SPRING 2012
January 18
Ibolya Schindele (Norwegian Business School)
Social Capital and the Viability of Stakeholder-Oriented Firms: Evidence from Savings Banks
February 1
Claudia Foroni (European University Institute)
The Use of Mixed-Frequency Data to Identify Structural Models
February 2
Georgios Georgiadis (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Towards an Explanation of Cross-Country Asymmetries in Monetary Transmission
February 9
Zoltan Wolf (OECD, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Forecasting aggregate productivity using information from firm-level data
February 10
Michael Rousakis (University of Warwick)
Expectations and Fluctuations: The Role of Monetary Policy
February 21
Petr Sedlaček (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Firm age, business cycles and aggregate labor market dynamics
April 4 (in CUCU-room, A/431)
Gabor Pinter (University of Cambridge)
Financial frictions and shocks
April 11 (A/431)
Peter Karadi (ECB)
QE1 vs. 2 vs. 3: A Framework for Analysing Large Scale Asset Purchases as a Monetary Policy Tool
April 25 (A/431, CUCU-room)
Henrik Jacobsen Kleven (London School of Economics)
Behavioral Responses to Notches: Evidence from Pakistani Tax Records
May 9 (A/431, CUCU-room)
Susanne Forstner (European University Institute)
Job-to-Job Mobility and Wage Inequality: A quantitative assessment
May 16 Wednesday , MNB CUCU Room 15:15-16:45
Roland Straub (ECB)
Bubble Thy Neighbor: Portfolio Effects and Externalities from Capital Controls
May 23 (in CUCU-room A/431)
Viktoria Hnatkovska (Wharton Finance)
The Exchange Rate Response Puzzle
May 30 (A/431, CUCU-room)
Fabio Ghironi (Boston College)
Market Deregulation and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Monetary Union
June 13 (A/431, in CUCU-room) at 15:00
Michele Lenza (ECB)
Money, credit, monetary policy and the business cycle in the euro area
June 18 (Monday) CANCELLED!
Anthony Venables (University of Oxford)
Cities in the global economy: understanding why cities do well
June 28, Thursday
Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)
Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession
FALL 2012
September 12
Christophe Deissenberg (Université de la Méditerranée
and GREQAM)
New approaches in macroeconomics: agent-based modeling/heterogeneous agents
Promises and limitations
September 26 14:00-15:15 Széchenyi room, A/401
Ralph De Haas (EBRD)
Running for the Exit? International Bank Lending during a Financial Crisis
October 3
Mike Elsby (University of Edinburgh)
On the Importance of the Participation Margin for Labor Market Fluctuations
October 10
Refet Gürkaynak (University of Bilkent)
Judging the DGSE model by its forecast
October 17
Paolo Sodini (Stockholm School of Economics)
Twin Picks: Disentangling the Determinants of Risk-Taking in Household Portfolios
November 14
Livia Chitu (ECB)
Was unofficial dollarisation/euroisation an amplifier of the ‘great recession’ of 2007-09 in emerging economies?
November 28
Thijs van Rens (CREI/UPF)
Selective Hiring and the Welfare Costs of Business Cycles