Economics and Finance
Vienna Joint Economics Seminar
(formerly Economic Theory Seminar)
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Winter Semester 2011/2012
In the fall and winter term 2011/2012 the Vienna Joint Economics Seminar takes place at IHS, lecture room II (HS II).
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
4.00 pm
Ben Heijdra, University of Groningen
"A tragedy of annuitization? Longevity insurance in general equilibrium"
5.30 pm
Olivier Gossner, Paris School of Economics and London School of Economics
"Impermanent types and permanent reputations"
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
4.00 pm
Morten Ravn, University College London
"Fiscal Policy in an Expectations Driven Liquidity Trap"
5.30 pm
Ramon Marimon, European University Institute, Florence
"Money is an Experience Good: Competition and Trust in the Private Provision of Money"
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
4.00 pm
Jean-Charles Rochet, Toulouse School of Economics
"Aggregate Investment Externalities and Macroprudential Regulation"
5.30 pm
Etienne Wasmer, Sciences Po Paris
"Ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of the 1989 French welfare reform using a natural experiment: the 1908 social laws in Alsace-Moselle"
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
4.00 pm
Peyton Young, Johns Hopkins University
"The dynamics of social innovation"
Paper available on request from author or Karl Schlag.
5.30 pm
Johannes Hoerner, Yale
"Career Concerns with Coarse Information"
Paper
Slides
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
4.00 pm
Michihiro Kandori, University of Tokyo
"Towards a Belief-Based Theory of Repeated Games with Private Monitoring: An Application of POMDP"
5.30 pm
Pavlo Blavatskyy, University of Innsbruck
"Which Decision Theory"
Paper
Slides
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
4.00 pm
Hannu Salonen, University of Turku
“On the number of pure Nash equilibria in random n-person games”
5.30 pm
Ariel Rubinstein, Tel Aviv University
"A Personal Journey in the Wonderland of NeuroEconomics"
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
4.00 pm
Søren Johansen, University of Copenhagen
“Some econometric results for the Blanchard-Watson bubble model”
5.30 pm
Jose Apesteguia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"A Measure of Rationality and Welfare"
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
4.00 pm
Antonio Ciccone, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Determinants of religious membership"
5.30 pm
Fernando Vega-Redondo, EUI, Florence
"Social networks and the process of globalization"
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Summer Semester 2012
In the summer semester 2012 the Vienna Joint Economics Seminar takes place at the University of Vienna.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Hörsaal 24 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre, Stiege 5
4.00 pm
Tom Krebs, University of Mannheim
"Optimal Dynamic Taxation with Private Information and Risky Human Capital"
5.30 pm
Roland Benabou, Princeton
"Laws and Norms"
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Hörsaal U12 Juridicum, KG1
4.00 pm
Harald Fadinger, University of Vienna
"Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries"
5.30 pm
Anna Gunnthorsdottir, Australian School of Business & Vienna University of Economics and Business
"Efficiency gains from merit-based social organization"
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Hörsaal 24 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre, Stiege 5
4.00 pm
José Luis Moraga-Gonzáles, Groningen
"Search Costs, Demand-Side Economies and the Incentives to Merge under Bertrand Competition"
5.30 pm
Nicolas Vieille, HEC Paris
"A recursive approach to stochastic games and dynamic Bayesian games"
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Hörsaal U15 Juridicum, KG1
4.00 pm
Peter Neary, Oxford
"Selection effects with heterogeneous firms"
5.30 pm
Vincent Sterk, University College London
"Unemployment fears, demand failures and monetary policy"
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
Hörsaal U15 Juridicum, KG1
4.00 pm
Per Krusell, IIES
"Is Labor Supply Important for Business Cycles?"
5.30 pm
Gianluca Violante, New York University
"Measuring Mismatch in the U.S. Labor Market"
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Hörsaal U15 Juridicum, KG1
4.00 pm
Camelia Bejan, Rice University
"Limited enforcement, bubbles and trading in incomplete markets"
5.30 pm
Michael Kosfeld, Goethe University Frankfurt
"Leader Punishment and Cooperation in Groups: Experimental Field Evidence from Commons Management in Ethiopia"
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Hörsaal U15 Juridicum, KG1
4.00 pm
Jean Imbs, PSE
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5.30 pm
Dayanand S. Manoli, UCLA
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