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Wednesdays 300 – 430pm
401 Doryforos Building
Organizers: Panayiota Lysiotou – Louis Christofides – Andros Kourtellos
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| Date | Speaker | Title |
| September 1 (11am) | Christos Kotsogiannis University of Exeter |
Federalism and the competition for foreign direct investment |
| September 14 (Tuesday) | Eleftherios Zacharias – CANCELLED University of Ioannina |
Multi-Unit (Double) Auctions |
| September 22 | Open | |
| September 29 | Andreas Savvides Oklahoma State University |
TBA |
| October 4 (Monday) | Raquel Fernadez NYU and LSE |
Culture: An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility |
| October 13 | Takashi Unayama Kyoto University |
TBA |
| October 20 | Open | |
| October 27 | Sotiris Karkalakos University of Cyprus |
The Spatial Boundaries of Regional Technological Productivity in European Union |
| November 3 | Open | TBA |
| November 10 | Luca Pieroni University of Perugia |
TBA |
| November 12 (Friday) | William T. Dickens The Brookings Institution |
TBA |
| November 17 | José Maria Labeaga UNED, Madrid |
TBA |
| November 24 | Dimitris Christelis University of Salerno |
TBA |
| December 1 | Jim Malley University of Glasgow |
TBA |
| December 8 | Sarantis Kalyvitis Athens University of Economics and Business |
TBA |
SPRING 2 0 0 4
Organizers: Louis Christofides – Panayiota Lysiotou – Andros Kourtellos
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| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Friday, January 30 | Nicholas C. Yannelis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Non-Implementation of Rational expectations as a Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium |
| Wednesday, February 4 | Pierre Mohnen University of Maastricht |
R&D, innovation and productivity: A new look |
| Wednesday, February 11 | Giorgos Stamatopoulos University of Cyprus |
Licensing of a quality-improving innovation |
| Wednesday, February 18 | Nicolaos Benos University of Cyprus |
Education Policies and Economic Growth |
| Wednesday, March 3 | Yiannis Sarafidis INSEAD |
Inter-temporal Price Discrimination with Time Inconsistent Consumers |
| Friday, March 5 (18:00) | Guido Kuersteiner MIT |
Bias Reduction for Nonlinear Dynamic Panel Models with Fixed Effects |
| Wednesday, March 10 | Aris Spanos Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
Revisiting Error-Autocorrelation Correction: Common Factor Restrictions and Granger Non-causality |
| Tuesday, March 16 | Chryssi Giannitsarou Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
Balanced Budget Rules and Aggregate Instability: The Role of Consumption Taxes |
| Wednesday, March 24 | Ray Rees University of Munich |
Life Cycle Labor Supply and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market |
| Wednesday, March 31 | Ronald W. Jones University of Rochester |
International Technology Transfer:Who Gains and Who Loses? |
| Friday, April 2 (18:30, E110 ) | Hans Werner Sinn *Public Lecture* University of Munich |
Lessons from the German Unification |
| Wednesday, April 21 | Nicos Theodoropoulos University of Leicester |
Testing for Employee Discrimination using Matched Employer-Employee Data: Theory and Evidence. |
| Wednesday, April 28 | Bas Werker Tilburg University |
Multivariate Option Pricing Using Dynamic Copula Models |
| Wednesday, May 5 | Anil K. Bera University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Spatial ARCH (SARCH) Models and Its Applications |
| Tuesday, May 11 | Luis Cabral – CANCELLED NYU |
TBA |
| Monday, May 17 | Paris Cleanthous NYU |
Innovation & Advertising in U.S. Pharmaceuticals |
| Friday, May 21 | Raquel Fernadez – CANCELLED NYU and LSE |
TBA |
| Tuesday, June 8 | Saziye Gazioglu – CANCELLED University of Aberdeen |
An intertemporal model of the real exchange rate, stock market, and international debt dynamics: policy |
Last Updated on April 6, 2026
