Economics and Finance

Organized jointly with the Joint Vienna Institute.

Fall Term 2011/12

Winter Term 2012

Spring Term 2012
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Fall Term 2011/12
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Thursday, September 29, 2011
5.00 p.m., HS II
Burkhard Drees, International Monetary Fund and Joint Vienna Institute
"Cheap Money and Risk Taking: Opacity versus Fundamental Risk"
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
5.00 p.m., HS II
Gilles Saint-Paul, Toulouse School of Economics
"Toward a Political Economy of Macroeconomic Thinking"
"The possibility of ideological bias in structural macroeconomic models"
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
5.00 p.m., HS II
Raffaella Giacomini, University College London
"Incorporating theoretical restrictions into forecasting by projection methods"
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
!! 4.00 p.m., SZ VI !!
Robert Hill, University of Graz
"Hedonic Price-Rent Ratios for Housing: Implications for the Detection of Departures from Equilibrium"
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Winter Term 2012
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Thursday, January 19, 2011
5.00 p.m., !! SZ VI !!
Branko Urosevic, University of Belgrade
"Globalization, Exchange Rate Regimes and Financial Contagion"
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!! CANCELLED !!
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Alexander Ludwig, University of Cologne
!! CANCELLED !!
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
5.00 p.m., HS II
Maksym Ivanyna, Michigan State University and Joint Vienna Institute
"Corruption, tax evasion, and fiscal policy" (Figures)
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Spring Term 2012
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
9.00 a.m., HS II
Pierre Siklos, Wilfrid Laurier University
"The Credit Cycle and the Business Cycle in Canada and the U.S.: Two Solitudes?"
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
5.00 p.m., HS II
Davide Debortoli, UC San Diego
"Labor and Profit Taxation and the Supply of Public Capital"
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
5.00 p.m., SZ VI
Felix Maximilian Wellschmied, Bonn Graduate School of Economics
"Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion"
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
5.00 p.m., HS II
John Hassler, Stockholm University
"Optimal taxes on fossil fuel in general equilibrium"
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
5.00 p.m., HS II
Felix Várdy, Berkeley
"On the Merits of Meritocracy" (Proofs)
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
5.00 p.m., SZ VI
Sun-Bin Kim, Yonsei University
tba
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Monday, June 18, 2012
10.00 a.m., HS II
Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania
tba