Seminar series: Academic year 2009/2010

Date

Speaker 

Title 

Location and   Time 

September 24, 2009

Boriss Siliverstovs (KOF, ETH Zurich)

"Evaluating German Business Cycle Forecasts Under an Asymmetric Loss Function"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

September 25, 2009

Ulf Axelson (London School of Economics)

"Investment Banking Careers"

16.00-17.30   Room:403

December 8,   2009

Matilda Dahl (Gotland University)

"Governing transformation: international organizations as auditors of nation-states"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

February 4,     2010

Konstantins Benkovskis (Bank of Latvia)

"LATCOIN: Tracking Latvia's Activity Tendencies in Real Time"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

February 18,   2010

Dr. Michel Verlaine (ICN Business School)

"Robust asset allocation with generalized preferences"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

March 4,         2010

Vyacheslav Dombrovsky (SSE Riga, BICEPS)

"Innovations and Human Capital of Business Owners: Evidence from SIBiL"

17.00-18.30 Room:507

March 11,       2010

Ken Smith (Millersville University)

"Urban-Rural Inequality in Mongolia and China: Economic vs. Subjective Divides"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

March 25,       2010

Karsten Staehr (Bank of Estonia)

"Political determinants of market-economic reforms in the transition economies"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

April 9,           2010

Jaan Masso (Tartu University)

"The impact of inter-firm and occupational mobility on innovation: evidence from job search portal data"

15.00-16.30 Room:403

April 16,         2010

Mikael Samuelsson (Stockholm School of Economics)

"Planning and the entrepreneur: A longitudinal examination of nascent entrepreneurs in Sweden"

16.00-17.30 Room:403

April 22,         2010

Ludmila Fadejeva and Kristine Vitola (Bank of Latvia)

"Asset Prices and Financial Frictions in the Monetary Transmission: The Case of Latvia"

17.00-18.30 Room: 407

April 29,         2010

Kai Hüschelrath (Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW))

"Critical loss analysis in market definition and merger
control"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

May 5,            2010

Christoph Grimpe (Center for European Economic Research (ZEW))

"Diversity versus Focus in the Search for Innovation: An Inductive Analysis of Ten European Market and Transition Economies"

17.00-18.30 Room:403

May 13,          2010

Boriss Siliverstovs (KOF, ETH Zurich)

"Car Prices, Economic Inequality, and Shadow Economy"

17.00-18.30 Room:407

Postponed

Anna Zasova (BICEPS)

"Labour market flexibility in Latvia"

May 20,          2010

Helmut Fryges (Center for European Economic Research (ZEW))

"Financing of Innovations by Young Firms"

17.00-18.30 Room:407

May 25,          2010

Konstantins Benkovskis and Ramune Rimgailaite (Bank of Latvia)

"The Quality of Exports from EU New Member States: Evidence from Very Disaggregated Data"

17.30.-19.00 Room:403

June 3,           2010

Ott-Siim Toomet (Tartu University)

"Language Skills and Social Integration: Ethnic Disparities in Bilingual Economy"

17.00-18.30 Room:TBA

September 24,   2010

Anzelika Zaiceva (Institute for the Study of Labor)

TBA

17.00-18.30 Room:TBA

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