Staff Seminars 2006

Staff Seminars 2005

December

Wed, 20th, 11.00 a.m., Lecture Hall
Olga Kiuila, Warsaw University
Can Transition Economies Implement a Carbon Tax and Hope for a Double Dividend? The Case of Estonia
Tue, 19th, 9.00 a.m., Lecture Hall
Adriana Ignaciuk, Wageningen University
Economics of Multifunctional Biomass Systems
Thur, 14th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University
Banking and Interest Rates in Monetary Policy Analysis: A Quantitative Exploration
Wed 13th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Carsten-Patrick Meier
Macroeconomic Aspects of Structural Labor Market Reforms in Germany
Tue, 12th, 4.00 p.m., Conference Room
Edwin van der Werf
Productions Functions for Climate Policy Modeling: An Empirical Analysis
Thur, 7th, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Eleonora Cutrini, Insubria University, Italy
Specialization and Concentration from a Twofold Geographical Perspective: Evidence from Europe

Wed, 29th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Jonas Dovern, Peter Nunnenkamp
Aid and Growth Accelerations: An Alternative Approach to Assess the Effectiveness of Aid
Thu 9th, 3.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Frank Oskamp, Dennis Snower
The Effect of Low-Wage Subsidies on Skills and Employment
Alessio Brown, Christian Merkl, Dennis Snower
Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Wed, 11th, 2.30 p.m., E-202 (library)
Carlo Rosa (IfW)
Assessing the effect of ECB communication using high frequency Euribor futures data
Thu, 5th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Bob van der Zwaan (Energy Research Center of the Netherlands, ECN)
Prospects for Nuclear Energy in Europe

Tue, 26th, 5.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Anne Sibert (Birkbeck College)
Central Bank Transparency
Wed, 13th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Andrea Vaona (IfW, University of Verona)
Regional Evidence on the Finance - Growth Nexus
Wed, 6th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Rolf Langhammer
Service Trade Liberalisation as a Handmaiden of Competitiveness in Manufacturing: An Industrialised or Developing Country Issue?

Mon, 21st, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Peter Nunnenkamp
Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data
Manfred Wiebelt
Distributional Effects of FDI: How the Interaction of FDI and Economic Policy Affects Poor Households in Bolivia
Mon, 14th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Giancarlo Corsetti (European University Institute)
Twin Deficits: Squaring Theory, Evidence and Common Sense
Thu, 3rd, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Miriam Manchin (IfW)
Institutional Quality, Infrastructure, and the Propensity to Export

Mon, 3rd, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Axel Dreher (ETH Zurich)
The impact of political leaders’ profession and education on reforms

Wed, 21st, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Wolfgang Lechthaler, Dennis Snower
Minimum Wages and Firm Training
Fri, 16th, 11.00 a.m., Lecture Hall
Liam Graham (University College London)
Nominal debt dynamics, credit constraints and monetary policy
Thu, 15th, 1.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Michael Krause (Deutsche Bundesbank)
The (Ir)relevance of Real Wage Rigidity in the New Keynesian Model with Search Frictions
Thu, 15th, 11.00 a.m., Lecture Hall
Neil Rankin (University of Warwick)
Perpetual Youth and Endogenous Labour Supply: A Problem and a Possible Solution
Wed, 14th, 4.00 p.m., Conference Room
Julian Emami Namini (University of Duisburg Essen)
Random versus Conscious Selection into Export Markets - Theory and Empirical Evidence
Wed, 14th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Tobias Linzert (European Central Bank)
Identifying the Role of Labor Markets for Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model
Wed, 14th, 11.00 a.m., Lecture Hall
Guido Ascari (University of Pavia)
Optimal Monetary Policy Under Low Trend Inflation
Tue, 13th, 11.00 a.m., Lecture Hall
Mathias Trabandt (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Sticky Information vs. Sticky Prices: A Horse Race in a DSGE Framework
Thu, 1st, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Frank Bickenbach, Eckhardt Bode
Disproportionality Measures of Concentration, Specialization and Polarization

Wed, 24th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Marika Karanassou (Queen Mary, University of London), Dennis Snower (IfW)
Inflation Persistence Revisited
Tue, 16th, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Erich Gundlach
Macroeconomic Mincering: International Evidence on Human Capital Externalities
Michael Stolpe
Sozialverträglicher Wettbewerb in der Krankenversicherung: Ein Konzept für Deutschland
Tue, 9th, 1.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Alessio Brown, Dennis Snower
Unemployment Accounts: A Proposal to Reform the Unemployment Benefit System
Wed, 3rd, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Peter Nunnenkamp
Economic Reforms, Foreign Direct Investment and its Economic Effects in India
Tue, 2nd, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Erich Gundlach
Notes on Factor Price Equality and Biased Technological Change in a Two-Cone Trade Model

Mon, 10th, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Michael Kötter (University of Groningen)
Accounting for Distress in Bank Mergers
Mon, 10th, 10.30 a.m., Lecture Hall
Raghuram Rajan (Chief Economist,IMF)
The Ebbing Spirit of Internationalism and the IMF
Mon, 3rd, 1:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Ruud de Mooij (CPB; Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Reinventing the Welfare State

Wed, 29th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Richard Mash (University of Oxford)
Optimising Microfoundations for Inflation Persistence
Fri, 24th, 11.00 a.m., Lecture Hall
Edwin van der Werf (Tilburg University)
Carbon leakage revisited: unilateral climate policy with directed technical change
Mon, 13th, 10.00 a.m., Conference Room
Carlo Rosa (LSE)
On the Consistency and Effectiveness of Central Bank Communication: Evidence from the ECB
Wed, 8th, 2.30 p.m., E-205
Peter Welz (Uni Uppsala)
Transmission of Exchange-Rate Variations in an Estimated, Small Open-Economy Model
Wed, 8th, 11.00 a.m., E-205
Mewael F. Tesfaselassie (Uni Tilburg)
Shifting Goals, Internal Central Bank Forecasts and Communication

Thu, 23rd, 5.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Ronald MacDonald (University of Glasgow)
Trade Costs, Trade Balances and Current Accounts: An Application of Gravity to Multinational Trade
Thu 9th, 2:30 p.m., Conference Room
Olga Ivanova (Free University of Brussels)
Economic effects of taxes on energy use: the case of Belgium

Fri, 27th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
François Bourguignon (World Bank)
Equity and Development
Thu 12th, 3:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Martin Paldam (University of Aarhus)
Meta Studies of Aid Effectiveness
Wed 11th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Natalia Trofimenko
Learning by Exporting: Does it Matter Where One Learns? Evidence From Columbian Manufacturing Plants