2007 – h 15.30

Nicola Pavoni and Orazio Attanasio(UCL)

Tuesday 30 January 2007 – h 15.30

J.Gali and Luca Gambetti (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
On the sources of the Great Moderation

Tuesday 6 February 2007 – h 15.30

Gilles Saint-Paul (Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse)

Selection of Boundedly Rational Firms and the Allocation of Resources - Slides

Tuesday 13 February 2007 – h 15.30

Giuseppe De Feo (CORE, UCL)

Efficiency of Competition in Insurance Markets with Adverse Selection

Tuesday 20 February 2007 – h 15.30

Paolo Colla (Università Bocconi) and Antonio Mele (LSE)

Information Linkages and Correlated Trading

Tuesday 27 February 2007 – h 15.30

Stefano Gagliarducci (CEMFI)

Outside Earnings and Moral Hazard: the Elusive Quest for Good Politicians

Tuesday 6 March 2007 – h 15.30

Claudia Olivetti (Boston University) and Barbara Petrongolo (London School of Economics)

Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Tuesday 13 March 2007 – h 15.30

Paolo Mistrulli (Banca d'Italia)

Assessing Financial Contagion in the Interbank Market: Maximum Entropy vs. Observed Interbank Lending Patterns

Tuesday 20 March 2007 – h 15.30

Fabrizio Iacone (University of York)

Semiparametric Detection of changes in Long Range Dependence

Tuesday 27 March 2007 – h 15.30

Federico Cingano (Bank of Italy)

Services Regulation and Growth: evidence from cross-country data

Tuesday 3 April 2007 – h 15.30

Matteo Cervellati (Università di Bologna) and Uwe Sunde (IZA Bonn)

Fertility, Education and Mortality: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition

Wednesday 4 April 2007 – h 15.00

William Zame (University of California Los Angeles)

Experimental Finance

Useful references for this lecture:

• P. Bossaerts, P. Ghirardato, S. Guarnaschelli and W. Zame
  Prices and Allocations in Asset Markets with Heterogeneous Attitudes Towards Ambiguity

• E. Asparouhova, P. Bossaerts, J. Eguia and W. Zame
  Why Cognitive Biases May Not Always Affect Asset Prices

• P. Bossaerts, C. Plott, W. R. Zame
  Prices and Portfolio Choices in Financial Markets: Theory, Econometrics, Experiments

Tuesday 17 April 2007 – h 15.30

Antonio Cabrales and Piero Gottardi (Universitad Carlos III)

Markets for Information: Of Inefficient Firewalls and Efficient Monopolies

Tuesday 8 May 2007 – h 15.30

Michele Bernasconi (Università dell'Insubria) and Paola Profeta (Bocconi University)

Tuesday 15 May 2007 – h 15.30

Decio Coviello (EUI)

Duration of Trials and The Individual Productivity of Judges - Slides

Tuesday 5 June 2007 – h 15.30

DIMITRIS Christelis (CSEF, University of Salerno)

Household holdings of foreign assets

Winter term 2007

Thursday 13 September 2007 – h. 5 p.m - University of Naples "Federico II"

Denis Gromb (LBS) and Dimitri Vayanos (London School of Economics)

Financially Constrained Arbitrage and Cross-Market Contagion

Tuesday 9 October 2007 – h. 3 p.m - University of Salerno

Vincent Iehlé (University Autonoma of Barcelona)

Group Economies and Games (with Myrna Wooders)

Thursday 11 October 2007 – h. 5 p.m - University of Naples "Federico II"

Franco Peracchi (University Tor Vergata)

Living Standards and the Distribution of Heights: Italy, 1855-1910 (with Brian A’Hearn and Giovanni Vecchi)

Tuesday 16 October 2007 – h. 3 p.m - University of Salerno

Tullio Jappelli (University of Naples and CSEF)

Information Sharing and Credit: Firm-Level Evidence from Transition Countries (with Martin Brown and Marco Pagano)

Tuesday 23 October 2007 – h. 3 p.m - University of Salerno

Gian Luca Clementi (New York University)

Legal Institutions, Sectoral Heterogeneity, and Economic Development
(with Rui Castro and Glenn MacDonald)

Thursday 25 October 2007 – h. 5 p.m - University of Naples "Federico II"

Annamaria Menichini (University of Salerno)

The Strategic Power of Signal Acquisition (with Peter Simmons)

Tuesday 30 October 2007 – h. 3 p.m - University of Salerno

Raffaele Miniaci (University of Brescia)

An Experiment on Markets and Contracts: Do Social Preferences Determine Corporate Culture (with A. Cabrales, M. Piovesan and G. Ponti)

Tuesday 6 November  2007 – h. 3 p.m - University of Salerno

Maria Grazia Romano (University of Salerno and CSEF)

Herd Behaviour in Capital Market

Thursday 8 November 2007 – h. 5 p.m - University of Naples "Federico II"

Giuseppe Bertola (University of Turin)

Financial Markets, Redistribution, Risk, and Effort (with W. Koeniger)

Tuesday 13 November  2007 – h. 3 p.m - University of Salerno

Paolo Ghirardato (University of Turin)

Ambiguity and Asset Markets: Theory and Experiment" (with P. Bossaerts, S. Guarnaschelli e B. Zame)

Thursday 15 November 2007 – h. 5 p.m - University of Naples "Federico II"

Saverio Simonelli (Università di Napoli Federico II and CSEF)

Do Surveys Help Forecasting GDP in Real Time? Evidence for the Euro Area

Thursday 22 November 2007 – h. 4.30 p.m - University of Naples "Federico II"

Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI)

Tuesday 27 November  2007 – h. 3 p.m - University of Salerno

Enrico Minelli (University of Brescia)

Shareholder-efficient Production Plans in a Multi-period Economy (with J. Dreze and O. Lachiri)

Thursday 29 November 2007 – h. 5 p.m - University of Naples "Federico II"

Decio Coviello (EUI, University of Salerno and CSEF)

Does Publicity Affect Competition? Evidence from Discontinuities in Public Procurement Auctions (with Mario Mariniello, EUI)

Tuesday 4 December  2007 – h. 3 p.m – University of Salerno

Vincenzo Galasso (Bocconi University and CSEF)

Tuesday 11 December  2007 – h. 3 p.m – University of Salerno

Thomas Philippon (New York University, Stern School of Business)

The Bond Market's Q

Thursday 20 December 2007 – h. 5 p.m – University of Naples "Federico II"

Thierry Foucault (HEC Paris)

Insiders-Outsiders, Transparency and the Value of the Ticker
(with G. Cespa)