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Calendar: By Term
Lent 2010

Events scheduled for this term:

12 January 2010   12:45 - 14:00
Childhood Obesity in the UK: Is Fast Food a Factor
Peter Dolton (Royal Holloway UoL & CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

13 January 2010   12:30 - 14:00
Regional Labour Market Effects of Trade Policy: Evidence from Brazilian Liberalization (JMP)
Brian Kovak (University of Michigan)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

15 January 2010   13:00 - 14:30
How do regions diversify over time? The importance of industry relatedness in developing new growth paths in regions
Ron Boschma (University of Utrecht)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

19 January 2010   12:45 - 14:00
The impact on employment of the age-related increase in the National Minimum Wage: A regression discontinuity approach
Richard Dickens (University of Sussex & CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

22 January 2010   11:30 - 13:00
Intellectual property rights and innovation: Evidence from the human genome (JMP)
Heidi Williams (Harvard)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

22 January 2010   13:00 - 14:30
Social Housing Magnets: the impact of social housing on immigrants' location in France
Gregory Verdugo (Banque de France)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

26 January 2010   12:45 - 14:00
Have information and communication technologies polarized skill demand? Evidence from eleven countries over 25 years
Guy Michaels (LSE & CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

27 January 2010   12:30 - 14:00
Estimates of the Trade and Welfare Effects of NAFTA (JMP)
Lorenzo Caliendo (University of Chicago)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

29 January 2010   11:30 - 13:00
Bargaining Ability and Competitive Advantage: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices (JMP)
Matt Grennan (NYU Stern)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

29 January 2010   13:00 - 14:30
Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

02 February 2010   12:45 - 14:00
Crime and immigration: evidence from large immigrant waves in the UK
Brian Bell (LSE & CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

02 February 2010   17:00 - 18:30
Productivity Losses from Financial Frictions: Can Self-Financing Undo Capital Misallocation? (JMP)
Ben Moll (University of Chicago)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

03 February 2010   12:30 - 14:00
Product quality, Ownership structure and International Trade
Kitjawat Tacharoen (LSE & CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

05 February 2010   13:00 - 14:30
Do Oil Windfalls Improve Standards? Evidence from Brazil
Guy Michaels (LSE & CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

09 February 2010   12:45 - 14:00
Washington's revolving door: lobbying, political connections and the market for access
Mirko Draca (CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

10 February 2010   12:30 - 14:00
Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Marc Muendler (UCSD)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

11 February 2010   13:45 - 15:00
Resistance to Change
James Dow (LBS)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

12 February 2010   13:00 - 14:30
From Periphery to Core: Economic Adjustments to High Speed Rail
Gabriel Ahlfeldt (LSE)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

16 February 2010   12:45 - 14:00
Optimal Monitoring and Sanctioning Systems
Conny Wunsch (University of St Gallen & UCL visitor)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

16 February 2010   17:00 - 18:30
Unemployment Fiscal Multipliers
Tommaso Monacelli (Bocconi)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

17 February 2010   12:30 - 14:00
Market Size, Competition and the Product Mix of Exporters
Gianmarco Ottaviano (University of Bologna, FEEM & CEPR)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

18 February 2010   13:45 - 15:00
Social vs. monetary incentives in the workplace: evidence from field experiments
Oriana Bandiera (LSE)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

19 February 2010   13:00 - 14:30
Tax competition among local governments: Evidence from property taxation in Finland
Teemu Lyytikainen (LSE/SERC)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

23 February 2010   12:45 - 14:00
The effect of job displacements on couples' fertility decisions
Jenni Kellokumpu (LSE & CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

23 February 2010   17:00 - 18:30
Demand Imbalances, Exchange Rate Misalignment and Monetary Policy
Giancarlo Corsetti (European University Institute)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

24 February 2010   12:30 - 14:00
The Tip of the Iceberg: Modeling Trade Costs and Implications for Intra-Industry Reallocation
Luca Opromolla (Bank of Portugal)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

25 February 2010   13:45 - 15:00
SEMINAR POSTPONED - NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
Radha Iyengar (CEP, LSE and NBER)
Location: Venue to be Confirmed

26 February 2010   11:30 - 13:00
The political resource curse
Tommaso Nannicini (Bocconi University)
Location: R505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

26 February 2010   13:00 - 14:30
Supply constraints and house price dynamics
Wouter Vermeulen (VU University & CPB)
Location: R505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

02 March 2010   12:45 - 14:00
Education and Youth Crime: Exploring the Causal Relationship
Olivier Marie (University of Maastricht & CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

02 March 2010   17:00 - 18:30
Social Capital and Political Accountability
Guido Tabellini (Bocconi)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

03 March 2010   12:30 - 14:00
Machines and Machinists: The Effect of Imported Capital on Wage Inequality
Miklos Koren (Central European University)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

04 March 2010   13:45 - 15:00
Title TBC
Paul Romer (Stanford)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

05 March 2010   11:30 - 13:00
Do unemployed workers benefit from enterprise zones?
Thierry Magnac (Toulouse) , joint with Laurent Gobillon and Harris Selod
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

05 March 2010   13:00 - 14:30
The long shadow of history: European regions
Giordano Mion (LSE/SERC)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

09 March 2010   12:45 - 14:00
Wage effects from changes in local human cpaital in Britain
Ioannis Kaplanis (LSE & SERC)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

09 March 2010   17:00 - 18:30
Globalization, Technology and the Skill Premium
Ariel Burstein (UCLA)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

10 March 2010   12:30 - 14:00
Heterogeneous Firms of Heterogeneous Workers? Implications for the Exporter Premium and the Impact of Labor Reallocation on Productivity
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe (University of Oslo)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

12 March 2010   11:30 - 13:00
The Path Not Taken: How Does School Organization Affect 8th Grade Achievement?
Amy Schwartz (Wagner School of Public Service, NYU)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

12 March 2010   13:00 - 14:30
Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step
Francois Ortalo-Magne (Wisconsin University)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

16 March 2010   12:45 - 14:00
Do higher wages come at a price?
Alex Bryson (NIESR & CEP)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

16 March 2010   17:00 - 18:30
How much is employment increased by cutting labor costs? Estimating the elasticity of job creation
Paul Beaudry (UBC)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

18 March 2010   13:45 - 15:00
The wealth and poverty of nations: true PPPs for 141 countries
Nick Oulton (CEP & UCL)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

19 March 2010   11:30 - 13:00
Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006
Ariell Reshef (University of Virginia)
Location: R505  Michio Morishima Room
5th Floor, LSE Research Laboratory, Lionel Robbins Building, entrance in Portugal Street, London WC2

19 March 2010   13:00 - 14:30
SEMINAR CANCELLED - NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
 
Location: Venue to be Confirmed

25 March 2010   13:45 - 15:00
Title TBC
Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)
Location: R405  CEP Conference Room
4th Floor, Research Laboratory, entrance in 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

  
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