Departmental Seminars
Department of Economics
The
University of Haifa
Seminar Coordinator:
Todd R. Kaplan
room: 7065
tel: 04-824-9589, mobile: 050-2262235
todd (at)
econ.haifa.ac.il
http://www.toddkaplan.com
Time & Location: Thursdays: 14:15 - 15:35, Rabin Building Room #7052
Academic Year
2008-2009
Second Semester
March 5, 2009:
Kim-Sau Chung
Object-Based Unawareness: Theory and
Applications
March 12, 2009:
Yaron Yehezkel
Slotting allowances and information
gathering
March 19, 2009:
Tomer Blumkin
Incorporating
Affirmative Action into the Welfare State
Special Seminar
March 23, 2009:
Joshua Aizenman
Assessing the Emerging Global
Financial Architecture:
Measuring the Trilemma's Configurations over Time (with Menzie Chinn and
Hiro Ito)
March 27, 2009:
Conference: APESA
April 2, 2009:
Arthur Fishman
Bar
Business as Usual: A Consumer Search
Theory of Sticky Prices and Asymmetric Price Adjustment. (with Luis Cabral)
April 9, 2009:
Happy
Pesach
April 16, 2009:
Ahuva Mu'alem
Caltech
On Multi-Dimensional Envy-Free Mechanisms
April 23, 2009:
David Schmeidler
Tel Aviv University
Objective and Subjective Rationality in a Multiple Prior Model (with Itzhak Gilboa, Fabio Maccheroni, Massimo Marinacci)
April 30, 2009:
Sarit Markovich
IDC
Herzliya
The
Leader's Curse in the Airline Industry (with Guy Arie and Mauricio Varela)
May 7, 2009:
Elisheva Shamash
University
of Haifa and the Technion
Risk Aversion and Bargaining Games
May 14, 2009:
Dan Weiss
Tel
Aviv University
Cost behavior and
analysts' earnings forecasts
May 21, 2009:
Ariel Levy
UCLA
The CDS Bond Basis Spread in
Emerging Markets: Liquidity and Counterparty Risk Effects
May 28, 2009:
Shavuot.
Special Seminar:
June
4, 2009: 12:30-13:50
Dan Ariely
Duke/MIT
The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory
of Self-Concept Maintenance (with Nina Mazar and On
Amir)
June 11, 2009:
Saul Lach
Hebrew
University
The
Asymmetric Price Effects of Competition (with José Luis Moraga-González)
June 18, 2009:
Oded Galor
Brown
The
out of Africa hypothesis, genetic diversity and comparative
economic development (with Quamrul Ashraf)
First
Semester
November 6, 2008:
Sergiu Hart
Hebrew
University
November 13, 2008:
Bradley Ruffle
Ben-Gurion
University
November 20, 2008:
Avi Simhon
Hebrew University
The Transmission of
Longevity across Generations
November 27, 2008:
Baruch Glicksberg
University
of Haifa
Interest Rate Rules, Output Targeting and Multiple Equilibria
December 4, 2008:
Agnes Sulem
INRIA,
France
Pricing financial derivatives in markets with jumps : a risk indifference approach
December 11, 2008:
Stanislav Anatolyev (with
Grigory Kosenok)
New
Economic
Sequential
Testing with Uniformly Distributed Size
Special Seminar
December 14, 2008:
Alan Miller
Caltech.
A Model of Community Standards
Special Seminar
December 15, 2008:
Haggay Etkes
Stanford
Legalizing Extortion:
Protection Payments, Property Rights, Taxation, and Economic
December 18, 2008:
Anna Rubinchik (with Jean-François Mertens)
University
of Colorado
Intergenerational Equity and the
Discount Rate for Cost-benefit Analysis
Special
Seminar
December
22, 2008:
Oren Rigbi
Stanford
University
The Effects of Usury Laws: Evidence
from the Online Loan Market
December 25, 2008:
Steven Brams
New
York University
Kingmakers and Leaders in Coalition
Formation
Reminder
December
28, 2008:
The 3rd
Israeli Game Theory Conference
Open University
January 1, 2009:
Sami Miaari
European
University
Ethnic
Conflict and Job Separations.
Special
Seminar:
January
4, 2009:
Alex Gershkov
Bonn
Learning About
The Future and Dynamic Efficiency
January 8, 2009:
James Davidson
University
of Exeter
Special Seminar:
January 12, 2009:
Raphael Godefroy
Stanford
The Birth of the Congressional Clinic
January 15, 2009:
Aviad Tur-Sinai and Dmitri Romanov
Tel Aviv University
Overeducation, Job Mobility,
and Earnings Mobility among Holders of First Degrees in Israel
Special Seminar:
January 19, 2009:
Evgenia Dechter
University
Rochester
After Motherhood: Effects of Maternity Leave and Effort
Reallocation on Earnings
January 22, 2009:
Eric Gould
Hebrew University
When
is “Too Much” Inequality Not Enough? The Selection of Israeli Emigrants