Staff Seminars 2007

Staff Seminars 2006 | 2005

December

Tue, 11th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Reference Prices and Nominal Rigidities
Mon, 10th, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Christian Merkl (Kiel Institute)
Monetary Persistence and the Labor Market: A New Perspective
Wed, 5th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Dennis Görlich (Kiel Institute), Toman Omar Mahmoud (Kiel Institute)
Explaining Labour Market Inactivity in Migrant-Sending Families: Housework, Hammock, or Higher Education?

Wed, 28th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Mewael Tesfaselassie (Kiel Institute)
Imperfect Knowledge, Learning and Disinflation Policy
Wed, 14th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Peter Nunnenkamp (Kiel Institute)
Are NGOs the Better Donors? A Case Study of Aid Allocation for Sweden
Tue, 13th, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Sonja Peterson (Kiel Institute)
Distribution Matters — Taxes vs. Emissions Trading in Post Kyoto Climate Regimes
Thu, 8th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Eric Nævdal (University of Oslo)
Genetic Variability, Economic Behavior and the Formation of Social Norms: The Case of European Alcohol Consumption
Wed, 7th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Natalia Trofimenko (Kiel Institute)
Teaching Locals New Tricks: Foreign Experts as a Channel of Knowledge Transfers

Wed, 31st, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Natalia Trofimenko (Kiel Institute)
Size Matters? Counterintuitive Evidence From Export Subsidies
Tue, 30th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Rolf J. Langhammer (Kiel Institute)
Sectoral Distortions and Service Protection in Russia. A Comparison with Benchmark Emerging Markets and EU Accession Candidates
Thu, 25th, 4.00, p.m., Lecture Hall
Richard B. Freeman (Harvard University)
The Impact of Globalization on Labor Markets: What we know and what we need to know for a smooth transition
Tue, 23rd, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Rodrigo Lluberas (Watson Wyatt Worldwide)
The Effect of Pensions on Job Mobility: Empirical Evidence for the UK
Thu, 18th, 3.00, p.m., Lecture Hall
Eckhardt Bode and Peter Nunnenkamp (Kiel Institute)
Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Regional Development in Developed Countries? A Markov Chain Approach for US States
Thu, 11th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
James Robinson (Harvard University)
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution and European Capitalism
Tue, 9th, .300 p.m., Lecture Hall
Miriam Manchin (Kiel Institute)
Lerner Symmetry and Multilateral Resistance
Mon, 8th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Ulrich Schmidt (Kiel University and Kiel Institute)
New Developments in Decision Theory under Risk

Fri, 28th 11.00 a.m., Conference Room
Ingrid Ott (University Lüneburg)
Governmental activity, integration, and agglomeration
Thu, 27th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Charles Wyplosz (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva)
When Central Banks Reveal Their Interest Rate Forecasts: Alignment of Expectations vs. Creative Opacity
Wed, 26th 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Jennifer Golan (Kiel Institute)
More Coffee, More Cigarettes? Coffee Market Liberalisation, Gender, and Bargaining in Uganda
Tue, 18th, 2.30 p.m., Conference Room
Erich Gundlach (Kiel Institute)
Arbeitssparender technischer Fortschritt und Löhne

Thu, 23rd, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Donald Davis (Columbia University)
Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Trade Liberalization
Tue, 14th, 4:00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Paul Bergin (University of California at Davis)
Outsourcing and Volatility

Wed, 18th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Michael Stolpe (Kiel Institute): Optimal pension and health policies amid population aging
Amber Batata (Economic Policy and Research at Pfizer Inc, New York): Current policy issues and threats in the global pharmaceutical industry

Wed, 6th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Carlo Rosa: Is the ECB Telling the Truth? A dynamic Probit Analysis
Carlo Rosa: Talking Less and Moving the Market More: Is this the Recipe for Monetary Policy Effectiveness? Evidence from the ECB and the Fed
Tue, 5th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Albert de Vaal (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Trade Liberalization and its Fiscal Implications in a North-South Trade Model

Thu, 24th, 2.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Dennis Snower
Hyperbolic Discounting and the Philips Curve
Wed, 16th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Diemo Dietrich (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
Banks internationalization strategies: The role of bank capital regulation
Tue, 15th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Daniel Bernhofen (University of Nottingham)
Predicting the Pattern of International Specialization in the Neoclassical Trade Model: A Synthesis
Wed, 9th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Erich Gundlach
Two Views on Institutions and Development: The Grand Transition vs. the Primacy of Institutions

Thu, 29th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Jaume Ventura (University Pompeu Fabra)
Sovereign Risk and Secondary Markets
Wed, 14th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Michael Stolpe: The Health Gradient and Early Retirement: Evidence from the German Socio-economic Panel
Van Bui: The Impact of New Drug Launches on the Loss of Labor from Disease and Injury: Evidence from German Panel Data
Mon, 5th, 4.00 p.m., Lecture Hall
Claudia Buch (Universität Tübingen)
Firms' FDI and Employment Volatility

Wed, 24th, 2.30 p.m., Lecture Hall
Felix Hammermann
Nonmonetary Determinants of Inflation in Romania: A Decomposition
Thu, 18th, 2.00 p.m., Conference Room
Yiping Zhu (Duisburg-Essen University and Fudan University, Shanghai)
China’s Intra-Industry Trade in Automobile Industry: Regionalisation vs. Globalisation, Horizontal vs. Vertical