Seminar series: Academic year 2008/2009

Date

Speaker

Title

Location and Time

September 4, 2008

Brent McKenzie (University of Guelph)

"Comparisons and Contrasts in Shopping Behavior and Retail Service Delivery: A Baltic State Perspective"

17.15-19.00 Room:403

September 11, 2008

Gundars Davidsons (Bank of Latvia)

"Structural transformation of exports in a product space model"


17.15-19.00 Room:403

September 25, 2008

Aleksejs Melihovs (Bank of Latvia)

"The Baltic States and Europe: Common Factors of Economic Activity"

17.15-19.00 Room:403

October  2, 2008

Ruben Enikolopov (New Economic School)

"Television and Political Persuasion in Young Democracies: Evidence from Russia"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

October  7,  2008

Jaan Masso (Tartu University) "Technological Innovation and Productivity in Late-Transition Estonia"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

October 17, 2008

Olena Nizalova (Kiev School of Economics)

"Effect of Wages on Informal Care And Labor Supply: Do Long-Term Care Policies Matter?"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

October 20, 2008

Denys Nizalov (Kiev School of Economics)

"Two papers on regional economic development"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

October 30, 2008

Christian Wey (German Institute for Economic Research)


"Countervailing Power and Dynamic Efficiency"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

November 3, 2008

Stanislav Anatolyev (New Economic School)

"Sequential testing with uniformly distributed size"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

November 6, 2008


Karsten Staehr (Central Bank of Estonia)

"Determinants of Inflation in the New EU Countries from Central and Eastern Europe: What Can Be Learned from Dynamic Panel Data Estimations?"

16.00-17.15 Room:403

November 14, 2008

Slavo Radosevic (University College London)

"Knowledge-based entrepreneurship in central and eastern Europe: results of a firm level survey"

14.00-15.30 Room:403

November 20, 2008

Emmanuel Frot (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics)

"The importance of being early in aid partnerships, and its consequences for aid fragmentation"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

November 25, 2008

Gundars Davidsons and Arturs Kanepajs (Bank of Latvia)

"Using Unit Values to Estimate Latvian Export Competitiveness in the EU"

 17.00-18.30 Room:403

November 27, 2008

Tomas Ramanauskas (Bank of Lithuania) "Building an Artificial Stock Market Populated with Reinforcement Learning Agents"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

December 4, 2008

Andriy Zapechelnyuk (Kiev School of Economics, University of Bonn)


"Job market signaling and job search"

17.00-18.30 Room:311

December 12, 2008

Olga Lazareva (Stockholm School of Economics and CEFIR)

"Health effects of occupational change"

11.00-12.30 Room:411

January 15, 2009

Dmitry Kulikov (Bank of Estonia)

 "An estimated DSGE model for Estonia"

16.00-17.30 Room:403

January 28, 2009

Patric Andersson (Stockholm School of Economics)

"Myths and facts about football: The economics and psychology of the world's greatest sport"

17.30-19.00 Room:403

February 12, 2009

Konstantins Benkovskis (Bank of Latvia)

"The Role of Inflation Expectations in the New EU Member States: Consumer Survey Based Results"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

February 24, 2009

Talis Putnins (University of Sydey)

"The prevalence and underpinnings of closing price Manipulation"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

April 14,       2009

Sergey Stepanov (New Economic School)

"Agency Problem and Ownership Structure: Outside Blockholder As a Signal"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

April 17,       2009

Zuzana Brixiova (OECD)

"Labour market flexibility in Estonia:what more can be done?"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

April 24,         2009

Ludmila Fadejeva (Bank of Latvia)

"Measuring Total Factor Productivity and Variable Factor Utilisation: Sector Approach, the Case of Latvia"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

May 7,        2009

Chloé Le Coq (Stockholm School of Economics, SITE)

"Fines, Leniency, and Rewards: Evidence from Antitrust Experiments"

17.15-19.00 Room:403

May 14,       2009

Boriss Siliverstovs (KOF Swiss Economic Institute)

"Evaluating Short-Run Forecasting Properties of the KOF Employment Barometer for Switzerland in Real Time"

17.00-18.30 Room:311

May 22,      2009

Chiara Criscuolo (LSE, CeRiBA)

"The causal effects of an industrial policy"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

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