Spring Term 2007/08:

January
Thursday 10 January
Katharina Sailer (CRA UK & Munich Graduate School in Economics)
"Searching the eBay Marketplace"

Thursday 17 January
Frank Smets (European Central Bank)
"House Prices and the Stance of Monetary Policy"

Thursday 31 January
Rita d'Ecclesia (Rome "La Sapienza")
"Derivative contracts to manage market power"

February
Wednesday 6 February
Dr Jeremy Bertomeu (Carnegie Mellon)
"Risk Management, Executive Compensation and the Cross-Section of Corporate Earnings"

Wednesday 6 February
1.30 - 2.30pm, Room 745
Ander Perez (London School of Economics)
"Firms' Self-Insurance and the Financial Accelerator"

Thursday 7 February
Yvan Lengwiler (Basel)
"Intelligible Factors for the Yield Curve"

Thursday 14 February
Philippe Martin (Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
"Varieties and the Transfer Problem: the Extensive Margin of Current Account Adjustment"

Thursday 14 February
Soosung Hwang (GSA Capital)
"Sentiment and Beta Herding"

Wednesday 20 February
Karin Jõeveer (Keele)
12.30 - 1.30pm, Room 745
"Does bank failure affect client firms? Micro evidence from Estonia"

Wednesday 20 February
Burcu Hacibedel (SIFR)
"Why Do Index Changes Have Price Effects?"

Thursday 21 February
Philipp Schmidt-Dengler (London School of Economics)
"Government Policy and the Dynamics of Market Structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals"

March
Thursday 6 March
James Mitchell (National Institute of Economic and Social Research)
"Combining fan-charts: improving real-time forecasts for US inflation and output growth"

Thursday 13 March
Colin Rowat (Birmingham)
"An exchange economy with pillage"