Staff Seminars 2010

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September

• Tue 14th, 4.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)
  Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters

• Tue 7th, 2.00 p.m.-3.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Sebastian Edwards (UCLA, Anderson Graduate School of Management)
  Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism

August

• Tue 31st, 4.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Giovanni Peri (University of California at Davis)
  Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

• Thu 26th, 2.00 p.m.-3.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Ilan Chabay (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg)
  In Search of Empirical Methods and Data for Better Computational Models of Social-Ecological-Economic Systems

• Thu 19th, 3.30 p.m.-4.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  David Autor (MIT)
  The Role of the Minimum Wage in the Evolution of U.S. Inequality over Three Decades: A Modest Re-Assessment

• Tue 10th, 4.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Roberto Rigobon (MIT)
  The Distribution of the Size of Price Changes

July

• Fri 16th, 2.00 p.m.-3.00 p.m., Room 211 (Medienraum)
  Fang Yao (Humboldt Universität)
  Non-Constant Price Reset Hazards and Inflation Dynamics

June

• Thu 22nd, 2.00 p.m.-3.00 p.m., Room 211 (Medienraum)
  Edward Miguel (University of California at Berkeley)
  A New Look at African Economic and Political Development

• Thu 15th, 3.00 p.m.-4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Fiammetta Rossetti and Simone Martino (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)
  Economics of Marine Mineral Resources: Realising the Value of the World’s Maritime Jigsaw
• Thu 8th, 2.00 p.m.-3.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Sebastian Braun (Kiel Institute)
  Men, Women, and the Ballot. Gender Imbalances and Suffrage Extensions in US States

May

• Thu 20th, 2.00 p.m.-3.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Mewael Tesfaselassie (Kiel Institute)
  Growth, Unemployment and the Phillips Curve
• Wed 19th, 4.00 p.m.-5.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Sanjay K. Churgh (University of Maryland)
  Firm Risk and Leverage-Based Business Cycles
• Mon 3rd, 10.00 a.m.-11.00 a.m., Lecture Hall
  Artem Korzhenevych (Kiel Institute)
  Equal Split in the Almost-Ultimatum Game: Evidence from Kiel Informal Market for Group Train Travel

April

• Wed 28th, 11.00 a.m.-12.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Felix Hammermann (Deutsche Bundesbank)
  On the Welfare Costs of Price-level Targeting

March

• Thu 25th, 3.00 p.m.-4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Tito Boeri (Bocconi University)
  Corruption in Soccer
• Thu 25th, 2.00 p.m.-2.45 p.m., Room 211 (Medienraum)
  Sebastian Petrick (Kiel Institute)
  The Impact of Temperature Changes on Global Energy Demand
• Wed 10th, 2.30 p.m.-3.15 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Björn van Roye (Kiel Institute)
  New Insights from Labour Market Models and Fiscal Spending Multipliers – 
  A Research Overview

February

• Wed 24th, 2.30 p.m.-3.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Hillel Rapoport (Bar Ilan University)
  Migration and the Quality of Home-Country Institutions
• Wed 17th, 2.30 p.m.-3.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Jakob de Haan (University of Groningen)
  Does Central Bank Communication Really Lead to Better Forecasts of Policy Decisions? New Evidence Based on a Taylor Rule Model for the ECB
• Wed 3rd, 10.00 a.m.-11.00 a.m., Lecture Hall
  Holger Görg (Kiel Institute)
  Corruption and Productivity

January

• Thu 21st, 2.00 p.m-3.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Michael C. Burda (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
  Payroll Taxes and the Business Cycle
• Wed 20th, 3.00 p.m.-4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Seth D. Kaplan (Alpha International Consulting)
  Fixing Fragile States: Challenges and Opportunities for 
  Multipolar Cooperation