Internal Department Seminars

Summer/Fall 2012-Winter 2013

Date Time Location Title Speaker

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

2:00-3:00 pm

MacK720 Corruption, Public Expenditure, and Human Capital Accumulation Spyridon Boikos (University of Milan)

Monday, Oct 22, 2012

4:00-5:00 pm

MacK312 Local Incentive Compatibility in Moral Hazard Problems: A Unifying Approach René Kirkegaard

Monday, Oct 29, 2012

4:00-5:30 pm

MacK234 First-Mover Advantage in Two-Sided Competitions: An Experimental Comparison of Role-Assignment Rules (with Oscar Volij) Bradley Ruffle (Ben-Gurion University )

Monday, Nov 12, 2012

4:00-5:30pm

MacK234 How responsive are people to changes in their
bargaining position? Earned bargaining power and the
50–50 norm
Nick Feltovich

Tuesday, Nov 13, 2012

4:00-5:00pm

MacK234 Bayesian and Reinforcement Learning: An Experimental Comparison Kathleen Rodenburg

Monday, Nov 19, 2012

4:00-5:00 pm

MacK234 University Quality and the Labour Market Outcomes of Canadian Youth 
    Joniada Milla

Monday, January 14, 2013

4:00-5:30pm

TBA
Reserved for Maple TA Presentation
 

Monday, January 28, 2013

4:00-5:30pm

MacK310
Signalling when Informed Parties have the Same Information

Asha Sadanand

Monday, February 11, 2013

4:00-5:30pm

MacK310 Productivity growth and volatility: how important are
wage and price rigidities?
Alessandra Pelloni  (w/ Barbara Annicchiarico)

Monday, October 7, 2013

4:00-5:30pm

MacK310 Examining the Effects of Agglomeration and Dispersion Forces in the Administrative Regions of Spain: Some Evidence Based on Economic Geography Theory of Trade Henk Brand

Winter 2012

Date Time Location Title Speaker

Thursday, Jan 26, 2012

12:00-1:00 pm

223

MacKinnon

Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Canadian Core and Total Inflation Rate Yiguo Sun

Monday, Jan 30, 2012

4:00-5:00 pm

720 MacKinnon Cheering Up the Dismal Theorem Ross McKitrick

Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012

12:00-1:00 pm

720 MacKinnon Economic Crises and Demographic Disasters: Home production and the impact of economic crises on wellbeing Louise Grogan

Tuesday, Feb 28, 2012

12:00-1:00 pm

720 MacKinnon Corporate Governance and Information Quality in Capital Markets Yanmin Gao (University of Alberta)

Monday, March 5, 2012

12:00-1:00 pm

720 MacKinnon Competition, Market Power and Green Technologies Talat Genc

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

12:00-1:00 pm

720 MacKinnon Donor Competition for Aid Impact, and Aid Fragmentation Kurt Annen and Luc Moers

Monday, March 19, 2012

 

  Reserved for external seminar  

Monday, March 26, 2012

4:00-5:00 pm

720 MacKinnon Can order flow predict exchange rates? Ilias Tsiakas

 

Fall 2011

Date Time Location Title Speaker
 4:00-5:00 PM  4:00-5:00 PM MacK. 311  Reserved  Reserved
4:00-5:00 PM

 4:00-5:00 PM

MacK. 311  Reserved  Reserved

Summer 2011

Date Time Location Title Speaker

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

3:00-4:00 pm

MacK 720 Earning Quality, Stock Market Reaction and Efficient Governance Yanmin Qian,
School of Economics,
Zhejiang University

 

Winter 2011

Date Time Location Title Speaker
Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:45 - 12:45pm Elevator Room, 7th floor Analyzing Price Movements of Agricultural Products such as Chicken, Egg, Milk and Pork: a Linear Quantile Regression Approach Ganqiong Li
Monday, February 14, 2011 4:00-5:00 pm MacK308 The Risk-Return Tradeoff in Foreign Exchange Ilias Tsiakas
Monday, February 28, 2011 4:00-5:00 pm MacK308 Growth is sometimes good for the poor: Panel data evidence from child anthropometry scores" Louise Grogan (With Luc Moers)
Monday, March 7, 2011 4:00-5:00 pm MacK308 An Automated Record Linkage System -- Linking 1871 Canadian Census to 1881 Canadian Census Kris E Inwood, Luiza Antonie, and Andrew Ross
Monday, March 21, 2011 4:00-5:00 pm MacK308    
Monday, March 28, 2011 4:00-5:00 pm MacK308    

 

Fall 2010

Date Time Location Title Speaker
Monday, September 13, 2010        
Monday, September 20, 2010 4:00-5:00 pm MacK 317 Ranking Asymmetric Auctions using the Dispersive Order Rene Kirkegaard
Monday, September 27, 2010        
Monday, October 4, 2010 4:00-5:00 pm MacK 317 A Note on a Three-Alternative Condorcet Jury Theorem Johanna Goertz
Monday, October 18, 2010 4:00-5:00 pm MacK 317 Occupational mobility and returns to training Miana Plesca (with Gueorgui Kambourov and Iourii Maovski)
Monday, October 25, 2010 4:00-5:00 pm MacK 317 Social comparison, financial incentives and risk attitudes in tournament-based compensation schemes: An artefactual field experiment Bram Cadsby (with Fei Song, Jim Engle-Warnick, and Tony Fang). 
Monday, November 1, 2010 4:00-5:00 pm MacK 317 Inference in predictive quantile regressions Yini Wang (with Alex Maynard and Katsumi Shimotsu)
Monday, November 8, 2010 4:00-5:00 pm MacK 317 On the construction of World Governance Indicators: Revisiting Institutions Approach Mehmet Pinar
Monday, November 15, 2010 4:00-5:00 pm MacK 317 How competitive are professional women? A tale of identity conflict. Fei Song
Monday, November 22, 2010 4:00-500 pm MacK 317 Cultures of Silence: Reporting Corruption and Multiple Equilibria J. Atsu Amegashie