Events at CERGE-EI: 2012

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January 

Wednesday, 25 January, 2012 | 12:00 | Defense - PhD

Maksim Yemelyanau: “Essays on Income and Consumption of the Belarusian Population”

Thursday, 26 January, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Dr. Debrah Meloso: “Dynamically Complete Experimental Asset Markets”

Friday, 27 January, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Guglielmo Caporale: “Volatility Spillovers and Contagion from Mature to Emerging Stock Markets”

Monday, 30 January, 2012 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Carlo Cottarelli: “Fiscal Challenges in an Era of Declining Demand and Sustainability Concerns”

February 

Friday, 3 February, 2012 | 15:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

José Azar JOB TALK

Monday, 6 February, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Dr. Peter Egger: “Trade Preferences and Bilateral Trade in Goods and Services: A Structural Approach”

Monday, 6 February, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Cary A. Deck: “Affecting Policy by Manipulating Prediction Markets: Experimental Evidence”

Tuesday, 7 February, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Jan Zápal: JOB TALK

Friday, 10 February, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Jean-Paul L’Huillier: “Consumers' Imperfect Information and Price Rigidities”

Friday, 10 February, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Andrea Tesei JOB TALK

Friday, 17 February, 2012 | 15:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Evgeny Yakovlev JOB TALK

Friday, 24 February, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Per Krusell: “Asset Trading and Valuation with Uncertain Exposure”

Monday, 27 February, 2012 | 10:00 | Defense - PhD

Jan Novotný: “Essays on the Effective Market Dynamics”

March 

Monday, 5 March, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. François Bourguignon: “Aid Effectiveness Revisited: The Trade-Off Between Needs and Governance”

Thursday, 8 March, 2012 | 14:00 | Defense - PhD

Anastasiya Shamshur: “Essays on Capital Structure Stability”

Thursday, 8 March, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Mehdi Karoui JOB TALK

Friday, 9 March, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Jiří Slačálek: “Dissecting Saving Dynamics: Measuring Credit, Wealth and Precautionary Effects”

Friday, 9 March, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Dr. Tymofiy Mylovanov: “Mechanism design by an informed principal: the quasi-linear private-values case”

Monday, 12 March, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Erwin Bulte: “Corruption, Investments and Contributions to Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from Rural Liberia”

Friday, 16 March, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Stanley Zin: “Sources of entropy in representative agent models”

Monday, 26 March, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Mathias Sutter: “Strategic sophistication of adolescents – Evidence from experimental normal-form games”

April 

Monday, 2 April, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Adam Pellillo: “Conflict and Development: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo”

Thursday, 5 April, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Luigi Luini: “Social influence in trustors’ neighborhoods”

Tuesday, 17 April, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Jacopo Mazza: “Does Risk Matter? A Semiparametric Model for Educational Choices in the Presence of Uncertainty”

Monday, 23 April, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Kevin Lang: “The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results”

Thursday, 26 April, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Ran Spiegler: “Reference Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations”

May 

Wednesday, 2 May, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

H. Yoshimoto JOB TALK

Thursday, 3 May, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Dr. Jernej Čopič: “Auctioning off the Agenda: Bargaining in Legislatures with Endogenous Scheduling”

Friday, 4 May, 2012 | 15:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Patrick Gaulé JOB TALK

Monday, 7 May, 2012 | 13:00 | Special Event

HE Maja Mitrović, Ambassador of Serbia to the Czech Republic

Wednesday, 9 May, 2012 | 09:00 | Defense - PhD

Philipp Kraft: “The Role of Beauty in the Labor Market”

Friday, 11 May, 2012 | 15:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Ola Vestad JOB TALK

Monday, 14 May, 2012 | 16:00 | Public Lecture

Reasons for Confidence in the US Economy

Thursday, 17 May, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Jacob Goeree: “A Geometric Approach to Mechanism Design”

Monday, 21 May, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Martin Burda: “A Bayesian Semiparametric Duration and Competing Risk Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity”

June 

Sunday, 3 June, 2012 | 09:00 | Special Event

Conference on Rational Inattention and Related Theories

Tuesday, 5 June, 2012 | 17:00 | Public Lecture

Current Macroeconomics and Reality

Friday, 8 June, 2012 | 13:00 | Special Event

PhD/MA Graduation Ceremony

Monday, 11 June, 2012 | 17:00 | Public Lecture

Prof. Philippe Aghion, Harvard University:

