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Program Guide 2012/2013
Lecturers
George J. Borjas, Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard University.
http://www.borjas.com/
Previous publications include: The Economic Analysis of Immigration ♦ The Labour Market Impact of High Skill Immigration ♦ Foreign Competition, Market Power, and Wage Inequality (with Valerie Ramey).
Lawrence Christiano, Professor of Economics, Northwe University.
http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~lchrist/
Previous publication include: Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy (with Martin Eichenbaum and Charles Evans ♦ Monetary Policy in a Financial Crisis (with Jorge Roldos and Christopher Gust) ♦ Remarks on Unconventional Monetary Policy.
Jakob de Haan, Professor of Economics, University of Groningen, and Director of Research, Bank of the Netherlands. http://www.rug.nl/staff/jakob.de.haan/index
Previous publications include: Does Central Bank Communication Really Lead to Better Forecasts of Policy Decisions? New Evidence Based on a Taylor Rule Model for the ECB (with J.E. Sturm) ♦ Financial Stability Reviews: A First Empirical Analysis (with S. Oosterloo and R. Jong-a-Pin) ♦ Reforming the Stability and Growth Pact (with F. Amtenbrink).
Marcel Fafchamps, Professor of Economics, Oxford University.
http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/marcel.fafchamps/homepage/
Previous publications include: Rural Poverty, Risk, and Development ♦ Development and Social Capital ♦ Learning to Export: Evidence from Moroccan Manufacturing (with Albert Zeufack and Said El Hamine).
Peter Neary, Professor of Economics, Oxford Unviersity.
http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/peter.neary/neary.htm
Previous publications include: Trade Costs and Foreign Direct Investment ♦ Multi-Product Firms and Flexible Manufacturing in the Global Economy (with Carsten Eckel) ♦ Simultaneous Reform of Tariffs and Quotas.
Lucio Sarno, Professor of Finance, Cass School of Business, City University, London.
http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/research-and-faculty/faculty/lucio-sarno
Previous publications include: Economics of Exchange Rates (with Mark Taylor) ♦ Properties of Foreign Exchange Risk Premia (with Paul Schneider and Christian Wagner) ♦ Carry Traders and global Foreign Exchange Volatility (with Lukas Menkhoff, Mail Schmeling and Andreas Schrimpf).
Sjak Smulders, Professor of Economics, Tilburg University.
http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/webwijs/show/?uid=j.a.smulders
Previous publications include: Sustainable Use of Resources and Economic Dynamics (with Lucas Bretschger) ♦ Climate Policy and the Optimal Extraction of High-and-Low Carbon Fossil Fuels (with E.H. van der Werf) ♦ Economic Growth and the Diffusion of Clean Technologies: Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curves (with Lucas Bretschger and Hannes Egli).
Eric van Wincoop, Professor of Economics, University of Virginia.
http://people.virginia.edu/~ev4n/
Previous publications include: International Capital Flows (with Cedric Tille) ♦ Why Do Consumer Prices React Less Than Import Prices to Exchange Rates? (with Philippe Barchetta) ♦ Can Nontradables Generate Substantial Home Bias? (with Pablo Pesenti).
Fabrizio Zilibotti, Professor of Economics, University of Zurich.
http://www.econ.uzh.ch/faculty/zilibotti.html
Previous publications include: Competing Engines of Growth: Innovation and Standardization (with Daron Acemoglu and Gino Gancia) ♦ Growing like China (with Zheng Song and Kjetil Storesletten) ♦ Distance to Technology Frontier and European Economic Growth.