Staff Seminars 2005

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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