Spring Term 2008/09:

January
Thursday 15 January
Kenjiro Hori (Birkbeck)
"Directed Search, Rationing and Wage Dispersion"

Thursday 29 January
Emre Ozdenoren (London Business School)
"Learning and Complementarities in Speculative Attacks"

February
Thursday 5 February
Hans Dewachter (Universiteit van Leuven)
"Imperfect Information, Macroeconomic Dynamics and the Yield Curve: An Encompassing Macro-Finance Model"

Thursday 12 February
Colin Rowat (Birmingham)
"Exact solutions to systems of polynomial equation - an introduction to techniques from algebraic geometry"

Thursday 19 February
Howard Smith (Oxford)
"Local Clustering in Commercial Radio: Scale Economies or Product Positioning?"

Thursday 26 February
Emma Iglesias (Michigan State University)
"Estimation of Tail Thickness Parameters from GJR-GARCH Models"

March
Thursday 5 March
Paul De Grauwe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
"Animal Spirits and Monetary Policies"

Thursday 12 March
Renata Bottazzi (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
"Why do home owners work longer hours?"

Thursday 19 March
Thomas Laubach (Goethe University Frankfurt)
"Learning and the Role of Macroeconomic Factors in the Term Structure of Interest Rates"