Autumn Term 2008/09:

December
Thursday 4 December
Hubert Kempf (Banque de France)
"Monetary Rules and the Spillover of Regional Fiscal Policies in a Federation"

Thursday 11 December
Yunus Aksoy (Birkbeck)
"Liquidity Effects and Cost Channels in Monetary Transmission"


November
Thursday 13 November
Georgios Efthyvoulou (Birkbeck)
"Political Cycles in a Small Open Economy: Evidence from Cyprus"

Tuesday 18 November
David Backus (New York University)
"The cyclical component of US asset returns"

Thursday 27 November
Emilio Colombo (Universita' di Milano - Bicocca)
"Macroeconomic risk and the size of government: do globalisation and institutions matter?"

Friday 28 November
PhD Jamboree - A selection of presentations by some of the School's PhD students


October
Thursday 2 October
Roel Beetsma (University of Amsterdam)
"Fiscal Adjustment to Cyclical Developments in the OECD: An Empirical Analysis Based on Real-Time Data"

Thursday 9 October
Robert Kollmann (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
"International Portfolios, Capital Accumulation and Foreign Asset Dynamics"

Thursday 30 October
Robin Mason (University of Southampton)
"Dynamic Moral Hazard and Project Completion"

Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX.