Fall 2 0 0 6
Wednesdays 300 – 430pm
401 Doryforos Building
Organizers: Panayiota Lyssiotou – Yiannis Billias – Andros Kourtellos
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| Wednesday, 13 September 2006 |
| Moshe Hazan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Longevity and Lifetime Labor Input: Data and Implications |
| Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
| Slobodan Djajic (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva) Foreign Aid, International Migration and Welfare |
| Wednesday, 4 October 2006 |
| Michael Ben-Gad (University of Haifa) Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Immigration Surplus |
| Wednesday, 11 October 2006 |
| Rossitsa Kotseva (Athens University of Economics and Business) Pricing, Investments and Mergers with Intertemporal Capacity Constraints |
| Wednesday, 18 October 2006 |
| Theodoros Zachariadis (University of Cyprus) Are Standards Effective in Improving Automobile Fuel Economy? An The Dynamics of Capital Tax Competition |
| Wednesday, 25 October 2006 |
| Peter J. Schmidt (Michigan State University) Likelihood based estimation in a panel setting: robustness, redundancy and validity of copulas |
| Friday, 27 October 2006 |
| Christine E. Amsler (Michigan State University) Interpreting and testing the scaling property in a model where inefficiency depends on firm characteristics |
| Wednesday, 1 November 2006 |
| Veanous Arakelian (University of Cyprus) Forecasting using Asymmetric Loss Functions |
| Wednesday, 8 November 2006 |
| Christos Constantatos (University of Macedonia) Endogenous Financial Structure and Product Differentiation under Uncertainty over the Width of the Taste Distribution |
| Wednesday, 15 November 2006 |
| Eric Gould (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Tecnological Peer Effects Between Workers: Evidence from Professional Baseball |
| Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
| Miltos Makris (University of Exeter) The Dynamics of Capital Tax Competition |
| Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
| Christopher Pissarides ( London School of Economics ) – CANCELLED TBA |
| Wednesday, 6 December 2006 |
| Nikos Theodoropoulos (University of Cyprus) Ethnic Minority Immigrants and their Children in Britain |
Spring 2 0 0 6
Wednesdays 300 – 430pm
401 Doryforos Building
Organizers: Panayiota Lysiotou – Yiannis Billias – Andros Kourtellos
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| Monday, 23 January 2006 (1200pm) |
| Andri Chassamboulli (Central European University) Job Competition Over the Business Cycle: Implications for Labor Productivity and Unemployment Rates by Skill |
| Wednesday, 1 February 2006 |
| Theodore Simos ( University of Ioannina ) Closed form formulae for the Gaussian estimation of a stochastic differential equation driven by fractional noise |
| Wednesday, 8 February 2006 |
| Nikolaos Georgantzis (The Universitat Jaume) Ultimatum Bargaining & Preference Elicitation Under Real Task Experimental Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from 3 Countries |
| Wednesday, 15 February 2006 |
| Guenter W. Beck (Goethe University Frankfurt) The border matters less than you think! A consistent framework to examine intra- versus international relative price dispersion |
| Monday, 20 February 2006 |
| Omar Licandro (European University Institute) An evolutionary theory of money as a medium of exchange |
| Wednesday, 1 March 2006 |
| Omer Moav ( Hebrew University ) Land Inequality and the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions |
| Wednesday, 8 March 2006 |
| Gregory Kordas ( University of Pennsylvania ) Regularized Estimation of Models with Parameter Dependent Support |
| Wednesday, 15 March 2006 |
| George Deltas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Reconsidering the Cost Efficiency of Financial Institutions |
| Wednesday, 22 March 2006 |
| Constantine Alexandrakis ( University of Massachussetts at Dartmouth ) Secession and Exit: An Analysis of Two Competing Hypotheses |
| Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
| Dimitrios Thomakos ( University of Peloponnese ) Evaluating volatility forecasts: GARCH vs. the NoVaS Transformation |
| Monday, 3 April 2006 |
| Leif Danziger (Ben-Gurion University) The Minimum Wage in Competitive Labour Markets |
| Wednesday, 5 April 2006 |
| Udo Kreickemeier (University of Nottingham) Firm Heterogeneity and the Labor Market Effects of Trade Liberalization |
| Friday, 7 April 2006 (3pm) |
| Aris Spanos (Virginia Tech) The Curve-Fitting Problem, Akaike-type Model Selection, and the Error Statistical Approach |
| Wednesday, 12 April 2006 |
| Theodore Palivos ( University of Macedonia ) Optimal Growth with Illegal Immigrants |
| Wednesday, 10 May 2006 (2nd floor) |
| Pantelis Kalaitzidakis (University of Crete) On the Growth Maximizing Allocation of Public Investment |
| Friday, 12 May 2006 (3pm) |
| George Korniotis (University of Notre Dame) Does Investment Skill Decline due to Cognitive Aging or Improve with Experience? |
| Wednesday, 17 May 2006 |
| Spiro Stefanou (Penn State University) The Dynamics of Efficiency and Productivity Growth in U. S. Electric Utilities |
| Friday, 26 May 2006 (3pm – 2nd floor) |
| Demetrios Varvarigos (The University of Manchester) TBA |
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