July 

Wednesday, 11 July, 2012 | 12:00 | Defense - PhD

Viliam Druska: “Essays on Efficiency Measurements”

August 

Monday, 6 August, 2012 | 09:00 | Defense - PhD

František Kopřiva: “Essays on the Behavior of Agents in Financial Markets”

Thursday, 16 August, 2012 | 09:00 | Special Event

GDN / CERGE-EI Regional Workshop

Thursday, 23 August, 2012 | 15:00 | Defense - PhD

Katarína Kálovcová: “Essays on Prediction and Betting Markets”

Friday, 24 August, 2012 | 14:00 | Defense - PhD

Fusako Tsuchimoto Menkyna: “Essays on Social Institutions and Economics”

September 

Monday, 24 September, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Aleš Černý: “Optimal Hedging with Higher Moments”

Thursday, 27 September, 2012 | 12:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

12:00 !!! Prof. B. Kőszegi: “The Market for Deceptive Products”

October 

Monday, 1 October, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Nathan Fiala: “Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda”

Friday, 5 October, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Kristoffer Nimark: “Man-bites-dog Business Cycles”

Monday, 8 October, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Ronald Oaxaca: “Do You Receive a Lighter Prison Sentence Because You are a Woman or a White? An Economic Analysis of the Federal Criminal Sentencing Guidelines”

Thursday, 11 October, 2012 | 16:30 | Public Lecture

Prof. Paul Milgrom: The US Incentive Auctions

Friday, 12 October, 2012 | 09:00 | Special Event

International Conference on Market Design

Monday, 15 October, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Jaromír Kovářík: “Learning in Network Games”

Thursday, 18 October, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Fernando Vega-Redondo: “Globalization and social networks”

Friday, 19 October, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Byeongju Jeong: “Bargaining with Wealth”

Monday, 22 October, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Dirk Engelmann: “Choosing how to choose: efficiency concerns and constitutional choice”

Wednesday, 24 October, 2012 | 13:30 | Defense - PhD

Olga Popova: “Essays on Individual Perceptions of Economic Reforms”

Thursday, 25 October, 2012 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Dilip Bhattacharyya: “Predicting 2008 Financial Crisis from the Hidden Economy Estimates”

November 

Monday, 5 November, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Bertil Tungodden: “Edutainment for education: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania”

Wednesday, 7 November, 2012 | 12:00 | Special Event

Jan Novotný: “Workshop on Strategy to Successful Marie Curie Fellowship”

Thursday, 8 November, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Andreas Ortmann: “Understanding Social Impact Bonds: An Experimental Investigation”

Friday, 9 November, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Ferre De Graeve: “Fiscal Policy in Contemporary DSGE Models”

Monday, 12 November, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Shiko Maruyama: “Externality and Strategic Interaction in the Location Choice of Siblings under Altruism toward Parents”

Thursday, 22 November, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Jana Friedrichsen: “Image concerns and the provision of quality”

Tuesday, 27 November, 2012 | 16:30 | Special Event

“CAPABILITIES AND COMPETITIVENESS OF NATIONS” by Prof. Jan Fagerberg

Wednesday, 28 November, 2012 | 16:00 | Special Event

Manufacturing Competitiveness

Friday, 30 November, 2012 | 16:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Petr Sedláček: “Firm age, business cycles and aggregate labor market dynamics”

December 

Monday, 3 December, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Milan Svolík: “When Are Election Outcomes Self-Enforcing? The Logic of Election Manipulation and Post-Election Protests”

Thursday, 6 December, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Maroš Servátka: “Status Quo Effects in Fairness Games: Reciprocal Responses to Acts of Commission vs. Acts of Omission”

Friday, 7 December, 2012 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Dr. Martí Mestieri: “If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged?”

Monday, 10 December, 2012 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Dr. Ina Ganguli: “Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears”

Thursday, 13 December, 2012 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Motty Perry: “Implementing the Wisdom of the Crowd”

Friday, 14 December, 2012 | 13:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Jaume Ventura: “Bubbly Collateral and Economic Activity”