Seminars - Current Academic Year - SPRING 2013
SEMINAR SCHEDULE – SPRING 2013
Venue: Edgeworth Room,
(Rhetoric House, 1st floor)
Seminars start at 3.30pm unless otherwise specified
| DATE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 08 February | Jong Kook Shin (Queen's University Belfast) |
"The Tobin tax: Welfare and Monetary Policy Analysis" |
| 15 February | Marno Verbeek (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
"Information Content when Mutual Funds Deviate from Benchmarks" |
| 22 February | Dennis Jansen (Texas A&M University) |
"Asymmetric Effects of Monetary Policy on Stock Returns in Bull and Bear Markets: The Evidence from intraday Data" |
| 01 March | John Morrow (London School of Economics) |
"Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity Under Firm Heterogeneity" |
| 08 March - 2.15pm - |
Petra Gerlach (Economic and Social Research Institute) |
"The Effect of Unemployment, Arrears and Negative Equity on Consumption: Ireland in 2009/10" |
| 15 March | Chris Jepsen (University College Dublin) |
"Determinants of Retention in U.S. community Colleges Using Hazard Models" |
| 22 March | No Seminar - Study Week | |
| 29 March | No Seminar - Easter Break | |
| 05 April | Holger Gorg (Kiel University) |
"Foreign Ownership Structure, Technology Upgrading and Exports: Evidence from Chinese Firms" |
| 12 April | Sarah Parlane (University College Dublin) |
"Optimal Contract Orders and Relationship-Specific Investments in Vertical Organisations" |
| 19 April | Paul Segerstrom (Stockholm School of Economics) |
Cancelled |
| 26 April -3pm- Cancelled |
Campbell Leith (University of Glasgow) |
"How Optimal is US Monetary Policy?" This seminar has been cancelled |