Staff Seminars 2005

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December

• Wed. 14th, 3:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Rainer Schweickert, Rolf Langhammer
  EU Integration and its Implications for Asian Economies. What we Know and What Not
• Wed 7th, 2:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Christian Merkl, Dennis Snower
  The Caring Hand that Cripples; the Fate of East German Labor Markets

November

• Wed 30th, 2:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Christian Merkl, Dennis Snower
  Monetary Persistence, Imperfect Competition, and Staggering Complementarities
• Wed, 16th, 3:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Eckhardt Bode
  The spatial magnitude of metropolitan areas
• Mo 14th, 2:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Sonja Peterson
  Intensity Targets: Implications for the economic uncertainties of emissions trading
• Wed 9th, 2:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Oded Stark (Universities Bonn, Klagenfurt, Vienna, Warsaw University)
  The migration of human capital from a developing country as a policy tool for enhancing human capital formation and raising welfare within the country

October

• Thu 20th, 3:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Michael Orszag (Watson Wyatt)
  Corporate Pension Liabilities and Funding - How Financial Markets React
• Wed 12th, 2:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Christina Gerberding (Deutsche Bundesbank)
  Taylor Rules versus Monetary Targeting: Lessons from the German Experience
• Wed 5th, 2:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Erich Gundlach
  The Solow model in the empirics of growth

September

• Wed 28th, 4:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Roel Beetsma (University of Amsterdam)
  Wars, Redistribution and Civilian Federal Expenditures in the US over the Twentieth Century
• Wed 21st, 2:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Rainer Schweickert
  EU-Enlargement and Institutional Development - How Far Away are the EU's Balkan and Black Sea Neighbours
  Manfred Wiebelt
  Exchange Rate Policy in a Dollarized Economy: a CGE Analysis for Bolivia
• Thu 15th, 2:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Christian Merkl
  Bank Capital and Loan Supply
• Wed 14th, 5:00 p.m.. Lecture Hall
  Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University)
  Assessing VARs
• Tue, 6th, 2:00 p.m., Conference room
  Erich Gundlach
  Research outline: international trade, investment and growth

August

• Thu 18th, 2:00 p.m., Reading room (library)
  Annette Kamps
  The determinants of currency invoicing in international trade
• Tue 2nd, 11:00 a.m., Reading room (library)
  Prof. Erik Theissen (Uni Bonn)
  Is Best Really Better? Internationalization in Xetra BEST

June

• Tue, 14th, 11:00 a.m., Lecture Hall
  Tom Hertel (Purdue University)
  Poverty Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda
• Wed, 8th, 2 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Peter Nunnenkamp
  Assessing the Allocation of Aid - Developmental Concerns and the Self-Interest of Donors

May

• Mon, 30th, 3:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Klaus Regling (European Commission)
  Demographic Developments in EU Countries: Challenges for Economic and Financial Policies
• Fri, 27th, 2:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Edward M. Graham (Institute for International Economics, Washington)
  Competition Policy in a Global Economy
• Fri, 27th, 3:00 p.m.
  Erich Gundlach
  Untangling the Quality of Governance from the Level of Income: Are Sub-Saharan African Countries Governed Well?
• Tue, 24th, 2:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Andres Velasco (Harvard University)
  Imperfect Financial Markets, Portfolio Composition and Monetary Policy In Emerging Markets
• Fri, 20th, 1:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Jean-Philippe Cotis (OECD)
  Economic Convergence and Structural Reforms
• Wed, 11th, 3.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Willem Buiter (EBRD)
  Conditions for EMU Membership for the New EU Members

April

• Wed, 20th, 2 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Peter Nunnenkamp
  Do Multinational Enterprises Contribute to Convergence or Divergence? A Disaggregated Analysis of US FDI

March

• Tue., 15th, 1:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Bjarne S. Jensen (Copenhagen Business School)
  General Equilibrium Dynamics of Multi-Sector Growth Models
• Tue, 8th, 2 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Christophe Kamps
  Is There a Lack of Public Capital in the European Union?
  Alfred Boss
  Incentives to Work: The Case of Germany
• Tue, 8th, 3 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Menzie Chinn (University of Wisconsin)
  The Euro Area and World Interest Rates
• Tue, 1st, 5 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Giuseppe Bertola (University of Torino)
  Welfare Policy Integration Inconsistences

February

• Mon, 28th, 3:15 p.m., Lecture Hall
  William R. White (Economic Advisor, Bank for International Settlements)
  Procyclicality in the Financial System: Implications for the Real Economy and Policy Reponses
• Mon., 21st, 2 p.m., Conference Room
  Peter Nunnenkamp
  Bessere Entwicklungshilfe für Afrika: Die Kluft zwischen Worten und Taten
  Joachim Scheide
  Good Fiscal Policy and the Stability and Growth Pact
  Kai Carstensen
  A model for real-time data assessment and forecasting
• Tue, 15th, 4 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Marius Brülhar (University of Lausanne)
  A Test of Trade Theories When Expenditure is Home Biased

January

• Mon, 17th, 6 p.m., Lecture Hall
  Keith E. Maskus (University of Colorado at Boulder)
  The Costs of Complying with Foreign Product Standards for Firms in Developing Countries: An Econometric Study