Autumn Term 2007/08:

December
Thursday 6 December
Melanie Luehrmann (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
"The Effects of Population Ageing on Aggregated UK Consumer Demand"

Thursday 13 December
Gilles St Paul (Birkbeck & Toulouse)
"Genes vs. Legitimacy: another look at the economics of marriage"

Tuesday 18 December
Enrique Schroth (HEC Lausanne)
"The Determinants of the Block Premium and Private Benefits of Control"

November
Thursday 1 November 2007
Christopher L Gilbert (Birkbeck & Trento)
"Models for Non-Exclusive Multinomial Choice, with Application to Indonesian Rural Households"

Thursday 15 November 2007
Neil Rankin (Warwick)
"Taylor Rules Cause Fiscal Policy Ineffectiveness"

Thursday 22 November 2007
Alessandro Flamini (Keele)
"Central Bank Preferences and Distribution Forecasts in a Small Open Economy"

Thursday 29 November 2007
Sonia Falconieri (Brunel)
"Strategic versus Financial Investors: the Role of Strategic Complementarities in Financial Contracting"

October
Thursday 11 October 2007
Andris Abakuks (Birkbeck)
"The Synoptic Problem and the Triple-link Model"

Thursday 25 October 2007
Fumi Kiyotaki (Kinki)
"The Organization as a Rule of Intra-Firm Bargaining"