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Department of Economics
Weekly programme 2-6 February 2015
Courses
The Thursday session of the course on Macroeconomics (Ramon Marimon) is moved to Wednesday
at 8.45, while the Exercise class for Macroeconomics (Francesca Loria, João Brogueira and Fabian
Schütze) on Thursday is moved from 17.15 to 13.30. The Exercise class for Microeconomics (Giovanni
Andreottola) is moved from Wednesday to Friday at 14.00 in the VSP 1.
Microeconomics Research Workshop – note different day and time from usual!
Wednesday 4 February, 9.30, VSP 2
Andrea Attar, Toulouse School of Economics (IDEI)
Multiple Contracting in Insurance Markets: Cross-Subsidies and Quantity Discounts (with Thomas
Mariotti and François Salanié)
Macro working group
Thursday 5 February, 13.30, VSP 1 CANCELLED
Luis Rojas, tba
Econometrics Research Workshop
Friday 6 February, 14.30, Priests' room
David Dorn, University of Zurich
Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s (with Daron Acemoglu, David
Autor, Gordon Hanson and Brendan Price)
Thesis defence
Silvia Albrizio will defend her thesis entitled “The Investment Effect of Fiscal Consolidation”on
Friday 6 February at 13.30 in VSP 2. The thesis committee is composed of Profs. Jérôme Adda, EUI &
Bocconi University, Supervisor; Emmanuelle Auriol, University of Toulouse; Christian Bayer,
University of Bonn and Evi Pappa, EUI.
Coffee get-together, Tuesdays at 16.00 in the VSP garden or bar
Time
8.45 –
10.45
11-13
Monday
Week 2-6 February
Tuesday
Course on
Statistics &
Econometrics
(Peter Hansen)
VSP 1
Course on
Macroeconomics
(Ramon Marimon)
VSP 1
17.15
19.15
Thursday
Course on
Statistics &
Econometrics
(Peter Hansen)
VSP 1
Exercise class for
Statistics &
Econometrics
(Ilya Archakov/
Gabriela Galassi)
VSP 1
---------------16.00
coffee get-together,
VSP bar
Friday
Course on
Microeconomics (Andrea
Mattozzi)
VSP 1
13.30
Macro working group
Luis Rojas
tba
VSP 1
CANCELLED
-----------------13.30
Exercise class for
Macroeconomics
(Francesca Loria, João
Brogueira Fabian
Schütze)
VSP 1
(moved from 17.15)
13 15
15-17
Wednesday
Course on
Macroeconomics
(Ramon Marimon)
VSP 1
-------------------9.30
Microeconomics
Research Workshop
Andrea Attar
Multiple Contracting in
Insurance Markets:
Cross-Subsidies and
Quantity Discounts
VSP 2
Course on
Microeconomics
(Andrea Mattozzi)
VSP 1
13.30
Thesis defence
Silvia Albrizio
VSP 2
-------------------14.00
Exercise class for
Microeconomics
(Giovanni Andreottola)
VSP 1
----------------------14.30
Econometrics Research
Workshop
David Dorn
Import Competition and
the Great U.S.
Employment Sag of the
2000s
Priests' room
Thesis defence
(cont’d)
VSP 2
-------------------Exercise class for
Microeconomics
(cont’d)
Priests’ room
---------------Econometrics Research
Workshop
(cont’d)
VSP 1
Department of Economics
Weekly programme 9-13 February 2015
Departmental Seminar
Monday 9 February, 11.00, Priests’ room
Libertad Gonzalez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
The Impact of Eliminating a Child Benefit on Birth Timing and Infant Health (joint with Cristina Borra
and Almudena Sevilla)
MWP Inequality and Efficiency in Education and Labour Markets thematic group
Monday 9 February, 13.00, VSP 1
Presenter: Diederik Boertien; Discussant: Ricardo Estrada
Job market presentation
Monday 9 February, 15.00, VSP 2
Antoine Camous, tba
Introduction to KNITRO
Tuesday 10 February, 11.00, VSP 1
Pawel Doligalski and Dominik Thaler
Econometrics & beyond working group
Thursday 12 February, 11.00, VSP 1
Ada Gonzalez-Torres, tba
Macro reading group – note different time from usual!
Thursday 12 February, 13.30, VSP 1
Viktor Marinkov (presenting Firm Heterogeneity, Endogenous Entry, and the Business Cycle)
Coffee get-together, Tuesdays at 16.00 in the VSP garden or bar
Week 9-13 February
Time
Monday
Tuesday
Departmental
Seminar
Libertad Gonzalez
The Impact of
Eliminating a
Child Benefit on
Birth Timing and
Infant Health
Priests’ room
MWP Inequality
and Efficiency in
Education and
Labour Markets
thematic group
VSP 1
Introduction to
KNITRO
(Pawel Doligalski
/Dominik Thaler
VSP 1
Job market
presentation
Antoine Camous
tba
VSP 2
Exercise class for
Statistics &
Econometrics
(Ilya Archakov/
Gabriela Galassi)
VSP 1
---------------16.00
coffee gettogether, VSP bar
Wednesday
Thursday
8.45 –
10.45
11-13
13 - 15
15-17
17.1519.15
Econometrics &
beyond working
group
Ada GonzalezTorres
tba
VSP 1
13.30
Macro reading
group
Viktor Marinkov
(presenting Firm
Heterogeneity,
Endogenous
Entry, and the
Business Cycle)
VSP 1
Revision class for
Microeconomics
(Giovanni
Andreottola)
VSP 1
Revision class for
Macroeconomics
(Francesca Loria,
João Brogueira
Fabian Schütze)
VSP 1
Friday